Your Best Budget Gun ever?

[mtwarden]

I think the Kimber Hunter was/is my best budget rifle purchase. Rifle from the factory was under 5.5 lbs, without too much fuss was able to get the rifle under 5 lbs and under 6 lbs w/ scope/mounts. Shoots MOA with 165 grain Accubonds (.308).

 

[49ereric]

Not to get everyone laughing, but a bolt action JC Higgins in .270 win.. I believe it is a model 55 (going from memory).. I love the old FN Mauser actions and bought this one as a doner.. I thought what the heck, I'd better shoot it before tearing it down... I was amazed at how it shot.. I shot about 3/4" groups with everything I tried in it.. It's still sitting in my safe.. I can't bring myself to tearing it down.. I've loaned it out and it has accounted for a number of elk and deer... I think I gave $175 for it in the early 2000's.. Has one of the smoothest FN actions I've seen... Trigger is not bad, but have thought about putting a Timney on it.

quality rifle good find!

 

[kkp005]

Tc compass 6.5’s.. bought 2 as loaner / truck guns. Put mcarbo trigger springs in them. They shoot groups just as tiny as any sako, tikka, browning that I have

 

[robtattoo]

Tough one.
There's this Rem 721 that i initially traded a BCA AR15 upper for....


Or the Winchester M70 I got as a box of parts for $50


Maybe the Walmart end of season selloff Rem700 for $249......


Possibly the $200 Ruger American .223 1:8.

To be fair, none of them stayed particularly budgety for long.

 

[KenLee]

1941 Springfield M1 Garand in super original condition from a yard sale for $50

 

[Taudisio]

Ruger American 6.5cm.
Bought the predator first. After sight in I shot a 3/8” group at 100 yards. Bought the standard version and cerekoted it for dragging through brush/weather. Not as tight but also under 1 moa. Bought the compact for my wife. Well under 1 moa and had an average velocity spread of 7.8 es of 19. All with factory ammo.

 

[cjdewese]

I bought a couple F12’s in .308 win put luepold 6x on them. Paid a little more than you but had a few 20% discount cards.
just a little harder to clean once you put a borescope down the barrel and see the button rifling chatter marks.
bought a well used sporterized M1917 for a $100. Added Timney trigger and on sale Bushnell scope and have just over $200 into it. Playing with it these days trying find the best bullet for the old worn barrel. It might do 2” @100 yards as is.
fun searching for a better bullet and time will tell.

This is exactly what my dad gave me and I am using now. Going to be putting in the Timney trigger soon and looking forward to shooting it more. More nostalgic than anything else but I really enjoy shooting it.

 

[Tberg]

My two best scores of 2022

Bought a used 700adl 7mag from my sister's neighbor. Paid $150, flipped it for 650.


Lucked into this beauty for a measly $600
Rem 700 varmint special 222rem in a fine piece of claro walnut.

 

[grfox92]

1941 Springfield M1 Garand in super original condition from a yard sale for $50

I'm going to the wrong yard sales.

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[KenLee]

I'm going to the wrong yard sales.

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Blind squirrel here.

 

[hunting1]

Older Savage model 10 Sierra models.

 

[Carlin59]

Wal-Mart Savage Axis and Axis II close outs from a few years back. Between my buddies I think we snagged 6 or 7 of them. Savage had a $100 rebate at the time as well. Several of the guns were technically free after rebate. One guy brought one to his family’s Xmas white elephant exchange that had a $10 limit; nobody believed him .

 

[Remington92]

Savage axis 2 walnut stock kit gun in 243. Won in a raffle and tried talking the store into giving me credit instead but they wouldnt go for it. Took the included bushnel banner off that the crosshairs looked like a 5yr old painted on replaced with a $100 sig 3-9. Sadly best shooting rifle I own. Rides shotgun in my pickup and every year I double check zero when shooting my hunting rifle for shits and giggles. Cheap blue box federal 80gr or 100gr and can easily cover 3 shots with a nickel. I smile and toss it back in the passenger seat to wait for the next coyote.

 

[100 others]

Wby Vanguard S2 in .22-250. I have yet to find a recipe that gun doesn't like, just wish it was a little tighter than a 1/14 twist.

 

[bojangles808]

savage axis. had some issues with the firing pin and the trigger sucks but its been a shooter, shot some nice animals with it.

 

[Cheaha]

Smith & Wesson 910 9mm semi-auto. Built as a budget CA compliant gun but it was lightweight for its size, would take any Series 59 magazine, and shot great. I think I paid $150 for it Not sure why I sold it.

 

[Shraggs]

Remington 870 express combo. With the rifled barrel it shoots remarkably.

Oddly, when straight wall cartridges were allowed here, the Winchester xpr in 350 legend shoots really good too.

 

[MallardSX2]

Paid $150 for it and tossed a scope on there. No telling how much stuff i have killed with this gun. 760 gamemaster 30-06

 

[Bezamaelee]

Stainless T3 in 270 I paid $425 for. Turned me into a Tikka guy for good.

Bought my daughter a Ruger American in
7-08 for $285 and that thing is under an inch all day with a $150 scope on it (3-9x40 Nikon Prostaff) and she has killed a pile of game with it.

 

[triglet40]

beretta 390 shotgun walmart special. it had fell behind a rack and been laying there for years. it had one small nick at end of barrel. They had moved the rack and found it marked it as clearance for 350.