Gun Stuff You No Longer See

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InkEd said:
#3 SURPLUS GUNS IN MAGAZINES: I recall as a cub scout seeing ads for switchblades in the back of Boys Life but that was about it. Later, I would see ads for old police trade-ins in Shotgun News in my early teens.

However, I heard stories (post WWII) there were tons of cheap 1911s (and ammo), Garandes, Bolt Action Springfields, Mausers and all kinds of other stuff for sale in the back of several magazines. I would love to have confirmation of this stuff.
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Before the Gun Control Act of 1968, such ads were common because you could order a rifle in the mail. Here's a sample, do a Google search on "Klein's gun ads" for more:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/KleinsAd1963.jpg
 
30 rd AR mags
Classified gun adds
G17's in the show case
All used to be common here before the first of the month. :(
 
Good wood. Mostly black plastic now and most of the wood looks like plastic or has no grain or luster.
 
12many said:
Good wood. Mostly black plastic now and most of the wood looks like plastic or has no grain or luster.
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Hmm...most of the wood guns I buy now have much better wood and finish than the guns I have inhereted.

CZ 452 I bought my dad a couple of years ago is much better looking than my Glenfield Model 25 or my Mossberg 640k Chuckster
 
The aroma of Remington Kleenbore 22 LR.

I learned to shoot with it when I was a pup. I can still smell the smoke from that ammo. Nothing since has ever smelled the same. Just talking about it takes me right back to those days out in the sticks with "The 22."
 
InkEd said:
#1 GUN RACKS: I am from Tennessee and back when I was growing up it was pretty much a given that of you saw a pick-up truck, you could bet there would be a gun rack in the back window. Seldom a gun in the rack except for hunting trips but always a gun rack. (Often with an axe handle.)

I think it changed in the 90's when trucks became nicer and more than just work/farm vehicles. They fed into the redneck stereo type and you definitely would want to park at a mall with a gun begging to be stolen BUT I do miss seeing them in people's back windows though.
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I think a lot of the change has to do with the way those racks mounted and the way auto glass is now installed.

Back in the day, the back window was held in with a gasket, now, its held in with urethane, think high strength glue
 
The Big Gun Show held at the Pomona Fairgrounds in California. It had some other official title but we just called The Big Gun Show. It had everything- antiques, surplus arms, ammo, the old Japanese guy who claimed to have shot down Pappy Boyington, old military tanks, trucks and Jeeps, new tanks, truck and Jeeps brought in by the local Guard unit- one of the kids that was a friend to my brother even scored an empty LAW rocket tube- he got it for five bucks!

If you couldn't find it anywhere else, it would be at The Big Gun Show, guaranteed.

I also miss the days when the Shotgun News was nearly an inch thick!
 
Herters catalog.................Use to buy wood arrow shafts and feathers to make my own arrows. Had to be 1964-5 or so.My cousin and I tried our had at bow hunting deer. Can say we ever got any but got darn close, still had allot of fun with the archery anyhow and a little different then all the duck hunting we did back then.
In SoCal too!:D
 
I grew up in Lorton, Va, in the southern part of Fairfax County and can remember as a 14-15 year old riding the bus into downtown Alexandria to Ye Olde Hunter (Interarms) which was right on the Potomoc river. We spent hours looking at all of the surplus rifles that we couldn't afford (the Mausers, 03' Springfields, M1 Carbines, etc) to finally buy a 7.7 Jap for $12.95 w/bayonet and 20rds of ammo! We carried that back home on the Bus and no one even gave us a second glance. The bus took us as far as Ft. Belvoir and we walked the last 3 miles or so to home right down Route 1 carrying our rifles and again no problems with the police or anyone else. This was probably 65-66? Somewhere in that period.

I wouldn't dare try that today. How things have changed.

How sad...
 
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.22 LR Winchester Xpert 36 grain non-plated lead hollow points.
 
Sectioned wooden shotgun cleaning rods with the brass threading parts. I have several and no clue where I got them but don't even own a shotgun.

Ron
 
I had a gun rack in the back of my Dodge pickup back in the day. yes, some people scoffed at them even back then. the one and only time i used to to transport a firearm, i was promptly pulled over by the D.N.R. it was deer season, but in Michingan everything inside of a vehicle (with the exception of a pistol IF you have a CPL, HAS to be in a case. my brother in law had been left stranded by his "buddy", and i did not have a spare case. it seemed like the better choice between open carrying it, or concealing an uncased firearm. if found, that could land a person in jail. he told us to remove the bolt from the gun, and LOCK it in the glove box, and let us go. today, they would confiscate the gun, and one or more of us would be in the back of his vehicle, headed to jail. i really think the thing i miss most, is the attitude that guns were good. not some evil mean killing machine. Hunters were looked up to by kids, and displaying your buck was a thing of pride on the way home. and you had to cruise at least one miracle mile on the way home to show it off. now, your looked at as the scum of the earth murderer, and displaying that disgusting thing is only traumatizing young children.
 
I've got bricks of the stuff in my ammo box....

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As others have said: Back window gun racks. Lots of 'em around here in years past. As often as not, they carried fishing poles. Still have the one I planned to put in my '71 F100. Still have the pickup too. The days of window racks have passed though.
 
b.thomas said:
Herters catalog.................Use to buy wood arrow shafts and feathers to make my own arrows. Had to be 1964-5 or so.My cousin and I tried our had at bow hunting deer. Can say we ever got any but got darn close, still had allot of fun with the archery anyhow and a little different then all the duck hunting we did back then.
In SoCal too!:D
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Sounds like great fun, I believe the attitude towards guns and hunting were simpler more laid back and I miss that.
 
We had a small bore range operating in one of the local Halifax, Nova Scotia high schools within the last decade. It was shut down when the school board dreamed up some bogus excuse. Supervision was provided by some of the local adult club marksmen.

Several small bore ranges were setup in the local high schools post-WWII...
 
missing is the vast array of BB guns. BB guns that looked like guns. M1's Win 94's, etc. Now they are all break open pellet rifles or plastic junk.

Probably a good thing though. I'd hate to get in a BB gun war with my brother (yeah, it was stupid) and be shooting the 1100 fps pellet rifles of today.
 
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