how much do you have in your most expensive long gun.

[R.W.Dale]

Simple enough question, What's the most $$$$ you have tied up in any one rifle. Optics and all.

And comment on if you feel anything was gained from all the extra expense.


Mine is my stevens 200 7.62x39 bench gun

Stevens 200 $300

choate stock $180

benchrest follower $15

Rifle basix trigger $80

Shilen bbl $300

recoil lug $25

rings&mounts $50

36x Leupold scope $500

anti cant device $30
-------------------------------------

Grand total $1480

Holy Moly! this is the first time I've itemized it all, my wife had better not see this post.

Was it worth it? Yes, I enjoy my rifle a great deal.

 

[justin 561]

$25 in supplies to refinish the wood stock is all I put into to my weapons, unless you count the 8500 7.62x39, and various other shot gun shells of all sorts.....

 

[akolleth]

Well do you mean actual money spent, or value of the rifle

For actual money spent, it is my M-16A1 retro build, clocking in at just over $500 dollars.

For actual value, its my CMP Garand, worth probably around $600 or so. Now mind you, I didn't pay even close to that for it from CMP.

 

[R.W.Dale]

Well do you mean actual money spent, or value of the rifle

Whichever happens to be highest

$25 in supplies to refinish the wood stock is all I put into to my weapons, unless you count the 8500 7.62x39, and various other shot gun shells of all sorts.....

Unless your rifles were free the original purchase prices count as well

 

[brian923]

$1300 STAG AR-15, with a $400.00 DPMS 6.8 spc upper.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd22/demonslayer923/AR15glock001.jpg


stag arms lower, machined to fit a RRA flat top upper, with LMT bolt/carrier group. RRA 2 stage Nationla Match trigger, white oak armament 1/7 SS MATCH SPR barrel, vortec FH, YHM free float tube. tasco 4x42 varmite/target scope, and 3 magpul polymer mags.

DPMS 6.8 spc M-4 style 16" barreld upper with yhm customisable free float tube.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd22/demonslayer923/68spcwithtascoscope004.jpg

and a lot more $ in a lot more guns.

 

[redneckrepairs]

Not a cent , My two most expensive rifles were willed to me by my grandfather .

 

[brian923]

nice... i wish that could happen to me... but it wont. oh well, im planing my next build as i wite this.....

 

[MCgunner]

Got 3 actual hunting rifles.

1 M722 Remington ---free---inherited

2 M110 Savage -- 150 for a Weatherby Supreme scope, 200 for the rifle, about 40 for the millet rings (mounts are welded on) --$390

3 M7 Remington stainless -- rifle free (won in a gun show door prize raffle), Weaver 2x10x40 and millet mounts and rings about $300.

So, I guess the Savage is the most expensive out of my pocket, but the Remington MSRPs for close to $1000 now, so I guess it's my most valuable. They all are at LEAST 1 moa accurate, work fantastic, great hunting tools regardless of expense. I don't need no stinkin' Kleingunther.

Ask this over on the Hunting Forum where H and H Hunter lurks. Some of the guns he describes makes me cry. LOL!

All my milsurps are cheap, a couple of SKSs, a Hakim, and an old Mauser 88. They're range guns except that I do have one SKS dressed up for night hunting hogs. Total is about 250 in it, rifle cost me 75 bucks. I have a Rossi Lever gun in .357 mag I gave 200 for back in the 80s, does that count?

 

[glockman19]

Springfield M1A Loaded, $1,500
Bushnell Elite 4200 6-24x40, $500
Harris Bipod 9"-13" w/swivel, $75
Springfield 3rd Gen Scope mount, $130
5 Extra 20 round Mags $250

About $2,400 in total not including ammo.

 

[Landlocked Pirate]

None of my long guns are particularly expensive as I don't have anything fancy, just affordable quality, I. E. Marlins, Remingtons, and Mossbergs. Probably the most money I've actually spent was for my Marlin 336W purchased a year ago at $329. But if I bought my Marlin 39 today instead of in 1983 it would no doubt cost the most.

 

[Ash]

My most valuable by other folk's standards is probably an SVD.

My most valuable happen to be an 1849 Colt Pocket Pistol, a bolt-action Mossberg .410 and a bolt action Western Field .22lr.

Ash

 

[NetJunkie]

This:



About $3500. Maybe more. I've had the scope a while and forget what I paid for it.

 

[Titan6]

I think I have about $1900 in my DPMS LR-308/ AP4. Although that does not include ammo or parts I took off of and share with other guns. Of course I don't have my Barrett yet.

 

[H2O MAN]

This one is valued @ a little more than $6K as pictured.

 

[taliv]

5 figures. the $200 tax stamp is worth the extra expense since it keeps me out of prison, even though it's not technically necessary.

 

[AndyC]

FAL - $950 or so.

 

[TAB]

no comment.

 

[Float Pilot]

Well,,,,,
Lets see there is one of my Shiloh Sharps rifles. (Long range Express)
$1,800 for the basic rifle
$300 for sights
$200 for dies and brass.

Then there is the Remington M-700 XCR tactical in 300 Win Mag.
$1,200 for the basic rifle
$ 625 for the Leupold 4.5 x 14 30mm tubed Boone and Crocket scope with side focus.
$100 for scope mounts and rings.
$100 in dies and brass
$50 in sling

I don't even want to go into the old Winchesters....

This is a depressing thread

 

[Rembrandt]

Three years ago I paid $3750.00 for a collectible Winchester......worth over $6,000 and rising.

Have quite a few that are in that $2-$4K range.

 

[TCB in TN]

WOW, the next time my wife starts complaining about how much I have spent on guns, I will be able to point to this thread and say...... look babe, it could be SOOOOOO much worse!

 

[Tarvis]

Savage Model 12 LRPV in 22-250 bought used on Gunbroker with a tasco scope and a bipod, $900. VX-III to replace the Tasco, $840.
Total: $1740

Rem 700P in 300 winmag bought with a Leupold Mark 4, sling and bipod, $2500. Add in $250 for a muzzle break and a butt pad.
Total: $2750.

 

[jrfoxx]

Probly about $1300 or so i my AR between a mil-dot scope, red-dot scope, mounts and rings for both, surefire 6p and mount, rubber buttpad, ergo pistol grip, and mags.$800 alone was for the gun itself though, which makes it the most expensive gun I have ever bought (but not the most vauable/expensive I own, as I inherited a bnch of realy nice guns too), and the one with the most moey tied up in it as well. Worth it though. Very happy with the gun, the setup, and the scopes and such.

 

[Vaarok]

My DP-28 semiauto cost me $2,450 and the set of pan mags and carrier-tin another $90.

 

[Ignition Override]

Long gun? What if the tribe only consists of my longer carbines?

If shortening the definition is possible, it would be either the SKS or MN 44.

About $120 to buy, then $40 last week, in order for a guy to refinish the 44's wooden stock.
For the unfired Norinco SKS ( still looks like a brand-new 'cherry'),
$230, plus the gas to meet the seller at a covert rendezvous point near I-40 and about $20 for the sling.
About $270.
No fancy gear for me-just simple, reliable, durable weapons which use some of the lowest-priced ammo, except for .22. The lower prices allows lots more ammo to be bought and enjoyed (and very little of it on paper targets).

TCB: Wives might need a subtle reminder that we could have invested the same amounts on casinos at Tunica and really 'seedy' titty bars here-that's why they have no windows. Few investors in either type of business bring home any returns on such money. My SKS came from somewhere in your area.

 

[22-rimfire]

I'd estimate that I have about $1500 max in one rifle I own that includes the scope and mounts. I don't own any customs or particularly expensive long guns depending on what you call expensive. $1500 is a bunch of money in a 22 rifle.