Cheapest firearms you have bought.

[Eyesac]

Dang, you people can't be that old, where'd you get:

NIB 1903A4 Springfield, $14.50

Hmmm? Unless you traveled back in time, or you're 100 year's old? If you did travel back in time, pick up one for me next time...

Seriously though, how'd you pull that one off?

 

[Scoupe]

NIB 1911A1 Remington, $17.00

NIB 1903A3 Springfield, $14.50

NIB 1903A4 Springfield, $14.50

Used M1 Carbine, $20

Unused 1911A1, $25.00

NIB S&W 2 inch Model 10, $65

Looks like a DCM price list to me. Ahhhhh, the good old days.

 

[mbt2001]

I bought a Lorcin .25 auto for $45

I would by two more... they may be cheap, but serve their purpose perfectly.

 

[kungfuhippie]

An Arisaka 99 $50.00 worn but original with a good bore, bubba hasn't befouled it!
Picking it up in about an hour.

 

[boerseun]

Norinco copy of browning .22lr pistol. About $25 at the current conversion rate.
CZ100 for about $200. Oh, and a silencer for the .22 for $10.....good ole days...

 

[M2 Carbine]

Eyesac
Dang, you people can't be that old, where'd you get:

Quote:
NIB 1903A4 Springfield, $14.50

Hmmm? Unless you traveled back in time, or you're 100 year's old? If you did travel back in time, pick up one for me next time...

Seriously though, how'd you pull that one off?

Yes, I'm afraid I am that old, 69.

Back in the late 50s and 60s, when US citizens still actually had gun rights, a NRA member could buy guns directly from the government. You could get one of each, every year. They were delivered directly to your door. Most were brand new.
I've still got them.

And above that anyone could order almost any gun, even anti tank guns, directly from the distributor and they were sent directly to your door.
Lugers, P-38s, M1 Carbines, 1911s, any gun, and for prices like $18-$39 dollars.
Ammo to. I used to order 38 Special tracers just for the heck of it.

This is my $17 1911A1.
In the mid 60s I had this Armorloy (sp) finish done on it.

 

[Ala Dan]

Best quality firearm I ever bought was a pristine 2nd series Colt Agent
for $120, from a guy who knew nothing 'bout firearms~!

 

[Hokkmike]

A lever action MArlin 20 guage. Under $100.

 

[HiroProX]

A SKS-M, $160, bought along with four AK47 magazines for it to celebrate the end of the AWB.

 

[phoglund]

My best bargain was two refurbished M38 Mosin Nagant carbines for $50 each a little over a year ago. I thought the deal so good at $50 each I bought two. One has been left as I bought it, the other I shoot along with it's cousin a Romanian M44.

 

[lawson]

i bought a Mossberg bolt action 12 gauge for $40 at a garage sale. ugly, but has taken quite a few birds

my K31 was only $55. great shooter, shiny clean bore. stock has been repaired, but it was done very well and is rock solid.

 

[Kankujoe]

My cheapest gun purchase from a dealer NIB was a Iver-Johnson TP22 (.22lr) for about $100.00. Bought it in the early 1980s... still shoots great. It looks and feels like the Walther TPH. Just wish I could find some factory original extra mags for it....

This little piece was my deep concealment everyday piece for many years... until Kel-Tec came out with their P3AT...

 

[Kankujoe]

When I was a kid (in PA & NJ) my dad was the president of the local gun club and local NRA chapter... I remember him purchasing dozens and dozens of military 1911s and M1s for the club... this was all prior to JFK's shooting... We had crates of these guns and military surplus ammo in our home basement... for some reason I remember him paying $12-14 for brand new 1911s or M1s.

I wish I knew what happened to all those guns and ammo... My dad said that it was devided up when the gun club disbanded following severe harrassment by the New Jersey authorities... zoning laws changed... things got so restricted that the club membership diminished, died off or moved away...

 

[benelli12]

mosin nagant M44 $92, one of the best purchases I ever made.

 

[DenverDuck]

Colt Python (Beautiful Condition), S&W Model 1, Stevens 101 44 shot, Mossberg 500 12 gauge, Bullet Trap, 2 SKB Double rifle cases, 3 pistol cases, and about 500 rounds of ammo for $450.00 last August 2006

 

[gbran]

Bulgarian Makarov for $150, great gun.
My boy bought a Firestorm 1911 that was rock solid dependable for $279 new.

 

[rangerruck]

Rohn 22 short pistol, 40. got lucky and got a winny 3030 once , with a trick lever knob, for 51 dollars.

 

[66912]

I traded an 1981 Peugot road bicycle with No wheels, no chain, no handlebars and no brakes for an unfired Russian M44 Last year.

 

[shark40sw]

mossburg 500 in 410, Lakefeild semi-auto .22, 3 boxes of 410 shells (minus the 5 used is said gun), 5 boxes .22, and cleaning kits for both from a co-worker. I had to force 50 bucks on him to take them off his hands. The .22 has a cracked stock and beat up looking tasco scope but shoots very well and the shotgun looks as new as the day he brought it home. He figures he's fired maybe 10 rounds thru it in the 10 years or so they had it.

 

[The_Shootist]

Cheapest?

Easy - my mighty Zastava Model 70 - .32acp 8 shot semi, for all of $ 99. I figure its my lone "Saturday Night Special"

Evidently its previous owner thought highly of it - the bluing had ALOT of holster wear (which I actually managed to touch up quite nicely). Seeings how it came from the Balkans, I kinda shudder when I think of what kind of "history" it might have behind it

 

[VirgilCaine]

I traded an 1981 Peugot road bicycle with No wheels, no chain, no handlebars and no brakes for an unfired Russian M44 Last year.

Apparently, old bicycles are a hobby?

 

[Sharps-shooter]

apart from numerous free guns..

I guess the cheapest would be any of the single-shot breakopen shotguns that sell for $75 all over town.

Next would probably be my latest acquisition, a nerly-new Taurus revolver that I got for $125, from someone who needed to get rid of it.

 

[statelineblues]

A nearly new (made in Belgium) 1974 Browning "T" bolt .22 rifle for $40.00 in 2003 from a co-worker. Could'a had a Mossberg 500 in .410 for $10.00 more...:banghead:

 

[Mannlicher]

a few come to mind.
$40 for a RockOla M1 Carbine
$75 for a WWII BHP, with Nazi Kriegsmarine markings and all matching serial numbers.
$50 for a high cap Makarov, Russian manufacture, NIB, and then traded straight up for a Bulgarian SA93 AK47
$50 for an 1851 Colt Navy .36 caliber. It is in exellent condition, and shoots great.
$500 for a Franchi semi auto 12 GA, a S&W .32 snubbie, a S&W .38 model 36, a Remington Model 521T Junior Special .22 target rifle, a Springfield 1906 military rifle, a 30-40 Krag, a Winchester 94 in .32 Special and a Remington Model 11 12 GA with a PolyChoke.

 

[talleymonster]

1953 Hungarian Mosin Nagant

The three guns that I own have all been relatively cheap in price, my Mosin Nagant was the cheapest. I bought it at Machine Gun Kelly's in Las Vegas, Nevada. It only cost 59.00$. Apparently on a recent airing of "Penn and Teller:Bull****" they had a contest, and the girl who won was flown to las vegas to be a part of the show. At the end of the show eight women sporting Mosin Nagant M44 came out on stage and "executed" the contestant. After the show, the guns ended up at the gun store. Thats how I got my gun. I went to the gun store on a whim and got lucky. The others all had multiple serial numbers, mine was the only one that the numbers all matched. The gun has seen some use, but I prefer it that way. I like an old gun that has soem history to it.