The greatest cheap gun you've ever owned?

SC HUNTER

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@roadrunner I bought a stevens model 200 in 2008 for $225 at an academy on black Friday. It was the first gun I bought myself I believe and actually did paperwork on. Mine is in 223 and has killed hundreds of deer and pigs. I shoot one deer a year with it now just to say I didn't miss a year. It has worn several different scopes and used on crop permits and it's one I'd have a real hard time selling. I'll get pictures of it, poor thing has been really used 😂 my buddy asked me a while back how many I reckon we've killed with it and we both laughed.
 
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@roadrunner I bought a stevens model 200 in 2008 for $225 at an academy on black Friday. It was the first gun I bought myself I believe and actually did paperwork on. Mine is in 223 and has killed hundreds of deer and pigs. I shoot one deer a year with it now just to say I didn't miss a year. It has worn several different scopes and used on crop permits and it's one I'd have a real hard time selling. I'll get pictures of it, poor thing has been really used 😂 my buddy asked me a while back how many I reckon we've killed with it and we both laughed.

They aren't the prettiest rifles, but they are shooters for what you pay for them.
 

KenLee

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T/C venture in 7mm08 compact. Was looking to get my daughter her first big game rifle. Walked into cabelas expecting to buy a ruger American or if I was feeling rich a tikka.
They had this gun for 250$ and with an “moa promise” I figured I had nothing to loose.

That thing has been nothing short of amazing, shooting tiny little groups. Dozens of animals have been taken with it. Not worth much but makes a killer truck gun as tikkas are carried into the field now
I have Venture Compacts in 243 and 308. Dozens of whitetail killed by kids and women in last 7 yrs
 

coast range

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Yep still have my 870 in 20 ga I got for Christmas when I was 11( I’m now 44) It was the combo with a rifled slug barrel. That thing is responsible for a lot of filled freezer space from turkeys to whitetail. Still gets used all the damn time
 

CorbLand

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Maverick 88. Shot so many birds and other animals with it. 189.99 and two boxes of shells. I was shooting doves 10 minutes after buying.

Thousands of rounds of game load and probably a few thousand waterfowl loads.

She still works but has issues cycling more shells than not. Need to test their lifetime warranty. If I can get it working again, I don’t think I would go back to shooting my Nova.
 

matthewmt

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No cheap sks or pre ban AKs? I remember tons of adds in shotgun news. S&W highway patrol trade ins 3-4" bbl 357s for 249 etc
All the old surplus ww2 bolt actions.

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maxx075

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No cheap sks or pre ban AKs? I remember tons of adds in shotgun news. S&W highway patrol trade ins 3-4" bbl 357s for 249 etc
All the old surplus ww2 bolt actions.

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Prebans would be worth, what like 30k now?
 
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