Vintage Gun ad

[yellowhand]

Saw this and thought, once we had Gun ads in this country, how times have changed...

[Bad Monkey]

Times have changed. Today's media would be all over that add. You know, "for the children's sake." As they would tell us kids and guns don't mix.

[rudrules]

Those were the Good old Days!

:America::2pistol:

[k98k792]

Great ad!
Oddly enough while we wre working on a customers basement, last Christmas,
I found an Iver Johnson Safety Hammerless Automatic in 38 S&W. It was stuck in an old duffel bag. It had belonged to the Lady's husband who passed away 15 years earlier. She said she had no idea he had it. Her son came around and collected it.

[Jagman]

That is a great ad, heres one from Hunter's lodge, looks to be a little later.
http://images52.fotki.com/v637/photos/1/139782/950306/HuntersLodge-vi.jpg

[rudrules]

That is a great ad, heres one from Hunter's lodge, looks to be a little later.
http://images52.fotki.com/v637/photos/1/139782/950306/HuntersLodge-vi.jpg

WOW!

Look at those prices, is enough to make me cry!

:America::2pistol:

[mistersquiggles]

That is a great ad, heres one from Hunter's lodge, looks to be a little later.
http://images52.fotki.com/v637/photos/1/139782/950306/HuntersLodge-vi.jpg
man, with the prices on the "improved M40 Tokarev semi auto" the french shotguns (love the old two-holers) and the "Pistole Model 08".... I wish i would have been bitten by the collector bug a lot earlier!!!!

[Buelligan]

Was that add in the 60s or some thing ?

[Norton]

Those prices look like the early 1960s, I went there in 1975. It was a treat

[Steve68]

That's good stuff, wish I started shopping back then!

[chuck cook]

That is a great ad, heres one from Hunter's lodge, looks to be a little later.
http://images52.fotki.com/v637/photos/1/139782/950306/HuntersLodge-vi.jpg

Man I want a 1917 Endfield for $29.95, I love mine but it is sporterised I would like a Mil spec one.

[Norton]

Prices for brand new firearms 1960s to compare the milsurp prices
From the 1960 Shooter's bible (cataloge in those days)
ANSUCHTZ Match 22. rifle $85
FRANCHI superange 12 ga 3 inch autoloader $148
SAUER 12SXS $154
LLAMA 38. super $65
WINCHESTER M70 featherweight 30 06 $129
M 94 30 30 $79
REMINGTON ADL 30 06 $95
WINGMASTER 12 GA PUMP $85
SAVAGE 110 30 06 $109
S&W combat masterpiece 357 $71
Most single shot firearms are in the $27 to 32 range

[dpoe]

Now I'd like to see some of the "cycle works" half of arms and cycle works.

[brewskzilla]

35 bucks for a Tokarev? (sniff... sniff...) Dang.

[yellowhand]

My father made 55.00 a week back then, so compared to my weekly pay now, and yours????????????????

[Norton]

My father made 55.00 a week back then, so compared to my weekly pay now, and yours????????????????

Exactly.. That is why as a child our battery consisted of a 30/40 Krag Deer rifle, Winchester Model 37 12 gauge single shot, Winchester Model 69 22.
and Iver Johnson 4.10 Single shot. No pistols at all until the 1970s All those guns sold in the high $20s or low $30s range.. So a low priced rifle took half a mans pay