if you had $1,100 which firearm would you buy?

Question

looking for the over all best gun the more of a case you build to why a certain gun the better chance i will choose you for the 10 points

also what brand of safe would you keep it in

Answer 1

A new Savage in .300 WSM (just because I don't have anything bigger than a .308) and an Armalite 180. I would spend the change on reloading supplies and put them in a Liberty.

Anchor bolt the Liberty through the floor and the only way someone will make off with your guns is to cut a hole in the side of the house, throw a chain around it, and drag it off with a truck.

Answer 2

Springfield M1A derivative, M16 or the Scout Squad, although with only $1,100 i would have to buy one used or save a little more. Springfield M1A has classic form, proven action, and the power of the .308 over the .223, and M16 & Scout squad has long enough barrel for good accuaracy but short enough to be movable through the field.

AR style would be my second choice likely Rock River Arms, Armalite, or Bushmaster, high prevelance of aftermarket mods, accurate, fun for target shooting, and unless you plan on going hunting for anything larger than white-tail, good all around hunting rifle(no worries about stock warp or scratches)

For a pistol I'd try to find a barely used Wilson Combat KZ-45 or save another couple of hundred bucks.
Extremely accurate, resistant finishes, lightweigt, and 11 round capacity without a fat grip.
Or a Kimber, Custom II or Custom TLE/RL II, great value and quality, very nice aesthetically too. Either way I wouldn't get anthing less than .45ACP although a nice K or L (perhaps N too, in higher calibers) frame Smith & Wesson in .357 or .44 mag for a nice price may sway me away from the auto road.

As far as a safe if it wasn't fire proof then no deal, preferably a Liberty or Ft. Knox safe but a good valued one with all the features I was looking for that would do the job without the price of the brand name would be fine.

Answer 3

Well, It all depends on what you plan on doing with it. Hunting I would go with a Stainless Steel Remington Sendero in a 7mm or 300 Ultra mag. Both are out of the box MOA guns. If you plan on building a gun later, there is nothing better than a Remington action. As far as safes goes, Cannon safes are a great choice, pick something fire proof, and far as as the answer that said safes can be stolen so just put it under a couch? That's just plain dumb. If someone tries and steals a 600lb safe out of a house, they have plenty of time to look for other places that have stuff hidden. It took 4 guys and 2 hours to get my safe into my basement.

Answer 4

In that price range the CZ long guns are tempting, though they seem to need some work between the shop and the field. For a shotgun, I'd have to look at the side-by-side Bobwhite, an English-style gun, in 28 ga. For a rifle I'd get their 550 in 416 Rigby, just to have the big sucker, even if I never got to hunt with it, because I have plenty of rifles in 22LR to 9.3x62, and the only choices are to go down to 17 cal. or up.
In handguns, I'd go for value, and for that kind of money, you can get a Ruger Vaquero in 45 Colt AND a Blackhawk, perhaps in 41 magnum, and if you shop carefully you might even have enough change left over for a Single Six.
It all depends, of course, on what you already have and what you might do with it.
And any fire-resistant safe would be OK, regardless of brand.

Answer 5

I would still go with my Thompson Center Encore. I would then purchase a couple extra barrels for the gun. As far a performance this gun is a tack driver. You won't find a more versatile gun on the market today and if you spent $1100 you could have a nice set up for coyotes, deer and elephants if you wanted. You can't beat it.

Answer 6

I would invest the $1100 and try to parley it into enough money to purchase one of the English maker bespoke shotguns, such as Holland and Holland or Purdey. My reason being...they are to me beautiful works of art. The skill required to build these guns impress the hell out of me. They are built and fitted by hand. The stocks are perfectly fitted to the frames and the hand rubbed finishes on a select piece of walnut reflect the skill of the maker.
The receivers are also built by hand using files and emory cloth, smoothed and fitted to perfect symmetrical precision.
The ones I have handled are lively in the hand and have a warmth of character due to the care required to build them. The issued $1100 dollars, sadly won't be nearly enough to acquire one though.

To me they represent the highest level of skill and devotion in the art of gun making.


The safe I house my collection in is made by Cannon. It weighed 1200 lbs before filling it, so the average thief is not going to just carry it off and considering that it is bolted to the floor it should discourage the thief with a little more time on his hands.
Yes they can be broken into, but not with out a good selection of tools and bit of time.
It is definitely a load off my mind to know that the ordinary thief is going to look at my safe and then steal my VCR.

Answer 7

Savage short action Heavy Barrel (12fvss or similar)
1. Highly accurate right out of the box.
2. Available in many calibers
3. You can change the barrel/caliber yourself
4. Affordable ($600-$900)
5. Put extra $$ toward good glass or
accessories

Answer 8

Id go with a Springfield arms M1911 .45cal. They were used by the military for over 80 years and in my opinion and many others should still be issued. You can get a base model for about 400 bucks. Mine was just shy of a grand but I got Adjustable sights, lighter trigger pull, and accurized barrel.

Answer 9

First off the bat, I'd say a Thompson semi-auto 1927A3 Sub-machine gun w/the 50 round drum and the 30 round stick mag. But I'm always bad about finding another gun to buy.

But for a certain purpose...A Savage bolt action varmiter in .308 or .300 WSM with the Accutrigger and a glassbedded stock for anti-sniper use as a law enforcement officer.

Answer 10

at that price i would buy a Springfield M1A National Match (a civilian version of the .308 M14) here you have a weapon built for the military with all the strenghts and none of the wow factor of some weapon makers. it's tough it shoots a round that is not hard to find it can use a 20 round mag (maybe even a 30 although i've not seen one of those on the civilian market) the National Match is a version that has been tuned to be more accurate by the manufacturer and you can take it to a good gunsmith to do even more to accurize it (the M14 has been known to shoot accurately out to 1000 yards or just over--just ask any sharpshooter for the swat teams or a Marine sniper) besides all this it is fun to shoot