When I was a kid there was always a catalog or two in the chitter from Ukrainian Tire or Sears or UFA. Everybody sold guns and ammo too.
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I have 4 of them. Paid more than that though.
ReplyDeleteI've had me 2 Nylon 66s. The first my mother got me brand new at Christmas in 1955 in Sears. The second a few years back at a local pawn shop. I put a Weaver on it and the squirrels are dead meat.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Filthie.
A good condition Nylon 66 is going for $600 these days.
Delete'Saw a "Cherry!!" '66 at a gun show in Fayetteville, NC back in the early 2000's.... 'like.... $1000.00!!!!!
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PS... remember the hype!!.. "Nylon??... 'Won't hold up!!!" Yeah sure... Today just look around!!!!!!
Back in the day, the old man & I would pass the Shotgun News back and forth pointing out "deals". Good times.....
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I wish I would have kept some old issues of Shotgun News. Glen is right... We were a better people back then.
DeleteI agree. I remember back in 64 or 65 the old man buying a surplus .30 cal. carbine out of a gun magazine and Railway Express delivered it to the front door. The irony was that this occurred in NY. I still have the .30, it's an Inland and I love it.
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I remember those days. That and cardboard barrels full of SKS's and Mauser's.
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Did y'all have Herters down there in Canada? Or were they strictly in the US, eh?
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather had an Ithaca Md 37 12 gauge pump; my father had one as well, with fancier wood on it. I have one with an English style stock that I bought in Pierre, SD.
ReplyDeleteI had three friends with me, and I walked out of the sporting goods department with my new shotgun, uncased, through the supermarket, across the parking lot, and no one so much as raised an eyebrow.
That's civilization. That's the way I want to live.
The last Gibson's I know of is in Kerrville, TX. It has a GINORMOUS sporting goods department.
ReplyDeleteWe had a Gibson's in my hometown in East Texas. That catalog page brings back memories.
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