Favorite Impulse Buy?

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About to leave town, surreptitiously ran into my Dad at a clothing store after having left his house 30 minutes previously. We're chatting, sitting waiting for our wives to finish shopping, and he happens to mention that he's considering selling his MKIV Hunter at the gun show the following week. SOLD ON THE SPOT! Complete impulse buy. Couldn't be happier. I wondered why he hadn't mentioned it while previously at his house visiting for hours.???
 

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Stop into local gun shop, they have racks of used rifles( mostly from an estate sale that they bought in bulk.)
I spot a few marlin 22 rifles, then what do I find, "the holy grail of marlins" ..............A Camp Carbine! (I had never seen one for sale in last 10years.)
I had to have it. Sold!
 
Wow, it's scary to realize how many gun purchases of mine have been impulse buys! :D A couple of the recent best have been at an LGS where I bought a cool WW2 era Beretta 1934 and a near new Kimber Micro Nine. A recent online impulse buy netted me an all original 1952 -ish S&W K-38 Masterpiece in about 85% condition for something like $369.
 
Impulse buy?

That would be Libby,,,
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3" square butt S&W Model 36.

I had just popped into The Evil Pawn Shop to kill some time before a routine doctors appointment,,,
She was a little rough with some stains on the finish and terrible plastic pearl stocks,,,
But the lock-up was tight and the DA trigger was smooth as silk.

When you see a gun like this for just $299.00 out the door,,,
You don't hesitate,,,
You buy it.

One hour later she was clean as a whistle,,,
Some judiciously applied cold blue brightened her finish,,,
Then a $20.00 pair of laminate stocks just to give her some class.

The best part is that I can hit with this gun,,,
And so can the dozen or more people I've started with her.

Yes, it was an unexpected impulse buy,,,
But it was a fortuitous one.

Aarond

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Nice impulse buy! Have always had a soft spot for a Model 36 with a 3" barrel!
 
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The top impulse buy had to be the Magnum Research BFR. Walked in one of the local LGS, to buy some Benchmark powder, that he had just gotten in, and was told I needed to see what else came in. Love at first sight, picked it up, and it was mine. $925 later, walked out the door with a BFR 30/30 with a 10" barrel, and threw a Leopold scope on it, and been one of my favorites, since. Set up one of the presses, for 30/30, and the journey began.
 
None. Impulse buys never work out for me - they just lead to regret and selling. What does work is carefully thinking through what I want and why, and saving up to get exactly what I want with no compromises.
 
^^ I respect this approach. In actuality, my "impulse" buys are conditioned by years of experience and acquired knowledge and bounded by the practice of buying used rather than new. My purchase of a new GP100 in .44 Special was not an impulse buy; I posted here and elsewhere many years ago that I wanted exactly that gun. When Ruger offered it, I purchased it quickly because I already knew I wanted it. No regrets.

I will confess that I recently spent a lot of money (for me) on a second-hand custom rifle in .260 Ackley. It was an impulse buy in that I wasn't looking for another lightweight hunting rifle at the time. But when I saw the gun, knew already that I like semi-custom Remington 700s, love the .260 Remington and its Ackley variant--and already have everything I need to load for the .260 Ackley, I jumped on it. It wasn't a "no brainer." I waffled on it for a while, but I'd still consider it an impulse buy on balance. And I couldn't be happier with it.

Point is that because I already know in general what I like, my impulse buys fall within a set of pre-defined parameters. Like the SP101 that kicked off this thread. I was already a fan of Ruger revolvers.
 
I have always been enamored with the giant Desert Eagle. Seeing it in movies since I was a kid, watching frail old men whip it up and knock down a sheep at two hundred yards on the idiot-toob and finally renting one in Fourth Four Magnum.

I thought,"I. Must own. This."...:)
(but in Fifty A.E.)

I called Magnum Research and ordered a catalog. To my further enjoyment, it came with Julia Robert's younger sister as the model! Long legs do the same for me as long barrels!;)

Like Legionaire and Danny, I watched half a dozen websites for six or seven months, after finding that no local store would entertain the thought of procurement of one...

I watched the prices go up and down. I thought about all the colors, whether Cera-coat would be good enough, if the muzzle brake was a want or need...Oh my Lord... They are making an L-five! Waffeling to and fro, between a grey and black models, it was obsession.

It was literally unhealthy for me to not have this firearm.

Then they announced it in an all stainless steel model...


The switch had been thrown! It was no longer obsession! I was compelled unconsciously. I went to Grab-a-gun, and it was listed. The same price as a ceracoat color! SOLD! Put it in my cart, now! Hurry, before the internet cuts out!

From the time the impluse of "buy" left my brain, to the "running of the numbers" was like three minutes...

It is hard to pick a favorite child, but she is definitely a top competitor!
 
I did pick up a seven inch Contour Buckmark when I was signing for my Silverback. But it was so good a price I don't feel it was an impulsive buy. It would have been foolish not to!

And again I have wanted a Buckmark to compare with my MKiii Blue Shark for sometime...:)
 
I am an NRA member and get The American Rifleman magazine. Well one month the SA XDE 9mm was highlighted and IT hit me that it is hammer fired. Bingo! Always wanted a hammer fired gun and can't afford them. So oh yea i have that Ruger SR9C in the safe that I hardly shoot so guess what it's gone. Yep got that XDE and it's my favorite carry gun. Got it's little cousin Mon.the xds so it won't be lonely for family.
 
Walther PPQ. I was killing time waiting for a pizza with my wife, and wandered over to my favorite LGS. They had one in stock, looked interesting, tried the trigger and was hooked.

The other was an HK P7 I bought on line when CDNN was selling them for < $500 years ago.
 
Just made another one today. New Haven 240c. Made by Mossberg. .22 S/L/LR. Bolt action carbine. Detachable box mag. Couldn't pass it up.
Got home and put 50 rds through it. Once I figured out the hold over I had no problem ringing the 100 yard steel target. Probably be a while before I actually shoot it for groups and test ammo for it.
 
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