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What's the most you've spent on a single firearm?

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Most you've spent on a firearm?

  • $0-500

    Votes: 7 2.3%

  • $500-1k

    Votes: 49 16.0%

  • $1k-2k

    Votes: 108 35.2%

  • $2k-5k

    Votes: 108 35.2%

  • $5k-10k

    Votes: 25 8.1%

  • $10k +

    Votes: 10 3.3%
  • Total voters
    307
paul73 said:
the only question would be a caliber of choice - 6.5CM or 6CM, or 6.5x47 lapua.
for that rifle specifically i see they offer now 6.5CM, 6.5PRC, .300WM and 300PRC. which is a bit odd as i think i saw an LRP Premier in 6CM as well somewhere, go figure. or may be i am wrong.
i personally still stay loyal to 6.5CM.

PS. I was wrong, it is the similar enough HMR Pro Premier that can be configured in those calibers. not the LRP.
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Mesatchornug said:
That's kind of the reverse of where I'm at.

I bought the glass because I got a screaming deal at the end of 2019 (~$1.5K for a $2.5K optic? don't mind if I do.)
Now I need to put a rifle under it. I have basically accepted I'll land in that $1-2K area...but still can't convince myself to just go do it. Partly, the stocks over the last year have been garbage, and I want a specific build. But the other part is just...ouch. So as much as a Sako or Christensen would be really slick, I'm trying to find the Tikka or maybe a Bergara.
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Just buy a custom rifle. Not much more than a mass produced rifle, but everything you want, with better fitment.
 
Mesatchornug said:
I wouldn't even know where to start down that path.
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My last rifle was only around $2k, plus or minus. That was a Remington short action, Bartlein barrel, fitted brake, and some badger ordnance items. Thrown in a KRG bravo. Shoots fast, and accurate. Everything I wanted, nothing I didn't.

Shameless plug because I like them. River's Bend trued the action up and cut and fitted the barrel.
 
Tallahassee said:
My last rifle was only around $2k, plus or minus. That was a Remington short action, Bartlein barrel, fitted brake, and some badger ordnance items. Thrown in a KRG bravo. Shoots fast, and accurate. Everything I wanted, nothing I didn't.

Shameless plug because I like them. River's Bend trued the action up and cut and fitted the barrel.
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Right before everything imploded, there was a deal on 700 short actions. I was going to piece something together for myself, and learn by doing. Then I decided I'd rather get something that works and save a build for later...maybe a month later the market went nuts and I decided to wait it out.

Now, instead of working, I'm going to be researching options, aren't I?
 
Mesatchornug said:
Right before everything imploded, there was a deal on 700 short actions. I was going to piece something together for myself, and learn by doing. Then I decided I'd rather get something that works and save a build for later...maybe a month later the market went nuts and I decided to wait it out.

Now, instead of working, I'm going to be researching options, aren't I?
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If you get overwhelmed I think the crew at Northeast Arms can help finish a build.
 
Mesatchornug said:
Right before everything imploded, there was a deal on 700 short actions. I was going to piece something together for myself, and learn by doing. Then I decided I'd rather get something that works and save a build for later...maybe a month later the market went nuts and I decided to wait it out.

Now, instead of working, I'm going to be researching options, aren't I?
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Bolt action rifles are not difficult to craft, but the quality of components matters a lot, if you expect a 1/2 moa or better accuracy from a finished build.
And after you take all that to the consideration you will see that a markup on those above mentioned bergaras is not that huge, compared to you buying a set of comparable components separately.
And if you will have to pay someone else for the assembly- it will be more expensive.
 
PATRON said:
Since I was around 13 years old I had this hard cover book Small Arms Of The World,and I would just dream of
owning many of those guns in the book.As I got older little by little I was able to buy some of these guns Next month is
my Birthday, and I will also be filing for retirement at that time. I just happened to run into the number one gun,that I
have dream about my whole life.Now the moment they came out with this gun in 22 I went crazy trying to get one.
Yes it is fun to shoot, and looks real cool,but it's not the original.So I am looking threw one of the gun sellers on
the internet, this guy deals a lot in German PP, PPK ETC i go to one of his pages, and there right in front of me is
an MP 43 in semi-auto only. After the war the receiver was destroyed,and a new one was made,and along with the trigger
group were made to be able to fire semi-auto only. Ever thing on this gun is original except for the receiver,and the modifications
to the trigger group thus making it a non matching gun. To those who don't know what a mp43 is, well it's also known as
a Sturmgewehr. So that's the most I have spent on buying a gun.
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When I was about seven, eight, nine, I would get copies of the Gun Trader's Guide and cut out and tape the pictures of Holland and Holland guns onto my wall as desired future purchases.

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C. Stockwell said:
When I was about seven, eight, nine, I would get copies of the Gun Trader's Guide and cut out and tape the pictures of Holland and Holland guns onto my wall as desired future purchases.

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WOW,You had good taste in fine firearms at a young age.I hope your wish did come true.
 
The most I ever paid for a gun was $750, but that was in 1986, and the gun was a Skeet Model Browning Citori. (which I still have)
Adjusted for inflation, that's about $1865 in 2021 dollars.
However, the most valuable gun I own is one that I didn't actually purchase, I won it in a raffle.
Some here have seen and fired it, it's a Strayer-Voigt Infinity, stainless wide-body 1911 target pistol.
The value in 2005 was somewhere in the $2500-$3000 range.
 
The NIB rifle itself ~$1800. Add a FCG/Trigger upgrade, optics, light, sling, mounts, etc and that tops $3k.
 
Have owned a dozen or so high end Italian Sporting O/U's (P guns, B guns, Z guns, CG guns), several Spanish SXS's (small bore 20, 28, .410) and three double rifles (big bore .45/70, .450 NE, .500 NE) all of which would have ticked into the last box on the survey. They certainly did when I sold them...
 
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I dropped over $2k on an AR Build last year just before things went crazy with Covid. If you don't count optics it came in at about $1850. Biggest rip off expense was getting a lower.

I have a couple of 1911s out of the Performance Shop at S&W. One was $1300 and the other was $1700.

Everything else I have was under $1k.
 
Mesatchornug said:
I wouldn't even know where to start down that path.
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Several out there. I like R Bros (its two brothers with a last name of "R")

They build precision long range rigs for hunting applications. All the performance without looking like it came out of call of duty but not a total fudd rifle either. They sell matched packages and shoot and field test every rifle they build.
 

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