Best, cheapest gun

Best purchase I ever made was a blued S&W model 58 for $110.00 LNIB. Bought it a while ago . . . .
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Don't laugh ya'll, but it was a Jennings J 22 for $39.95. I bought four of them back in the eighties. I kept two, then traded them off later. Regretably, I just paid $70 for another one ANIB. Just ike the others, it works fine.

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Got a Hi Point C9 for $99 a while back, looks like I never see any other deals like the ones you guys seem to find. Theres a HP 40 cal for $120 at my local GS right now. Never any C9's though, they go fast.
 
hi-point.
Not very accurate.
Not comfortable to shoot a lot at the range.
Will do everything the OP listed extremely well.
Lifetime warranty NQA.
$110 in a ftf with some other accessories included.
 
Paid $200 for a minty S&W M18 that had been professionally tuned. Paid the same amount for a Ruger MKII Competition model with a 2x scope. Kept the S&W, eventually sold the MKII for $350.
 
Don't laugh ya'll, but it was a Jennings J 22 for $39.95. I bought four of them back in the eighties. I kept two, then traded them off later. Regretably, I just paid $70 for another one ANIB. Just ike the others, it works fine.
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Well, I only bought one and it was in the early 90s, and it was $59 new.

This little jammomatic certainly does jam it's fair share, and it's tough to print a tight group with... but no part of it has EVER broken (many hundreds of rounds in the 16 some years I've had it) and what is most amazing is that it LITERALLY looks box fresh brand new.

It's not new. It's pushing twenty years old and it's made dozens of trips to the range.
 
blued Ruger Security Six w/ 4" barrel in 95% + condition bought used @ Gander Mountain for $230; stupidly traded it on a blued Ruger GP100 w/ 6" barrel only to replace it with a used stainless Ruger GP100 w/ 4" barrel and nearly 2X the price of the Security Six :eek:

lesson learned...next time keep the .357 magnum revolver w/ 4" barrel and save up for next purchase instead of trading/selling
 
Hi-Point 9mm. Retail price $149.00 when I bought it. I traded an old Taurus revolver I didn't want, and $7.50 cash money for the gun, a box of ammo, background check, tax, OTD. That thing shoots like a million bucks.

Colt Official Police 38. $250.00. Looks well worn but shoots great. It was made about 1950. Action is as smooth as it can be.

I've got one of the CZ-82's also. Good gun for the money. Good gun for more money actually.

And not handguns, but I've got a couple of T-53, Chinese Mosin-Nagants that I paid $51.00 each for, shipping included (The guns were $35.00 each.) I've never fired them, but I've got them.

A Sears/Mossberg 12 ga pump gun that I paid $99.00 for. Came with a 28" mod barrel, and a 24" rifle sight slug barrel. I got it in 1977, but even then that was a pretty good price for the combo. The retail for that combo at Sears was IIRC $129.00.
 
a rossi 972 6in barrel SS 357. my son bought it for me for fathers day NIB two years ago. i use it for planking in the back yard. I've shot hundreds of 357's threw it with out 1 single problem. the trigger is smooth as silk. and it's dead on accurate. it will hold it's own with any of my higher priced S&W or colts. to say i was pleasantly surprised is a under statement. i think he paid about $310 out the door.
 
I bought 2 new Norinco Model 213's back in 1992 for $89 each. It is an all steel TT-33 clone in 9mm Luger. I put one in the safe and shot the other one weekly for the next 16 years. I had over 55,000 rounds through it when I finally gave into my brothers nagging and gave it to him. I never had one FTF or FTE with that pistol.
 
1895 nagant revolver:
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7.62X25 caliber cheap to buy and cheap to shoot
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Uh, the Nagant is chambered in 7.62x38R aka 7.62mm Nagant. It's not the same as 7.62x25 Tokarev. :rolleyes:

I question the viability of 7.62x38R as a defensive or hunting cartridge because of AFAIK factory ammo with expanding bullets is basically nonexistent in this caliber. These guns will also fire .32 S&W Long, but it's no powerhouse. You can easily convert one to fire .32ACP, but it's no powerhouse either. :(

Did I mention the horrid trigger pull? :rolleyes:

Sure, a Nagant M1895 makes a nifty cheap plinker and historical artifact, but IMHO "best, cheapest" calls for something more versatile.

Mine is a S&W Model 10-5 with a 4" tapered barrel. I bought it for $175. The finish is terrible and a former owner clumsily engraved his or her initials into the sideplate, but it shoots like a laser beam, and I have yet to fire a handgun with a smoother DA trigger. :cool:
Best purchase I ever made was a blued S&W model 58 for $110.00 LNIB.
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I hate you. ;)
 
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