What the best value, you've ever spent Firearms related?

My NEF .223

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and Remington 20ga 1100 LT youth for $447

The firearms information I have learned on the High Road and similar forums has been both inexpensive and priceless. Of course, it has also caused me to spend too much of my meager funds, however wisely.

~G. Fink

I have a Lee Enfield I gave $25, and it works.

New Commander Classic Bobtail in .45acp for $850 out the door.

Luke

$495 for a LNIB Colt Delta Elite... Traded my Glock 26 and $75 for it.

Swiss K31 7.5x55 $99.95. 1" groups at 100 yards.

My best value? Getting a barely used CZ P-01 for $360 shipped.

$69 for a yugo mauser for my grandpa and another $30 for a case of ammo. he mentioned wanting to get "something cheap to shoot coyotes with". after all, .30-30 was far to expensive to waste on coyotes...

the next time i drove up to see him, his garage had several coyote skins tacked up, and the Mauser was hung on a rack next to the front door.

K-31, but close behind it...

My 'Excellent Grade' M39 from AIM, while they still had them, at $350.
For the price of a used Marlin .30-30 I got an extremely collectible, sexy looking rifle that I can shoot sweet little groups out of with cheap milsurp ammo.
Just can't beat that one.
Of course, there's also the free Romanian AK-47 we built from a kit in exchange for helping a friend tear down a couple dozen kits he bought just before the 'barrel ban'. Ammo is another issue, but I'm pretty happy with it.

A Giles .38 Special M1911A1 bullseye gun. A friend bulged the barrel with a squib load. Tried to salvage the barrel, but it was a loss. The guy had an extra barrel that just needed fitting. It's now the most accurate centerfire semi-auto I own.

It was kind of like getting a Muramasa samurai sword for the price of a Buck Folding Hunter!

Pocket Pistol & Shotgun

As I was leaving a European assignment (years ago), I made one last stop at the Rod & Gun Club store. Walked out with Walther PPK in .22LR for $65 and a Beretta O/U 20ga (S55/with extractors rather than ejectors) for $140. (For comparison, my flight pay was $150 month back then.)

Both accompanied me and my sons on hunts and accounted for numerous rabbits (used the .22 when I could see bunnies in the bushes, too close for the shotgun).

The PPK got traded for a Combat Commander in 9mm which got traded for ..who remembers?? The shotgun helped pay for some serious medical problems for one son.

This sad story also belongs in the "Stuff I wish I still had" thread!

all time best value

my best value was the price of the nra basic reloading classes the basic shotgun class and the basic metalic class have given me an opertunity to reload my own shells saving hundreds of dollars on shells ,not to mention the safety lessons learned in these classes to keep from hurting myself in the process by all means i would recomend those classes to anyone who shoots anything very good program indeed two thumbs up cause i still have both of mine !!!

For $5, I bought all of my neighbor's shooting supplies and a "seized" 30/30 Marlin.
He was selling out and going to live on a sailboat.
In the box was a Lee Turret press, a bunch of rifle powder, a primer seater, and everything else I needed to learn to reload other than manuals.
The 30/30 that was seized simply had a rusty plunger on the lever keeper, and once I disassembled it and replaced the rusted spring for what was, I think, a dollar or two, I had one of the best Appalachian laurel thicket deer guns I've ever owned.

Talk about a deal.

I bought a Buckmark target rifle from a coworker last Christmas for $200. It was the base rifle with a mag but minus a scope and had no more than 50 rounds through it. I put a Bushnell red dot on it and it has been a super fun plinker.

I'd have to say it is my Dillon 550. Didn't get it at a discount, but it has allowed me to shoot my favorite Springfield 1911 far more than buying factory ammo. Also the time spent with my son "helping" me reload is more valuable than any gun.

Tough call ....

I'd have to agree the investment in the knowledge of firearms and world history and polics so generously shared by member of THR and other sites is invaluable and has allowed me to make wise financial gun decisions...

Financially, my C&R license for $30 was a great buy. I've saved hundreds of dollars by using that license in a very short time as compared to market prices, and will continue to invest in C&R guns.

My best modern gun purchase was a Remington 870 Express 12 gauge shotgun with perfect walnut stock and forearm, in almost new condition, for $105. Here's a picture of it next to the synthetic, which was probably around $250 on sale.

one of those 5 shot side cocking pellet izmash biathlon trainers. next would be a baikal biathlon rifle.

The best value I ever got was a CDNN close-out of a Ruger 97DC for $279.

First would be a Sears-Roebuck 12 ga pump gun with a 28" mod, 3" barrell (Mossburg 500 with a "Sears" nametag) and a 24" smoothbore rifle sight slug barrel for $99.00. Every deer it's ever been pointed at has hit the ground and stayed down.

Next would be a Lee Loader for 38 special. I don't know how many wadcutter rounds I put up with that little kit. I think it was about $9.95 cents. Along the same line would be a pound of Bullseye pistol power, some primers, and several 500 count boxes of 148 gr wadcutters. (Bullseye goes a long way with that little dipper.) Lots of bangs for the buck.

Recently. My Hi-Point C-9. I paid $7.28 cash money and traded in a Taurus 38 revolver I didn't shoot anymore for it. Got a box of ammo, and the state background check in the deal too.

Hands down, it has to be the electronic hearing protection I bought later than I should have.

my $30 Colt

I was going to spare ya'll that one again but a $50 Enfield '17 arrrrgh

Colt 1903 .32 for $30 as the seller thought is was 'broke'

I 'fixed" it with a barrell bushing and later a type III slide

still runs, best deal I'd found an a bit.


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A Ruger Mini 14 with 9 30 rd mags, ram line folding stock, original wood stock, tasco 3x9 scope, brass catcher, carry bag, and 500 rds for $300.

$500 for sig 226 and 500 rounds of hollowpoints

yesterday at LC action police supply in san Jose. If was a demo or something.

Barely used. And he had the 500 rounds in back. Now thw owner is friend of mine for years. But still. the deal of lifetime.

$109 in 1979 for a new Ruger Standard Model, .22 pistol, (6" tapered barrel , fixed sights) that has always shot 1" at 50 feet.