most rewarding gun purchase?

[Aaron1100us]

Izhmash Tiger for $1,000 Closest thing to the Dragunov SVD that I'll ever get.



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[Al Thompson]

03A3 - no idea what I paid for it. I had one, let it go (big mistake) and darn if another one didn't show up 6 months later. This one's going in my coffin.

 

[Lex Luthier]

My semi-auto Uzi. Paid a fair price through an FFL.

 

[bdbecker]

I love them all as others have said... That being said my new current rediscovered favorite has to be my Knight Wolverine 209 .50 cal muzzleloader. I've had it for almost 10 years but dusted her off last fall for deer season. It is just a beast, and a phenomenally accurate beast at that. My favorite thing to do when shooting with my buddies is to bust out the old girl while they are playing with their ARs and throw a 1" 100 yard group. Sometimes the old ways are the better ways.

 

[788Ham]

My Colt Python 6" I bought back in '85 for $325.00, NIB. The most accurate revolver I own.... well, until I picked up a Colt Trooper .38 Spl 4" about a year ago, a toss up.

 

[VVelox]

It is a toss up between my FR-8 and my SKS-45. I absolutely love the feel and handling of both.

 

[Blind Dog Jake]

Colt Frontier Scout bought used but in great shape, in 1971. Gave it to my son, he grew up shooting that little Colt and now his daughter shoots it almost every weekend. Without a doubt my most rewarding gun purchase.

About 12,000 rounds shot in that little .22. I would say $80 well spent.

 

[Queen_of_Thunder]

Just got the word that my Rock Island 10mm is heading my way. What can I say but I hope it hurrys up and gets here soon.

 

[mountainpharm]

1st gen Walther P99 9mm. LOVE that gun!!

 

[stumpers]

Most rewarding: my first AR15 that I got piece by piece during this panic through patience and the willpower to not overpay.

 

[22-rimfire]

"Rewarding" does not necessarily mean that you got the cheapest price or stand to make the most money on a resale. Unless, that is why you buy guns. My most rewarding guns are my 22's that I shoot a fair amount and have little to do with price or value.

 

[Resist Evil]

My most rewarding is a custom 1911 that took a year to earn.

 

[LeftyTSGC]

The best purchase made was for a STAR 30M 9mm only $240, in like new condition. Shoots great, with three 15 round magazines. This was in March 2013. So deals are still to be had, you just have to look deep.

I would love to find a second since they are no longer made.

LeftyTSGC

 

[HexHead]

Nagant 91/30 bought unseen over the internet.

1944 Izhmash, seemingly unissued.
3" groups at 100 yards with cheap ammo.

Best $130 I've ever spent.

Maybe unissued after being refurbished, but the likelihood of Mosin-Nagant made in 1944 not being used in the war is nil.

 

[HexHead]

Pretty tough question, with quite a few potential answers. I think I need to go with my Weatherby Vanguard S2 in .308. I'm very accurate with it, and it's a pleasure to shoot.

 

[JPG19]

I'd have to say my Spike's AR. At just over $1,000 it has satisfied many areas of need including home/property defense, hunting, fun at the range, and it has been a fantastic money pit with all of the available accessories. A close second would be my Gen3 Glock 19. I carry it EVERY day and really enjoy shooting it. Great idea for a thread, btw!

 

[loose noose]

No doubt about it, shortly after I became a police officer, we went from S&W .357s to the 1911 Colt of our choice. (at the time we had to buy our own weapon) Therefore I purchased a Colt Gold Cup National Match 70 Series for the princely sum of $156.00 and that included a basket weave leather holster, matching dual magazine pouch, and 2 additional Colt magazines. Yup I still got the firearm, and it is still in pristine shape. (I had to have a heavy duty recoil spring installed in it for duty). Note after a shooting I was involved in they put it in evidence, when I got it back it had rust on it, so the department I worked for had it factory re-blued. I retired using a department issued Colt Commander .45acp.

 

[William Boyd]

Most rewarding gun to shoot is my Winchester 9422. Not the best trigger or sights, but it is just a smooth gun to shoot. Totally relaxing. It is the only gun I have that my son has shot and then had a HUGE grin on his face when he handed it back to me. He said something about putting it in my will.

 

[HankR]

Most Rewarding? Probably the 4 inch GP 100 that I bought for my brother. It is, and probably will remain, his family's only handgun. Money well spent.

 

[Wilco]

Crud, I almost forgot.

Besides the Trooper...

I scored a true blue Valmet, back before the Clinton ASW ban, when I was in college. I was working 40 hours a week to pay for said college, but between food and beer saved up enough to purchase something. I walked into the Austin show (the old ones near auditorium shores were legendary - where you could buy a beer at 9 a.m. in the morning to work off that hangover), and at the first table was this Valmet. I fell in love immediately.

Cost? 600.00.

Super score.

 

[91/30]

My 1938 Mosin Nagant on sale for $100, with 2 bayonets, 2 cartridge pouches, an oil/shellac bottle, and a spare sling. Best $100 investment I ever made.

 

[orionengnr]

My S&W 4" M-66 no-dash. My wife bought it for me when I expressed a modest interest--probably wouldn't have bought it myself.

I had owned an absolute POS Rossi 20++ years before, and it had soured me on revolvers ever since--not that I was ever a great fan. Always reminded me of the cap guns I had as a kid, and I always thought revolvers were wanna-be Cowboy n' Indian guns.

That S&W cultivated an appreciation in the fine, mechanical qualities of a good revolver that has only grown since then. I have bought and sold a bunch of revolvers since that M-66, but if tomorrow I was told I could only keep one, that M-66 would be it, no questions asked, no hesitation (okay...maybe a little hesitatition. But not much.) And I'm not even a stainless guy.

Not the flashiest, not the prettiest, not the most valuable.

Just a handgun that forever changed the way I looked at handguns. And if that isn't priceless, I don't know what is.

 

[beatledog7]

Dead heat: CZ-452 Military Trainer in .22LR; Ruger Security Six 2-3/4"

 

[22-rimfire]

Nice story Orionengnr.

 

[Armored farmer]

I would say my Pietta made Remington '58 revolver from Cabelas for $179.00.
I had to learn a whole new set of skills to load, shoot, clean, and carry this revolver. I enjoyed every minute of it, and am still learning.
I even put a few NMLRA Territorial medals on the wall with it.
i am hoping to do a little CAS with it too.