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I was doing a little post season scouting/walkabout yesterday and took my old H&R 20ga single shot just in case I saw a something that needed shooting. That little 20ga only weighs 5lbs or so, is not in the best of cosmetic shape and is the least valuable gun I own, but sees a good number of days out every year. I use for rabbits, squirrels, grouse and have shot a couple of coyotes with it. It seems to go along because its so light and can do so many things.
Anybody have a cheap gun they find surprisingly useful?
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I have a Lee-Enfield Brit .303–i paid $40 for it put a $55 synthetic stock on it and paid a machinist $50 to recrown the barrel and cut off the bayonet lugs. Kills moose quite nicely
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I keep a single shot 22 loaded with rat shot by the kitchen door to keep Boomers out of the bird feeders Old Winchester 67 that I paid $25 for years ago.
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I bought a Savage 340 in .30-30 for $110. Fitted an aperture sight to it and use it as a cast bullet plinking gun. It's a hoot, and would serve as a decent deer gun.
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I paid $40.00 for this savage 410 over 410 and it was mint when I bought it. I beat the hell out of it grouse hunting and didn't realize it was worth several hundred dollars. I paid $40.00 for it and treated it like a $40.00 gun...
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I have a Universal double 20ga. Yeah, I know, what's a Universal? It was made in Spain back in the 60's is all I know. I bought it when a local drug store was going out of business. Back then, before gun control was invented, a lot of stores sold guns. It's a cheap gun. I paid about $75 IIRC. The stock broke years ago and I fiberglassed it back together. The reason I like it is because it fits me so well. I've shot other doubles and most are too straight. I have a long neck and I can't get down on them which makes me shoot high. This one has more drop to the stock and I can shoot it fine. I wish I could afford a quality gun made to the same dimensions. I haven't hunted with it in a long time but it stays handy in the house with loads of buckshot inside. A double is a good self defense gun. Besides being fast to reload, a bad guy gets intimidated when looking down into 2 big black holes pointed at his chest.
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Suppressed 10/22 Ruger, I probably burn 2K rounds per year around the farm with that rifle, it wears a Nikon 3-9 Buckmaster scope.
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My father's Glenfield/Marlin model 25 22cal.. Love that little thing.
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My son's Savage Cub and my daughter's Savage Rascal are about the most fun you can have with a gun.
As an aside, I can't believe shrap' and 'flave admitted to owning Savage's in the same thread.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I have a Harrington and Richardson .22 revolver that belonged to my late brother-in-law. It's in like-new condition. After he passed, no one in the family wanted it, so my wife asked me to put it in the gun safe. I keep it loaded with snake shot and it's my "go to" utensil when the dogs find a rattlesnake in the yard.
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I bought a Savage Hog Hunter in 308 for the threaded barrel. It’s damn near a one hole rifle. I’m a magnum guy, but that 308 kills deer and pigs as well as my cannons. I have a couple Savage 6.5 Creedmoor rifles. Just as accurate. I had always turned my nose up at Savage rifles, fine rifles for the price.
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I wish I could find a "cheap gun".
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I have a H & R Topper 410 that I paid $60 for about 20 years ago. I have lost count of the grouse and rabbits that gun has put on the table. I haven't killed a pheasant with it yet, but I'm taking it to Neb. on the last weekend of the season to try!
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Rohm model 57 in .41. Paid 105 when the pawnshop made a mistake on discounts. otherwise would have been 150. Decent DA trigger, all 6 holes shoot same place, stout has hell. This was before they started making Saturday night specials. Finish is "matte", otherwise known as didn't spend extra time on polishing.
I have a fondness for H&R, gave me a chance to experience different cartridges without breaking the bank.
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I sold off the cheap stuff years ago. Like Shrapnel I traded an inexpensive utility trailer to a buddy to get a Savage 22 mag/20 gauge M24 for a cheap rambling around piece and now I'm seeing those things going for way bigger money to have it in the cheap category.
My other auto is a .45
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Every Marlin X7 Rifle I’ve had has shot far better than a < $300 rifle should shoot.
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I have a Universal double 20ga. Yeah, I know, what's a Universal? It was made in Spain back in the 60's is all I know. I bought it when a local drug store was going out of business. Back then, before gun control was invented, a lot of stores sold guns. It's a cheap gun. I paid about $75 IIRC. The stock broke years ago and I fiberglassed it back together. The reason I like it is because it fits me so well. I've shot other doubles and most are too straight. I have a long neck and I can't get down on them which makes me shoot high. This one has more drop to the stock and I can shoot it fine. I wish I could afford a quality gun made to the same dimensions. I haven't hunted with it in a long time but it stays handy in the house with loads of buckshot inside. A double is a good self defense gun. Besides being fast to reload, a bad guy gets intimidated when looking down into 2 big black holes pointed at his chest. I have the same gun. I bought it a Meijers in the early 70's still in fine shape!
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A Spanish made Richland Arms 20 gauge SxS. I bought it and an early 10-22 from a coworker for $100.
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