Do You Have an Excellent Handgun that was Inexpensive?

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S&W skinny barrel 4" Model 10 police trade w/ Hogue grips for $129 sometime in the late 90's. Finish left a bit to be desired but it's a shooter! The shop probably had a dozen of them hanging on a couple of long pegboard hooks. If only I had bought them all...

CW45 bought at a pawn shop last fall for $250 including a couple of spare mags. It has been flawless so far.
 
HS2000 for a little under $300 around 2000. My first carry gun and after over 8k rounds, it's got good holster wear but one of the nicest triggers I've experienced from a striker fired pistol.
 
Rock Island 9 m/m 1911

Paid (new) $346 out the door. It will out shoot my Gold Cup, but maybe I just got a one in a thousand.
 
I have several:

Still owned:
Dan Wesson 715, near mint condition, box, papers, 3 grips, lots of parts, $269.
Tanfoglio "Mossad" 9mm compact and fullsized. Satin Nickel. $279 + $289.
Beretta 84FF, 90% shoots great, $249
Beretta 84FF 85% wood grips, $289.
S&W 5906 near mint, 3 mags, in the plastic case, $329 shipped.

Had them and now gone:
Astra A-100, 99%, shot great, 3 mags, $269.
Dan Wesson 15-2, great shooter, $225.
S&W M&P-15 pistol, $300, sold it for a huge profit.
 
Hemiram, we seem to visit some of the same places. I paid about the same prices that you did for my Mossad and my 84. :)

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I bought my excellent 1971-production Ruger Securitysix (blued 4" barrel) many years ago used for $250. The grips were aftermarket, oversized wood target style and roughly sanded. Ugly. The store clerk even apologized for those ugly grips. But I did not tell him that those grips were one reason I wanted that gun - they fit my big hand perfectly! Paid my $250 and four days later took her home - danged 'waiting periods'.......
I smoothed and refinished the grips, and she's been my favorite revolver ever since. Accurate, nice trigger (reworked I think).
 
I "had" a K-43 (aka- G-43) back in the late 1970's, which I had only $11 invested in it. They now sell for $3,500 and up.
I traded it for a brand new Winchester M-1 Carbine, two banana clips, and some ammo.
 
$300 for a model 64 in excellent condition. Sweet K frame trigger.
$250 for a Taurus M327 with about 100 rounds through it. Looks new, great trigger.
$150 for an FEG AP9 in .380. Fair condition, drives tacks.
$375 for a Walther P1 with BW markings, never issued.
$180 for a CZ-82, fair finish, needed a recoil spring, but great CZ functionality.
 
Like Rossi's for the value and reliability. Only problem is the screw holding in the frame works loose. Just check it after shooting. Buy another in a minute
 
I got a Sig P6 that I got cheap and a old S&W 586 that a got for $250 both great shooters and the Smith is beautiful
 
My Beretta Nano was $385 but shoots great. I've got a couple thousands rounds through it with no failures or problems of any kind. I've also got a Ruger MkI that I paid $100 for at a pawnshop 25 years ago. Generally I clean it ever 10,000 rounds or ten years whether it needs it or not.:D Actually, when I can't push the bolt back into battery anymore I'll clean it.:p Even new they were pretty inexpensive so I'd say I've got my money's worth out of it.
 
Same as Ku...

When I bought a $150 gun in the late 80's I was in my 20's and it was a lot of money for me. Now that I am more "established", even the equivalent in 2015 money doesn't mean as much. A good conversion rate would have to include age/income.

But then again, if I got a $150 gun now, I still wouldn't know if it was as good a deal, because I wouldn't have had a chance to shoot it for over 25 years...

Oops, apparently I am just rambling...
 
I picked up a SCCY 9mm about 6 mos ago. Bought it new for $236. In 1000 rounds, no FTF and 1 FTE. It's no Glock or Sig, but it works and goes bang every time I pull the trigger
 
About the best I've had were two LCPs at MSRP, around $269 each. Unfortunately, sold both. If I want a new one it will be more like $299...but I am considering it.

Several M64s at $200-275 each. Great value, great revolvers.
 
Great low cost choices.....

I have found that the 9 X 18 "MAK" (both commercial and surplus
military) are some of the best/most reliable carry weapons available.
Their simple and rather basic design, lends itself to an inexpensive
and most dependable combination.
 
There's a good sized list for me.
Makarovs....even at $350 are a bargain IMO
CZ P-07 is one of the best shooters I own at $425 new.
Really, my favorite was a police/security trade S&W 64. That was one heck of a trigger for $250. Can't believe I sold that.
 
I love the CZ as well....

I also love the complete CZ line but, around here they are rather
expensive. For about $250.00 the Zastava M57 is a great bargain. It
shoots 9 rounds of my favorite =7.62 X 25 at over 1650 FPS.
Being a "single action" weapon it is very simple in construction. It's
a very flat shooting weapon too...
 
OK, lets go the other way, guns I've sold cheap. When my agency transitioned to Glocks, we were one of the last agencies in NYC to do so, so nobody wanted revolvers. You practically couldn't give them away. Plus almost no civilian market to speak of there. Soooo, sold my 4" Model 10 S&W. with heavy barrel to a corrections officer for $25, and my 3" heavy barrel Chief Spl. to a probation officer for $45.

I sold a WW II Remington Rand 1911 to another officer for $65 when I decided I liked the nazi marked Browning HP better.

Later sold the Browning and a 95 o/o matching numbers Luger for $600 each. Kept the M-1 Carbine bring back I bought from an older fellow officer when he was retiring. Price so low in the current market I'm embarrassed to print it.
 
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