A trip down memory lane for vintage gun lovers

[FlSwampRat]

I stumbled across this while researching a gun someone wanted to sell. Apologies if it's old news, I'd never seen the site before and thought it was cool.
http://cartridgecollectors.org/ammunition-catalogs/Remington

 

[jmr40]

Thanks for posting, gonna save that link for future reference.

I like to look at old advertisements like that. From the mid-1970's I recognized some of the catalog covers. You can click on the images and get a bigger view of the images. Some of the price lists and press releases were interesting to read.

 

[22250Rem]

Thanks for that link........ It's pretty cool. Lotsa fascinating stuff there. I bookmarked it.

 

[Legionnaire]

Very cool. Thanks.

 

[.455_Hunter]

I don't understand- How did the shooting sports exisit before the 6.5 Creedmoor and Super Short Magnums?

On a serious note, I wish a lot of those loadings were still available.

 

[jmr40]

How did the shooting sports exisit before the 6.5 Creedmoor and Super Short Magnums?

People felt the same way when the 30-30 and 270 were introduced in 1895 and 1925. When we stop innovating we start dying.

 

[FlSwampRat]

Thanks for posting, gonna save that link for future reference.

I like to look at old advertisements like that. From the mid-1970's I recognized some of the catalog covers. You can click on the images and get a bigger view of the images. Some of the price lists and press releases were interesting to read.

I scored a handful of old Guns & Ammo magazines pre-1968. Two most fascinating things, to me, were the articles about the rumored gun control act looming (GCA '68) and the advertisements. for guns by mail and the pricing of things.

 

[entropy]

If you like old shotguns, here are some reprints for sale:
https://connecticutshotgun.co/gun-company-catalog-reprints/

I'm ordering some this week.

 

[792mauser]

Neat.

 

[Pat Riot]

Thanks FlSwampRat.

Something struck me as a scanned through that site. There’s a good chance we might lose Remington. Wouldn’t that be a shame? I hope the Navajo Nation does buy it and put it back on its feet again.

 

[bannockburn]

Very vintage stuff there! My Dad saved these sales brochures from when he was a kid. He had dreamed back then of getting a .22 target rifle but dreams were all they were as money was very tight during those years.

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

A link to downloadable PDF copies of Guns Magazine from 1955 to 1969.

https://gunsmagazine.com/classic-issues/classic-guns-magazine-editions/

Ads for full-auto machine guns, anti-tank rifles, and any surplus you want, delivered to your door.

Articles about fast-draw competition, with which the U.S. gun crowd seemed to be preoccupied.
Articles about the testing of a new Army rifle, to become the M16.
Articles about the new-fangled telescopic sights that were terribly expensive.

 

[CapnMac]

Cool, year I was born, .45acp FMJ was $94/1000

 

[Rock185]

Neat stuff! I may have to join the IAA just to figure out when an old box of Peters ammo I have was made.

 

[bannockburn]

Here are some more ads from Guns and Guns and Ammo magazines from the 1950s: