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Best "sleeper" you ever bought?

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Guns that "shoot better than they should".
You know, the kind of stuff that you didn't expect much from before you shot it, but proved to be real gems.

I'm lucky enough to have a few, which I stumbled across here and there over the years.
For handguns, I'd say it's my Taurus 96. Much better than expected (or paid).
For rifles, either a FrankenRuger 10-22 or an old Marlin-made Sears bolt .22.
And to sneak in a .22 air rifle, I have an RWS springer that turned out to be much more than I bargained for.

What's yours?
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More than a few, but the one that stands out is the older Chinese JW15 copy of the Brno/CZ. Cost well under $100 and shot like a Model 64 Anschuetz.
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Like I said, those Chinese Brno copies really shoot!

All anyone really needs is one of them, an NEF 12 ga. single shot shotgun and maybe a bubba-ed surplus Mauser.
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