$300 or so to spend

[hdwhit]

Cump wrote:
What's the best bang for the buck currently?

Taurus PT-111 Gen 2.

You can pick one up most places for around $200. That leaves $100 of your budget still in your pocket. Add it to your rainy day fund. If you have to spend it, use part of it to buy a third magazine (it comes with two) and some ammunition.

 

[Mike J]

Your thread got me curious so I went & looked at gun.deals. There was a Walther Creed posted for $279 plus shipping. I have no experience with this pistol but it looks kind of interesting & the reviews I looked at seemed to be positive. It is a full sized 9mm. DAO hammer fired but it is like a Glock in that it is partially pre-cocked & you finish cocking it when you pull the trigger. I watched one review by Hickock45 & read another. You can search around on it if you are interested.

 

[bnolsen]

Taurus pt111 g2 mill pro, stainless should run 209. You can buy a higher capacity sig p226 mag as a spare if you so desire.

 

[FL-NC]

Love my shield as a CCW.

 

[Tallball]

Military surplus or police trade-in. You can easily get a good slightly-worn service pistol for that price: CZ, Beretta, S&W, etc. Check out CDI Sales on GunBroker. They have dozens of good pistols in that price range. They are my favorites, but there are various other companies out there. I don't even buy new pistols anymore. There are too many perfectly good surplus pistols out there that are far better quality than any new pistol in a similar price range. They are generally carried a lot but shot little. My FiL has even gotten lucky a couple of times and gotten surplus pistols that were obviously NIB.

 

[Everready73]

For $350 the Canik T9SA or one of the other variants are great values. Also the original SW MP guns are starting to creep down in that range

 

[Cump]

You posted that you found a Ruger American for $299. I bought one for my wife a while back. I really haven't shot it a lot but I like it. I believe it to be a well made service sized pistol. I wonder what the "blemish" is. $300 would be a good price for it. I have a Taurus PT 111 Millennium G2. It is under $300 & is a decent enough little gun but the blued finish isn't very durable & the trigger sucks. Have you looked at gun.deals?

It was on CDNN. Listed as minor and possibly unnoticeable. Possible issue with the rollmarks or a witness mark for sight installation.
Yep. Gun.deals has got some good stuff.

 

[Cump]

Military surplus or police trade-in. You can easily get a good slightly-worn service pistol for that price: CZ, Beretta, S&W, etc. Check out CDI Sales on GunBroker. They have dozens of good pistols in that price range. They are my favorites, but there are various other companies out there. I don't even buy new pistols anymore. There are too many perfectly good surplus pistols out there that are far better quality than any new pistol in a similar price range. They are generally carried a lot but shot little. My FiL has even gotten lucky a couple of times and gotten surplus pistols that were obviously NIB.

Thanks for the reference to cdi sales.

 

[wnycollector]

+1 on CDI Sales. I have bought a half dozen guns from them over the years for great prices. They currently have good-very good condition S&W 915's for sale for $225-250.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I wouldn't buy a brand new one, so if that is a deal breaker, just ignore my response here.

I think this is the best bang for the buck currently offered in autos. Of course some folks hate them, but that's probably any firearm.

https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog.../Used+Beretta+92S+Italian+Police+15+1+9mm+4.9

 

[jmace57]

At most of the usual places (J&G, AIM Surplus, Century) there are currently some really nice Star BM 9mms. Ranging in prices from $229-$259 depending on dealer. I bought one years ago, because I found it cheap. Turns out it is one of my favorite guns to shoot. Colt Commander size in 9mm. All steel, so very low recoil. J&G offers mags for $29 each...I paid $60-$80 for my spares.

 

[Tallball]

Those Star BM's are so nice that I ordered one from AIM Surplus a few minutes ago. AIM says that they are lightly used and come with an original box. I have bought several nice guns from AIM before. It was $259 plus $15.00 shipping. Sometimes my FFL charges me $20, and sometimes he doesn't charge me anything. That is a nice high-quality steel 9mm pistol for around $300 total.