Best $100 you ever spent?

[goon]

I don't get many good deals. I generally see what I want, check the price and if it is somewhat reasonable I buy it.

So I have to cheat just a little.
The best $100 I ever spent on a gun was put toward a $139 18" Mossberg 500 12 gauge.
It works great, shoot slugs like a rifle out to about 60 yards, and throws a pattern like the classic sawed off shotgun from a movie that wipes out three guys, a limousine, and a company of mounted calvary with one shot.
Definitely money well spent.

 

[AKAMac]

A 1917 Colt Army issue revolver for 75 bucks. Still have some auto-rim cases and full moon clips around. Top strap was pitted but it shot well..... Colt Woodsman in case with a rifle (forget what it was) too boot for 100 at a gun show in Ft. Meyers on vacation. Sold them both for 350 at the same show. Paid for my pig hunt and gas for the shark trip! Mac

 

[steveracer]

Yesterday I got 500 Brenneke slugs

for $100. Guy sold me his shotgun, and he had bought a huge pile of ammo over the years. I told him I wasn't interested in the field loads, but did he have any slugs? Yep, two cases. Give em to you for $100 bucks.
I could actually hear my hand as it flew for my wallet.
BTW: That PSG story is going to keep me up at night.

 

[U.S.SFC_RET]

I don't know about a $100 but $135 got me a sweet shooting CZ-52.

 

[huaco]

I didn't spend it but my wife did and gave it to me a couple of years ago. A nice GM Saginaw M1 Carbine for exactly $100. The hubby of a friend of hers had taken it as payment on a debt and didn't want it. He offered it to her for $100 but then looked into it and asked $200 but she held him to the original offer and he went for it. When I opened the trunk of her car there it was with a fully loaded mag that was squashed all out of square but the gun was fine and shoots nice since I got some good mags for it.

Not nearly as good as that but the 1000 rounds of Wolf 7.62x39 ammo I bought for $80 shortly after that looks like money well spent now.

 

[hillbilly]

Last year, I picked up a Finn M39 for $50.

Long story. I had originally bought it back in 1993 for about $80 when they were available and cheap, and then gave it, plus some cash, to a friend for a Browning Hi-Power.

I moved away. Then moved back. Some scum stole my Hi-Power.

So 12 years later, I saw the friend again, and during the visit he offered to just give that M39 back to me. I refused to just take it but said I'd pay him for it, instead.

He said he hadn't shot it in years.

I asked "how much?" He said $50. So I gave him $50.

I also bought a CZ52 pistol off a THR member for $80 once.

hillbilly

 

[pat99]

i dont know if this is a good deal or not but today i got a Remington 550 in perfect condition for 125 at a local auction. was that a good deal?

 

[jaysouth]

1918 Colt 1911. With U.S. Army documentation transferring it to the officer that carried it in WWII. $75.00 to the owner who was going into assisted living.

 

[OldSchooler]

Wellllllllllll... the best 400$ was for the little truck Im driving now. 'Sucker runs like scalded dog and is solid - even has a great CD player and rims on it.

Best $100 gun money was for the STAR BM I got years ago and no longer have. I reworked the feed ramp and it was a sweet little niner. Anybody have one of these they'd part with, Id like to hear from you.

 

[Srigs]

My Mossberg 500 12 gauge for $80 and 5 round slug boxes for a buck a piece bought 25 one week and another 25 the next week!

 

[mrmeval]

80 for a turk mauser with good wood, owner must have thought the stuck follower was a bad thing.
65 for a 'broken' sporterized M1917 Eddystone in .30-06, stock is worth way more.
55 for a 'broken' SKS, sold it as is for more and bought a working one.
100 for a non-turked commission rifle.
100 for a Surefire 660 that still has brown dirt on it.
50 for a 'broken' laptop, that with an external battery and wireless card is doing fine.

 

[rangerruck]

I bought a seemingly brand new , all #'s matching ww2 era m38 mosin nagant. The wood has not a scratch or ding in it, and it is unbelievably accurate. 100 bucks exactly, from a dealer I'm pretty friendly with.

 

[evan price]

Best $100 I ever spent was for my CFL training.

My Mossberg Maverick 88 was like $129 I believe and it is worth every penny.


I currently have a 1995 Saturn Coupe SC2 with 140K on it that I paid exactly $1 for (not running) I have maybe $200 total in it now and it's up for sale for $2200.

 

[armedandsafe]

$14.95 plus $10. shipping/handling/insurance. Rock Island 03A3 with C stock. Was MOA and better out of the box.

Pops

 

[pete f]

Best buy was marriage license for my wife, serious


without her willingness and enjoyment, shooting would be a whole lot less fun.







Best hunnybee on a gun, was a 100 bucks even for a NIB model 13 smith.

 

[CNYCacher]

Seems to me the OP was looking for advice on what to spend his free $100 (from the in-laws) on. I would suggest something to keep their daughter safe.

 

[offthepaper]

*48-very clean, great shooter, all # match-$90
*Yugo 59/66-$90
*Mosin 91/30 sporterized (I know, but done very well) with sidemounted scope, sling, case, and 220 rds ammo-$70 (husband ran off with younger woman)
*Glenfield 22lr, straight shooter-$35

I just can't lat a bargain lay on the table.

 

[BulletFan]

OP Here:

Seems to me the OP was looking for advice on what to spend his free $100 (from the in-laws) on. I would suggest something to keep their daughter safe.

That may be, but I think their real intentions was to just bless us with a fun afternoon.
I would like to get something for her though. She's had her eye on the Bersa Thunder .380 for a while...you think I could get a good deal on one of those at a gun show?

 

[f4t9r]

gave a guy I work with 100 dollars for a marlin 39a he had for the last 30 years and that was a bargain.

 

[Koobuh]

$100 + tax for a Remington-made M91 Mosin Nagant. Sporterised, but I've wrung two separate MOA groups out of it so far...

 

[Roadwild17]

I think so far USMC_2674 wins u lucky sucker

 

[kjeff50cal]

USMC_2674, remember the immortal words of Napoleon Bonaparte when dealing with hoplophobic gun sellers "Never correct an enemy when they are making a mistake".

 

[pharmer]

FFL times ('82-'95) every 10th gun or so was free. Post FFL $99 unissued Russian sks made in 1951. Did get a Mossberg 500a riot pump for $35 in a complicated trade a few years ago but had to sell a .40 Sigma for $275 to do it and that was hard work. Joe

 

[hm]

Mak

$129 Bulgarian Makarov...my first pistol. Sure, I've got fancier guns now (like my most recent acquisition, a Sig P226 9mm), but I'll never part with my Mak. It's an amazingly simple, durable little shooter. You never get over your first love.

 

[Iggy]

NIB S&W model 58 .41 magnum.. $81.00 and he threw in a box of shells..

Now mind you this was in 1966!!!!

I carried it throughout a LE career and it got me through a couple of serious social encounters.

It rests in a place of honor in my gun case.