What is the most you've paid for a gun?

[belus]

I hope this poll is a bit different, even though it may be a common question.

I hear of custom made 1911's selling in the 3k range; more than an HK mk23. The premier Hi Power smiths charge a little shy of 2k for a full job once you supply the gun.

Seems impossible to get a full skeet setup for under 3k too.

So, out of curiosity, to what extent does shooting effect (dominate?) your budget?

 

[GW]

$2K+ for a Steyr Scout

Maybe more on a build of an LRB receiver with all USGI parts

 

[pete f]

lets just say that I have had guns which cost more than a new suburban, and let it lie there.

 

[CWL]

I hear of custom made 1911's selling in the 3k range

I must humbly suggest that you get your hearing checked...$3k is not the top end. There are semi-customs going for these rates. (just custom grips can set you back $400.)

 

[kd7nqb]

Well anybody with a registered full auto could easily spend 10k on a gun.

 

[Frank Ettin]

Let's just say that my Perazzi MX8-2000 trap combo was fairly pricey.

 

[EHCRain10]

Im a college student with a part time job so $800 is alot of money to drop on anything

 

[deadhawg]

A little over 1 weeks pay for my M1A loaded, plus another weeks pay for ammo, tools, reloading and cleaning supplies. I expect to spend about another weeks pay for a good scope and mount when I can afford it.

I also spent almost a months pay (at the time, 25+ years ago) for my Sako 270 and scope.

Ron

 

[belus]

I'm a college student with a part time job so $800 is a lot of money to drop on anything.

I'm in a similar position. After hearing what some people are quoting on their expenditures I started wondering how much of this was due to greater means and how much to greater enthusiasm.

I think about 10% of my income has gone into shooting in the past year. The most I ever spent on a single gun turns up just shy of 2 weeks pay.

 

[nero45acp]

About two days short of two weeks net pay, for a Beretta 92 Steel I SA that I bought a few years ago. (Two weeks of net pay would be about the limit that I'd be willing to spend on a firearm.)


nero

 

[Regolith]

More than an average month's earnings, when you include the scope and rings (about $800). But I'm student and I don't work that much (less than 20 hours a week, as mandated by my terms of employment with the University), so I don't make that much in a month.

 

[JohnBT]

I voted 2 weeks, but on second thought it was probably closer to 4 weeks back in the '60s when I was washing dishes. Then I got a job at McDonalds and a raise to $1.15/hr.

It's hard to compare buying a new Single-Six for $50 or $60 many decades ago against buying a Cooper rimfire for $1600 plus scope a few years ago. It really is more about income than cost.

JT

 

[Maxinquaye]

$1500 for my AR. Which could be anything from a month to a few days salary depending on how much time I spend in the shop

 

[cloudedice]

$30.

Unfortunately it was an airsoft gun... one day I'll move up to a big boy pistol.

 

[Blackbeard]

$950 is my top mark for my Rocky AR. Fortunately for me, that's less than a week's salary.

 

[Ala Dan]

A tad bit over 15-C notes for a Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special 1911~!

 

[VHinch]

A tad bit over 15-C notes for a Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special 1911~!

Ditto. I think mine was $1500 almost to the penny.

 

[LiquidTension]

~$5k in my subgun, including accessories and mags. That's about 3 months of paychecks.

 

[Hammer-52]

Actually I used some inheritance $$ from my dad. I bought a Blaser R-93 in 7mm-08 with Swarovski scope--shoots like dream. As a lefty shooter it can be hard to find a nice bolt action. Now I can buy a new barrell if I need (want) a new caliber.

 

[tuckerdog1]

About three weeks net for me. But I don't make all that much

Tuckerdog1

 

[possum]

two weeks pay i would say.

 

[blkbrd666]

About 2.5 days. I just can't see thousands of dollars for a 1911 when my $600 LNIB used one shoots the center of of the target just as well and never fails. I just realized last week that I have only purchase one brand new gun in my entire life and that was $400 for a S&W M&P 9mm. There's just too many good prices on cosmetically and mechanically perfect guns to warrant the value loss of walking out the door with a new one...but that's just me.

 

[Bubbles]

NFA owner. 'Nuff said.

 

[koginam]

I hope my wife doesn't see this! $36,000 for a Drilling with some of the most beautiful engravings of three nude women in repose. I sold it shortly after for more then I paid for it.

 

[Conqueror]

Another NFA owner here. Every gun I own was cripplingly expensive on my grad student negative income. But whenever I shoot them, the feeling is worth it.