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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:14:35 PM EDT
Some old gun ads from back in the day.
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:19:01 PM EDT
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So um yeah my bunk... I'll be in it, don't mind the crying too...
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:20:26 PM EDT
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Fuuuuuudge
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:24:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistorySomeone responded to those ads!! |
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:25:09 PM EDT
[#4]
You can keep the Glock mags for $39.95. I'll take literally everything else.
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:27:35 PM EDT
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You can keep the Glock mags for $39.95. I'll take literally everything else. Wonder if anyone still has their $750 MP43 or $1250 MP40? Pretty good return on investment at this point....what's the current going rate? |
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:31:02 PM EDT
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My neighbor has one of those Hakims. Wish I could talk him out of it. I want some of those 5.45 mags too. when I bought my kit they were still about 5-7 bucks a piece. When I got my gun built they had doubled.
Thing we have to remember is some of those guns were a weeks wages or more. Back when a dollar could by 10 candy bars or more.
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:32:31 PM EDT
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the pain.... its hurts
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:35:12 PM EDT
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  $84.95 for M1 Garands.
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:37:55 PM EDT
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I wish I knew then what I know now ....
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:38:23 PM EDT
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I bought a SAR-3 from one of those ads. One of my better gun purchases.
Too bad I lost it in that boating accident.
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:40:48 PM EDT
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how depressing
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:47:53 PM EDT
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how depressing I told myself that I wouldn't cry in this thread... |
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:49:40 PM EDT
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Clearly I should have sold the house and emptied the 401k back in the day...
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Posted: 10/6/2014 11:50:23 PM EDT
[#14]
I would love to have that anti-tank rifle at that price.
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Posted: 10/7/2014 12:02:51 AM EDT
[#15]
Surplus city still does those ads when it's getting close to Christmas.
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Posted: 10/7/2014 12:05:13 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/7/2014 3:23:29 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/7/2014 3:48:50 AM EDT
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Wonder if anyone still has their $750 MP43 or $1250 MP40? Pretty good return on investment at this point....what's the current going rate? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You can keep the Glock mags for $39.95. I'll take literally everything else. Wonder if anyone still has their $750 MP43 or $1250 MP40? Pretty good return on investment at this point....what's the current going rate? My amnesty registered Dewat MP-40 cost me exactly 300.00 in 1987. Sold it for 2500 in '94 or '95, and couldn't have been happier......10-12K gun now....gas was 40 cents a gallon then though, and Marlboros were a buck a pack....There seemed to be lots of Dewats around then.....tough part was finding one that was registered..... If I told you what I paid back then for this Dewat Swedish '21 BAR you'd be ill.......that's one I really wish I had kept.... 
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Posted: 10/7/2014 4:19:39 AM EDT
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I'd have an armory at my house at those prices. I'll take one of everything.
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Posted: 10/7/2014 4:32:36 AM EDT
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I remember those ads... Shotgun news, long nights standing SOG, and making 850 bucks a month. It was absolute torture. I'm still pissed that I didn't snag every FAL and FNC I could at the time.
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Posted: 10/7/2014 4:39:56 AM EDT
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My amnesty registered Dewat MP-40 cost me exactly 300.00 in 1987. Sold it for 2500 in '94 or '95, and couldn't have been happier......10-12K gun now....gas was 40 cents a gallon then though, and Marlboros were a buck a pack....There seemed to be lots of Dewats around then.....tough part was finding one that was registered..... If I told you what I paid back then for this Dewat Swedish '21 BAR you'd be ill.......that's one I really wish I had kept.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/villafuego/bar1.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You can keep the Glock mags for $39.95. I'll take literally everything else. Wonder if anyone still has their $750 MP43 or $1250 MP40? Pretty good return on investment at this point....what's the current going rate? My amnesty registered Dewat MP-40 cost me exactly 300.00 in 1987. Sold it for 2500 in '94 or '95, and couldn't have been happier......10-12K gun now....gas was 40 cents a gallon then though, and Marlboros were a buck a pack....There seemed to be lots of Dewats around then.....tough part was finding one that was registered..... If I told you what I paid back then for this Dewat Swedish '21 BAR you'd be ill.......that's one I really wish I had kept.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/villafuego/bar1.jpg 
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Posted: 10/7/2014 5:02:12 AM EDT
[#22]
the good old days....
