Posted on 11/20/2016 2:58:23 PM PST by w1n1
It's a blast from the past, who doesn’t enjoy looking at vintage gun ads? It's funny to see how they marketed firearms back in the early to mid 20th century, not to mention the prices!
Here are 20 beautiful vintage gun ads from a bygone era. While some of these ads are from long ago, some are fairly recent. They speak to not only much cheaper pricing, but also to the changing cultural mores of the day. Here’s our time machine, sit down and enjoy.
Ok, this one is just weird and dangerous!
This one that promoted hunting tigers, which would raise a lot of hackles in social media today. See the rest here.
Oooooo-eeeeeeee!
Thought that would get a reaction.
And there were no school shootings then. Chicago did not have over 1300 shootings I a year. My dad had his loaded shot gun by the door on the back porch. We kids ever touched it. On our farm, we saw animals killed by guns, and we knew that dead is dead, not cartoon “dead”.
A few of them I remember and some I don’t.
The Weatherby, Remington nylon 66, and the Mattel are all familiar. I have seen some of the others in reprints etc.
pings
Start him off right!
The really surprising thing to me on that Sears catalog is the break barrel air rifle.
My cousin in the 1950s had a Crosman pump up but I don’t think I ever saw one of those spring piston ones until maybe the 1970s.
I guess the Daisy’s are technically spring piston but not really the same thing.
My uncle would bicycle to school with his rifle for target practice after school on the school’s shooting team.
My daughter’s middle school recently went under renovation. Part of it was converting an indoor shooting range in the basement.
And the problem is?
I buy every good condition Winchester 67 I come across. Keep a couple around to pot pests, but give them to friends who have kids of shooting age. It is truly the best starter gun. Sometimes I take one to the local range with a box of shorts and remember being 12 years old again.
Daddy had that exact same Winchester single shot when he was a boy. He was born in 1918 so it was probably around 1930 when Granddaddy ordered it for him.
They made the mistake of also ordering a box of .22LR at the same time and even back then the U.S.P.O. would not deliver ammo.
They had to drive to Florala, Alabama to get it from Railway Express. My Nephew has it now.
Found the other half.
Damn hard to spot the gun.
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