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Posted: 10/18/2014 9:14:02 AM EDT

[#1]

S&W AR 15 Sport

I bought the rifle for a wild game feed raffle. Imagine my surprise when we ask some little kid to draw a ticket and he calls my name.

That was the start of the black rifle disease. Gave it to my dad, but have several others now.

Posted: 10/18/2014 9:18:15 AM EDT

[#2]

well, i've been drinking coffee out of this sweet mug that I won as a door prize at a HTF meetup earlier this week.

(thanks, Jeep29!)

Posted: 10/18/2014 9:20:57 AM EDT

[#3]

I never win crap but I have to tell the story about the last Friends of the NRA banquet I attended.

They had bucket drawings for 3 different guns. You put your ticket in the bucket of the gun you want to win and they draw out the winning ticket.

The first ticket drawn was for someone that had already left, so they drew another.

Guy goes up all excited and claims his gun and is walking away to go fill out the paperwork and the person running the drawing says, Hey come back you have to draw the next winner.

The lucky bastard goes back and draws his own ticket, which was the next sequential number of his first winning ticket, out of the second bucket and wins another gun!

Posted: 10/18/2014 9:21:35 AM EDT

[#4]

Won this at a Ducks Unlimited banquet Thursday night.

SAR-K2 - .45 ACP, DA/SA, 14+1 capacity.

Turkish made clone of a CZ-85 in .45ACP. Don't know much about it, but for a $40 investment in raffle tickets, what the heck.

dp

Posted: 10/18/2014 9:22:18 AM EDT

[#5]

My son. But then I lost him 7 months later.

RIP little man.

Posted: 10/18/2014 9:30:07 AM EDT

[#6]

Got drunk and ran out of cigarettes, so i walked to the local gas station. Bought smokes and a scratch off. I proceeded to win $10, so i rolled it into another, different, ticket. Won again. And again.

I won $210 in various amounts on 5 successive scratch tickets. True story.

Posted: 10/18/2014 9:31:25 AM EDT

[#7]

Won a Springfield Milspec 1911.

Won a LaRue BattleLight.

Thats it.

Posted: 10/18/2014 9:35:10 AM EDT

[#8]

Corporate golf tournament.

Spun a pitching wedge back 15' to win closest to the hole. Ended up about a 18-20" away and I was surprised it held up.

Won a printer. And we needed one at the time, so it was pretty cool for us.

Posted: 10/18/2014 9:38:27 AM EDT

[#9]

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My son. But then I lost him 7 months later.

RIP little man.

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I'm so sorry

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Posted: 10/18/2014 9:43:51 AM EDT

[#10]

A thank you whoohoo from a stunningly hot woman I was helping out.

ETA forgot about one. An invite from the NRA to try out for the U.S. Olympic Shooting Team. The year was 1972. Did not make the team.

Posted: 10/18/2014 9:51:55 AM EDT

[#11]

Four years ago I won a Springfield Range Officer 1911 as a door prize at an IDPA OK State Championship. This was back when they had just come out and were impossible to find in stores.

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Posted: 10/18/2014 9:54:53 AM EDT

[#12]

Never won a damn thing but I have a dumb luck friend who always wins raffles. He won a rem 700 sps or something like that in .204. Won a kayake the next year, and then the next year won another bolt gun in .300 win mag.

Posted: 10/18/2014 9:55:52 AM EDT

[#13]

Wheelbarrow....filled with bottles of liquor and wine and cases of beer. About $500 with of booze, and a $50 wheelbarrow.

Posted: 10/18/2014 9:58:50 AM EDT

[#14]

Bacterial pneumonia

comes with 6 nurses pouring ice on your naked body

Posted: 10/18/2014 9:59:03 AM EDT

[#15]

870 tactical 20 ga. never would have bought it but what a riot!

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:04:15 AM EDT

[#16]

I've never won anything that relied on luck other than a few bucks at the blackjack table in Vegas. I never win drawings or anything like that.

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Posted: 10/18/2014 10:06:57 AM EDT

[#17]

100 bucks on a lotto ticket I got as a gift.

I hit a jackpot at a slot machine that paid 800 bucks.

I won a poker tournament that paid 2600, which i guess was a prize, but really was just me making 300 bucks an hour by getting lucky

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:08:20 AM EDT

[#18]

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Including lotto, sweepstakes, drawing, etc?

A whole lot of nothing for me.

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Ditto...

I've never won any drawings or prizes or lotto- nothing.
When ever I've bought a scratch ticket which is rare, I usually win what I paid for the ticket and leave-lol

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:10:27 AM EDT

[#19]

My ex-wife and I work together. Our location won a big award from our company and they rewarded us with among other things a steak cookout and 7 people would win prizes from one of the compamy's award websites with some very nice prizes. At a full meeting of all of the location's employees the manager announced he would have a drawing for the prizes. He had a bucket with well over 100 names on slips of paper and ask for a volunteer to pick 7 names out of the bucket. Nobody came forward to volunteer so he looked around and picked my ex-wife to draw the names . First name she drew out of the bucket was mine. She looked like she wanted to throw up. I got a 50 inch Samsung led tv out of it. Karma is a BITCH.

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:10:40 AM EDT

[#20]

Stag upper

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:12:29 AM EDT

[#21]

55" tv from our "safety party" at work last year.

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:12:34 AM EDT

[#22]

270K in Cash 5 PA loto.

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:21:52 AM EDT

[#23]

A very nice brass cigar carrier

Cheap off brand GPS (Jensen IIRC, which I still use)

Nice basket of wine for CarbineMom

All at Golf Outings

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:24:33 AM EDT

[#24]

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270K in Cash 5 PA loto.

