Most vintage ads were a lot more fun, being completely devoid of PC cr@p.
Best deal ever!
Regarding the add of the shotgun and the gunner with twin-50s on a PT Boat. When my late father was trained to be a nose gunner on B-24s, part of the training was ridding around in the back of a truck on the Harlingen, TX race course, shooting skeet as the truck moved. He said having used a pump shotgun shooting birds during the depression was quite helpful.
Not a Dull Vacation
“That’ll teach them to stay on their side of the lake!”
lol...we need more of this and less of muslims.
Me and my mini-me were shooting the Red Ryder yesterday , ,
still fun after all these years..
I really can’t see the humor in rights’ restrictions. Interesting ads however and a testament how far we’ve dropped.
I still have my mid-1960’s Boy Scout manual. It is filled with gun ads.
I miss the real America...
I remember reading comic books in the 50s that had tons of ads for surplus military rifles for $20 each or so. Some for $9.95, iirc. All the comic books had such ads. No minimum age, no checking up on you. Nothing. Just send us our $20 and we’ll send you your rifle, no questions asked. I’m pretty sure I remember seeing Garands for $19.99, but most were foreign jobs. Lee Harvey Oswald’s rifle was a cheap mail order gun.
Anyway, twenty bucks was a stretch for me back then. I would’ve had to collect a lot of pop bottles or shovel a lot of snow to afford one. And where would I keep it? Under my bed? In my closet? For 15 years until I was all grown up and out on my own? No chance.
My dad, who was a WWII vet, would never have been able to keep his hands off it, and probably wouldn’t have let me keep it. Not after he found the bomb my little brother bought at a local second hand store for a dollar. The proprietor had never served a day in the military and didn’t know what he was talking about, but told my brother all the bombs he had for sale had been disarmed. Pops found out differently when he began looking closely at my brother’s bomb on the kitchen table. THAT caused some commotion, let me tell you.
