Your cheapest brand new shotgun you bought?

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My cheapest shotgun I bought new is my Mossberg Maverick Model 88 12 ga. pump shotgun. And for the price I paid for it when I bought it $ 199.99. It is my favorite to shoot.
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An 88 is also my cheapest lately. In the 1960s I bought a brand new Ithaca 37 pump shotgun with walnut stock for $105.00 from Sears Roebuck. My Son has it now and its still going strong.

The Maverick 88 is at the top of the shotgun family photo. The other two are Model 12 Winchesters which were inherited some 40 years ago..... Would they be considered the cheapest?

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A Mossberg 183K bolt action 20 gauge with a C-Lect choke in 1959. $43. I didn't know any better. If went away - quickly after the C-Lect choke and a couple of inches of the barrel parted company with the rest of us.
 
In the spring of 1973 when I was 14 I used some calf money to buy a Sears brand 12 gauge pump, someone told me it was made by High Standard. I don't remember how much it cost but it was cheap, even cheaper since my father worked for Sears. The shotgun functioned perfectly but I couldn't hit anything with it. We had an ancient SxS 16 gauge I was good with and a single shot Beretta 20 gauge I was deadly with so in retrospect I'm sure it was a fit issue. All of my family's guns were stolen when I was in college. I sorely miss all of them except for the Sears pump. To add insult to injury the thief was my brother who was a junkie.
 
I bought a nickel plated Rock Island Armory/Armscor 12 gage for $199. Should have bought the Maverick for about the same money and a couple extra rounds in the tube.
 
Those Mossberg Mavericks are impressive for what they cost. I consider them a real bargain. Cheapest brand new shotgun I ever got was way back in Nov. 1968 when a local sporting goods store had a big sale on shotguns. I purchased the last 12 ga. High Standard Flite King pump they had in stock for 69.95 IIRC . They were regularly priced at over a hundred bucks and shotguns were flying off the racks. Still have it and it still works great. IMG_1912.JPG IMG_1918.JPG
 
I bought 2 Remington 870 Express's about a year ago , one was a 20ga. youth and the other a 12ga. . I bought them to lend to new hunters . Remington was running a rebate at the time and I used a CC that got me an additional 10% off , so I paid $226 each for them .
 
I racked my brain, and realized that I had only bought 1 new shotgun in my life.
After my Quail hunting partner condemned me to he'll for blowing up quail....I bought an 870 express .410 as a lark.
I hunted with it for a few years. I finally got my limit with it and put it in the safe.

$189.00 iirc.
 
Winchester 1400 20 gauge. $150 at Walmart. Was marked with a clearance tag. May have been one ordered by an employee and then didn't want it or couldn't afford it for some reason. Since it was the last year of production I guess they decided to dump it... right into my little paws.
 
My sister in law was upset at her boyfriend of the month after he dumped her. Sold me his 870 for $90. Otherwise I bought a Maverick for $169.
 
Least expensive new shotgun would be my Maverick 88. It started out as a PGO model because that was the only one I could find at the time. Added the stock, Limbsaver butt pad, and a shell holder for the buttstock. Still the least expensive shotgun I ever owned.

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Went to a flea market yesterday AM. Guy had a New England Pardner 27.5" barrel 3" mag and wanted $105.00 for it. I gave him a "C" note and he gave me a Sears zippered case for it as well. It appears to be unfired.
I cleaned the barrel and then ran a wet patch with Ed's Red and coated the bore (not the chamber area) and today I applied Johnson's paste wax to barrel and action and have a 2 3/4" "0" buck round in barrel in the case with about a four more "0" and 8 rounds of bird shot for snakes in a plastic zep lock bag. It's gonna be a car gun primarily. Now looking for a cap plug to cover the muzzle I can just shoot off in an emergency. I have an elastic shell sleeve inbound I will put 5 rounds of "0" on left side of the buttstock when it arrives. Or maybe four of them and one round of bird shot for snake in the road I can change out quickly.
 
I bought a Rem 870 Wingmaster 2 3/4 inch, vent rib for $167 new in 1973. I bought it and a MEC single stage press from the same dealer the same day. I still have them both.
 
Cheapest brand new was a Charles Daly pump I got from Wal-mart for $125 on clearance. It tended to snap on shells (and CD was out of business by that time) so I ended up selling it.

The only other brand new shotgun I've bought was a Remington 870 Express which was around $249 and has worked quite well for me.
 
A Marlin 200 12 gauge one-shooter, on a flyer sale at K-Mart, sometime around the turn of the century. I think it was $59.99 brand new. It is a great little gun if you get your shot right on the first try. It is not as much fun with heavy loads. :uhoh:
 
Savage/Stevens 320 in 20 gauge, purchased at Wal-Mart for $147 out the door. Today.

My Winchesters (1897 and 1200) probably don't count, as they were hand-me-downs from family.
 
Not my cheapest , but my local gun store offered me a deal as soon as I walked through the front door on a brand new Mossberg 590A1 for half price. He was getting ready to move his store front and he had two identical 590s on the shelf that had been sitting there for over a year. He was trying to clear old inventory for the move. My friend and I had been lucky enough to get offered the deal. Right place at the right time. I had no desire to buy one prior to this, but for $300 I developed a sudden need for it in my life.
 
Brand new Mossberg 500 8 shot with 20" barrel, $229 on sale at Big 5.
 
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