Best $100 you ever spent?

[Dave R]

Easy answer for me. It was the first batch of reloading gear I bought. A garage-sale single-stage press, a set of dies, and a powder scale. And a trickler. Got 'em all for under $100. Reloading has mutiplied my enjoyment of the sport significantly.

For example, I never woulda got that $89 K-31 (my 2nd best $100 purchase) if I hadn't been able to reload cheap ammo for it.

 

[azredhawk44]

Coast-to-Coast marketed Marlin .22LR for $75.

My dad and I had a bullseye contest at 50 yards last year, him with his tricked out Ruger 10/22, me with this junker.

I won.

I just ordered a 8lb bucket of IMR-4895 for $79. That should feed my M1A for about 1500 rounds. I have a brick of primers, about 500 pieces of brass and about 1000 suitable bullets right now too.

Yessir, nothing wrong with what $100 can buy nowadays.

 

[High Planes Drifter]

Well, breaking the rule a bit; but the best "deal" I made was $125.00 for my Swedish Mauser. Got it home, THEN learned how to read that grading disk on the stock. Luckily the rifle was graded very good overall.

 

[Mike128]

Remington 541-S with peep sight for $100. A friend wanted to go to a softball tournament and needed a $100 dollars. Gives me a call and ask if I want that "old 22".
Funny thing, at that time I never even knew what it was really worth, I just liked the gun.

 

[Czar]

Mosin Nagant 91/30 Tikka for $80 at the Tanner H&F show in Denver 4 years ago.

Hex receiver, almost perfect condition, only 3 dents in the stock where it had been pressed up against something else. Dealer didn't know the differances between MNs as it was a "cheap Russkie bolt gun". I missed his table the first go-round until I saw someone walking around with a sharp M39-Sneak and had to admire it. He picked up from the same guy for ~$95. He told me he already had a 91/30 Tikka and that if I needed one for my collection I should go get it. (I already had a Sneak at the time but who am I to pass up a 90+% Finn M-N for under $100) Too bad he only had the 1 Finn left!

 

[trickyasafox]

keg of unique and a k of primers. that works out to about 100 exactly by me.

i was having drama until i started using unique, now my loads are cleaner and more consistant and easier to visually verify powder level. if anyone is contemplating a higher volume versitale powder, try some.

 

[aaronrkelly]

Best $100 I ever spent......I bought 5 "U-Fix-Em" Mosin M44s from Century Arms for around $95 shipped. All 5 were complete with great stocks and functioned. Yep, 5 complete, working guns for $95. Bores were kinda rough on a couple but not really bad.

Other memorable purchases:

Mossberg 500 20 ga for $75 - came with field and slug barrel. Sold slug barrel for $80 therefore I actually made $5 and got a free gun.

Yugo SKS for $89 - flawless, numbers matching gun

CZ52 for $99

........many, many more.

 

[KWM]

Back to the original question of what can you buy for $100.-

These days it may be hard to actually get a $100 dollar gun without a C&R License, but maybe its possible.
Try looking for:
A Yugo SKS "shooter" for $89.-
A CZ52 at around $100 - $129
Most of the Russian WII imports. I saw M44's recently at a gun show for $89.-

Good Luck!

 

[Mannlicher]

Five factory fresh Ruger Mini-14 30 round mags in their original boxes. I found them at an antique shop in Central Florida. The guy said they had sat on that table for years. I paid the $100 and left with a smile. That was in 1994 I believe.

 

[chestnut ridge]

This is gun related in that we all still have our firearms.
My best 100 was a contribution to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
They got the facts out about John Kerry.

 

[Kevlarman]

Beretta Jetfire (old version, w/o safety, and made in Italy).

Ok fine, it was a little more than $100 when you figure tax and DROS.

 

[albanian]

I once bought a like new Star BKM at a gunshow for $100 even. It was late in the day and some guy was walking around trying to sell it and apparently not have much luck. I saw the Star Box and went over to see what he had (I like Star pistols). It was a clean blue BKM with professionally installed Novak style combat sights and an extra mag.

I asked him how much he would sell it for and I thought he said "four hundred bucks", what he really said was "for a hundred bucks". I almost walked away but then something made me stop and asked him to repeat the price. When it was clear that it was $100, I think I torn my pants ripping my wallet out!

You don't get deals like that everyday and I can count on one hand deals that were were near as good in a lifetime of buying guns.

As far as having a C-note to spend and what to look for at a typical gunshow, I would look for a K-31, CZ-52 or maybe a Star BM. I doubt you will see any of them for $100 but maybe. Probably about $140-160 on those guns would a great deal that you should snap up.

 

[armoredman]

This, without the bayo, was $50, from a co worker who had taken it in as a pawn for beer money 12+ years ago. When he found out I like C&R rifles, he told me he'd never fired it, and just wanted his pawn money back. He even drove to my house to deliver it!


I have more money in ammo for it, than I do IN it. It will print 1" groups at 100 yards. The rifle had been cleaned, but there was still cosmo, clean cosmo, in the barrel. It had never been fired since undergoing FTR in England unknown # of years ago. Bolt number doesnt match, and it's beat, but MAN, does she shoot!

This rifle is the one that's really gotten me interested in reloading for accuracy, not reloading for cheap. Well, at $20 for 20 rounds .303 factory, there is that, too....

 

[LAK]

Probably a few things I could list here; most recent memory for exactly $100 though is a practically brand new Burris 4X compact on the evil Bay.

------------------------------------------

http://ussliberty.org
http://ssunitedstates.org