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

[Browning]

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

That's the 'wood' safe.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

I have a S&W 4006 then a friend of mine sold to me for $200 in a private sale(no 4473). because he didn't care for 40 Smith & Wesson.

 

[Jesse H]

Ruger MK2 22/45.

I can't remember how little it was back then but I've easily spent more than the original price on the trigger, barrel threading, cerakote and red dot. Not gonna include the cost of the AAC can since it sits on another gun occasionally.

 

[jonnyc]

"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."

Ditto, but mine was only $150!

 

[375supermag]

Hi...
I have bought s couple of guns for under $100 that I have shot thousands of rounds through.
A Marlin lever action .22Mag for $50 off a co-worker in the mid-70s.
A Kimmel Industries .22/22Mag SA revolver off a different co-worker for $35 in the same time frame.

I have a couple of SKS rifles that I paid around $150 each for. Probably 5000 rounds through those two rifles between myself and my son.
I paid $140 for a Winchester 1400 semi auto 12ga about 25 years ago. It has accounted for a large numbers of rabbits, squirrels and pheasants over the years.
It also gets regular workouts shooting clays birds.

 

[If1HitU]

I paid a $ 199.00 for a Mossberg Maverick 88 12ga. pump shotgun.Love shooting it.

 

[Ignition Override]

The Sauer 38H (WW2 German), in .32 Auto, for those who are unfamiliar. Very nice ergos, very nifty little gun.
This $200 personal deal --my First handgun-- was about five years ago at age 58.

As a primary ancestor of modern Sig-Sauers, it was a superb design. I don't know how to post photos, but it resembles the modern Sig-Sauer 230/232.

 

[shoobe01]

I have a few sub-$100 guns but they aren't that thrilling. If pressed for cheapest few, and avoiding air/airsoft, I have to go with my HK 26.5 flare pistol. Yes, I use it occasionally, and it's much fun.

Some other favorites are probably preposterous deals, but were also so much in trade value that it's hard to pin a price on it

But almost surely my best cost/benefit is the Remington 700 PSS. Right around $600 at the time which may seem expensive compared to most things in this thread, but when I do my part, is reliably close to a half-moa gun with factory ammo. I have upgraded and updated, but not the barrel or action. It is both lovely to shoot, and you can spend a lot of happy time behind a precision rifle per round fired, so it's a cheap and quiet range day. And when you look at the shocking price of the precision rifles I see most people seriously shooting, I am happier yet with it.

 

[Valkman]

For me it'd be the Russian SKS I picked up for $100 long ago. A co-worker gave me a .22 youth rifle once but I gave it to someone who could use it.

 

[DazedandConfuzed]

My first handgun purchase. Taurus model 66 in 1985/6, was $175 out the door. Great shooter, very reliable. Since then, I've purchased many more revolvers and semi autos, but I still shoot the old Taurus best.

 

[bannockburn]

2agunner

I can remember seeing a set of Colt SAA Bicentennial revolvers at a Woolworth back in the mid '70's. They carried mainly S&W and Colt models; mostly high end guns.

 

[bannockburn]

Cheapest, most fun filled gun has been my Ruger 10/22 purchased new for $68 back in the late '70s.

 

[JONWILL]

That's going way back in the day. Do you guys remember Woolworth Drug Store? I can't remember if they ever sold firearms though.

Yes. I used to ride my bike to Woolworth. In about 1978 I went there and of course walked right to the Sporting Goods section. They had a rack of Krags still in Cosmoline for $35 each. I begged my Dad to let me have one.
Mom was a Nurse and hated guns. No go. Never forget about that.

My favorite cheap gun was one I got for $25. It was a Colt 1917 in 45 ACP. It had a bulge in the barrel about 1/2 way down and the timing was off so I had to rotate the cylinder to lock by hand.
I shot great and was dead on with the fixed sights. I eventually cut the barrel just behind the bulge and made it a "Snubby". Took me awhile but I filed a slot on top of the barrel and soldered in 1/2 a Penny for a new front sight.

