|
 |
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
02-03-2022, 12:37 PM
|
#3 | ||||||
|
This thread should be THE GOOD OLD DAYS !
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
 |
 |
 |
| The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Steve Huffman For Your Post: |
|
|
|
02-03-2022, 01:52 PM
|
#4 | ||||||
|
there used to be trade day in riply miss..in was held on the first Monday of each monthand still is...you could buy ammofor a penny each shoot you gun in a ditch right in front of the court house....try doing that today...yep good old days...could buy a 1866 Winchester from 25 to 35 dollars....never seen a parker there....charlie
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
02-03-2022, 03:29 PM
|
#5 | ||||||
|
I remember the ads in the back of the gun magazines back in the 60s where you could buy a German Luger or military surplus 1911 for 25-35 bucks.
I think "Extra Fine" condition cost you a couple extra bucks. |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
02-06-2022, 11:36 AM
|
#6 | ||||||
|
As a sidebar to address label in the picture of the Hunting & Fishing magazine cover I posted, Carroll Varney, 357 State St., Augusta, ME - I wonder if this is the same Varney family that started Varney's Sporting Clays just 10 miles to the south in Richmond, ME...?
The "New Hampshire Boys" and I have shot at Varney's a time or two. .
__________________
"I'm a Setter man. Not because I think they're better than the other breeds, but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture." George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic. |
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
02-06-2022, 11:53 AM
|
#7 | ||||||
|
I remember in 1985 when I first got my FFL and Shotgun News was THE source. Guys would want to buy gun X, Y or Z for the cost listed in SN. They were not happy when I told them that was wholesale and if they wanted that price they had to get their own FFL.
I also remember as a kid going into Eagle Arms in Breinigsville, PA and seeing all the surplus rifles on the racks, hanging on peg boards or stuffed muzzle up in oak barrels. I vividly remember Italian Carcanos for $25 and beautiful Swedish Mausers with full-length tiger striped stocks for $30!! Eagle Arms is still at the same location but those prices are LONG GONE!! |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
02-06-2022, 12:45 PM
|
#8 | ||||||
|
While he was best known for the Parkers that passed through his shop, here is a great Fox ad from 1989 --
1989 Chadick Ad.jpg Unfortunately, I only got one out of this ad. |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
02-06-2022, 01:00 PM
|
#9 | ||||||
|
Two DE 20s in that ad and an XE!! Wonder where those are today?
__________________
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
02-06-2022, 01:03 PM
|
#10 | ||||||
|
Gun shows were a primary source of nice guns for me, before the internet. There seemed to be a show almost every weekend between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.
Gunlist was great in the beginning. The last few years I used Gunlist it seemed like I was always a day or two to late for the "bargains". I finally figured out that guys were getting them in overnight mail. By then the net was taking over. |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
 |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Hybrid Mode