Your priceless cheapo

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RIA 1911 G.I.
ive had a few folks laugh at my Filipino 1911 bought new for $340 out the door. they werent laughing when they were clearing jams with their kimbers, tauruses, and colts while my RIA kept shooting at a friendly shoot-off a few years ago.
 
I picked it up not to long ago and love it. A savage 755A 2 3/4 12 gage semi auto (basic updated browning A5) Paid 75$ for it.

The bluing was gone off the aluminum receiver and had some issues with the wood so I painted the receiver and cleaned the wood with a little TLC.

It is just dang fun to play with and will shoot any 2 3/4 rounds from cheap light weight to heavy with just a change of the spring lay out.

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Another RIA 1911 very happy owner, Paid like $275+tax when they first started appearing, didn't expect a lot, but over 15,000 rounds later its still my range favorite. It hurts that the red dot optic on top cost more than the gun! Old age hurts more :(
 
Bought a cheap Marlin 60 probably around '89 or '90 for about $100 or so. It's wearing a Boyd's stock now with some upgraded springs and probably outshoots my CZ455.
 
I guess mine would be a Llama Micro-Mini in .380. I wanted one for a number of years and finally found one on GunBroker. When I went to my local gun shop to see about handling the transfer, WOW… There’s the same gun in his case for $10 less. So, what’s the big deal? It’s the first gun I bought after escaping from California. :)
 
In the late 70's my dad bought 15 or 20 cheap 22's and single shot shotguns from a local pawn shop to resell as farm truck guns.

One of them was marked as a Coast-to-coast model 42 (Marlin 70). Dad let me buy it for what he had in it. Best $12.50 I ever spent. Runs and shoots well.

There seem to be a lot of Marlin 22's in this thread. :)
 
S&W 5946 Blackened SS with holster wear & traction tape all over. Got it for $225. I don't even know the round count on it anymore. Great shooter and I would trust my life to it. One of my favorite guns.
 
I recently bought a single action Heritage .22 with a .22 mag cylinder. It's quite the fun gun to shoot.
 
Pretty much all of them. I have over a dozen guns and have spent more than $500 on only the two ARs. Favorites are the Marlin 22N and Kel Tex PF9.
 
A pair of Glenfield model 60s I picked up for $175, both great shooters. I have more but these are the most fun.
 
My S&W 422 I paid $200 for last year and my Makarov 380 that I paid $199 for about 3 years ago
 
For the last 3 years I've said some pretty unflattering things about Charters.

But after it's last trip to the factory, I'm totally changing my tune.
The current iteration of Charter has good management.
They not only fixed an issue I caused (missing latch spring), but fixed previous issues they caused 3 years ago.

It looks good & shoots like a champ now.
No it's not a Smith, Ruger or Colt, but it'll do.

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MikeJackmin mentioned,

Turns out this gun is a perfect match for the Colabri powderless .22s I like (the old, lower-powered version they don't make anymore).
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They don't? I'm glad I got a brick of them a while ago.

Of all my rifles, this is the only one that never had one of those low-powered rounds get stuck in the bore. I'm guessing it's a bit oversized, another fault that became an accidental plus.
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I'm wondering if the barrel is just very well-polished from use.

Terry, 230RN
 
marlin81

Short timin' in LA in 1971. Bought a Marlin 81 22LR bolt rifle for 33 dollars at a hardware store. Dragged it around for about 20 years, and gave it to a son of a friend.
Recently the father gave the gun back. It looked like it had been rattling around behind the seat of some farm truck for a while. A little rebluing and some stock cleaning and she looked good. I got old eyes, so put a scope on it, and it shoots 5 rounds inside an inch at 50 yards, with the loads it likes, CCI and Federal.
This gun's a keeper.
 
Probably my Remington 514 single shot .22. When I was 10 (57 now), my oldest brother gave it to me for Xmas, it had been his for years, no telling how old it really is. It still shoots remarkably well, and I just refinished the stock a few months ago. If I had it reblued it would look like a new one.

I guess it's not really a "cheapo", but it's not really worth much $$-wise. It's priceless to me though! I think I'll dig it out and put another coat of tung oil on the wood.
 
Some time ago (must be at least 20 years), Belgian police forces switched sidearms from .32 ACP pistols to S&W mod. 10 revolvers.
(They have moved on to Glocks since then).

Anyway,the police commissioner in my home town got stuck with a couple dozen brand-new, unfired FN Herstal-made Browning model 1910's in styrofoam containers, that became obsolete overnight, as .32 ACP ammo would no longer be supplied.
So he put them up for sale.

$ 15 bought me one of those beautifully finished old-time classics, and he threw in the purchase-permit free.
(Application for such a permit used to take at least 3 months and $ 30 to $ 60 worth of red tape, waiting, burocracy, taxes and such.)

I found it irresistable then (& incredible now). But I still cherish that gun.
What is the phrase... "an elegant weapon from a more refined age" or some such ?
 
For me, it's an FEG AP7, a .32 version of the PA63. Worn finish, hard to pull slide, but shoots any ammo and is accurate.
 
Picked this pair of Mossbergs up at a small country gunshop. They needed some cleaning, cold blue and a little buffing of the stocks. Got them both for 80.00 bucks after a little dickering. I shoot them all the time.
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A different kind of cheapo

I picked up a 1903 Springfield for $125 a couple of years ago. It has a good bore with a muzzle reading of .5. It was part of a package deal my granddad arranged. I really enjoy shooting my "cheap" rifle and love seeing peoples reaction when the subject of price happens to come up in conversation. :D
 
I've got three; all Remington 788s.

The .22-250 bought new in '68 for $88 and change. My first new rifle. Still the best shooting rifle I have.

6mm Rem. bought new in '71(?) for $110; not quite as accurate, but very good.

.308 carbine bought used in '97 or '98 for around $230. Metal perfect, but someone had done a bad bedding job. New plastic stock and some serious load development (it's picky) and it's one-hole accurate at 100 yards.

I like the cheapies if they're solid.
 
My $180 CZ82. "Inexpensive" for sure, but far, far from cheap. Still one of my favorite triggers.
 
I like my hi point 9 mm. Whenever I want to try a new powder or load..i feed it to my $100 gun first.
 
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