 

[BilliamB.]

I think it was more of a department store.

Woolworth's was the first "five and dime" store, actually. Used to go there and buy "Bang!" brand caps for my cap pistols when I was a kid. Plus they had a soda fountain. Who could ask for anything more?

Woolworth's spawned a host of competitors: Kresge's, which became K-Mart; and Ben Franklin Stores, which became kind of a big deal after Sam Walton bought one.

 

[doubleh]

In the not too distant past it's a junk Marlin bolt action tube fed 22 that I gave $40 for. I knew it was junk when I bought it for a project rifle. I enjoy taking a pretty much worthless gun and making it usable again as well as shooting it after I get it finished. I don't remember exactly how much the Redman barrel liner or the Devon epoxy cost but it was close to or a little more than the cost of the rifle. I had all the tools needed to do the reline job. It's a pretty good shooter now and I feel it's as accurate now as it was before it was turned into junk.

Much longer in the past it's a Remington Mod.12 22 I picked up in a hock shop for just a few bucks although I don't remember the exact sum. It was good mechanically but it had been seriously abused cosmetically. It's back in excellent condition now and is one of my favorite rifles even if I do have problems with it's iron sights now. I cut my shooting teeth on my dad's model 12 so they are special to me.

 

[Charlie98]

Browning Buckmark Standard. Bought it in 1987 for $179 when I was stationed at Fort Carson, CO. I've burned thousands of rounds through that pistol, introduced a few people to pistol shooting with it, and it remains in the stable to this day.

 

[red rick]

My used Marlin 60 that I paid $125 dollars for .

 

[hdwhit]

RG-25. Paid $25 for it. Once I got it cleaned up and bought a new magazine for it, it has performed flawlessly.

 

[MedWheeler]

Either of my two Heritage Rough Rider .22LR/.22WMR convertibles, one of which is the 3.5-inch birdshead model. I bought the first one (4.75-inch "regular" model) for $200 in 2012. The second came in in 2016 for $150, via a Taurus "blem sale" (not sure what the blemish was.)

For a $99 "rollback" price, the Mossberg 702 Plinkster impressed me a lot as well. Very handy little rifle that shoots surprisingly accurately, and is reliable with the only ammo I've yet tried in it (Federal AutoMatch.)

 

[JeffG]

I bought a Kel Tec 9mm years ago. The one that looks like a Stenn. It was fun, and expensive to run, but fun. Sold it.

 

[MedWheeler]

DazedandConcozed writes:

My first handgun purchase. Taurus model 66 in 1985/6, was $175 out the door. Great shooter, very reliable. Since then, I've purchased many more revolvers and semi autos, but I still shoot the old Taurus best.

I bought mine from Oshman's Sporting Goods in 1987, the day after I turned 21, for about $195 OTD. Solid gun indeed. Still have it.

 

[Legionnaire]

Cheap (which I am interpreting as inexpensive) and fun ...

My first Mossberg 500 ... a combo with vent rib and rifle-sighted cylinder barrels; about $150 IIRC.
Used Buckmark Camper ... also $150.

 

[WestTexShooter]

Heritage R/R.

$129.86

 

[LoonWulf]

Mossberg 802 heavy barrel, cost me 250 and holds 1.5" groups at 100yds.

It's a lot of fun to plink broken clay's off the been with.

 

[Dunross]

Plain Jane Ruger 10/22 that I bought in 1988 from Wally World. Don't recall now what I paid for it, but it was on sale. $120 or something like that. Put an awful lot of ammo through it.

S&W Model 28 Highway Patrolman bought at an Orlando Gun Show in the mid-nineties. I seem to recall paying about $250 or so for it. Nothing special about it, but the trigger and action are nicely smooth and I have taught a few people how to shoot with it.