What's the cheapest gun you have that has given you the most enjoyment given it's price point?

[dirtman]

Gotta be my single six 22 mag ruger. They last a life time and alway work, plenty accurate, and just plain fun to shoot..... paid ? $70. in 71, 3 screw.... Of late i picked up a ruger american 22 mag for a truck gun.... real good shooter very accurate with 40 50 grain pills.... At its price point it was a very good buy....

 

[LNF150]

Mossberg 44US(d) .22 Passed down grandfather to father to son. Only thing I added was a cheap tasco scope to replace the weaver with broken crosshairs. That heavy steel pipe and stock is a 10x shooter (if I do my part) and squirrel/prairie dog/skunk/raccoon/opossum/packrat killer.


The other 'cheap' is my CVA muzzleloader I'd written about earlier. Love that .54 cal. When I head out for early season white-tail I pick up acorns in the yard to plant out in the woods I hunt. People ask why my cargo pants bulge, tell them that's where I keep my nuts.

 

[jar]

What's the cheapest price you paid for a firearm that you own or have owned that has given you the most enjoyment and fun regardless of brand, caliber or gun type?

My pick would be the Heritage Rough Rider 22lr revolver. Great, nice fun gun for the brand new price of $100.

I bought a Beretta 70S (380) in 1974 for $85.00 and that included an extra magazine and a couple boxes of ammo. List price IIRC was $120.00 at the time. It was absolutely reliable and accurate and kinda wish I still had it. Gave it to one of my little brothers in the 1990s.

 

[.308 Norma]

The Daisy BB gun I got for Christmas in 70 or 71.
I’m sure it cost less than $10

Yeah, it seems like back in the '60s I paid either $4.98 or $5.98 for a Daisy "Cub" at the Sprouse-Reitz store in town. The "Red Ryder" model was a little more expensive, so my buddies and I always got by with the "Cub" model.
Even at that, all of our grandson's (under the watchful eyes of their grandmother or myself) have learned to shoot in the backyard with the Daisy "Red Ryder" we keep in the hall closet. Using that same BB gun from our rear deck, I myself have "plinked" (literally - they go "plink" when I hit them) many a tin can on the fence posts around the garden. I have to hold about 4" high to hit a tin can on the far-corner post. And with that wide front sight that completely covers the tin can, that's no easy task.
So my "Red Ryder" has given me countless hours of pleasure, yet I think I only paid about $20.00 for it 20 years ago. I think you can still pick them up for less than $30.00.

 

[Sebastian]

Ruger Mark III 22/45. It is immensely fun to shoot and I got it for free

Obligatory pic:

She has the Volquartsen trigger/accurizing kit...was thinking about adding some kind of optic in the future to the rail (not shown) that was also included

 

[theotherwaldo]

My second new gun, also bought the summer of 1974 (on lay-away) for $79.95 was an 1858 Remington repro.
It's the only gun that I've fired in anger.
I still have it and I still love to shoot it.

 

[Drail]

Ruger MK ll. Too bad about the rimfire ammo supply, quality and prices. I have three MK lls and I never shoot them anymore.

 

[.308 Norma]

Sears, Payless Drug Store, Woolworth's Drug Store, I'm sure there were others

Ha! Yeah, "_______ Corner Grocery" - my mom's and dad's country grocery store and gas station. I pumped the less than 30 cents per gallon gas, washed the windshields, checked the oil, and checked a tire pressure if asked.
Mom and dad didn't stock guns (their store was too small) but they would order any gun that was in their catalogs for their customers. I still have a couple of genuine 1962 Winchester/Western catalogs from my folk's country store. As a gun crazy 14 year-old kid in 1962, I spent many an hour studying those catalogs and the ballistic tables in the backs.
I know, I know - I should have been studying my Biology book instead. By it all worked out all okay. I was still able to buy a pre-64 Model 70, 338 Win Mag sometime back in the early '80s. Of course I paid nearly 3 times what they are listed for in my 1962 Winchester/Western catalog.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Probably a toss up between my Kriss 10mm Auto Carbine and my HK45.

Since I used Cabela's points on both I only paid $400 for the Kriss and about $250 for the HK.

 

[JO JO]

not counting my childhood BB gun bought at a yard sale for under a buck, I would say an SKS and a mossberg 500 both under $100 each ,

 

[bassjam]

I was going to comment on my Red Ryder just like JO JO did, I put tens of thousands of BB's through that thing, I'm sure it cost around $25 bucks. I bought my daughter one a few years ago and I still get a kick out of shooting it.

As far as "real" firearms my Remington 514 I picked up for $135 in 2012 is a ton of fun. Since buying a Remington 510 I don't get out the 514 as much but it was really the gun that kicked off my love of single shots.

 

[Riomouse911]

Ruger MK ll. Too bad about the rimfire ammo supply, quality and prices. I have three MK lls and I never shoot them anymore.

No more ammo issues with .22 LR for a while, go ahead and shoot away!

 

[aarondhgraham]

That would be my favorite little Mouse Gun,,,
Taurus 22-PLY.


I think I paid $189.95 for it brand new,,,
It's a hoot to shoot and goes to the range almost every time.

It helps me let my inner James Bond out.

Aarond

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[DDDWho]

My Dad paid $15 for this Remington 514 single shot .22 in 1949 as a Xmas present to me. I still have it nearly 70 years later. Its had countless rounds through it and many rabbit, squirrel and cans killed. It still shoots straight as a string. Fifteen dollars for a gun with a walnut stock?
I had it professionally bead blasted and reblued and I refinished the stock a few years ago.
The pic was shopped by my Grandson from lyrics of the Mel McDaniel song "Louisiana Saturday Night" " "A single shot rifle and a one eyed dog"

 

[Browning]

A Ruger that I bought when I was 18 for a little over $100. IIRC it was $120-something. It was the first rifle that I bought on my own.

 

[John Joseph]

A Sheridan Blue Streak or a Pietta 1851 Remington. It's hard to choose between the two!

 

[milemaker13]

Buckmark camper. Paid 212 IIRC. Lotsa fun!

Browning- that is one scary looking collection.. all black! Oh my!!!

 

[.308 Norma]

A Sheridan Blue Streak

I sure do like by Blue Streak too. It stands in the corner beside our back door, and has accounted for more starlings than I can remember in the current bushes behind the garden.

 

[bgw45]

SAR B6Pc... Too much fun!

 

[Armored farmer]

I paid around $200 for this T/C Hawken .54 kit. The year was 1983 and I was in college.
I assembled the kit and finished it myself.
I have participated in rendezvous, shot countless matches, and taken somewhere around two dozen deer including a 169" trophy buck.
Money well spent for 35years of enjoyment.


Good thread

 

[cheygriz]

No. 4 MK1 SMLE made by Long Branch in Canada. Paid around $50 for it IIRC. Back in the days when MilSurp ammo was dirt cheap.

 

[earlthegoat2]

Traded a New England single shot 20 ga for a 10/22 RSI from 1996.

Yeah. 10/22s are pretty fun.

 

[jeepnik]

Remington Nylon 66. No idea what it cost as it was a birthday present. I also have no idea how many thousands of rounds have gone through it. A 14 yo doesn't count, he just shoots.

 

[caribou]

85$ in 1988 for an M-28/30. A weeks wages then. in 1997, an M-39 for 125$ A days pay, then, landed/FFL'd.....almost the same 'value' $ for $.

A lifetime of skill, adventure, pleasure and good eating came about with a Mosin in my hands.

 

[drband]

My Hi-Point 9mm carbine was the best $250 I ever spent. It just flat-out runs and is very accurate to 50yds and decent at 75 yds.