What's Your Best Gun Deal Ever?

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Everyone has one, or eventually will run across one. We all have deals we like to brag about. Personally, I gloat! :neener: My friends of the gun-speak variety at work all claim poverty (mostly due to bad spending habits and too much credit), and many just don't live and breath guns like I do. When I exclaim about the deals I get sometimes, they just stare at me in bewilderment, thinking that I must have a lucky horseshooe crammed up my behind.

I have made a quite a few deals that resulted in greater deals. The single most-memorable deal I have had recently, is the deal I came across at a camping supply chain store a few years ago. They had a table full of Magellan GPS units for $0.98 each. Yup, thats right! ninety-eight cents! Limit two per customer. I have no idea why they were selling them for a buck apiece, but I bought two and went home. They were the old-school handheld design - the kind as big as a slimline home phone, not the palm-sized units they have nowadays.

So I gave one to my buddy and kept the other one.

Last year I put the GPS up on Craigslist, looking to trade for firearms. Got a call from someone with a Marlin .22, so I made the trade. It was a Marlin-Glenfield Model 60, made in 1970, the EXACT SAME gun, my dad bought for me at the local hardware store! I shot plenty of squirrels with that gun.

I reconditioned the entire gun inside and out, new firing pin, spring, and extractors from Numrich, and gave it to MY son for christmas.

...all for $0.98!

Not the same as buying a mansion with a paperclip, but was a fun and interesting deal. So let's hear about YOUR greatest deal! :)
 
Last summer I was visiting the Bass Pro Fine Gun Room and noticed an old Smith and Wesson wheelgun in the window. They had it marked as a pre M&P Model of 1905, 4th change. I left it there, but went back the next day and looked it over a bit more. I took the serial number and left to try and figure out what this gun was. I couldn't figure it out. I went back to the store and looked at it again. They were asking $329. I asked if they happened to have any more S&W wheelies in back and he said that he would check. He brought back another gun that I didn't recognize. It was marked at $399. He told me that if I bought both of them that I could have the first one for $300 and that I could get another 10% off if I bought them with a newly issued BP credit card. Well, I bought both of them - $270 & $369.

I went home still not knowing what I had. I posted a pic here of the first one and was told that it was a 1937 38-44 Heavy Duty. It also had the original Magna grips that were serialized to the gun. I've been told that it is a $1,000+ gun. The second one turned out to be a model 520, the only fixed sight N-frame .357 ever produced by S&W. Only three thousand were made. I'd say it is probably an $800 gun.

No, it's not a $o.98 deal, but I'd say it wasn't bad.
 
I don't know if it is my best deal ever, but I just got one today at Cabela's. I had a $100 off coupon for Cabela Club members and used it to buy my first lever action; A Marlin 39AS .22 NIB for $399.99. Plus an awesome friend blessed me with $100 for my lever action fund the other day so I only put $332 into it after tax. Can't wait to shoot it. Merry Christmas to me!
 
How did I do this year?

It's a .357 Dan Wesson 15-2, VH (vented, heavy underlug). Came with the 6" barrel on it, built in Monson, Mass....

$250

I'm happy......:D
 

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I got a 1939 Italian Carcano in 7.35mm for free from a coworker of mine, because he found out that they stopped making bullets for it in 1940...
 
This past summer I picked up an IMI Uzi Model 45 with 9mm conversion kit in brand new condition for $1000.

A few months later I picked up a second IMI Uzi, this one a Model B in 9mm with the .45 conversion kit in brand new condition. Now that I had a 9mm Uzi and one in .45 I no longer needed either conversion kit so I sold them both on gunbroker. I ended getting $300 for the 9mm kit and $450 for the .45 kit which brought down the cost of the first Uzi to a whopping $250!:D Oh and I got a pretty good deal on the second Uzi as well so in the end I ended up with two Uzi's for little under $1k each!

Here they are....(dummy barrels installed).....
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A poor lonely orphan

I can't compete with the $.98 Marlin...

The best deal I ever got was from a neighbor that was cleaning out a relative's house and found a revolver no one in the family wanted.

There apparently weren't any wheelgun lovers in the family so they offered it to me for a ridiculous price. I picked up a 6" S&W model 48-4 (P&R!) with both a .22 LR and .22mag cylinder this fall for $125. Came with 500 rnds too. I smile every time we go to the range.

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I got almost as good a deal on a S&W model 28 & 19. I got them for $75 each several years ago and even after a trip to S&W to nearly rebuild them I haven't hit the $200 mark. (unless you count grips :rolleyes: )
 
best deal... Grendel P30 (threaded comp version) that was given to me complete with original box and spare mag.

second best deal... gotta think on that.
 
My friend gave me a 1916 German Mauser that was picked up off a battlefield in France during WWI by the guy who gave it to him! All the serial numbers matched and everything! I'm not sure what it would sell for but it's priceless to me!

Best "deal" was another friend selling me his unused Mossberg 500 for $40. It had sat unshot in his closet for 30 years.
 
.02 cents plus 20 dollar shipping a Stevens Double barrel and a single shot mississippi valley Arms 12 guage. from Gunbroker a year ago. not real pretty, but they worked.
 
$0.98 gun is hard to beat.

Silly as it sounds, my best gun deal wasn't even that good of a deal. Traded my PT145 and some cash for a Ruger GP100, 3" bobbed hammer slick sights with a guy off THR. He wanted a compact double stack for CCW and I wanted a woods gun. We both got guns we wanted. I ended up paying a little under value for the GP. But I love that GP! Right now its my favorite gun. 25' slow fire 6 shots, double action:

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Almost every gun I have or have owned I've bought below market value by at least a little, or they have appreciated reasonably over the last few years.

Oh, I just remembered. Grandfather won a Winchester 1300 at a charity auction. Gun collected dust for about 10 years. He gave it to me in 2000. So, for me, that gun was free :) Of course, I still have and will not get rid of it.
 
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Both three Thompson Contenders from one dealer at one time. One was .35 Rem and the other two were .357 Herrett. Sold the .35 and one Herrett for $50 more than I paid for the three.

Ended up with one Contender free plus $50.

For those reading...One moral to this thread is to always look in the used gun rack at any store you're in. Always have some cash available.
 
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A bought a used Remington North American Custom 700 .308

for $600 out the door at a Maryland Gun Show two years ago.
It is in mint condition ,never fired,no scratches whatsever.
It has a retail value of $2644 if new. :cool:
 
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