$50 gun, what to do with it?

wisconsinteacher · Mar 4, 2012

I was talking to a guy about guns and he said, I have a Rossi 20ga/.22lr combo at new in the box that he was going to give away for a local club to raffel off. Joking, I said, I will give you $50 for it and he said sold. Now I have this gun and don't know what to do with it. Here is what I am thinking.

1) Keep it, have the 20ga barrel threaded so I can put a choke tube in it and have a light weight turkey gun. I can also, look for an extra barrel in 28ga and some rifle cal that would be fun to play with.

2) Take it to a gun show and sell it for 50 or more and get rid of it.

3) My best friend just found out he is having a kid and I could give it to the kid in a few years as a gift.

What would you do?

BK · Mar 4, 2012

Just me, but I might think about option three. The only qualifier is I don't know what the quality is like on the Rossis... if it's a usable weapon, then go ahead, if it's a pile of dung, try to sell it.

SJB358 · Mar 4, 2012

Option three sounds like a nice option. Easy way to get a good deed for the day!

JD338 · Mar 4, 2012

Gift it to a kid.

JD338

Songdog · Mar 4, 2012

I'd go buy $50 worth of .22lr, and $50 worth of 20ga field loads (half 7 1/2s, half 4's)... then stick them all together someplace. If I ever needed a grab-n-go gun, or a great gift for a special boy... I can't think of much better. Be pretty nice to have a disposable stick with a couple thousand rounds of .22lr and couple hundred rounds of 20ga just lying around... all for well under 200 clams.

Here in another couple of years (hell, maybe in November), when our monetary system completely collapses... I bet you could get some serious goods in return for the above package!

300WSM · Mar 4, 2012

Keep it. Or gift it.... but don't sell it. The mental value you will get out of keeping it or gifting it will far exceed 100 times over what little you get at a show, shop or classified.
My middle son has a Rossi 17hmr and a 410. Not the combo but two seperate guns. He bought them when he was seven with his own money. I am not too wild about non- red white blue products but at the time for something that size there really wasn't anything else.

Round after round has been put through them and they keep going squeeze bang.

Greg Nolan · Mar 5, 2012

It sounds like a perfect gift gun. Rossi's quality is OK. They are certainly safe but as low cost guns they are a bit rough around the edges. If it shoots the 22s accurate enough it will serve someone for a long time.
Greg

DrMike · Mar 5, 2012

If you have room to store it, reserve it for a gift. If room is a problem, sell it at a gun show.

DaveA37 · Mar 6, 2012

Well, if it were me, I would raffle it off (illegal here in Wisconsin unless you have a raffle license) or give/sell it to a charity (Your local Lions club) and then let them keep the money raised or sell it to them for the $50.00.

As the unsolicited title of "raffle king" for our local Lions Club, I would bet you could easily raise multiple times what that Rossi is really worth. I do stuff (raffles) like that all the time for our Necedah WI Lions Chairty and believe me when I tell you the tickets WILL sell. Start them at $1.00/each or 6 for $5.00. Set a max limit on the amount you want to sell and you will definitely come out ahead money wise.

If your Lions Club is a legal 501-c3 chairty, you can take the amount they make on the gun as a tax deductible donation. Another "win".