Friday night, avoiding doing taxes, spring clean-up, old guy old gun porn.

[copperlake]

I actually started doing taxes, then got bored and started spring cleaning. There's been lots of posts about old guns and when I ran into an old stash I took a trip down memory lane. The first pic is from one of two 1962 American Rifleman mags I saved (rather miraculously) from when I first joined the NRA, I was 14 years old. In Ontario CA, where I lived, there was a Miller's Surplus Store on the corner of Holt Blvd and Euclid Ave. They had wooden barrels full of '93 Mausers for $9.99, your choice. The second pic is from SGN, 1984. Gawd, I wish I would have taken every penny I had and bought, and bought.

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[texassako]

I was going through the old Guns digital magazines and noticed the ads, but had to laugh at some of them. A time machine would be great.

[freebullet]

If I could turn back time

[Multigunner]

I was just given a may-june 1954 edition of Muzzle Blasts, the official magazine of the National muzzle Loading Rifle association. The prices on the authentic muzzle loaders and swords are amazingly low even factoring in inflation.
An example, an Issacs and Company (G for Georgia) Confederate saber for $45. 1860 Colt Army revolvers from $55 on up according to condition.
OEM spare cylinders for Patterson revolvers were still to be found.

A "Liberator" .45 ACP listed as a "underground pistol" for $45.

[KCSO]

In 1962 I was making 75 cents and hour soon to come up to a whole dollar. IIRR I saved for months to buy a Remington 22 for $19.95 brand new. I woked changing tires in a gas station no OSHA then. My first Mauser cost me 16.00 at the GEM store and I got my pick from a big rack, got the gun and a PUMA white hunter knife for $55.00 the knife cost more than the rifle.

[izzyjoe]

that's cool! my granddad has a reproduction of a sears/ roebuck catalog from 1910, the prices on the gun's is amazing. the most expensive shotgun in there was the fully engraved Purdy, and it was $25 dollars. but he told me at the time, that would be like $2000 today! about a month's pay. i wish i could go back, P38's for $235! [smilie=w: