Pat Riot
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I don’t blame her one bit. I probably wouldn’t shoot it either and I am a fairly big guy. 
Has anyone here ever won a gun in a raffle?
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I don’t blame her one bit. I probably wouldn’t shoot it either and I am a fairly big guy. 
I've won several at FNRA banquets, can't even remember how many. However, the business I owned before I retired three years ago was pretty much expected to buy a sponsor table every year, so I would pay $500-$700 for the table for a chance on a $300 gun (we would set aside about four guns for table sponsors, no ticket required). My daughter won a model 36 Ladysmith on one $20 rose drawing, and her husband, my son in law, only had $20 to spend so he bought one ticket on a 1911, and won it. My wife would buy three roses on the Ladysmith, and came in second (a belt buckle) twice, so I just bought the Ladysmith at the police equipment store next door to my shop, and gave it to her. One year, I won a S&W 22 auto and put it with some other gun stuff and forgot about it. A few months later, I saw a S&W blue box there, which surprised me, as I didn't remember winning it.
Gladius
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I did. I won a brand-new Chinese Type 56 SKS, complete with folding spike bayonet (back when those were allowed -- I know, I'm dating myself) in a raffle. It was the best thing I ever won in a contest, drawing, or raffle (second best? A bottle of Famous Grouse. I still have the rifle; the whisky is long gone...).
DustyGmt
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Yeah I actually have. Its actually a pretty sore subject with me. I bought 75 tickets from the moose club and filled 70 out in my name and 5 out in my grandmothers name because she has never won a raffle and shes always entering raffles and always complained that she never wins so i thought she would be tickled to win, if they happened to call her name and would obviously give the gun to me as i was 75 tickets invested and she clearly has no use for a 30-06 as she doesnt hunt, or like guns. Well they called her up, "she" won. It wound up becoming a pissing match between her brother and my uncle. She couldnt stand the pressure so she caved and gave it to my uncle, who at the time had many hunting rifles. I had none. I was bitter about it for a long time but I have moved on.
(Mind you this was quite a few years back in the fall, i was trying to outfit myself with a hunting rifle for the upcoming season and my best friend had just died in a car accident weeks prior, not that its really relevant but it kind of felt like a knife in the back on the part of those involved, lil consideration for me when i was trying to do a nice thing for the old woman, it came back to bite me). Rant over.
(Mind you this was quite a few years back in the fall, i was trying to outfit myself with a hunting rifle for the upcoming season and my best friend had just died in a car accident weeks prior, not that its really relevant but it kind of felt like a knife in the back on the part of those involved, lil consideration for me when i was trying to do a nice thing for the old woman, it came back to bite me). Rant over.
Poper
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I was in a bar in a small town of +/-400 people with my brother and a coupple hunting buddys. The bar owner was having a raffle for a Beretta semi auto shotgun to help pay for new playground equipment for the elementary school. I told the guys that I was donating $20 and conned them into buying a $20 ticket, too. I asked the bar owner to call me when I won. 6 Months later I got a phone call from a perfect stranger that I had won a raffle. It took a few minutes of conversation to figure it out because I had completely forgotten about the whole thing. My brother had to drive to the bar and picked up the shotgun for me and shipped it to my FFL.
Only time I have ever won anything at a raffle of any kind.
ETA: One of the guys I worked for went to a Friends of NRA event with a client on the client's request. He bought 5 different raffle tickets and won 4 different guns!
The client was a little miffed but got over it.
Only time I have ever won anything at a raffle of any kind.
ETA: One of the guys I worked for went to a Friends of NRA event with a client on the client's request. He bought 5 different raffle tickets and won 4 different guns!
The client was a little miffed but got over it.
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Captcurt
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Nope. I did win some women's perfume back in the 60's though. One of my neighbors spent a couple hundred dollars to win a 308 at a RMEF banquet. He goes every year and spends the same amount so he would have been ahead by buying the rifle at the LGS. His brother, however, has won at least eight.
montanaoffroader
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Not a raffle, but I did win a Diamondback DB10 .308 from Davidson's Great Gun Giveaway.
I won a Remington 700 in a Firehouse raffle. I traded it as partial payment for a Henry Golden Boy as a future present for my son, who had just been born. Then my wife won a Walther pistol at a FONA banquet. That was a table gun, where everyone at a table puts a 20 in an envelope, and one table then wins a pistol for everyone. We split tables to maximize our chances.
