WOLFY Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 My previous thread asking what were our first cowboy guns got a ton of responses. Here’s another trip down memory lane. What did your first SASS firearm cost? Mine was a Big 5 special Winchester .44magnum for @ $150 out the door (down from $169 MSRP) in the late 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 1996 $350 for a brand new Ruger Blackhawk. $400 for a new Winchester Trapper and $250 for a new Stoeger shotgun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 $900 for a pair of Ruger Vaqueros in 357, $400 for a Rossi 92, and $350 for a Stevens 311 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 My first SASS shooter was a gift when I graduated from high school in 1960 (long before there was a SASS but fast draw was gaining a lot of shooters), a 1959 vintage .45 Colt SAA with a 5 1/2" barrel, blue and CCH and with black plastic grips. It stayed with me though college, Vietnam, and up until 1996 when It finally got rebuilt (for the third time) and retired. My dad took my old Colt .45 that I bought when I was 14 and gave me this new gun. It came with a holster and cartridge belt and 2 boxes of ammo for the princely sum of about $151.00 including 3% Utah sales tax. The gun cost around $127.75 with the tax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 2004 - Ruger Vaquero Birdshead, .357 - $450 ea. 2005 - Uberti 1860 Henry - Military version, in-the-white, .45 Colt - $1160 2005 - CZ Amarillo 12 G. SxS - $575 LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 Lessee... 1974, I think it was - bought my first 7 1/2" bbl Ruger Blackhawk. I'd just visited my ol' pard Hank, in the hospital recovering from a .45 Colt ball through the shin, a result of dropping said Colt. I was so impressed I went right out and bought a .45 of my own. But not bein' one of those guys who has to pee on the 'lectric fence myownself, I bought a Ruger. Edit: Oh... I think it was about $120. Bought it from Stan's Sporting Goods in Serramonte Shopping Center in Daly City... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blarney Kid Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 My first gun usable for SASS was an 1851 Navy from EMF as a cased set, pistol, flask, and bullet mold. Paid $126.00 for it in 1979. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WOLFY Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 Sedalia Dave, I remember Vaqueros retailing for under $500. Even that was too much for me (found a used pair for about $750). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 Ruger Bisley Blackhawk, 45 LC $403.89 in September 1999. Winchester 94, 45 LC $392.05 in September 1999 Winchester 97, 12 ga $764.87 in December 1999 (Note that Win 97's were hard to find at that time and this one was/is in like new condition) Ruger Vaquero, 45 LC $396.10 in October 2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 My first SASS gun was actually 2 at the same time. I went to a gun show and a vendor had a “Cowboy Action Shooting Special”. A Ruger Vaquero and a Winchester 94 “Trails End” in matching caliber for either $725 or $750. I can’t remember exactly how much. He was only selling them in sets. This was 1997. I remember him telling me “The Winchester is the most used cowboy rifle in SASS!” I guess he forgot to say WHICH Winchester. I still have that Winchester. I will never part with it. My son-in-law has the Ruger along with it’s mate that I had to buy later that year as SASS went to 2 pistols. That was a bummer as it took me a while to get my second pistol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 3 hours ago, WOLFY said: Mine was a Big 5 special Winchester .44magnum for @ $150 out the door (down from $169 MSRP) in the late 80s. Bought a Big 5 Marlin 1894 in .44 mag for $325 in 2005. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WOLFY Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 41 minutes ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said: Ruger Bisley Blackhawk, 45 LC $403.89 in September 1999. Winchester 94, 45 LC $392.05 in September 1999 Winchester 97, 12 ga $764.87 in December 1999 (Note that Win 97's were hard to find at that time and this one was/is in like new condition) Ruger Vaquero, 45 LC $396.10 in October 2000 My first pump gun was the Norinco (early 2000s). Original 97s were hard to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 2 hours ago, WOLFY said: Sedalia Dave, I remember Vaqueros retailing for under $500. Even that was too much for me (found a used pair for about $750). Bought the pair used off of Gun Broker in the fall of 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxahachie Kid #17017 L Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 $79.95 for a Replica Arms (Uberti) 1860 Army .44. AND....I still have and still shoot the Replica Arms 1860 Army. I still have the 1968 Dixie catalog, that I used to order it. Get this....are you sitting down??? Dixie sold Colt single actions, back then, from their catalog. They offered them in: .357 magnum, .44 special, and .45 Colt, in both blue and nickel. Ready??? Colt, in .45 caliber...Blue, 4 3/4 inch barrel = $160.00....With a 5 1/2 barrel = $160.00....with a 7 1/2 inch barrel = $160.00 Colt in .45 caliber...Nickel, 4 3/4 inch barrel = $184.00...with a 5 1/2 inch barrel = $184.00...with a 7 1/2 inch barrel = $184.00. Colt Buntline...Blue....45 caliber = $184.00. Colt Flat Top...Blue.....357 magnum = $190.00......44 Special = $190.00....45 Colt = $190.00. Nowadays, used 2nd generation Colt's can easily go for $2,500 and up. When we shot in the cow pasture, this was long before SASS was a gleam in anyone's eye. A few of us would dress up in our cowboy clothes, arm ourselves with our cowboy "weepons", and head out to the cow pasture, to shoot cans, targets, boxes, rats, or whatever presented itself. The only "rules" we had were: don't shoot yourself, or anyone else. One Saturday, we purchased a case of 5000 rounds of .22's, and between all of us, we shot up the whole case before we went home late that afternoon. No cow-patty was safe!!! W.K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Don't remember the breakdown price of each but when I started CAS 2 x Marlin Cowboy Competition in 38 special 2 x Ruger Vaquero - 357 stainless 2 x Norinco '97 - 12 gauge 1 x Kirkpatrick "Tequila" rig with matching shotgun belt about 600 rounds ammo about 400 shotgun shells (mix of estate target and AA feather lites) Owner wanted $2400 cash instead took in trade for the above 1 x Ed Brown 1911 custom in 45 ACP that I had used in IPSC 1 x Bianchi holster and belt Guy was getting out of cowboy, I was getting in and he didn't want to wait 12 - 14 months plus to get the Ed Brown. Everybody walked away happy Regards Gateway Kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WOLFY Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 sounds like both of you got great deals, Gateway. i’m figuring that costs are relative. i used to make a lot less… saving up for anything neat took an eternity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Whatever a .45 Blackhawk cost in 1979... $200 or so...? I wasn't shooting CAS yet, but it was one of my two first CAS revolvers, along with a Colt .357 I think I paid $275 for, used. Then whatever a new stainless .45 Rossi '92 cost in 1992 when I started - $350 or so. The shotgun was an inherited Rossi Overland 12g hammer coach gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Mine was a Vaquero Bisley in 357, bought in 1999 as a prop when playing piano in the Stinking Tent Saloon at Sacramento Gold Rush days. Many years later, I got interested in SASS, and dug it out of the safe... lo and behold... a Bisley.. well, how about that? I added its twin brother, etc, etc, etc, etc in 2019. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major E A Sterner #12916 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 I had all the guns for CAS except for a shotgun, I traded a Rem 1100 set up for pin shooting for a 20 gauge Stoeger coach gun and I got $350.00 cash on top of it.That was in 1997. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 13 minutes ago, Major E A Sterner #12916 said: and I got $350.00 cask on top of it. How much of what kind of booze was in that cask to make it worth $350? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major E A Sterner #12916 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 2 hours ago, Alpo said: How much of what kind of booze was in that cask to make it worth $350? Auto correct strikes again,I fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus McGillicuddy Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Early 2000s, traded a pard a used repro Smith carbine for a pair of 58 Remingtons with .45 Colt R&D cylinders. Paid just about $400 each for a 92 Rossi in .45 Colt and a 12 gauge TTN SXS Mule Ear shotgun. Later bought the Smith back from him for $350. Seamus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derringer Dan Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 January 2021, found a new Uberti 1875 Rem Outlaw at LGS with a $969 price tag. Traded straight across for a 90’s Century G-93 w/ correct bipod, sling and 5 mags. I was into the Century for a grand total of $350 and had been at the back of the safe for years. Figure I did okay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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