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Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:13 pm
by lenny7

Re: Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:32 pm
by Stradawhovious
Whoa nellie...... I need a cigarette.

Re: Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:36 pm
by monschman
Stradawhovious wrote:Whoa nellie...... I need a cigarette.



NO YOU EFFIN DON"T

Re: Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:47 pm
by 1911fan
Believe it or not but later in the sixties prices dropped even lower. As a paper boy I was able to order guns and afford them from ads like this. sports afield and True Adventures had ads for 1911's as low as 9.95. M1carbines for under 20 bucks. I remember seeing Krags for less than ten dollars all the time.

Re: Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:50 pm
by lenny7
Someday we'll be reminiscing about today's prices and how we should have bought more at these prices when we had the chance.

Re: Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:52 pm
by Stradawhovious
monschman wrote:
Stradawhovious wrote:Whoa nellie...... I need a cigarette.

NO YOU EFFIN DON"T


Listen here nicfit nancy, just because you're trying to quit doesn't mean you can bark orders at me :razz:



But you're right, I don't.

Re: Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:11 pm
by Holland&Holland
I'll take one of each. What number can I have my FFL dealer fax to?

Re: Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:22 pm
by 1911fan
H&H, back then it was USPS delivery to the mailbox. NO stinkin' FFL's needed. I remember buying mossberg .22's from the army/CMP for $8.75 I still have a couple of them. There was a wholesaler in NYC that handguns from everywhere, I think RG's were 5 dollars, and H&R and Iver johnsons were about the same. My Mauser HsC was from them, and I paid 17.50 for it.

Re: Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:31 pm
by lenny7
Don't just look at the pictures, go to the link and check out the magazine. The ads are pretty cool.

According to an inflation calculator I found

$1 in 1957 is the same as $7.56 in 2008.

Given that, the M1903 and the .45 colt on the image I posted would cost $300 today. Still a nice deal.

Re: Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:07 pm
by Holland&Holland
1911fan wrote:H&H, back then it was USPS delivery to the mailbox. NO stinkin' FFL's needed. I remember buying mossberg .22's from the army/CMP for $8.75 I still have a couple of them. There was a wholesaler in NYC that handguns from everywhere, I think RG's were 5 dollars, and H&R and Iver johnsons were about the same. My Mauser HsC was from them, and I paid 17.50 for it.


Those were the days... Now you have to find the item (hope you even can), win an auction for it on some web site, get an FFL to fax over, get a certified check or a money order to send, hope the seller is legit and sends the item, go in to do the transfer,... Will it ever be as simple as it was back then again?

Re: Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:31 pm
by VikesFan1
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How about a Browning A5 in 1957 for $127.75? Funny thing about this picture, I own the JC Higgins Model 20 in the upper left. It's actually a High Standard Mod 200, relabeled JC Higgins for Sears. It's an interesting gun that I haven't been able to part with... I'm going to do a little review of it here when I have a chance.

Re: Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:32 pm
by John S.
Nice sig! :P :P :P

Re: Vintage Gun Porn

PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:05 pm
by VikesFan1
That's a richeous movie, dude. :)

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