It's the year 1955, what do you choose?

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Mike : I cheated, I went with the Savage.

[For fun] A 1955 gift cerificate for $50.00. You see our Editor(Hugh Grey) is a nice guy, but not ,that nice. . We didn't know which you would appreciate most, the model 24 Savage($36.95) or the 29- G ( 44.95).

 

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Art wrote:"...When Ike sent me the "Greetings!" in late 1953,...(Okay, so the Army provided the one I wuz playin' with in Cold Rear in 1955.)..."

Well Art, in Sept. of 1955, Ike was knee deep in the waters of the South Platte River at Pine, Colorado. Bamboo rod in hand fly fishing for trout.

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In 1955, we read:

"Quick Firers mean fast follow-up shots in the timber, but sheer speed, whether with semi-auto, slide, or lever gun like the new model 88, counts less than accuracy". --Warren Page.

Is Public Hunting Doomed? --Frank Dufrense and Ted Trueblood

Picking a Pistol --Warren Page

The Second Bullet --Robert Ruark.
[" The shameful story of how Bob became foolishly famous from Calcutta to Nairobi,and learned that the worst mistake a tiger hunter can make is to count his bullets']

Hits that Kill depend less on what caliber you shoot than on where you place your bullet. On game those sudden-death spots aren't always where'd you'd think --Warren Page

 

[JohnDog]

re1973,

I was minted in '55 too! Musta been a good year for rugrats.

I'd have gone with a Model 70 in .270 win, mainly due to reading that other rag, Outdoor Life, and all the O'Connor articles. (Although when I did take all my newspaper and mowing money I bought a Win Model 670 back in 1969 for my first centerfire rifle.)

As to what to get else to get in 55, that was around the last year of the Model 71 in .348 wasn't it? That would have made a good timber rifle. Some single action .45 Colts for handguns, and a nice Browning Auto shotgun.

Couldn't you get BARs back then? I mighta needed one of them too.

What I remember in those early outdoor mags was that before 1968, you could just order firearms through the mail! Ads with prices, a little form to fill out, an address to send your order and check to - and presto the mailman brings the gun!

Ahh - the good old days - JohnDog

PS - Didn't Ike vapor-lock while on one of those Colorado fishing trips, and have to recuperate at Lowry in Denver for a while?

 

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I only have 5 issues, June, July, August, September and October.
I wish I had my birthmonth, April.

I admit, I don't know the History and dates like a lot of members. That's what Mike Irwin and others are for.

Didn't see the BAR...umm one could order, by sending in the postcard, or the fill-in-the blank...and get : Browning's Ad...

Automatic Pistols, caliber .25, .380 and 9mm.


Individual pistols and Set of 3 in fitted cases. Standard models from $29.95; Set-of-3 $148.95. Engraved models from $75; Set-of-3 $390.

or maybe:
Browning Automatic -5 12 or 16 ga( 5shot)from $121.50.
Double Automatic, 12 ga ( 2shot) from $125
oh umm a "purist" huh...
Browning Superposed, 12 or 20 gauge (over-under)from $236.00. With 2 sets of barrels and luggage case from $435.

Would that fill a void?

 

[Walosi]

I got out of the Navy in Feb., '55. $75 of my mustering out/travel pay went for a BHP. Between Feb. '55 and the end of '57, I had accumulated a K22, two 5" .357s, a 3 1/2" .357 (all "pre 27s), a Model 70 in '06 and a '97 Winchester 12ga. and a mint 12 ga. Model 21 double, field grade. Most were lost after I became a newlywed (in "fits of poverty" as one of our members called it ) b the one that hurt was the double. I paid $100 for it - Winchester had discontinued their double barrelled guns. I sold it for a princely $50 profit after one trip to the quail stubble, and Winchester re-introduced it as a custom shop offering at $1200 a pop....damndamndamndamn

 

[TechBrute]

Some of those $25 guns would be nice.

 

[Standing Wolf]

If it's 1955, I'm going to order a boat load of brand new Colt Pythons with very low serial numbers.

 

[Walosi]

I don't remember many $25 guns. The "main handgouts" for my bunch of lunch-hour gun buffs in those days (in Tulsa) were Skaggs Drug Store. Their basement gun and sportng goods at one time had a display case of some 24 Colt lightweight Commanders in the then suspicious 9mm...for $50. Davis Bros. Sporting goods sold me a Colt SAA in .45 Colt for, IIRC, $85, and the above mentioned S&W .357s, around $75 each. The base pin jumped out of the SAA after about three rounds, so I took it back, and exchanged it for something I don't recall. Several days later, a young cop was directing traffic when a signal light went out at 4th and Boston....with my SAA stuck in his waistband Old HighSchool chum. He was given permission to carry it, for two days until his duty gear and M10 arrived. Said he had already been asked several times if he was expecting rustlers. Them were the good old days, but if I could go back, I'd go someplace else.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

BAR
M1 Garand
Colt 1911
Ruger RST-4