Gun & Ammo ads from 1950's Boys Life magazine.

[QuarterBoreGunner]

My my how times have changed.
I used to get Boys Life when I was (much!) younger; I'm not even sure they still publish it.

Link to more of the same and full size image scans.

This is some great stuff; I love the old school comic book line art.

edit: Oops - forgot to credit via bOINGbOING

 

[fletcher]

Boys Life is still around.

 

[kentucky_smith]

Shooting hawks not exactly approved of anymore.

 

[Leatherneck]

Unless they're killing your chickens. You DO have chickens in the yard, don't you?

TC

 

[Starter52]

Your post brings back memories. I remember seeing the same ammo ads in Boys Life in the 1960's, only the target animals were rattlesnakes and snapping turtles.

 

[HankB]

Gee, gun ads in Boy's Life, plenty of places like Klein's and Hunter's Lodge to order guns & ammo by mail . . . and yet, we didn't have school shootings back then.

What changed?

 

[Tory]

Don't forget Savage,

which advertised its combo guns; .22 over .410, .22 Mag over 20 gauge, etc. Dad and son take a bunch of old 78s down to the sand pit, tossing them up for bird shots and rolling them on edge to simulate rabbits.

Try that now........

 

[sm]

I too remember these ads.
We would read these in school, we whittled sticks with our pocket knives at school, we practiced shooting the way the strips showed with BB Guns at school.

What happened ? Gov't kept meddlin', kept Indoctrinating and played right into the hands of Tyranny - that is what happened.

Field & Stream was my favorite - had Ruark, and Corey Ford and Tapley's Tips and...and...you could get a gun sent to your house and didn't even have to pay for it until the mail showed up with it.

No school shootings, and when the riots hit, lots of boys and girls were armed right alongside their parents. WE did not have 911 , we had been raised right- and could shoot.

 

[Snap]

I read Boy's Life as a Cub Scout in the early 90's and I remember airgun ads and maybe one or two .22 rifle ads. Probably even an article or two on shooting merit badges. It just wasn't that long ago that this sort of thing was still at least SORTA acceptable. No idea if Boy's Life still has that sort of thing today, but it's certainly possible.

 

[atlctyslkr]

Every issue (80's) had an add for Remmington .22 Rifle ammo.

 

[1 old 0311]

Come on guys. Isn't the Country in better shape? Don't you feel safer? Isn't crime lower?.....................Guess not...........Never mind

Kevin