First time garage sale success. Lets hear your garage sale stories.

Little different - a farm auction. I bought a Western Auto-labeled Marlin 981 for $53.00. It was obviously a work gun - bluing gone, a light rusty patina all over the gun, and scratched stock - but it shoots phenominally well. I've gotten my money's worth and a whole bunch more out of that gun.

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c. 1990, IIRC. I was in high school.

I had $50 on me. I bid $45, someone else bid $50. I asked Dad if he had any cash - he had $3. I asked if I could borrow it if I won. He said yes, so I bid $53 (auctioneer rolled his eyes at me when I hollered "Fifty three dollars!"). But no one else bid again, so I got the rifle and paid Dad back when we got home.

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Two years ago I found a ruger 77 compact laminated stocked, stainless in 260, complete with glass bedded action, floated barrel, trigger job and 3x9x50 tasco. $350!!!

I threw the scope in the junk closet and found a 2x7 Nikon for it. Loaded 120 gr speer on top of 43 grs of IMR 4350.

Absolutely awesome on whitetails.

Trap grade Win '97 for $50.00

Last year: New NEF 12ga for $25.

This year: [1.] Very clean, brite bore Mosin-Nagant, $75
[2.] Fajen stocked, sporterized 7x57 Mauser with Williams peep sights $100

Year before last: RCBS rockcrusher and new .38-.357 die set $3

10 sets good reloading dies $20. Sold the set of 44-40 rcbs for what I paid for whole bunch. Still use all of the others except the 8MM Lebel ones. May have to buy a rifle so that I can use the dies.

Found a Dillon Square Deal in .45 ACP at a yard sale for $50.00. I sent it to Dillon and had it refurbed and converted to 10MM for $110.00.

Not at a yard sell but I just got 2 model 70's in 85% plus shape for 550.

A $40 Mec 600 Jr setup for 12ga. Just needed a good cleaning and a few minor parts.

Marlin 60 $25
Rossi Snake Charmer .410 $50
Rossi 62a pump .22lr $50
Remington 1100 12ga $50
Winchester 62a pump .22lr $75
Remington Wingmaster 12 ga vent rib $70
Mec Jr. shotshell reloader progressive $25
New colman lantern dual fuel $10
I really like garage sales. All you have to do is ask. I have also bought some nice Lionel trains in H/O and O scale for darn good prices.

Not at a garage sale, but I got my Lyman #55 powder measure for 35 dollars. There were a couple of grains of powder (actual granules, not weight) in there so it's been used. It doesn't look used. Decapper assembly for my lyman die for $2. Not bad, but it isn't a super either.

NIB HK USP Tactical for $729 (at a retail store)

Very large box of assorted new factory ammunition in 38 spl, 9mm, 45acp (blacl talons), 30-06 and many more. About 3000 rounds for $25. From a garage sale 2 yrs ago.

.44 Mag - 30-30 dies, Lee priming tool, 100 .44 cast bullets, chamfer tool, RCBS primer tray all for $10.00. Sold the dies for $20.00 each and kept the rest.

Wow, you guys are lucky. I've rarely even found anything vaguely firearm related at a garage sale...

jbkebert said:

Marlin 60 $25
Rossi Snake Charmer .410 $50
Rossi 62a pump .22lr $50
Remington 1100 12ga $50
Winchester 62a pump .22lr $75
Remington Wingmaster 12 ga vent rib $70
Mec Jr. shotshell reloader progressive $25
New colman lantern dual fuel $10
I really like garage sales. All you have to do is ask. I have also bought some nice Lionel trains in H/O and O scale for darn good prices.

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You da MAN!!!!

makes me want to start hitting up the garage sales around here. Good finds, guys!

Remington 3200, 20,28,410 Briley tube set, Anvil case and 500rounds of Winchester AA 12 ga.,--$800. Sold it a year later for $1200. That guy shot it for a year and sold it for $2000.

I have gotten alot of crazy good deals at garage sales. So yes its great for me but in a way more than a little sad. Most of the guns listed above came from garage sales at small to mid-sized farms in rural areas of Kansas. Most of their kids have moved to town to be closer to work closer to the mall, closer to soccer practice. They have forgotten their roots forgotten what it was like to be a small boy hunting with a .22 or shotgun. They now have no interest in hunting, their friends and tv tell them that guns are bad and mean certain death to all that look upon them. I have purchased more firearms and got permission to hunt more land just by going to garage sales more so in rural areas with my kids. The boys see a farm pond down behind the house and are asking to fish before we meet the owner. I think alot of the older folks just want to see their old guns go to a pair of young boys that cherish hunting and fishing rather than see them go to their own kids who could care less. Great for me even better for my kids but a sad state of affairs all the way around.

Got an almost new in box 1966 vintage S&W Model 28 Highway Patrolman last year for $260. Did not even look like it had a box of shells through it.

An Estate Sale run by the extended family of a fire arms enthusiast last fall.

I picked up a custom leather range bag FULL for $20.00
What was it full of? AK, AR, and 1911 mags.

10 Ammo cans full of ammo for $10.00 each.
.40, 30-06,.45, 7.62, 12g buck, .44, 30, 22, 9mm, and some random oddballs stuff in the other.

30 gallon rubbermaid full of reloading gear, mostly dies for $20.00

30 brand new goose decoys in boxes for $20.00

And a bunch of old trapping gear for $10.00

Sounds like a great deal, of course it was!!

The saddest part was I also ended up with his blackbook of guns and serial numbers in the reloading mixed box. The family told me all the guns were sold to ... Gander Mountain, 2 days earlier. 47 guns in all. They were bragging to me that they made $5,000.00 selling his guns. There was nothing on that list that was worth less than $500, and most everything would sell for near a 1000 if not more. Sad sad sad

Redding powder trickler, nib, $4

Lee auto-disc powder measure, nib, $9

Mossberg 500 polymer buttstock new take-off switched for a pistol grip, $1

Big box of "Lead" that turned out to be about (3200) Lyman 358-156 bullets as cast, unsized & unlubed (nearly 70# worth) $20

Box (500)Laser-cast 45 Colt slugs, (1000) Win LP primers, RCBS 45 Colt dies, 1# titegroup, all NIB unopened, $40

Just picked up a Dillon SL900 shotgun shell reloader with all the accessories for $300 at a Garage sale. Can't wait to get this thing up and running!

Helped a friend run a garage sale and she said, "Hey, you reload. My grandfather had a bunch of powder and primers." Presto, free powder/primers along with a free lunch.