SC Shooter
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My Heritage is a fun plinking gun. You can pick it apart, but good grief, it's a cheap gun that is designed to handle both .22Lr & magnums.
Didja ever buy a cheap pistol?
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SC Shooter
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My Heritage is a fun plinking gun. You can pick it apart, but good grief, it's a cheap gun that is designed to handle both .22Lr & magnums.
Fleetman
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Mine are all $150 or less
I only buy on sale.
(Alas, none of this is true!)
I only buy on sale.
(Alas, none of this is true!)
I won a new Phoenix .25 Auto in an auction for $60 about 5 or 6 years ago. I shot one mag through it and it has been sitting in my safe ever since. I guess if it had been a .22, I might have shot it a little more. I have no idea what to do with it....
tuckerdog1
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When I was dirt poor ( lived in a beat up mobile home that leaned to one side and was RIGHT next to a busy RR track ), I bought my 1st gun. It was a new Jennings J22. All I could afford, but needed SOMETHING for the neighborhood I was in. $50.
Kaeto
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I'd buy it off you if the price was right just to have it.
I bought a new Heritage Arms 22/22mag 3.5" barrel with the Birdhead grip for $170.00 It's fairly accurate fun to shoot, if it's shot a lot empties start ejecting hard. The gun store I bought it from took the screw out of the ejector rod housing that connects it to the muzzle end and put lock tight on it he said the are notorious for coming out and also said to avoid dry firing it, the firing pin will hit the cylinder and eventually damage it.
Grand kids like to shoot it more than my Ruger SP 101 22 cause the hammer caulks easier
Grand kids like to shoot it more than my Ruger SP 101 22 cause the hammer caulks easier
shadowlands
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I've owned 3 Hi Points in my time.
Fun to shoot, honestly. Big, fat and ugly, but fun to shoot.
Fun to shoot, honestly. Big, fat and ugly, but fun to shoot.
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SC Shooter
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If you include mil slurps, I have bought several. Other than that, I did buy a used Bersa Thunder.that's about as cheap as I have gone.
berettaprofessor
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I sold my Heritage revolver (with the second 22mag cylinder). It's an okay gun, but the coating looked cheap in places, and it had so-so accuracy. Mainly, after awhile, I began to question why I've got any single action revolvers; boring and cumbersome, especially when loading and unloading a single chamber at a time. I've still got a Ruger Bearcat I'm intending to give to my first grandchild, but I'm going with double action 22lr revolvers; and darned few of them since the semi-autos are much nicer to load and reload.
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Ha, I bought a kel tec 32 to carry as a backup gun years ago. It was cheap but it was dependable and it was really popular in our agency. Still got that little gun and still remember 10 or 12 of us at a time on the line with them to qualify. Very few problems thatI remember
DaddioDan
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I've tried to reply to this thread earlier, but some software glitch prevented me.
No matter. Best deal I ever got was a beat to hell S&W 909. Looks horrible, shoots GREAT! All for $165. Love me some 9mm single stack goodness.
No matter. Best deal I ever got was a beat to hell S&W 909. Looks horrible, shoots GREAT! All for $165. Love me some 9mm single stack goodness.
Legionnaire
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I guess it really depends on how you define "cheap."
I've had a couple of Kel-Tecs that worked as advertised. My first was a P11 that I carried for quite a while. I bought one of the first run P32s; it had to go back to the factory once (the specific reason escapes me) shortly after purchase, but after that it worked as it should. Again, I carried it until selling it when it was replaced by a Ruger LCP. Nothing at all against Ken-Tec; if I found myself needing another "cheap" gun, I'd buy one without hesitation.
I have also bought several "inexpensive" guns; good guns bought second-hand that would not have been cheap had I bought them new. By best deal ever was a barely broken in Ruger SP101 for $250.
I've had a couple of Kel-Tecs that worked as advertised. My first was a P11 that I carried for quite a while. I bought one of the first run P32s; it had to go back to the factory once (the specific reason escapes me) shortly after purchase, but after that it worked as it should. Again, I carried it until selling it when it was replaced by a Ruger LCP. Nothing at all against Ken-Tec; if I found myself needing another "cheap" gun, I'd buy one without hesitation.
I have also bought several "inexpensive" guns; good guns bought second-hand that would not have been cheap had I bought them new. By best deal ever was a barely broken in Ruger SP101 for $250.
Bought 3 Broomhandle Mausers back in the late 80's for $69.00 ea.. Imports from China that were very well used but complete. Sure wish I would have bought more of them. I sold two of them as is, and sent the third ones barrel to Redman? for reboring and rifling to 9mm. Cleaned it all up and had it run through bluing tanks. Then bought repro red 9 grips. It was a fun project and a modestly good shooter.
I almost forgot this one.
Cabelas had Highpoint 9mm on sale for $129, I had a $20 gift certificate, a $20 Cabelas coupon, and my military discount, so I walked out the door with it for less than $100 after taxes. I dont carry it, but I do shoot it at the range and it eats low cost plinking ammo like candy, the kids love to shoot it, and it didnt cost much. The biggest issue I see with this gun is if you limp wrist it then it will FTE. If you keep a firm grip, it is 100% reliable. I also have 4 mags for it that I bought for like $8 each. All in all, not a bad gun for $100 bucks, and heavy enough that recoil is pretty minimal when the kids shoot it.
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Cabelas had Highpoint 9mm on sale for $129, I had a $20 gift certificate, a $20 Cabelas coupon, and my military discount, so I walked out the door with it for less than $100 after taxes. I dont carry it, but I do shoot it at the range and it eats low cost plinking ammo like candy, the kids love to shoot it, and it didnt cost much. The biggest issue I see with this gun is if you limp wrist it then it will FTE. If you keep a firm grip, it is 100% reliable. I also have 4 mags for it that I bought for like $8 each. All in all, not a bad gun for $100 bucks, and heavy enough that recoil is pretty minimal when the kids shoot it.
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