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Posted: 1/25/2022 5:48:54 PM EDT

[#1]

Sig 2022 9mm and 50 rounds of ammo for $200. ( This was 2013)

Posted: 1/25/2022 8:26:35 PM EDT

[#2]

Beretta cx4 storm in 45acp for $250.

Purchased from a work friend last year. He wasnt a big gun guy, he didnt shoot it much and he decided from a few times shooting other pistols he didnt like the double action 1st shot and wanted to switch over to a SA striker fired pistol.

Posted: 1/25/2022 8:56:11 PM EDT

[#3]

An un-fucked 1890 turk mauser for $110.00 in an Army-Navy store

Posted: 1/25/2022 10:03:54 PM EDT

[#4]

Not used, but I got a brand new p229 9mm with 3 13rd mags for $500 like 5 months after the ban sunset.

Posted: 1/25/2022 11:41:58 PM EDT

[#5]

The 1066 below, $350 cash. Couldn't get the money out fast enough. Circa 2007.

Pay no attention to the ammo, it's to create brass for proper 10mm loads.

Posted: 1/25/2022 11:48:38 PM EDT

[#6]

Cobray Mac10 for $100. It was fun but too many folks knew about it. Sold it for $150 to a guy who made it vanish.

Posted: 1/25/2022 11:55:25 PM EDT

[#7]

I snagged a Howa 1500 in Bell and Carlson stock, unfired for $300.00. Guy I work with got it for Christmas and really wanted 6.5 Creed. Whoever bought it got a 6mm Creed instead. He absolutely did not want it. It shoots great and my son is slaying deer with it.

Posted: 1/26/2022 12:01:31 AM EDT

[#8]

Probably the best deal I got was an unfired gen3 g17 with light and a gen 2 OD green sub2000 with a mag though it in a custom RIDGID power tools case and a bunch of aftermarket 33 round mags for $650 right before shit hit the fan with Covid.

Was a decent deal at the time and a great deal a few months later.

Posted: 1/26/2022 12:03:09 AM EDT

[#9]

Springfield m1 garand and Winchester m1 carbine. $1000 total.

Posted: 1/26/2022 12:09:50 AM EDT

[#10]

Famas $8500

A very famous gunsmith told me a story once of someone who called him for advice. The dude was at a gun show and was asking him if $1200 was a good price for a FAL in .223 that said CAL on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: 1/26/2022 12:17:48 AM EDT

[#11]

Original un modified 1896 Krag that's listed in the SRC books by exact serial number.....

Posted: 1/26/2022 12:19:49 AM EDT

[#12]

During the heyday of facebook gun sales groups, 2013 or so I got a pre 89 Yugo ak, American arms imported (came in prior to Mitchell’s, very few out there and very little info available). $650 out of some guys trunk, with a few hundred rounds and accessories. Sold it to a member here before I moved back to NY.

Posted: 1/26/2022 12:58:02 AM EDT

[#13]

Ag42 for $400 2 yrs ago

Posted: 1/26/2022 12:58:45 AM EDT

[#14]

G27 for $225.

Posted: 1/26/2022 1:10:35 AM EDT

[#15]

Mac 10 45acp SMG for $500

Posted: 2/4/2022 5:40:03 PM EDT

[#16]

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During the heyday of facebook gun sales groups, 2013 or so I got a pre 89 Yugo ak, American arms imported (came in prior to Mitchell’s, very few out there and very little info available). $650 out of some guys trunk, with a few hundred rounds and accessories. Sold it to a member here before I moved back to NY.

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I came to read happy stories, not this tear-jerker that ended with "I moved back to NY".

Posted: 2/4/2022 5:43:36 PM EDT

[#17]

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Springfield m1 garand and Winchester m1 carbine. $1000 total.

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winchester garand for $350 a long time ago

Posted: 2/4/2022 5:44:21 PM EDT

[#18]

$100 for a Arisaka
$400 for a 686 6"

Posted: 2/4/2022 5:45:05 PM EDT

[#19]

Glock 17 RTF2 for 390 OTD

Posted: 2/4/2022 5:52:56 PM EDT

[#20]

Two come to mind...

1) Once bought a 98% Remington Rand 12/44 1911A1 for the princely sum of $50. Actually, the seller wanted $50. I just couldn't screw him that hard. I handed him two $100 bills and called it good.

2) Gander Mountain retards had a VERY nice S&W 13, 3" bull barrel. $110.00

Posted: 2/4/2022 6:15:30 PM EDT

[#21]

All my deals were new guns.

