Remember these Vintage Gun Ads?

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 11/20/2016 | D Smith

[Stevenc131]

I’ve got my Dad’s Remington Model 41 bolt action .22. It’s a single shot that he got in the late 30s when he was about 14. He was expected to help put food on the table, it wasn’t for fun. He shot a lot of .22 shorts because the .22 Long Rifle were too expensive to shoot all the time.

[Flick Lives]

"Uniforms"? They're practically naked.

They're uniformly naked!

[Flick Lives]

Concealed carry. Not possible!

[NRx]

I’d like to see their bullets.

[KingLudd]

I was 8 when I put a M16 on my Christmas list. That Matell ad would have been out right around then. However, I wanted a real one with ammo. My liberal aunt was horrified.

[W.]

I never saw them but wish I had!

[GregoTX]

That was my first "real" gun ! A Christmas present back in 1955...

My kid will experience that same thrill this Christmas.

[WhatNot]

Growing up I relied on Grandma Ruthy (may she rest in peace), to know which guns to buy.

[D Rider]

Open carry was legal back then. ;)

[zeestephen]

And, the vintage 1963 gun ad that started a fifty year war against the Second Amendment.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

That, they are.

 

 

[vladimir998]

Are you sure that picture is from the 50s? Look at the clothes and hairstyles. It looks like 60s or even the early 70s to me.

[Sasparilla]

...Start him off right....

I’ve got a Model 60 Winchester .22 that’s older than the Model 67. It’s a single shot with a peep sight. The rifle provided the family with squirrels during the depression.

Also, things were dirt cheap through the Department of Civilian Marksmanship, now the CMP, the Civilian Marksmanship Program. WWII M1 Carbines were less than 20 bucks, and you could get a WWII battlefield veteran M1 Garand for just a few dollars more. I once bought an Enfield .303 Jungle Carbine in cosmoline for $18.00 at Montgomery Ward.

[BenLurkin]

It was used as an excuse.

And a flimsy one at that.

[Inyo-Mono]

Yeah, the clothes and the ad style looks like circa 1966 to me.

[katana]

Dayyum! I was reading the wrong magazines. Even old weird Werner the barber (”The Nazis weren’t so bad”) didn’t have magazines with ads like that.

[katana]

Squirrel pie is a flavor I recall from childhood. Really good (watch out for the small bones). And my dad used a .22 rifle to get them.

[katana]

People lost their minds years ago. That’s the problem.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I still have the Nylon 66 my wife gave me nearly 40 years ago.

[bobby.223]

That pic is from a late 1966 ‘Boy’s Life’, (The Boy Scouts of America’s monthly mag), Daisy add.