Cheapest Shotgun You Own But It's A Keeper?

[ifithitu]

I own four shotguns and the one I like to shoot more than the others is the cheapest one I bought. It is a Mossberg Maverick 88 12 ga pump shotgun. I paid $199+ taxes for it some years back.

 

[HansGruber]

My Mossberg 183 single-shot bolt .410.

Paid the princely sum of $40 for it at an auction sale when I was 15 or 16 years old. Got handed to me off the sale rack, I paid for it myself. My grandfather was with my when I got it, so I always attach that memory to it.

 

[benstt]

A New England Arms Pardner.

 

[TEXASforLIFE]

An 870 that was free!

 

[KillerFord1977]

An 870
Double as a boat paddle when duck hunting

 

[benstt]

An 870
Double as a boat paddle when duck hunting

My dad got me one of those when I was 12 after my first hunting trip. I still love it decades later

 

[Oaktree45]

I own four shotguns and the one I like to shoot more than the others is the cheapest one I bought. It is a Mossberg Maverick 88 12 ga pump shotgun. I paid $199+ taxes for it some years back.

That's the same shotgun I own but I don't remember how much I paid for it.

 

[Bassbob]

I paid $200 for a Mossberg 500 about 30 years ago. 18.5" barrel and extended feed tube. It's sporting some updated furniture and is within arms reach of me as I type this.

I honestly can't remember how many shotguns I own exactly. I think maybe 12 or 13. Probably the cheapest one I have is an old Stevens 20 gauge single shot. I think my old man paid $80 for it. It was my first shotgun. I was 8 or 9.

 

[Fairbanks007]

Ithaca Model 37 off Gun Broker. I have $200 in it, stock is scratched, peeling and needs to be refinished but it does what it needs to do.

 

[adam sr]

A Stevens pump action (my first gun) my parents bought me for Christmas. $89.00 I think at a K-Mart.

 

[Caro]

A 870... i was so new to guns at the time that I painted a stripe down the top because it helped me line up the bead, lol. I paid $113 for that shotgun and $9 for the glow in the dark paint.

 

[wmg1299]

Mossberg Maverick 20 gauge purchased for $179 from Academy a few years back. I used it to introduce my boys to shotguns. I swapped the ribbed 22" barrel for a discontinued 18.5" security barrel from ebay last year and turned it into our home defense shotgun.

 

[Lock n' Load]

Remington 870 Wingmaster pump action in 1968 for less than $200 (don't remember exact price) and it still looks and shoots great!

 

[ghosttwofive]

Old Mossberg 500 Cruiser 12-gauge with a 20-inch barrel. Bought it back in the early 90's for something like $200.00 on sale. Started out as a pistol grip but I had a synthetic stock with an R3 recoil pad installed right after I bought it. The reason I've never parted with it is mainly because it holds 7+1 two and three quarter inch rounds or 5 + 1 3-inch magnums if you have the shoulder to handle it. I keep it loaded up with 2.75 inch 00 Buckshot just in case I need to remodel the house and I'm in a hurry to get thru those pesky walls. I haven't shot it in a quite a while, the last time I did, my surgically repaired right shoulder let me know about it for about two weeks but I just can't get rid of it. It was a steal as far as price goes and it's a wicked looking shotgun, and uber reliable.

 

[KillerFord1977]

I also have what I remember is an old Hercules .410 single shot. Have to dig it out. Havent used it in ages. My son shot it when he was 7, and that was 8 yrs ago.
it was mine in the mid ‘70’s when I was that age and my grandad had it before that.

 

[ebuckler]

I traded a Steven/savage 311 double barrel that I paid $100 for, for 2 Mossberg 500's promptly sold one for $150 and have had the other ever since. I have 3 different barrels and it is the all around 12 gauge. I have had this thing since the mid 80's.