I recently bought a stainless .22 Single-Six Bisley model for $425 during a sale at Grab-a-Gun, which was almost $200 less than what I paid for a .22 Single-Six Convertible a decade earlier.

I was at Cabela's a few years ago and they had Henry AR-7's marked down to $180. I had a $100 Cabela's gift certificate, so I got that little sucker for eighty bucks.

I also took advantage of a Cabela's sale to get a S&W M&P9 in black/tan, hard case, holster, three mags, mag carrier, and MagLula for $399.

For used guns, I did NOT get a deal when I paid almost $600 for a little Interarms .22 Walther TPH. With one 6-round mag. I managed to find another spare 6-round mag for... $100. Ounce for ounce, the most expensive ~~used~~ gun I've ever bought.

Posted: 2/4/2022 6:20:36 PM EDT

[#22]

Colt king cobra for 500 a few years ago.

Posted: 2/4/2022 6:30:28 PM EDT

[#23]

I never get good deals. Best I know of is a guy I used to work with got a larue factory rifle and a acog with rmr on top for like 1.5k, Guy was going thru a divorce.

Posted: 2/4/2022 6:56:39 PM EDT

[#24]

Colt socom 1 with an Eotech 552 and cheap 3x magnifier-$1160
Colt Socom II- $760 or around that.
Glock 19x lnib with extra mags and pelican case-$420
Factory BCM BFH 16 mid length, govt profile, mcmr 15, fde ion bonded Bcg, Factory BCM lower, LMT fixed sights-$1000
Quite a few more too.
Got some crazy good deals on quality optics too.

Posted: 2/4/2022 6:59:44 PM EDT

[#25]

Got it for $960

Never thought in my life would I get a colt rail gun

Posted: 2/4/2022 7:01:18 PM EDT

[#26]

I found a .410 pump action an a bb gun in a gun case at the dump a couple years back.

Posted: 2/4/2022 7:10:25 PM EDT

[#27]

Worked many years part time at a local shop mainly for fun and used gun deals. The standout deals that immediately come to mind:

1)$800 Benelli M4 w/an Eagle case, Vickers sling, and a tlr3.

2)$320 S&W 28-2 4"bbl that previous owner had hard chromed.

3)$700 for a S&W pre-M18 and a '69 Colt 1911A1.

New gun:
I snapped up a CZ Shadow 2 for $479. It was on a big vendors table for $499 when they first came out. After making a point to ask the salesman if the price was correct, he said it should have been $479....

Posted: 2/4/2022 7:36:05 PM EDT

[#28]

S&W 627 for a case of 1,000 rounds of factory 9mm ammo.

I bought cheap, like $179 or $189.

Nice gun but sold it for $1,000

Posted: 2/4/2022 8:13:13 PM EDT

[#29]

I belong to a gun club with 600+members. As with many clubs the active type is way lower but still .

Lots of gun guys will buy a gun and then after some time want to sell it to finance some other "toy".

There is a sweet spot where I am paying them more for their used gun than they could get at any gun shop but still way cheaper than I could find that gun to buy at most any gun shop.

Also if I am remembered as the guy who paid a reasonable price instead of the guy who beat him down the last 10 or 20 bucks I have a beter chance on the next gun deal.

Yeah , I know how the gun store bis works and don't find fault with them but if I can get my offer in before the gun store guy both myself and my gun club buddy do better.

This is also why whenever I go to the club I have some "mad money" tucked in my wallet for. The guy with the cash sometimes gets the deal.

Posted: 2/4/2022 10:49:57 PM EDT

[#30]

$600 for a Richard Heinie 1911, actually done by him.

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It's an AMT, of which there can't be many Heinie worked on, plus it's a first production year AMT (1977) and it came with 8 AMT factory magazines.

Posted: 2/4/2022 10:59:21 PM EDT

[#31]

Recently, a batch deal where I paid $2400 for a M1 Garand, S&W Models 19, 629, and a Browning High Power in .40.

Posted: 2/4/2022 11:00:51 PM EDT

[#32]

I traded a 10/22 BX25 mag for a Iver Johnson 32 revolver. Still don’t know who got the better end of the deal. Guy didn’t want it cause he couldn’t find 32S&W. Now he has an extra mag and I cannot find 32S&W.

Posted: 2/4/2022 11:05:31 PM EDT

[#33]

A matching 1941 Portuguese contract German K98k, with matching bayonet, in unissued condition for $810. No import marks.
A 1894 dated Chatellerault Model 91 Mosin Nagant for $38 in ammo.
A matching Soviet TT33 pistol for $200. No import marks.

