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01-24-2008, 12:11 PM
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Old American Rifleman magazines.
I recently boxed up many old American Rifleman magazines from 1950 onward in plastic storage boxes for posterity. I looked inside the back covers of many at the "Ye Olde Hunter"of Alexandria, VA ads and drooled over the old gun ads and the prices.
The glory days of military arms collecting really took off about 1960 until the Gun Control Act of 1968 stopped most inports for a while. Military surplus arms are again available, but at 10 or 20 times the 1960s prices! I bought a Remington Rolling Block 7x57mm rifle for "$.68 per pound" (or $9.95) according to the October 1961 Ye Olde Hunter ad. The "short tooth" blade bayonet cost $1.50 and a 1,000 round case of Winchester Ball ammo was $10.00 with the rifle order. Other ads were: Persian 8mm Mauser short rifles for $35.00, M1 Garands for $99.95, Johnson automatic rifles for $79.95, British MkIII rifles for $12.95, 9mm Lugers for $55.00, P-38 pistols for $35.00 and on and on. Bayonets were $1.00 to $4.95 for a Swiss Sawtooth bayonet. Well, you get the picture. I suspect not too many of us recall those old Glory Days of military arms collecting. That is why I boxed the magazines up; that era is gone forever. Adam
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09-06-2008, 06:52 PM
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old magazines
Adam
I just stumbled onto this post. I know what you are talking about. I'm a "saver";I kept all the Rifleman magazines that were sent to me.Starting in November 1948. Krags for $2.50and 1917Enfields for $7.50. The Springfield 1903 cost $15.00 and the 30Cal Carbine cost #19.00. Frank
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09-07-2008, 11:31 AM
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Kragman71,
Yes, weren't those old magazines ads great? I got a DCM M1 Carbine for $17.50 and $2.50 shipping in 1965. Just before that I got an 03-A3 for $14.00 plus shipping. Adam
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09-07-2008, 12:51 PM
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Somewere packed away I have a very old field and stream collection I inherited. With it is a catalog (I believe it was a wolf mountain catalog but could be wrong) that is almost as old as I am. I kept the catalog because in it was a Ruger 10/22 takedown rifle in a leather briefcase with scope, iron sights, magazines, and room for four boxes of ammunition. It was designed for small game hunters on the go, according to the ad. The price list on it was $24. . . . . .
In one of the field and streams was a ad I remember for a hawkens rifle in 50 caliber hawkins for $34 plus shipping. It included a leather scabbard, and a round ball mold for it. I will never forget it because I was already hooked on Jeremiah Johnson (the movie) when I first saw the ad in the magazine. You just don't see those kinda great ads anymore GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
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