What's the best thing you've found at a Pawn Shop?

[Necron 99]

1957 Ruger single six with real stag grips for 79.00 about 20 years ago

 

[basstracker89]

Great stories. Loved the $5 book with $350 in it. Good training manual. Liked that matching 36 for $25. That Ruger sounds like a great deal too.

 

[Nat]

Money.

 

[Bushwick100]

2, Chinese Mak-90 AK-47 $500 for each, then 100 military AR-Mags for $3.75 each. The best thing, I ever bought when I was out shopping was my 1st Dog Me-Me bought her out of a box in front of Wal-Mart for $20, in Massachusetts. She lived 16yrs.

 

[James Jordan]

The exit

 

[LongNose]

Scooped a Leica measurement laser for 80 bucks, 350 retail.

 

[LesD1951]

I have only found disappointment. Most of the time, anything "good" that comes in goes to the back of the shop and the public never sees it.

True, my son ran a shop for years and any thing worth my time that came in, he would call and I ran over .

 

[EMC45]

Found, but didn't buy (like a DUMMY) Pair of Steiner rubber armored binocs with the range mil hash marks inside. 100 bucks and I walked out. Gone the next day! OF COURSE!!!

At the time I looked them up they were around 1000 bucks. I used an identical pair in the miltary for ranging fire.

 

[EvanB]

What's the best thing you've found at a pawn shop or LGS? Rifle? Helmet? Knife? Ammo? Anything is possible if you know where to look!

Ruger .44 Deerslayer carbine 100th year of American Liberty edition. $225 out the door in 1998

 

[Maximus]

A basket case Striker Street Sweeper for $75. Paid gunsmith $100 to rebuild it. Sold at a nice profit once the ATF designated it a destructive device. Fun to shoot, but seemed impractical.