Adjusted for inflation, we're still there.
Except the Python has risen in value way out of whack .I rember those days when for less than $100.00 you could opt for one over a model 27.
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Except the Python has risen in value way out of whack .I rember those days when for less than $100.00 you could opt for one over a model 27.
My first rifle buy was in 1967...I was 15 yo... had a mustache , shop owner had 55 gal garbage cans with K98's, Garands, Carbines... told me to just pick out the 1 I wanted.... 69.99 For a Carbine...Winchester, late war, exc cond.
Green Frog
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Notice that even way back then, the Model 16 was notable by its absence. I guess the K-32 was a good idea whose time never really came! 
Froggie
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I believe the Model 16 was dropped from the catalog about three years before this J&G ad in the Shotgun News. That would explain its absence.
That was sure a good time for the 2nd Amendment.
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At those prices I'll take 100 of each! 
ldausmc1369
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Getting old! Remember SGN well. Prices then are like prices today if you are raising a family. Not a lot of extra for guns and stuff. However, saving here and there, trading, buying, selling have almost got all the Smiths I’ve ever wanted and then some. I am thankful..
gman51
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Back in the late 60's I bought my first shotgun. A Stevens bolt action 20ga for around $56. I was a teenager and made payments weekly till I paid it off. I got a good credit reference from that.
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I begin dealing with J&G when they were still in Montana, and bought some of the items listed. But one needs to bear in mind that income of that era was commensurate with their prices.
Old Corp
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I was a back-pocket FFL holder in the early 80's. Subscribed to SGN and did quite a bit of business with J&G.
I mostly sold to officers I worked with, cost + 10%. Never really made very much money, but it was sorta fun.
It seemed like the SGN came in the mail constantly.
Aggravated the then-wife, now ex-wife.
I mostly sold to officers I worked with, cost + 10%. Never really made very much money, but it was sorta fun.
It seemed like the SGN came in the mail constantly.
Aggravated the then-wife, now ex-wife.
jrm53
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Before I got my FFL in 1980 a friend got my S&W's from J&G, my model 27 with 8 and 3/8 barrel, my model 57 with the same barrel and my model 29 with the same barrel length came from them. I seem to remember that they were called J and G rifle ranch then. After I got the FFL I purchased other pistols from them for customers. Jeff
Good point. You can buy most of those for the same or less today. Maybe they weren't exactly the "good old days" after all.
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I'll take the Model 28 4" for $175 please
Thanks for sharing
My first 28 was 1968. 101.00 brand spanking new out the door. Actually it was my first handgun
In late 1978 I was in an Ohio gun shop watching a customer pay $800 for a new M29-? in a blue box. The guy was over joyed because other gun shops wanted $1K and a 3 month wait. This dealer had gotten the M29 in only 1 week.
Three months later I would be starting work as a new graduate mechanical engineer with a $1,525 per month starting salary.
Three months later I would be starting work as a new graduate mechanical engineer with a $1,525 per month starting salary.
EarlB
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Nah, as long as we are going back in time I want to go a bit farter back to 1963 and take all mine in silver if you please, Morgan's will work!
RMFnLA
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J&G is still in business; I just got a pair of grips from them.
Still nice folks to deal with, too.
Still nice folks to deal with, too.
one eye joe
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Sorry, April 1979. I was 19 at the time. My Dad would purchase some items from time to time, and I was buying NOS USGI M1 Carbine stocks that were unbelievable. Never seen anything so clean since then.
Was rummaging through the old estate recently and found this old Shotgun News.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE SHOTGUN NEWS, BACK IN THE DAY ! ! !
MY COPIES WOULD BE DOG-EARED, WITH NOTATIONS AND PAGE REFERENCES SCRIBBLED ALL OVER THE FRONT COVER, BY THE TIME THAT THE LATEST ISSUE ARRIVED IN THE MAIL........
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