Posted: 2/4/2022 11:08:40 PM EDT

[#34]

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A 1894 dated Chtellerault Model 91 Mosin Nagant for $38 in ammo.

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I think you win. Seen a few of these sell for over $1k recently.

Posted: 2/4/2022 11:23:00 PM EDT

[#35]

Ruger Super Redhawk .44mag 7.5" for $550. Looked brand new.
DE 50ae $800

Posted: 2/4/2022 11:31:50 PM EDT

[#36]

I bought a Sig AMT rifle at the Bigtown Gunshow in Mesquite in about '08 for $2k. Interesting rifle. Never shot it and ended up selling it.

Posted: 2/4/2022 11:36:15 PM EDT

[#37]

I went by the pawnshop to pick up a never-issued M48-BO that I had ordered ($200) and there was a near-perfect No4 MK II (1952 manufacture) on the shelf, I walked out with it as well for $175.

Posted: 2/5/2022 12:03:41 AM EDT

[#38]

Built a road bike for a friend, he paid me w/ a brand new 10/22 TB. Same guy sold me an M&P 9 w/ Apex trigger for $300...it had 200 rd through. Local shop, now closed, sold me a '78 Interarms PPK S NIB for $380.

Posted: 2/5/2022 12:11:54 AM EDT

[#39]

1998 traded a Glock 26 for a NIB M-10 with original box, manual, mag loader.

Posted: 2/5/2022 12:15:06 AM EDT

[#40]

Nickel plated Colt 1911 in .38 Super for $200. Turned around and sold it for $1,200 about 6 months later.

Posted: 2/5/2022 12:50:01 AM EDT

[#41]

I got a beat up ishapore.308 for $25

Posted: 2/5/2022 12:54:20 AM EDT

[#42]

A few years ago I posted a sell/trade ad for a palmetto kit/anderson lower build. I had barely over $400 in the rifle. A guy offered me a Beretta 92fs inox, the early model with all stainless controls. I jumped on the deal. They currently sell on gunbroker for $1000+

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Posted: 2/5/2022 1:05:23 AM EDT

[#43]

$300 for a used Bulgarian SLR-95. Dude needed the money to finish his AR build.

I flipped it for $1,000 at the gun show a little while later.

Posted: 2/5/2022 1:17:52 AM EDT

[#44]

Armalite super sass with a bunch of armalite mags for 1300.00 from someone who wanted to get rid of it…hammer of a rifle.

Pre ban Sig 550-2sp new in original packaging for 3200.00 (estate).

Posted: 2/5/2022 1:22:08 AM EDT

[#45]

A 2nd series 6" Colt Match Target Woodsman and a 3rd series 4.5" Colt Match Target with 3 mags each.

$900 for the pair.

Posted: 2/5/2022 1:39:05 AM EDT

[#46]

I had a buddy hard up for cash.

New England .410
New England 12 gauge
Savage 20 gauge sxs
Savage .410 sxs
Remington 870 special purpose in shadow grass
Remington pump 572 .22
Rossi 92 pump .22
Remington 141 in .35
Mosin
Remington 58 12 gauge
And a single shot remington 1902

Paid $1k

Swapped the 141 for a red heeler, swapped the 58 for a 10/22, some ammo, and a bx trigger, swapped the 20 gauge sxs for a sig 229, and sold most of the rest.

Posted: 2/5/2022 8:55:25 AM EDT

[#47]

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good buddy of mine sold me his Mint maybe 50 rounds through Ruger P90DC for $200

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In before the "Gun guys" that poke fun at the Ruger pistols and call them "bricks". I have 2 P90DC's, both Magna-ported and re-worked by Ruger for "rough trigger", that are fun to shoot and minute of beer can @50' accurate.

ETA: bought them years ago, probably about $250 each.

Posted: 2/5/2022 8:58:12 AM EDT

[#48]

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Both revolvers.

First: S&W 6 shot 686 with Pachmayr grips, cleaning kit, 50 rounds of ammo and case for 150.00. Friend of mine came home and his wife was fucking around with it, pointed it at him and said "FREEZE SUCKA!!" and he said "OK this is not safe" had no choice but to get rid of it.

Second: S&W 29 in Nickel. PRISTINE condition. Came with original and Hogue wood grips. Bought it in 94 for $300.00

Sales guy said the owner just bought it, took it to the range and said it was too much gun for him. Probably had only 50 rounds through it and I KNOW I only put 50 rounds through it. I have had friends offer me $1,000.00 for it.