Most Expensive/Cheapest Gun you have owned.

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Two of my guns cost me.... Zero dollars.

Double barrel black powder (64 caliber) shotgun purchased with coupons. Been offered several hundred dollars to let it go. Still in my safe

Traded a 50 cal black powder rifle also obtained using coupons for my SKS.

I likes free guns :)
 
Cheapest gun? HyHunter .22 SA revolver (first gun I ever bought $37).
Most expensive? Colt 2nd Gen SAA .38 spl
Best deal? Not including guns that I won at raffles, a Winchester 101 at a yard sale for $150.
 
Most Expensive: Bushy M4 that had over $2800 in it. Sold it and still kicking myself.
Most Expensive Pistol: Kimber Custom 1911
Cheapest: Taurus m85 new for $270 or so, was my first gun, purchased on my 21st b-day. Wish I wouldn't have sold it too. Oh well.
 
Haha.

My reading comprehension isn't so hot at this time of the morning. Just realized this is a two part question. Most expensive... I have are couple where the base price was over 800.
 
MOST expensive? a custom built .243 Mauser action target barrelled (McMillan Premium) sporter, Fajen custom stock, with a Timney trigger, Bueller safety, and Williams 1 piece steel mount, wearing a nice Swarovski scope, (I didn't buy it, it was a gift) at about $3500.00

cheapest? that'd be the "bay state" single shot 12 GA, that was sawed off at 21" before I got it... a whoppin' $25.00 (from my favorite FFL)
 
"Most Expensive/Cheapest Gun you have owned."

Expensive, but cheap: Guerini 28 ga. O/U, my father bought it and later decided I liked it more. :cool:

Cheapest gun I ever bought: NIB Single-Six Conv. for $50-ish 30+ years ago.

Okay, the cheapest bad gun I've owned is the little I.Johnson .32 my mother gave me that belonged to my grandfather. Plumb worn out, beat up and ugly to boot.

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Frontrunner for a long time was the H&R .32 my aunt gave me when she retired from Hopkins and left Baltimore in the '70s. I tried to sell it for years before I found a sucker, er, taker.

Then there was my great uncle Ed's 1884 S&W .38 with the discolored nickel from riding in his hip pocket. I think I finally got $50 and some free S&W hats and pins for that one. Come to think of it, that was my dad's $50 in that gun. He got his money back and the freebies.

I've seen too many cheap guns in my life to spend any of my money on one.

John

Edited to add: The most I've actually spent on one gun is $1600 on a Cooper Custom Classic .22 to give my father.
 
...my great uncle Ed's 1884 S&W .38 with the discolored nickel from riding in his hip pocket. I think I finally got $50...
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:scrutiny:

S&W .38s of that era typically go for $300-$400... a more common one might go for $200, and an unusual example might go for $1000. $50 must've been in 1960s dollars?
 
Most expensive: Marlin 1894 Cowboy Carbine in .41 Mag. Only made 1000 of them. Bought it & shoot it anyway b/c I wanted a carbine to go with my Blackhawk. Of course, about a year later they start offering .41 as a regular chambering in their standard leverguns...:banghead:
Least expensive: Mosin-Nagant 91/30
Best deal: Custom .280 Rem: FN Mauser action, stainless Douglas bbl, beautiful hardwood stock of unknown manufacture, AMAZING trigger. Scope mount holes on rear receiver ring had been drilled off-center. Fixed that with Leupold STD bases w/windage adjustment. Cost, including used Vari-X II 3-9x40: $600. Results: .80 inch groups at 200 yds w/Winchester 140 gr Ballistic Silvertip factory loads. And several dead deer.
 
my most expensive would have to be my ar
my cheapest i have aquired was free to me , that i was givin when a relative died . didn't cost me a thing so i guess that is cheap enough!
 
Although it had a magazine---the Raven was just a single shot---and that was after fiddlin with it for a bit between shots.:banghead:
 
Cheapest is a marlin bolt action 22lr with the tube magazine, I bought it new several years ago and I can't recall what I paid for it. I am thinking around 150 or so I guess.

Most expensive is either a baer 1911 or a dsa fal and its optic on top, with the optic the fal wins without it I think they are awfully darn close.
 
32 years ago I bought a 22 High Standard Double Nine for $20.00 (used) I still have it and it still shoots staright. Most I ever spent is around $450.00
 
Pretty Easy Question

Most expensive, my Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special .45 caliber ACP;
even with my discount it was 'bout $1530 + tax.;)

Least expensive would have to be my first handgun purchase, a Rhom
"Burgo" model 8-shot .22LR caliber revolver that I purchased at the
old K-Mart store for $42.50 + tax.:eek: :(
 
Most expensive, Desert Eagle .50AE bought it used but I could not tell if it
had been fired. Paid $950 IIRC.

Cheapest was a Charter 2000 Bulldog Pug .44 special. Brand new from Acad
about $194 tax and all.
 
Most expensive? I don't wanna say. Really.

Least expensive: CZ52 in excellent to new condition for $150. Best value, too. It's reliable, fun to shoot, and fun to look at in sort of a '50s ray-gun kinda way.
 
"S&W .38s of that era typically go for $300-$400... a more common one might go for $200, and an unusual example might go for $1000. $50 must've been in 1960s dollars?"

Not '60s dollars. It was a S&W .38 Double Action Second Model, 115,000 mfg. from 1880-1884. 60%=$170, 50%=$165, and so forth IF YOU CAN FIND A BUYER. It was pretty tight, but had been carried daily for 60? years. One grip was cracked and the nickel on one side was 3/4 black, but not peeling. They're a dime a dozen unless they're 90% or better and then they're rare.

And there were over 200,000 of the Third Model made and well over 200,000 of the Fourth and 15,000 of the Fifth.

Now the 4,000 First Model guns might bring a little more, but really, who wants a break-top that won't shoot .38 Special?

John
 
What you paid matters little. It is what they are worth today. My least valuable firearm is probably a Mossberg semi-auto 22. It probably cost the least too. But I have probably had the most fun with it, so who cares? Most most valuable firearm did not cost the most. But it doesn't really matter as I think about all the break even or lost money deals I have made on firearms.
 
Now the 4,000 First Model guns might bring a little more, but really, who wants a break-top that won't shoot .38 Special?
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I own a few... not the .38s, but top break firing obsolete cartridges. Quite happy with them too. I've got to admit the ones I own are in surprisingly good condition considering their age and that bumped the price I paid, but I've never seen ANY for $50.

The prices I regularly see are more like this:
"S&W - .38 DA 2nd Model - .38 S&W, 3.25" barrel - About very good to fine condition. - Maybe 60% nickel remains overall, with barrel about gone gray; pretty good case colors. Working; dirty bore; chip out of bottom left grip could be glued back in. - antq -- $235"

Even crappy non-functional examples hover around $100.
 
Not purchased, but the prize in my collection is a Model 1855 Harper's Ferry .58 cal "rifle". Cheapest was a Jennings 9mm I traded as soon as I finished trying to shoot it.
 
OOOOOH, my 45 ACP USP at around 750.00. So long ago, I don't remember.
My Stevens 94 SS 12 Ga Shotgun I paid 40 bucks for. Killed around 3 or 4 turkeys with so far....
 
"The prices I regularly see are more like this:"

Those are about the same asking prices I see these days. As I found out, finding somebody to pay them is too much work. What the heck, I didn't lose any cash and made a profit of a few hats and pins.

John
 
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