Best gun deal you’ve ever gotten?

[Jfovs]

Tell the tale of the best gun deal you’ve ever gotten. I was gifted a shotgun by some vegans who said I could have it if I promised to never shoot a deer with it. I prefer to shoot deer with a rifle so it all worked out in the end

 

[Big H]

#1 16-gauge Savage Stevens Double barrel--- new---gift from Mom and Dad for being an Honor Roll student
in 1958/1959 school year. #2 Remington model 33---gift from one of my Grand Paws in the early 60s for no
reason at all. Still have both and still shoot both. This may not be the type deal you're talking about but they
sure were/are a big deal to.

 

[Jfovs]

Epic. I was born in the wrong era

 

[vr1967]

My cheapest ones was:

Years ago, Walked into an antique/ resell shop in Coles, MS one day with my father. He was talking to the owner when I walked by an old wooden barrel with pieces of pipe etc.
I asked the owner how much was the shotgun barrel in there. He said " Everything in that barrel is a dollar."

That shotgun barrel was a Winchester 37 .20ga barrelled action, so I dug it out.
Dig some more, pulled out a Winchester 67 barreled receiver.

Third pulled out a Remington 1894 12ga double with no stock.

Before we left, I had everything out the barrel and in the bottom of the barrel I found the 37 stock and forearm, the 67's stock AND bolt.

Walked out with 2 complete guns and the 1894 missing the stock for the whopping price of $3 dollars.

 

[Bam Bam]

#1 Bought a Mosin from a member here for $60 or $75 and some steel cased 223 that my gun hated. That Mosin was a great shooting gun too.

#2 Brother gave me a well worn Marlin 60 that needed some repairs as it won't feed/fire rounds consecutively. A buddy wanted to borrow it but I told him he needed to be fixed. He took it to a Gunsmith and got it fixed, then put a 4X scope on it and went squirrel hunting with it. Gave it back after hunting season was over and wouldn't let me pay him for it.

 

[Jfovs]

My cheapest ones was:

Years ago, Walked into an antique/ resell shop in Coles, MS one day with my father. He was talking to the owner when I walked by an old wooden barrel with pieces of pipe etc.
I asked the owner how much was the shotgun barrel in there. He said " Everything in that barrel is a dollar."

That shotgun barrel was a Winchester 37 .20ga barrelled action, so I dug it out.
Dig some more, pulled out a Winchester 67 barreled receiver.

Third pulled out a Remington 1894 12ga double with no stock.

Before we left, I had everything out the barrel and in the bottom of the barrel I found the 37 stock and forearm, the 67's stock AND bolt.

Walked out with 2 complete guns and the 1894 missing the stock for the whopping price of $3 dollars.

Wow

 

[3fifty7]

Marlin 75 .22lr semi auto for $9 from AuctionArms.com when it shipped to my dealer he saw the price and said this transfer was on the house.

I’ve refinished the stock twice, currently lavender rattlecan with a Millett SP2 red dot(my wife’s combo).

Still shoots like a dream.

 

[Martman300]

I can’t even comment now, you guys have some great deals. Mine were the inherited or gifted ones, of which I have had 3 over the years.

 

[Kraut]

One of the best monetary deals I got was on a gun that came from a crime lab. When the widow was contacted about having the gun returned, she declined and gave it to the deputy/technician, who then made a quick sale for pure profit to another deputy who used to own a gun store, who was still able to make profit selling it to me around $150 less than new retail. I gave it a detailed cleaning, said a sincere prayer for a departed soul, and just have to make sure to never let my wife know its origins.

We've had some guys get great deals from people who walk in wanting to turn in guns that they don't want but don't want to "sell on the street" to just anyone, but my bad luck when it happened on my shift was that the supervisor working had previously worked in our Evidence section, and had been refused when wanting to obtain a nice gun that was ordered for disposal. Since he was butt-hurt over that, he insisted that an officer couldn't make an offer to someone coming in wanting to turn in a gun, and insisted they had to be taken in and destroyed. The one he had wanted had been from an adjudicated case, not just some doofus off the street, but because he was sore about it, three like new guns got melted. What a Richard Cranium!

 

[Jfovs]

Marlin 75 .22lr semi auto for $9 from AuctionArms.com when it shipped to my dealer he saw the price and said this transfer was on the house.

I’ve refinished the stock twice, currently lavender rattlecan with a Millett SP2 red dot(my wife’s combo).

Still shoots like a dream.

Dang! Jealous, I want a marlin

 

[Jfovs]

One of the best monetary deals I got was on a gun that came from a crime lab. When the widow was contacted about having the gun returned, she declined and gave it to the deputy/technician, who then made a quick sale for pure profit to another deputy who used to own a gun store, who was still able to make profit selling it to me around $150 less than new retail. I gave it a detailed cleaning, said a sincere prayer for a departed soul, and just have to make sure to never let my wife know its origins.

We've had some guys get great deals from people who walk in wanting to turn in guns that they don't want but don't want to "sell on the street" to just anyone, but my bad luck when it happened on my shift was that the supervisor working had previously worked in our Evidence section, and had been refused when wanting to obtain a nice gun that was ordered for disposal. Since he was butt-hurt over that, he insisted that an officer couldn't make an offer to someone coming in wanting to turn in a gun, and insisted they had to be taken in and destroyed. The one he had wanted had been from an adjudicated case, not just some doofus off the street, but because he was sore about it, three like new guns got melted. What a Richard Cranium!

Dang!

 

[T-boy]

Synthetic stocked Browning A Bolt. .270 Win with mediocre glass for $250

Co-worker called me while I was at lunch, friend of his was raising cash and had it for sale. He also had a Model 700 '06 for the same money. I should have bought both, but I called another friend and he bought the Remington.

 

[gman3214]

traded a spanish fr-8 rifle that was spray painted (bought off a guy who was trying to sell it) with a bayo and about 150-200rds of 308 for a wsar 10-63 about 1200rds and 20 mags and payed him about 400$? Got lucky on the fact the guy trading the ak, the fr8 was previously his first rifle and wanted another one again.

 

[Manimal]

SVT 40 for $750.

 

[Bolt Head]

One of the best monetary deals I got was on a gun that came from a crime lab. When the widow was contacted about having the gun returned, she declined and gave it to the deputy/technician, who then made a quick sale for pure profit to another deputy who used to own a gun store, who was still able to make profit selling it to me around $150 less than new retail. I gave it a detailed cleaning, said a sincere prayer for a departed soul, and just have to make sure to never let my wife know its origins.

We've had some guys get great deals from people who walk in wanting to turn in guns that they don't want but don't want to "sell on the street" to just anyone, but my bad luck when it happened on my shift was that the supervisor working had previously worked in our Evidence section, and had been refused when wanting to obtain a nice gun that was ordered for disposal. Since he was butt-hurt over that, he insisted that an officer couldn't make an offer to someone coming in wanting to turn in a gun, and insisted they had to be taken in and destroyed. The one he had wanted had been from an adjudicated case, not just some doofus off the street, but because he was sore about it, three like new guns got melted. What a Richard Cranium!

Richard Cranium! LMFAO!

 

[watash]

At a flea market I bought a cool 50cal muzzle loader that was like an old musket in design. It looked as though it had just been pulled out of the box, a really nice rifle.
I paid $60 for it, at home I researched it and found the MSRP was $450.

 

[Chuckdaman24/7]

Smith@Wesson Model 27-2, 3.5 inch barrell from West Brothers in Deridder,La for $300.00 in 1981!