Value of your Most expensive handgun

[P97]

I have 4 guns that I have customized that have raised the cost considerably. Do you count the original cost or what you have into them now?

 

[HGUNHNTR]

My favorite autoloader My HK USP tactical 45 was $1100.

I have never regretted spending the money on this gun, even though I suck and HK hates me.

 

[Brian Williams]

My S&W 65 that I have a 4" standard barrel and it has been moonclipped with an additional installation of Target trigger and hammer, is worth much less than I have in it but I would say about $600. My S&W 35-1 is probably worth more than any other but still in the $600 range.

 

[varoadking]

Yost-Bonitz 70 Series Colt 1* Enhanced & Nighthawk Custom Talon. Each in the $2,500 range...



...and worth every penny...

 

[mbw1018]

Grade A P7 PSP - 675ish

 

[evan price]

"Priceless"

 

[RevolvingCylinder]

Are we talking how much we paid, or how much it's worth?

Well it does say value.

I'm at the $400-600 mark but hope to correct that with a couple of new Sigs in the near future.

 

[madcratebuilder]

My Gold Cup is the highest cost handgun I have purchased, but not the most valuable. My granddads SAA Colt holds that title.

 

[RyanM]

Not too much. Kahr MK40 was $525 with transfer fee, IIRC. Glock 23 was $425 plus $100 sights plus $60 TIG welding plus around $15 for internal parts.

 

[SaxonPig]

This is my priciest pistol. Paid 5x as much for this one as I did for my next most expensive handgun. Saw it for sale and sort of lost my mind and bought it (paying about $500 too much in the process). Oh well. You can't pay too much for a collectible S&W, you can only pay too soon.

 

[TIMC]

To me this old 1st generation Colt is priceless since it belonged to my grandfather and it is all I have to remember him. From what I have read the year of mfg by the serial number and the knurling pattern on the hammer spur is 1906-1907 Couldn't pin an exact value on it because I am no expert but blue book has it valued somewhere between $9,000-$13,000. The gun is in 90-95% condition with all matching serial numbers on the parts. I have shot it once years ago to check function and say I shot a real cowboy gun. Now I only admire it and give it a wipe down once i a while.
Here is my obligitory worth too much pic...

 

[MCgunner]

I really don't know what it's worth, a stainless 4 5/8 blackhawk. I don't know if the engraving gives it much value, but it has a set of sanbar stag grips on it that go for $250 or better now. I only gave 70 bucks for 'em at the time. I voted 400-600 and believe that to be appropriate, but might be disappointed by a gun appraiser if there is such a thing, LOL. Don't have anything else worth that much, though I have some fine shooters.

 

[SWATcashJeremy]

Meh all my handguns are relatively cheap...my RIFLES on the other hand...

Barrett M-99....nuff said

 

[arctictom]

My 8 3/8 460 Smith a little over a $1000 .

 

[SRYnidan]

It was just to pretty and I have waited thirty years to own one.
Unchosen prototype for the Jubilee gun from SIG
$2500

 

[Radagast]

.38 super Bul M5 IPSC model (polymer framed 1911), with five mags and a spare 9 mm barrel it set me back Australian $2700 all up, around $2500 USD today.. Holster, belt and mag carriers added another $600.00.

 

[CB900F]

Fella's;

Go peruse the Freedom Arms catalog. Now you know that there's gotta be at least a few owners of these guns on site, but no comments on them in this thread. I don't wonder about why that is. Do you?

900F

 

[sgtdevildog]

Ed Brown Executive Carry in stainless - $2400 range.

 

[stownsend]

Here is a link to my thread with some of the handguns that I have. I am in the process of finding out their worth, but most of them are around 150 years old. Still seeing if I can find out values...

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=311013

 

[mgregg85]

Just my XD45 compact, between $400 and $600 is where I voted.

 

[Cosmoline]

If I don't use it, I sell it. And if it's worth much more than $500 I'm not going to use it much. So while I've had several handguns worth more than $500, I didn't keep them.

 

[Conqueror]

~$2600 for my 6" STI IPSC Limited 1911.

About $2000 for my Springfield TRP Operator if you count all the things hanging off it (suppressor, weapon light, etc.).

 

[Matt304]

I think the intentions of this thread are not worth, but rather how much you have spent, because he is trying to get an idea of what people will spend on a handgun. Worth doesn't change what kind of spender you are, afterall.

I just purchased a Lone Eagle pistol in 444 Marlin with a stainless Leupold 2-8x scope installed for $650. We'll say $450 since the scope is $200.

The most I spent was when I purchased a Steyr SPP 9mm for $850 and turned around and sold it for $1000 (glad I did too, who wants a plastic toy in 9mm? ).

Next paycheck I am buying a Ruger Alaskan 454 for $650.

I just got the intentions in my mind lately to possibly purchase a Performance Center 460SW with 3-3/4" barrel, which is in the $1200 range. But, I really don't think that I will end up doing that, because anything near $1000 and I start thinking about what I could, and would probably rather have in a rifle. I still have to get a good AR platform.

I think it's really hard for me to justify spending over $1000 for a pistol, just because there is only so much you can do and so far you can shoot with a pistol. I sort of feel that pistols are more of show pieces than function at these price levels.

 

[45crittergitter]

The original question was value, not cost. FWIW, one of my best deals was a pistol valued in the $2k range that I got for a lot closer to $1k.

 

[1911 guy]

Most are bone stock, but...

I've got one handgun (pics have been posted in the autoloader forum) that has had a lot of aftermarket upgrades and gunsmithing done. I spent a little over 2,000 on it. Most of my pistols run in the 6-8 hundred range, though.