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Depends on what you want to do. For some casual plinking at relatively short ranges (within 50 yards), you could find a decent .22lr rifle, like a Ruger 10/22. Ammo is cheap. You could shoot all day on about $10 worth of ammo.

If you want more oomph, but don't need pinpoint accuracy, you could find an SKS for less than $300, and often less than $200. 7.62x39 ammo is potent enough for hunting most game in the US, and is still very very cheap. SKSs are also very robust and reliable. You could drive over one in your car, and it would likely still function flawlessly.


Are you a 'sprayer and prayer', or an 'X ring addict'?