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chez323
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Marlin 336C 30-30 lever action rifle at Jamesway (no longer in business), in 1978 they had it on sale for $79.99 (Winchester 94 same price but I prefer Marlins). Same gun today cost over $400 new.......
ancient-one
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In 1968 I bought a Ruger Std. 6 inch 22 Auto for $37.50 less a discount.. A little later I bought a Mossberg 800B .243 for $79.00 and a Franchi 20 ga. semi-auto for $100. I bought my Remington Fieldmaster pump in 1950 for $50.00 and a slick 20 ga. Lefever double for $47.50. I bought the Remington from Andy Anderson Sporting Goods and they let me pay it out $5.00 a month with no interest.
Alpo
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I wonder if that's a lot of inflation, or is considered acceptable. I was given mine in November of '73, for my birthday. Price tag was on the box. 79.95 at WT Grants. So, 60% increase in 23 years. Seems like a lot, to me.
In 1957 I bought a Mauser HSc, with Nazi holster, spare magazine and a box of Winchester ammo for $25. Also bought a Jap Type 14 with holster, cleaning rod and spare firing pin for $9.95. Both in excellent condition.
Coldshooter
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M-28 $125 in 1973 PPS $115 1974 both prices include IN sales tax which I remember at 2%
shamelessinct
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My first off duty gun was a 2 1/2 S&W M19. Bought it in September of 1974 from Diamond Police Supply in Rhode Island for $89.00 shipped to the department.
I started hunting in 1975 and at that time in our town a Remington 1100 new was $199.00. The MSRP list price for a Model 29 S&W was $235.00 but because of the Dirty Harry craze still raging if you were lucky to find one for sale it easily brought $700.00 plus...I seen one actually sell for $895.00 back then. Even the Model 57 was high just because it was an N frame. A new in the box Dan Wesson Model 15-2 sold for around $200.00. A Harrington and Richardson Deluxe Topper Model 98 was $74.00 and a Bear Archery Super Magnum 48 was also $74.00.
29aholic
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Dont EVEN get me started
1976 Ruger Security Six, 6" barrel for $156 with a free box of Wichester brass.
I've never seen a motor scooter packed in paper and cosmoline!
No, but I remember seeing/or maybe just hearing about, adds for WWII surplus Jeeps, disassembled, packed in cosmoline, shipped in a crate. All you had to do was put it together. $50.00 each.
The good Lord only, knows what if anything, they actually delivered.
I bought my first gun in either 66 or 67. It was before GCA 68 anyway. I was too young then to buy it myself, so my mother called Sears-Roebuck and ordered it out of the catalog. The gun was a Sears double 12 (Stevens 311 rebranded) and sold for $79.95. I set,staked, tied, suckered, and picked tomatoes for $5.00 a day to pay for the gun, a couple boxes of shells, and a brand new Sears, brown hunting coat.
In 1977 I paid $99.00 for a Sears 12 ga. pump, (a rebadged Mossberg 500) with a 28" modified barrel, and a 24" rifle sight slug barrel. The combo normally sold for $129.00 but it had been returned because the previous owner didn't like the pattern the slug barrel shot with buckshot. I still have that gun and still deer hunt with it. No 1 buck from the modified barrel kills like lightening.
I've never fired the slug barrel I don't think.And somewhere between those two, I remember drooling over a Smith & Wesson in the presentation case, at the big "GEM Store" near me. I have always thought it was a Model 28, with a 6" barrel, but I've since learned it wasn't likely that a Model 28 was shipped in the presentation case. Maybe a 27 or a 29...who knows. I remember the price being $129.00. It might as well have been a million.
My first handgun was a Model 19. I knew nothing of - numbers back then. I want to say I paid about $265.00 for it, NIB. Somewhere around there anyway. I later bought a Taurus Model 80...82...I forget which, a K frame sized, fixed sight, 38 anyway. I think that was about $179.00 NIB. Good gun too.
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ol' geeser
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Christmas 1965 Dad gave me a 1903 Springfield from K-Mart...$19.97, 1967 a pristeen 6 inch Model 19 - $125.00 at pawn shop.....