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Nice.

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:24:44 AM EDT

[#25]

A rifle out of a gun magazine
A moped from a Quaker State sweepstakes that I couldn't sell fast enough after I found out there was no cash alternative
A fairly nice hand made quilt raffled off at the state fair

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:25:02 AM EDT

[#26]

2 gun cases and 2 shotguns (one of which was a new A5) at a DU banquet last year. I stacked the deck in my favor though. I had a 1/10 on the Browning because I had a corporate table. Then I bought 3 silent auction duck calls at the last minute that no one had bid on. That gave me a 3/10 shot at the other gun.

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:30:33 AM EDT

[#27]

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270K in Cash 5 PA loto.

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How much taxes were taken out.

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:38:56 AM EDT

[#28]

I like to moan I never win anything like everyone else. But on reflection it's just true. I never win on lottery/poweball tickets and just damn near never win on scratch tickets, I've won $40 twice in 25 yrs and can't tell when I last won back even $1.

But in 1966, first grade, I won a cool model of the Gemini scapegoat capsule from a kids after school tv show. Anyone remember Major Astro on the NBC affilate out of Wichita?

3 or 4 years later I won a stingray bike from the local Gambles store.

A few years ago I won a benefit raffle here. Bought two $20 tickets and won a 1 in 7 CavArms glow-on-the-dark preproduction AR15. Had pictures at the time but they're no longer on my Photobucket account.

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:39:36 AM EDT

[#29]

My wife won a new Dodge truck at a charity raffle about 10 years back. Which was nice.

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:44:03 AM EDT

[#30]

Yeti cooler
Leuopold binoculars and a range finder
Sitka gear (including rain gear)
Bear motive 6 bow
Lone wolf skinning and capping knives
Life membership in Rocky Mountain elk foundation
Any Danner boots I wanted
Six day fully guided elk hunt

All from a Facebook page

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:44:28 AM EDT

[#31]

iPad mini. They gave two away in a raffle at work. And no, I didn't catch the ghey with it.

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:45:06 AM EDT

[#32]

Gambling - a couple $50 scratch tickets , $200 in a Super Bowl bet and about $300 in a casino in Chile .

Raffles - a quilt from the gun club and a custom knife at an outage I was working in Kentucky .

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:50:55 AM EDT

[#33]

I won $1200 on a one armed bandit back in 94.. Haven't been back since.

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:53:44 AM EDT

[#34]

I've won a couple of laptop computers, a DVD player, a couple of cameras, an $1200 professional software package, an ipod and some other junk.

We have annual holiday raffles at work.

Posted: 10/18/2014 10:58:15 AM EDT

[#35]

In the 2008 Team Ranstad raffle i won this fantastic bark river knife.

it means many things , it's a great knife , the raffle helped some great people and it was run by some of the greatest folks on the internet

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:07:43 AM EDT

[#36]

Coming back through Oklahoma last night my daughter wanted to stop at the Choctaw casino since she had never been in one. When we walked in she felt that one of the machines was calling to her. She waited for a little while until it was clear and made one five dollar play and won $45. I was messing around with the quarter slots and ended up one dollar ahead. Then we got back in the truck and headed home.

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:09:44 AM EDT

[#37]

Won a MC Tour of New Zealand. About a $4000 deal at the time that ended up costing me $6500 because for some reason the wife insisted on going as well.
Was still a great deal as it made us go on an amazing trip.
Won a Kindle from corporate a couple of years ago.

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:15:59 AM EDT

[#38]

Back when I worked in a large office, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh do his politically correct football picks. I entered the office football pool and won $70 bucks. That was the only time I tried it.

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:21:59 AM EDT

[#39]

About 5 years ago me and a buddy won a doubles paintball tournament. Winner take all $500.

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:23:09 AM EDT

[#40]

Won the GoPro Daily give away last year. Prize is one of everything they make, think the total was around $1200 worth of gear.

Year before that, Won a Snowboard from Mt Dew. I don't snowboard though

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:23:35 AM EDT

[#41]

UFHO July 2012.

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:26:03 AM EDT

[#42]

I should add that I have also hit two video poker machines in 7-11s.

Both times they had Super Big Gulps on sale for sixty some cents. I got a quarter change and dropped it in the poker machine as I walked out. Twice I hit Royal Flushes. I think I won $75 each time.
Afterwards I had to listen to people saying.....you fucked up. You should have had the machine loaded and would have won a grand or whatever it is.
Talk about glass is half empty people.......I risked a quarter to win $75 and that isn't good enough ?
I wouldn't have played it if it cost me any more than a quarter.

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:26:13 AM EDT

[#43]

I won $2,000 on a $1 super lotto ticket one time (and I hardly ever play lottery) and it couldn't have come at a better time either. I know it was a fluke though and I don't play unless it is over 100 mil and still I'll only bet $1 even then.

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:27:22 AM EDT

[#44]

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:27:33 AM EDT

[#45]

My raffle ticket won a 46" TV at a big meeting at work last year.

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:31:22 AM EDT

[#46]

Won a LaRue gift certificate that paid for my Aimpoint PRO.

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:35:08 AM EDT

[#47]

truck

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:38:21 AM EDT

[#48]

Arctic Cat 580 EXT snowmobile back in 1998

TA648RMR ACOG here during the annual Team member giveaway. That was a couple of years ago.

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:38:32 AM EDT

[#49]

I won a 5.11 jacket worth about $200 in a drawing once.

Posted: 10/18/2014 11:42:47 AM EDT

[#50]

Snap-On Harley Davidson edition roll cab and top chest worth $6500 was the most expensive. 500rds of 5.56 during the height of the '13 panic was the most valuable.

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