Vintage gun advertisements
 

WOW..times have changed :sHa_sarcasticlol:

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Discuss :) This is shows advertisements of guns in years gone by :)

.55 anti tank rifle for $100!!

As a youngster I was a ferocious reader of Sports Afield, Field and Stream and Outdoor life. I never had a new magazine budget, so I bought and flipped a lot of magazines at the used book store. Those ads bring back a lot of memories. Thanks for posting.

When I was 12 my grandmother gave me a Winchester single shot 410. I still remember the price tag saying $28.95.

Neat ads! Thank you for sharing. Now I want an anti tank gun...

Cool ads I also read all those magazines in the late 60s as a kid

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The Christmas catalog had it all
 

Both Eaton's and Sears had firearms listed in their catalogs when I was a kid. My first new purchase was from Acme Novelty in Edmonton

I was 12 years old and mine was bought at Acme Novelty in Calgary......Cooey Model 39....shot a thousand rounds and killed hundreds of gophers.....hahaha

My pockets were full of Whiz-Bang ammo.....

Buddies and me would jump on our bicycles and peddle to the open fields with your .22 slinged to your body with a skate lace....

Good time of my life....

Same here in 1974. Maybe Yellowhead and 82 st?

Thanks those brought back some great memories of wearing the pages out on the SIR catalogues when I was a kid.

In the early 60s, Eaton's in Victoria had Lee Enfield No. 1 Mk. 3 rifles stacked like cordwood on an island display for $9.95.
I don't recall any questions when I, as a teenager, bought one. Quick wrap of brown paper, and out the door.
You have to remember that money was a whole lot harder to come by in those days.
I recall buying boxes of ten Churchill cartridges in .303 British, which were just military surplus with softpoint bullets substituted for the FMJ military projectiles. We bought them because they were cheap when compared to Dominion factory loads.

Lol. Anti tank rifle in every stocking .... murica.

What's with the garbage can in the kitchen with a B-17 anti aircraft gun. Lmao

I love looking at old ads. It reminds me of how much things have changed.

Thanks for posting.

A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to spend an hour or so a day, for three weeks, reading Sports Afield and similar publications from the 1950s and 60s.

I really enjoyed reading them and looking at the ads, and the prices.

In reading them I noticed that most of today's outdoor writers tell stories that read more like ads for the latest equipment whereas those old magazines told stories that took you to the scene.
So sad, everything seems to have become about the equipment more then the adventure.

On a side note, I bought my first big game rifle for $27.00. A Savage Stevens model 340 30-30
Mind you it was bought at a farm auction. The year was 1969.

I have a number of guns from that era. At present I am restoring a Remington 552 just like the one in the OPs ad. The same vintage too I believe.
It came to me rigged as a 572, apparently by some Buba. There were critical parts missing, that had never been installed as far as I could determine.
But it's no $25,00 gun now. In parts alone I have almost double it's present day value into it, and it's not complete.

I also have a Model 43 in 218 bee bought new in 1958 plus two Mossberg bolt action shotguns from the early 1960s. plus other vintage guns, all but one in working order.

Fine old guns. worth ten times as much today as when they were new, and worth every penny of it.