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Posted: 10/7/2014 5:14:55 AM EDT
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So um yeah my bunk... I'll be in it, don't mind the crying too... I kind of hate looking at these.
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Posted: 10/7/2014 5:26:00 AM EDT
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Those were the days.
I remember reading those ads and bitching because I thought the prices were too high. 
I was a Shotgun News subscriber since 1974, finally dropped my subscription 4 years ago. |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 5:32:49 AM EDT
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That just makes me angry... I was a kid when those prices were around.
And a G43? That's my "grail gun", but I doubt I'll ever buy one. Also the Lugers... I'm sure $400 was a lot back then...I'd love to get one just as a shooter someday. |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 5:42:25 AM EDT
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The HK ads brought tears to my eyes
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Posted: 10/7/2014 5:46:57 AM EDT
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I bought my first AR in 1983 for $350-...5.56 was $0.15 a round
I wish I had saved some of the old Shotgun News issues I chucked years ago....
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Posted: 10/7/2014 6:12:53 AM EDT
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Sten gun for $18
Hk P7's and Rifles for under $500
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Posted: 10/7/2014 6:24:27 AM EDT
[#29]
I remember those ads. The shotgun news was the place to be back then.
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Posted: 10/7/2014 6:42:12 AM EDT
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Ha. I'm old enough to remember racks of M1 Garands in the local hardware store for $49 or something like that.
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Posted: 10/7/2014 6:43:46 AM EDT
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I bought my first AR in 1983 for $350-...5.56 was $0.15 a round I wish I had saved some of the old Shotgun News issues I chucked years ago.... Just ran an inflation calc. .15 in 1983 is approx .36 in today's dollars. Ammo is cheaper now. |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 7:00:54 AM EDT
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local guy at gun shows used to always have a barrel of SKS Get the rifle and a spam can of ammo for $75. Upgrade to a AK for $125. all kinds of old surplus "junk" for cheap. |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 7:08:21 AM EDT
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Ha. I'm old enough to remember racks of M1 Garands in the local hardware store for $49 or something like that. Yeah, we had a store near me, either Laneco or Food Lane I think it was called, kind of a predecessor of walmart in that they sold food and non food. they had barrels of m1 carbines... |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 7:08:31 AM EDT
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Ha. I'm old enough to remember racks of M1 Garands in the local hardware store for $49 or something like that. Yeah, we had a store near me, either Laneco or Food Lane I think it was called, kind of a predecessor of walmart in that they sold food and non food. they had barrels of m1 carbines... |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 7:31:36 AM EDT
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This is my favorite! It is so politically incorrect on so many levels
A White Cowboy [intolerant, misogynistic, raper of the land] using a machinegun [weapon of mass destruction that should only be used to enforce the will of Government] to defend his home [presuming timely payment of taxes and pending seizure via eminent domain for the "greater good"] from violent illegal aliens [undocumented workers robbing, raping and murdering only those that Americans don't want to rob, rape or murder] and it unfortunately having to shoot a couple horses in the process. [PETA isn't going to like this at all.] |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 7:45:56 AM EDT
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I would love to have that anti-tank rifle at that price. Adjusted for inflation, what would be the cost of that stuff? |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 7:50:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryI've got one of those French-service '49s AIM had as well. 
They only had about 250 or so of them; they came in with one of the 49/56 lots and CAI didn't want to list them separately as the lot was so small. AIM bought them all and resold them. Is yours one of the ones without the grenade launcher? |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 7:58:54 AM EDT
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"Dispatch, Car-54 requesting backup, my thumb got stuck in the front sight base, ouchie !"
