I'm having a blast with old Gun Digests.

There is, or was, a reprint of the 1940 Shooter's Bible, which is really worth having. No articles but it's a thick catalog. It's also interesting how prices did not go up much between then and the early 1960s when I began buying gun magazines and gun digests. I imagine that people's income didn't either. All I know is that I sure wasn't earning much money in 1964. It was a few years before I could afford any gun, much less a set of wheels.

In reading some of the older gun magazines, one does see some of the same sort of "the sky is falling" mentality, where you should be stocking up on ammo for when the reds invade. And if I see one more article entitled "today a rock may kill you," well, I just don't know what I'll do.

Western style fast draw was still all the rage back then, too. People already though that the old things were much better than the new stuff. There was at least one memorable article on re-bluing a rifle barrel on top of the kitchen stove. Think your wife would mind you doing something like that?
 
At my age (65 +) the old books bring back memories.

Not a plug for my ad but I just put 59 of the older books in the Classifieds that need a new home.

Ike
 
I've mentioned this before but I would REALLY like it if the NRA would collect the 'American Rifleman' issues from the very first, to the present and put them on DVD'S.

I think it would be a blast to own ALL the 'American Rifleman' magazines back to the beginning.

So far the only magazines I'm aware of that have done this are the 'National Geographic' and 'Mad' magazine.
 
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