most expensive gun you have actually been able to touch

[hopelessjoe]

Aside from military only hardware, what is the most costly firearm you have been allowed to actually touch?

Format matters not.

I know that I am at the bottom of the pole because the most expensive gun I have handled was a $12K .50BMG semiauto.

Second best would be a belt fed .22LR full auto that was $10.5K four inches away from the clear translucent case walls between me and it. So close....yet sooooo far away!

How do your gun experriences rack up when it comes to cost?

 

[1 old 0311]

Semmerling. Real neat, and more than I can spend.

 

[ieszu]

Custom .338 Lapua on a Nesika action.... custom laminated stock, scope, the works.... price said "Make offer"... guy offered $15,000, target showed under .4 MOA

OUCH!

Needless to say, I sold it! =)

 

[LR-308Hunter]

Chey Tac 408, Rifle looks cool heard price was about 13K

 

[spwenger]

I Don't Know Its Sale Price...

...but several years ago I was allowed to handle a mint S&W triple-lock target (adjustable sight) revolver in .44 Special that was on its way to a sale at an annual S&W Collectors Association meeting. It took effort to snap the cylinder back into place!

 

[Owen]

I've handled a few 100 yo, bespoke english side-by-sides. Pretty...

 

[critter]

Like Owen, I have 'touched' some very old Win SXS engraved shotguns that were absolutely pristine-marked $25K!

Another was an old German drilling at about $15K. Stunning!

 

[pdowg881]

Im guessing a privately owned Ma-Duece? I've shot quite a few expensive things. The majority of the guns I've shot are worth over 10k for us civvies.

 

[jdorian]

Nothing really special, just some Uzis. I live a boring life.

 

[Noxx]

My maternal grandfather owned a Holland and Holland double rifle, I laid hands on it once and received a truly epic a**-whipping for my trouble. In today's dollars, probably 60k? -ish... anyway.

Beyond that, the most expensive gun I've even seen in several years is my own recently acquired US&S 1911A1, I just don't travel in expensive gun circles I reckon.

 

[lee n. field]

what is the most costly firearm you have been allowed to actually touch?

Nothing special. Off the rack Bushmaster, worth maybe $800.

 

[SuperNaut]

These right here:

 

[Bruce333]

hmmm...that would be my Sister's 45-70 Alaskan CoPilot, or her custom 1911 IPSC gun. Don't know how much they cost...more than I could pay, that's for sure.

 

[Sam1911]

Transferrable MAG-58. Price tag on it was $65,000 about two years ago.

Was also very near to a .30 GE Mini-gun a few years ago. Didn't get to touch it...but the price tag is generally undisclosed.
-Sam

 

[dewidmt]

Antique, very first model produced of a early Marlin lever action- $50,000

 

[Iggy]

Handled and fired one of Jake Hawken's fine old rifles at a Ronyvoo at Ft. Bridger Wyoming.

If you missed the raw egg hangin' on a string at 25 yards, you had to eat it.

It was a thrill shootin' that rifle, but it was a bigger thrill not eating that egg.

That was 35 years ago, and the owner said the gun was worth 6 or 7 thousand then.

 

[briansp82593]

some holland and holland double rifle.... said over 100,000

 

[phaed]

nothin too fancy...my dad's browning O/Us

 

[DENALI]

Eliminating the military option is painful but I'd have to say the Sig-210 which at the time was near $3,000,00. Also my father has a Colt SAA that was dated by Colt but I don't remember as to what the date was.

 

[gcrookston]

I was allowed into a museum to examine a collection after hours (political favor, the judge that married me knew I was a gun nut). I was most taken with the 100 or so lugers they had, including ser# 2 and #3 in .45 (#2 was featured on million dollar guns on the history channel, #3 is a fake but before it was discovered, they paid almost a million for)...

The most expensive gun I've ever owned was a 1902 Luger Carbine that I found outside of Wenatchee and traded a Ruger 10-22 carbine for. I sold it in 1998 for $12,500.00 Today that gun would be in the 20's

 

[funnelcake]

That I've actually wrapped the mitts around a Colt New Service Target 7-1/2" Barrel an the deep-set medallion target grips in .44 Russian. Easy 98 percent an one of the finest Colts I've seen. $4500 bucks.

Funnel

 

[Zach S]

HK94, converted to an MP5 with a flemming sear, AR15 with a RDIAS.

 

[Constantine-p89]

My Kimber Custom II that was $600.

 

[CB900F]

Fella's;

I've handled the Scoville Henry. It's currently valued in the $45 to 50,000.00 area I believe. The gun was made expressly for a Union officer named Scoville, in an Illinois unit. It's provenance is known from date of manufacture to present. Beautiful and extensive engraving.

900F

 

[lurch37]

I was at an auction last year and handled an old rifle...a Winchester Lever I think...can't remember all the details...but when it came up to sell 2 guys went back and forth for 5 minutes...at 1K a pop...it was very cool to watch and be a part of. If I remember correctly, it finally sold in the 60K-70K area. The next day the rumor going round was that the guy who bought it was an agent for Tom Selleck.