Vintage firearm ads

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RamItOne

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Inspired by another post by 4V50 Gary, anyone have any interesting old firearm ads?


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No need to get political on how some of these cold never play out today :D

Wonder how people will look upon our ads 50-75 years from now (pricing and context)
 
I always really liked the ones where the guys dressed up like cowboys are locked in a heated battle with a grizzly..... not using the guns advertised. They just look like he's saying F YOU BEAR! I DON'T NEED THIS GUN TO HANDLE BUSINESS! BUT JUST IN CASE MY MANLY ESSENCE ISN'T ENOUGH, I BROUGHT A WINCHESTER!
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Sorry I don't have the ability to scan & post as they are in a library

I was flipping through the pages of the NRA American Rifleman, 1960, and the things you could buy so cheap will make you cry. Lugers for $25 anyone? No. 4 (T) sniper rifle with stowage box for $100?
 
I will attempt to scan and post it in the library tomorrow, but in my anthology of Boy's Life magazines, there is an add for Remington .22 LR ammunition, described as "pocketproof and boy proof."
 
Interesting. Look at the prices of the Webley and the WWI 1911. The Webley has increased in value about 10x. But, the WWI (possibly WWII) 1911 is worth about 40x the advertised price.

Not everything appreciates at the same rate.
 
I love old ads and catalogs.

The prices amaze me but you have to remember what workers made back in the day. Five dollars a day? Of course depending on the decade you are talking about, a bit more or a bit less.
 
Ah, yes, the Winchester Model '07, a weapon suitable for law enforcement and military use only. With it's detachable magazine and semi-auto capability.

Dang, what an awesome gun that was. Grandpa carried one as the county sheriff.
 
The prices amaze me but you have to remember what workers made back in the day. Five dollars a day? Of course depending on the decade you are talking about, a bit more or a bit less.
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Some guns really haven't increased in cost, over many years. I did some research into price vs. cost, and some companies have been able to hold the line much better than others.
Colts cost, in real terms, about double what they cost forty years ago. Other guns, especially Rugers, cost about the same today as they did forty, or evern fifty years ago. Ruger adopted more modern manufacturing methods, moved away from east coast, etc., while Colt stuck with older methods, and stayed home.
You hear a lot about pre-'64 Winchesters, but a Winchester 94 cost about the same in 1980 as it did in 1950, because of the economizing moves made in 1964. Either that, or go offshore.
 
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