Favorite Cheap Gun Purchase

Bought a pistol from a cop buddy of mine. I was younger and did not know anything about guns. He said he came across a beretta that he forgot he had and would sell it to me for $60 bucks. He named off the model number and everything, which made no sense to me but for $60 I said yes. It turned out to be a model 950bs .22 short. I was caught off guard by how small it was, and it was nothing like I expected, but the wife loved it and still has it to this day. I see them sell for $300 when I see them at the pawn or online.

Great thread! Reading all the great deals some of ya'll have gotten has made me drool with jealousy, but I've had a few myself to look back on.

Norinco 213 for $99
Dan Wesson 357mag for $225
Sig P239 for $350

I wish I had the luck others have had with sub $100 guns.

1. Mosin

2. $100 .22lr Savage bolt action... shoots three shot one-hole groups at 25 yards - stock.

CZ 52 for $149. I can't remember what I paid for a 9mm barrel for it. I think $60. That got me a 7.62x25 and a 9mm for $209. It's the most fun gun and the best semiauto pistol I have.
Beretta 950b .22 short for $85.
RIA .45 hard chromed for $369.
M1 Garand for $200.

1917 Enfield at Big-5 Sporting Goods for $99, back in the 1980s. I should've bought five of them!

My NEF Youth 20ga, bought new, was more than that, but it still seems a bargain that I have so much fun with such an inexpensive little shotgun! "Bargains" can mean many different things.

Regards,
Dirty Bob

I almost forgot: DCM Garand: $165, back in the day

DB

Henry lever .22 for $125 awhile back. It's just a fun little gun

bought a mosin nagant for $70 a while back. i bet it NEVER had a round down the barrel. the chamber, bolt face and bore were pristine, all numbers matched, and to top it off, it is a izhmash 1938. i have to say the mosins are worth more than you spend, especially for someone on a budget...

i beat alot of people,
high point .40 for 50 bucks out the door
star bm for 100 bucks off a friend
marlin model 60 for free off someone who didnt know how to clean it. (this came back to bight me because i dont either)
heritage rough rider for 25 bucks off an idiot
and a turkish mauser for 55 bucks out the door

that one is easy. it would be the 30-30 glenfeild i bought in 1976 when i worked for J.C.Penney's. it was on sale, came with a scope, and i got my employee discount on top of that. something like $125.00 out the door with 3 boxes of ammo! you know, i think i could afford more goodies way back then, makeing $4.00 an hour than i can now. of course i didn't have a family, or house payment, or.........

I forgot the "deal of a lifetime" I got over years ago!

A friend of mine knew some old guy was closing his gunshop due to health issues, and so we went over there to see what he had left. He had a lot of stuff packed up into boxes, and I said, "Do you have a Dan Wesson box?". He says yeah, and points up at a box about 18"x12"x8", and said, "$50, it's yours!" I saw a lot of parts in it, and instantly handed him the cash. It was HEAVY. On the way home, we stopped at BK or Wendy's, and while my friend ate (He eats very slowly), I put together a complete Model 15-2 out of parts! There was a bunch of barrels, new and used, along with a lot of parts for the small framed DW guns. I sold a lot of the extra stuff, and the gun, and kept the rest, until I stupidly sold it all a couple years later. If I had that box now, the barrels and shrouds alone would be worth a couple of thousand bucks!

H&R 929 2 inch snub fixed sight .22 LR,...35 bucks in 73....still shoot the snot out if now and then,...no idea then thousands of rounds that have been sent downrange with it,....great for plinking,...rabbits up close,...even took a deer with it many years ago,...head shot from about 20 feet,.....

Chicom SKS 'paratrooper', $115 from S.O.G. back in the fall of 1992. Bought it as a truck gun. Still have it, though I never bought a truck to put it in. Lost count of how many rounds (import, domestic and handloaded) I've sent downrange with it. Wears a red-dot scope now on a drill-and-tap Choate mount.

Turkish Mauser from Big 5, $79. There's just something endearing about that big ol' chunk of wood and metal, especially after I cleaned up the stock and rubbed a few coats of BLO in it. Even though the bore is quite pitted, I can still hit the 200yd. silhouettes repeatedly with the iron sights if I do my part, and the weight of the gun soaks up the excess recoil from that hot Turkish ammo.

Then there are the 'free' guns I've had come my way, like my 1895 Chilean Mauser, 1916 Spanish Mauser and M/27 Mosin-Nagant. Sadly, the stocks on all three had been butchered by family bubba wannabees.

Another vote for Mosin-Nagant.

Dollar for dollar, I don't think there's anything better than getting a working, front-line rifle from the greatest armed conflict in history for less than 100 bills. The fact that they're actually decent rifles on top of that only adds to the allure. Mine have always earned me a lot of positive attention at the range.

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I wish I had the luck others have had with sub $100 guns.

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No kidding. I am a pretty good bargain hunter, but some of the stories on this thread just make me drool. A lot of them sound like a case of "right place, right time."

Great thread!

1) M38 Mosin-Nagant with laminated stock, sharp rifling, bore slightly frosty for a 7.7 Arisaka with a bore like a sewer pipe + $30.
2) E. German Makarov, 95% for $110. Shot it a lot - functions perfectly, accurate, love it.

A few years ago a friend of mine brought in a pillow case full of rattling parts. Exasperated, he said, "Can you get this damn thing back together for me?" "Ummm...I don't know. What is it?" I said. He told me it was his Ruger MkII. He had disassembled it to clean it and had been trying to get it back together for a couple of days. When he mentioned what a pain in the butt it was I offered him $50 for the pillow case and everything in it. I think he bought $50 worth of .40s&w for his Glock23 and I have a nice plinker.

Savage 12 guage pump, $30.

Three years ago, my Swiss K-31's ^9 & 79 ea got six.

Parker SxS for $25 45 years ago; from a neighbor and he let me work it off mowing his lawn!

A few years ago a friend of mine brought in a pillow case full of rattling parts. Exasperated, he said, "Can you get this damn thing back together for me?" "Ummm...I don't know. What is it?" I said. He told me it was his Ruger MkII. He had disassembled it to clean it and had been trying to get it back together for a couple of days.

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man do i know how that goes. took me 6 years to get enough courage to take it to a gunsmith, who told me "you ever take that d*** thing apart dont bring it to me"

I have several great low-priced guns like my Mosin, Phoenix HP-22, Hi-Point carbine, WASR 10...But the best 'deal' gun I have right now is the nice Remington nylon .22 I bought for $125.00 a couple months ago.

A few years ago I got a Yugo rework German Mauser K98k still with all its Nazi markings for $90. Same day I scored a Bulgarian Makarov in unissued condition also for $90. Those were the days.

two come to mind.

I picked up a Rock Ola .30 carbine from a guy for $40. His grand dad died, and left it to him.

a SR93 Bulgarian milled AK that I got in a trade. I had a double stack Makarov 9x18 pistol, that a fellow just had to have. Bought the Mak at a gun show NIB, for $75.00.

Winchester pump .22

Picked up a model 90 with a factory re-barrel in very nice condition for $300 the gun was manufactured in the early 1900's and is easily worth $800 and shoots like a dream....smooth as butter and very accurate.

DS

I picked up my Winchester Ranger 30-06 with a Bushnell 3x9 and weaver rings for $50 from my uncle when I was 13. Still have that gun, still shoots great - I'll never get rid of it...