Favorite Cheap Gun Purchase

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45 Cal. "parts gun" muzzle loader. My friend's dad put it together from stuff laying around. Rusty from being stored in a mobile home, but it has some sort of rare cap lock on it from about 1873.

This friend gave it to me free. Hard to beat a deal like that. I cleaned it up. I've never fired it, but it looks nice.
 
Swedish M38 for 69 has been fun, but best recent purchase was SIG P6. Lots of gun for the money, and you didn't have to buy it 20 years ago.
 
It'd be a toss up between my $94 M44, my $199 Maverick 88, or my $199 P95D. I've gotten other good deals too but these were the cheapest. Oh yeah I'll throw in my $160 Makarov too. All of these are great guns.
 
My cheap Hi-Point .380. It's cheap but who cares. I've had no problems. It's not a conceal and carry, but more of a plinker. The wife likes it.
 
The two excellent, laminated MN 44s, for about $100 and $120.
From 'Classic Arms Inc' (NC) last Dec. and 'TN Guns' in Clarkesville, TN (one mile due south of Gate 1 at Ft. Campbell) last Aug.
 
A H&R 32 mag for $39, finest cheapest of the cheap revolver ever sold. And a Browning 12 GA. BPS for $189. I have probably overpaid for everything else I own, but at least I can claim 2 'bargains'.
 
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I hit the jackpot when a friend gave me an old Bernardelli model 80, "Just a paperweight", he claimed. It was in great cosmetic shape. I took the grips off, and there was a finishing nail inside it! It had bent into a "V" shape, and had the hammer locked up tight, to the point it wouldn't move. A few minutes with a pair of needlenose pliers, and it was back in action. I sold it for $175 a couple days later. My friend's dad had the gun in a drawer and had repaired a small bookshelf on top of the table where the drawer was, and apparently that was where the nail came from, but how it got inside is a mystery..
 
I picked up a really nice Baikal Russian Makarov with adjustable sights a few months ago for $125.
I've got the sights adjusted to POA and have run about two boxes of ammo through it to test reliability. As expected, it runs perfectly.

At the price I paid for it, I don't really have to worry about really using it. It would also be a good gift or loaner for someone who may need a starter defensive gun. Worst case scenario, I sell it for a little more than I paid for it and use the money to get a "better" gun.
 
My favorite happened a few months ago. I went into my favorite local (45 miles away) gun store. I have gotten to know the owner and I do all my business with him. I spotted a new in box Ruger MKIII 22/45 512 for $269. Cool - $40 cheaper than the only gun shop (Scheels :( ) in my home town. I tell one of the helpers at the shop I will take it. I do the paper work, the helper gives the owner the price tag, owner hands the price tag back to the helper and said "oh I already gave him a deal" - The owner slipped me the receipt and I saw the the price....$225! WOW! I am still tickled about that purchase :)
 
My SKS for $150, no doubt. What a fun, awesome rifle to shoot, I love it.:) I still consider Wolf ammo at 20 cents/shot a real bargain, for centerfire rifle. That's still half of what anything else cost's.
 
A Texas Dept of Corrections model 65 Smith $187 OTD, Buttery smoooooth DA and will stack 38+p on top of each other @15 yards.
 
All of the cheap East German Makarovs I bought back in the day.

Also a Hi Point 45 NIB for $140 at a gun show. That thing continued to amaze me with its dependability and accuracy.............later sold it though.:p
 
I suppose cheap is a matter of perspective. For me cheap is any gun under $150 and if I had to pick my favorite cheap gun it would be my hex MN 91/30 Tula ex-sniper that I got for $99.
 
Favorite "Cheap" gun -
That would be a Charles Daly Superior II, .22 rifle. Imported by Charles Daly, manufactured by Zastava, in Serbia. I paid approx. $185.00 for her.
Some of the worst wood but also, some of the finest metalwork/bluing I've ever seen on an imported .22 rifle.
I refinished the stock and she is one of my favorite .22lr field rifles.

Bruce

Charles Daly Superior II in .22lr, w/ Bushnell 3-9x32 Rimfire/Airgun scope.
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