Has anyone here ever won a gun in a raffle?

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I’m sure SOMEONE has. What about the Ducks Unlimited raffle specifically? I keep checking the list hoping for a win.
 
Hi...
I won a Remington 870 12ga shotgun in a raffle in the mid 80s. Had it for a few years...never shot it. I had a Browning semi and an Ithaca pump shotgun and just didn't really need the 870. I sold it during a divorce in the 1989-90 time frame.

I also won a synthetic stock Savage 7mmMag rifle in a raffle sometime in the mid-90s. I mounted a Leupold 3x9 variable scope on it and it has proved to be quite an accurate rifle. Off a rest it will consistently shoot one inch or less groups at 100yds with Winchester Ballistic silvertip ammunition, if I do my part.
Despite owning several other very nice rifles, this Savage has been my primary hunting rifle for the last 25 years.
 
Bought tickets, but was unable to attend. An acquaintance went with my tickets and his own.
He wound up winning 2 guns with his own tickets, supposedly. Im not a fan of gun raffles.
 
I won a Winchester Super-X at a D U function that I later sold and replaced it with something I wanted, My wife won a Baikal O/U in a PERM (legal fund for fighting netting/spearing on Mille Lacs) raffle that I traded for my first Mark II Ruger, (a brand new stainless Gov't Target), and I won a Winchester semiauto 30-06 at a MN Deer Hunter's banquet.
 
Sort of. I won a plastic, spring powered "fly shooter" pistol at a "Friends of the NRA" dinner one night.
I couldn't hit a fly with that toy from 5 feet away, and it probably wasn't powerful enough to kill it even if I would have hit it. In other words, "it wouldn't even kill a fly.":D
 
Yes... Once. Back in 1997. Local gun rights organization; S.C.O.P.E., ( Shooters Committee On Political Education ) has an annual gun raffle. A guy called me to say I had won first prize. My first thought was someone is pulling my leg. But I had won a Ruger KM77VT Mk II in .25-06 with a Burris 6-18x scope already on it. It had been on display at their gun show table when I purchased the tickets and I was drooling. Still have it except it now has a 6-18x Leupold on it in Leupold rings as seen here.. KM77VTMKII.jpg . Only problem is that over the decades of gun raffle ticket purchases I've probably spent enough to buy 2 comparable rifles. But I keep buying them anyway to support good causes and I can always dream about winning another gun.
 
JJFitch said:
I have won two, Ruger MKII and Ruger 10/22 at different FONRA dinners
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I won two as well. It was the pick a card drawing both times - same night - a gun from the display board or cash.

My range's junior club had a presence at the dinner that night, so for the first I had them pick out
a gun for their yearly raffle and for the second suggested they grab cash for misc. expenses like group
pizza parties and such.

I don't usually have any luck at raffles, and I wasn't going to let that night ruin my streak.
Easy come, easy go.

JT
 
Freedom Arms belt buckle and mini revolver, Ruger Super Blackhawk DU in display case, and a Winchester SXP waterfowler 12 ga. All since given away or sold for far less than retail value. DU guns are neither rare not are they much desired I've found working in a gun shop for a dozen of my retirement years.
 
No. . . but the rolling tool box that holds the first half of my reloading tooling was won in a raffle, and that tooling is worth more than any 3 guns I own.

Does that count?
 
Yep, the once only. Was for a Remmy XP-100 in .35rem. Had to drive 115 miles to a shop in Houston to go collect it, too. Where I was charged a $50 "convenience fee" too. (Was an excessively 'swanky' sort of joint, where the cheapest shotgun was a $$$$ Citori o/u; I turned down their offer of a couple boxes of .35rem at $25 each [in the 90s].)

That beast was the largest handgun I ever owned. Did not fit any of my hard cases, and the only rugs were high-end custom ones. Took an annoying amount of time to find a LER scope for the beast, too. Dude at the range liked it a lot more than I did and had a handy pile of cash (about $40 more than cost of the glass--so a good deal for both of us).

From others I've known, who have won one of those NRA-style prize deals, often you get instructions to go to local national chain store, where you get a store credit for the amount of the "won gun" and you "spend" that as you see fit.
 
My wife won a Weatherby .300 WM, with a 4x12 leupold scope on it at a RMEF banquet. Very nice rifle, she has never fired it and I've never encouraged her to fire it. But it is "her" rifle and has its spot in the gun safe, where it will probably live our out lifetimes. I do have two grandsons who may end up with it some day. Great rifle.
 
In the 1990s my dad won a Tikka bolt action .243 from a raffle. I'm not sure who it was for. It wears a Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation sticker on the stock, but he may have added that after. He took it out for deer hunting one year, but found he preferred the 30.06 he'd be using for some time. It became my first gun, the gun I used to take my first deer, and until I joined the military it was the gun/platform on which I had the most trigger time. Still have it today, though I haven't taken in out in a while.
 
Mom won one, two years in a row at the local DU banquet. A springfield 1911A1 and a Sig P320.

Im considering trading the 1911 for a '03A3, as semi autos just dont really do much for me and i already have a 1911 Para. (Says the guy with 7 single action rugers) The P320 is my only 9mm other than a BHP.
 
I won a Charles Daly 12 gauge pump and an RWS pellet rifle.

There used to be a NWTF banquet in Kokomo, IN. They are not in turkey country, so attendance was sparse. I think the last year they had it, there were only 22 guys there. Odds were good. They had basically the same prizes as at a banquet that has hundreds of people

One time I bought $140 of tickets and got a hat
 
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