I've always bought tickets for gun raffles, been doing it for 50 years. I quit this year and will never try again. Last 2 years I helped sell tickets and sold 3 books of 10 tickets for those 2 years. No one I sold tickets to won, it made me realize how bad chances of winning really are.
wickedsprint
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Yup, savage bolt action 22 of some sort. Gave to a co-worker who’s kids were at the right age to start shooting.
JeeperCreeper
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Mossberg Patriot in 6.5 Creedmoor at a RMEF dinner/game night thing.
Only thing I've ever one by chance, including casinos and standard gambling.
Only thing I've ever one by chance, including casinos and standard gambling.
The club range I'm a member of has a raffle every month I have won it 4 times in about 10 years of membership.
It only $10 a chance, I normally get two chances.
I have won a Kahr 9mm
A Rock Island Armory 1911 .45 auto
A Glock 27 gen 4
And I won a Savage Axis 6.5 Creedmoor bolt action rifle. but I don't have a picture of that yet.
It only $10 a chance, I normally get two chances.
I have won a Kahr 9mm
A Rock Island Armory 1911 .45 auto
A Glock 27 gen 4
And I won a Savage Axis 6.5 Creedmoor bolt action rifle. but I don't have a picture of that yet.
Alte Schule
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Never won a firearm although I’ve entered numerous raffles. Won an Elvis album at a dance contest in high school once and 10k, 7800 after taxes, on a progressive slot machine at a casino in Louisiana about thirty years ago.
About 25 years ago I worked with a young couple that won a contest on a radio station. Three acres of land in a new development, lakeside property no less, and 250k for a new house. One of three designs offered by one of the sponsors. Was to far to commute to work so after construction they sold it all and bought a nice place close to the job.
About 25 years ago I worked with a young couple that won a contest on a radio station. Three acres of land in a new development, lakeside property no less, and 250k for a new house. One of three designs offered by one of the sponsors. Was to far to commute to work so after construction they sold it all and bought a nice place close to the job.
daniel craig
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Y’all say REMF and I’m thinking Rear Echelon Mother bleeper. Surely you mean something else by that acronym?
Armored farmer
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My b-n-l was one of the bigger winners in last years masonic lidge 100-gun raffle. He won the nighthawk custom korth. 357 target revolver.
I have never won a gun, but i did donate a nib glock42 for a benefit raffle. (So technically, I did own a glock once!)
entropy
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I've won flats of Winchester promo loads at the gun club annual meeting a couple times, I give them to my son. Never won a gun, though a guy on my Trap team won a Mossberg Silver Reserve last year. He sold it to another guy on our team, who actually shoots it better than his Win. 1300. Way too light for me.
No good deed goes unpunished.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Does anyone know what a gun-bash is? They are (were pre-Covid) common fund-raisers in this part of the country. Generally Vol. Fire Depts. but maybe some others as well. In a nut-shell, the ticket raffles off a gun every 15 minutes (hours are generally noon to 5ish) and includes a buffet and all of the Bud Lite draft beer a human can stomach. They also sell strip tickets for pick of the table raffles. The initial ticket runs from $20 to $40, but once you start with the pick of the tables you'll easily drop another $20 or $30.
I've gone to several, never won anything. One of my kids has won a Ruger Mark III and a M&P AR15. Another has won a ABolt3 .300 Win Mag. You're probably better off just saving your money and buying something that you like. These shots are of one of the bigger and more popular ones in this area.
I've gone to several, never won anything. One of my kids has won a Ruger Mark III and a M&P AR15. Another has won a ABolt3 .300 Win Mag. You're probably better off just saving your money and buying something that you like. These shots are of one of the bigger and more popular ones in this area.
.308 Norma
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Tomorrow night when I win Powerball, I'll have enough money to buy all of the guns I'll ever want. And I'll have plenty of money left over to be a real "friend" of the NRA.
BullRunBear
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I've won exactly two raffles in my life. The first was a pie while Eisenhower was still in the White House. The second was a few years ago, a Springfield XD 9mm. The pie, as I vaguely recall, was good. The XD is better and doesn't raise my glucose numbers.
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Stevie-Ray
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Only thing I've ever won in a raffle was a spaceship lamp. Looked kinda like the Jupiter 2 on a tripod. Bunch of blinking lights.
Bush Pilot
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Years ago I purchased some raffle tickets at a coin show for a gold coin. As a joke, i put my poodle`s name on some of the tickets and I'll be darned if he didn't win. When I picked up the coin I mentioned my dog was the winner. Some of the "brass" said a dog couldn't be the winner and did not want to hand over the coin. After they failed to show me in the rules why he couldn't win I left with the coin.
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Ah that makes more sense.
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