Every day for this entire year I will post old school printed gun ads each day.

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Mauser lover said:
I want one on my yacht. I live in a landlocked state, but if nobody would mind, I'd get a yacht to put my Gatling on...
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I do not think that there is a finer lifes goal then to get a yacht for ones Gatling Gun

The Navy Gatlinged up a few Yachts in the 1890s in the New York area..

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And the Great Francis Bannerman placed a Gatling on his Yacht that supplied his store from
Bannerman island.. He offered it for sale in his wonderful catalogs. The Pollepel was lost in a
storm years gone by..

They say on a dark night during a dense fog, if you stand on the dock of Bannerman island you can still hear the bell from the Pollepel groping its way through the mist.
 
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.308 Norma said:
:rofl: Yep, I too had proved that adage a couple of times by the end of 1976. That was the year I got my first FWD - a brand new GMC.:D
BTW, I paid $5,000 for that GMC. I paid about 7 times that for the 2018 Dodge truck I'm driving now, and I'd already got the darned thing stuck in a pretty bad place the year before last.:oops:
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They were up to $8000 in '78. I bought a GMC Street Coupe that year. Full time four wheel drive, 400 small block V-8, carpet, plush seats, P/S, A/C, PWs, special paint job, WC rear view mirrors, big wheels and tires, and still had to pay extra to get a radio that had one speaker. The dealer also sold Buicks and I got a push button AM/FM Buick radio for it. It belongs to my oldest grandson now by way of my daughter. I gave the truck to her and she passed it on to him. That truck hauled me on many a hunt and just out boondocking. I sort of miss it but don't miss the gas mileage. 14 mpg on the highway---if you weren't bucking a stiff headwind.
 
Zo It ist a pleasure to be killed with a Rottweil cartridge. Leave it to the Germans to run hyperbole over the edge.
And just in time for Valentine's Day.
 
As I recall, you opened a CD at the bank for a certain amount depending on which Weatherby rifle you chose. You got the rifle of your choice and when the CD matured you got your money back. The bank kept the interest. I believe that the bank was the highest volume Weatherby dealer for a while.

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Bob Willman said:
As I recall, you opened a CD at the bank for a certain amount depending on which Weatherby rifle you chose. You got the rifle of your choice and when the CD matured you got your money back. The bank kept the interest. I believe that the bank was the highest volume Weatherby dealer for a while.

Bob
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Moocho Thanks Bob, Now that makes sense, I can understand that.. Do you at all recall how long before the cd matured??
 
No I don't remember. Interest rates on CDs at that time were probably 5% or so, I'm guessing. If you invested $1700 in a CD at 5%, interest would be over $85/year with compounding. If a Weatherby cost $400 at that time it would be about 5 years. Savings accounts were 4% or so. Those were the times when if you could put $1,000,000 in a savings account at 4% interest, you could spend $40,000 a year and never touch the principle. Life was good.

Bob
 
Bob Willman said:
As I recall, you opened a CD at the bank for a certain amount depending on which Weatherby rifle you chose. You got the rifle of your choice and when the CD matured you got your money back. The bank kept the interest. I believe that the bank was the highest volume Weatherby dealer for a while.

Bob
NRA Benefactor
Golden Eagle
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I took advantage of that CD scenario for a Remington at a bank in Texas back in the early 80's.

Hell of a deal. Kept me from spending the money and I got the gun. I think it was a wash at the other end unless you took advantage of the next seductive step but, by then I was no longer stationed in Texas. Ultimately, I sold the gun for more than the contemporarily offered interest rate.

Todd.
 
indy1919a4 said:
Always like the sharing of the gun/Passing the torch ads..
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Most of these ads in the thread are great to see. Some, not so much.

These older, rather nostalgic ads are the most wonderful though and also not a little saddening.

The commentary on what was, and likely never to be again, can make a fella a bit misty.

An American way of life not merely tolerated but rather, embraced and celebrated as well.

Todd.
 
ApacheCoTodd said:
I took advantage of that CD scenario for a Remington at a bank in Texas back in the early 80's.
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It seems to me that CD thing at the Bank of Idaho was for a Remington shotgun. I could be wrong though - it's been awhile.;)
I didn't take advantage of it anyway. Back then I still had young kids at home and a great big mortgage. Not that I didn't have enough money to buy guns I really wanted - it's just that I already had a good Remington shotgun.:)
 
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