I buy raffle tickets too. Our club range raffles off one or two guns at each of the monthly meeting so far in the last 10 years I have won about 6 guns.I haven't entered gun give aways. I buy raffle tickets locally. The proceeds help support good causes. Usually, the local fire department, police, or veteran organization is selling tickets. A win from one $5 raffle ticket awarded me a service grade CMP M1 Garand. It was that Garand that brought me back into firearms after a long hiatus and led me to sign up on The Firing Line.