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Posted: 10/7/2014 8:03:17 AM EDT
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That one add with the $197 FG-42 was the icing on the cake.
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Posted: 10/7/2014 8:17:44 AM EDT
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You want guns assembled by monkeys with hammers?
Century's got 'em! 
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Posted: 10/7/2014 8:22:50 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/7/2014 8:23:27 AM EDT
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I remember the first time I saw a Shotgun News back in the late 70s.
I almost wet my pants. I was into military type stuff back then, when just about any other gun magazine you got was all fudd guns all the time. Everything was based on hunting. Handgun articles were almost always revolvers. Then I saw that Shotgun News
I couldn't buy any of it: I was a kid still in school and didn't have two nickels to rub together, but I could dream. When I got out of high school I was buying stuff like ARs, AKs, SKSs, and 99% of the Fudds/Rednecks who saw my guns had never heard of any of it, and every time someone would ask me......What are you going to hunt with that ? I bought my first SP1 around 1982 or three. I remember a guy here in town bought an HK93 and it was discussed endlessly. If his name was mentioned, someone would say.....he bought an HK93 (usually they didn't know what to call it or know what it was but I knew what they were talking about). I now know the guy and this summer I was talking to him about him being a legend because he bought that HK93 and we both got a good laugh out of it. The Shotgun News at that time had no end of surplus stuff in it. It was THE place to go for military surplus stuff. Auto loading military rifles. NFA stuff. This was long before all the cheap Chinese stuff they have now. Today, at least for me, the Shotgun News has a totally different vibe. |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 11:00:54 AM EDT
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$84.95 for M1 Garands.
Yeah, and probably no import stamps........ |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 11:09:50 AM EDT
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Wow
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Posted: 10/7/2014 11:11:13 AM EDT
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The tears i'm shedding right now are working as great lube for the boner i'm simultaneously furiously fapping.
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Posted: 10/7/2014 11:13:47 AM EDT
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I've only got around $200 to spare at the moment, I would have only been able to buy a Lewis gun, and a 25mm Hotchkiss cannon...
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Posted: 10/7/2014 11:16:29 AM EDT
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I love this shit, anybody got any late 70's/80's ads that I can reminisce to? |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 11:19:54 AM EDT
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http://www.firearmstalk.com/images/3/9/0/8/3/thompson-ad-1727.gif This is my favorite! It is so politically incorrect on so many levels
A White Cowboy [intolerant, misogynistic, raper of the land] using a machinegun [weapon of mass destruction that should only be used to enforce the will of Government] to defend his home [presuming timely payment of taxes and pending seizure via eminent domain for the "greater good"] from violent illegal aliens [undocumented workers robbing, raping and murdering only those that Americans don't want to rob, rape or murder] and it unfortunately having to shoot a couple horses in the process. [PETA isn't going to like this at all.] And a NYC address to top it all off. |
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Posted: 10/7/2014 11:33:32 AM EDT
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And a NYC address to top it all off. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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http://www.firearmstalk.com/images/3/9/0/8/3/thompson-ad-1727.gif This is my favorite! It is so politically incorrect on so many levels
A White Cowboy [intolerant, misogynistic, raper of the land] using a machinegun [weapon of mass destruction that should only be used to enforce the will of Government] to defend his home [presuming timely payment of taxes and pending seizure via eminent domain for the "greater good"] from violent illegal aliens [undocumented workers robbing, raping and murdering only those that Americans don't want to rob, rape or murder] and it unfortunately having to shoot a couple horses in the process. [PETA isn't going to like this at all.] And a NYC address to top it all off. If I remember correctly the rifle Oswald shot Kennedy with was from a company in Chicago (Klein's Sporting Goods) .......that started the whole mail order gun restriction thing going. |
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