Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire what cheap or odd guns do you like or use alot?

Bet it brings more than he paid for it...

Based on the insanity comments, I'd say he's got a gold mine.

Madness!

Fugkin' madness!

a friends wife at my lease started hunting 5 years ago at 62 with one in 3030 with the lite recoil 125 gr fac load and kills anything she shoots at drt .been trying to get a 44 that a guy has but he holds out tell he needs the money bad took 5 years to get a first year 44 ruger deerstalker from him

A Winchester 41 .410 for opening day doves $100

A Savage 23D .22 Hornet for ground Squirrels $149

Marlin 101 .22 Bolt Action from FIL


Winchester 53 rebored to .357 shooting cast bullets during the .22 lr shortage

I once won a big skeet shooting contest with a beat up cheapo borrowed Mossberg pump 12 gauge.

I couldn't miss. Tried to buy it, but he wouldn't take my 100 bucks.

Because though they're nice rifles, the only thing special about them is some people's willingness to overpay for one.

You gotta' remember the title was about "cheap" guns...

Rem 788 .308 20 inch barrel
85% condition wood and bluing
Pristine clean strong bore
No signs of bolt face compression

300 bucks

Yea or may
Good deal...

(I already know the answer)

Kinda been bugging me after looking at it again wensday.
Been their 2 or 3 months
Customers dont know what it is for the most part.
Sitting in a tacticool shop on consignment.

I

Bolt face compression?

A great fellow member here gave me an Ithaca 49 to use with my young sons. We have put a big pile of 22LR ammo through that little rifle. It’s a favorite.

massachusetts arms 410 single. probably built by stevens and sons
i just point it at grouse and they fall over. death on wood rats too. only finish on it is rust.

My brother got a cut down rem 510 for $7 in the 1970s.
He has killed a lot of things with it and I have killed a lot.
He welded up a rear sight for it. I extended the stock.
After I reached 40, my eyesight went, and I drilled and tapped for a scope.

Trying to relive my youth, I have bought (5) more Rem 510s;
$60 in 2008
$100 in 2013
$165 in 2013
$89 in 2016
$79 in 2017

I paid $39.00 for a Remington 14 in 35 Remington once years ago. It was a rust bucket, with a busted stock, but it had all its parts, a receiver sight and a perfect bore. A replacement stock only took a month to come up with and by the time it had arrived, I had converted the rust to a "rich, even patina". It shot great, looked good and made a great woods rifle. A new generation has it now that I gave it to my son and it's still killing deer after a 100 years...

I cant explain as well as this
But looking for tiny hair iine cracks and kinda a slight dimpled bowl curvature appearance of the bolt face sinking into and around the firing pin hole.
Smack Mark's on bottom of bolt knob where someone been wailing on it.



Cut copy paste stuff below

I found alot of stuff on em years ago when I was working on slumlords and researching on em.



Because there is so much bolt in between the lugs and the boltface that area can compress/bend during recoil. When the bolt flexes the headspace increases, the brass expands to fill the chamber, and when the bolt decompresses the case holds the bolt lugs in a bind against the abutments in the receiver, because the brass is now oversized. Then the shooter tries to hammer open the bolt with a chunk of 2x4 or a deadblow hammer, and the handle breaks off. It is essentially the same effect as a stuck case only longitudinally as opposed to latitudinally. The 788s in .308 by all accounts seem to have the biggest problem with this. Just know that a 788 will not take as much pressure successfully as other bolt actions (700,70, et al).

Still shooting my Mossberg 500 20ga from the late 60's.
My first shotgun in my early teens.

We have the savage cub mini too. Awesome little rifle.

Yeah, 788 in .222 ain’t going for cheap.

But with the .223 and not wanting redundancy, that would be the one to sell.

DF

Iver johnson champion .410 is a backdoor swatter. Basically a forerunner to the HR with nicer lines, same basic design.

Cheer up Strap, what you really did was maintain your investment as it is likely still worth $40?

I have an old Win 57 trainer that I bout for $40 at a pawn shop a long time ago. Took the receiver sight off, had it dovetailed for a scope and bobbed the barrel back to 20". It is the most accurate rifle I've ever seen and with me a lot.