Every day for this entire year I will post old school printed gun ads each day.

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klausman said:
For my birthday, we get a calendar from 1936, and a poster from 60 years later. View attachment 972052 View attachment 972053 Enjoy!
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I reuse old calendars all the time. You need one for each of the seven possible leap year options and then seven more for each of the normal years. Or something like that. I have a pile of 20 or so and keep buying cool old calendars when I find them and then wait until the applicable sequence comes along.

For instance - you can use calendars from; 2010, 1999, 1993, 1982, 1971, 1965, 1954, 1943, 1937, and 1926 can all be reused in 2021. Among others.

A guy could have the same 14 calendars for the rest of his life.

Call that your relatively useless trivia of the day.

Todd.
 
80 year old Tenite plastic stocks are still going on Savage shotguns and Model 24 combo guns from 1940, when walnut was needed for the war effort.
 
Jim Watson said:
Haven't heard of anybody's Nylon 66, 30-60 years old starting to disintegrate.
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Like all early plastic items like the nylon stocked Remington's they seem to become brittle with age and should be treated with care. Remington used to have a lifetime guarantee but that's long gone. Replaced a number with split seams and some with cracks at wrist with these. Now the stocks alone are worth more than the rifle if you could find one. FWIW There's a 66 (?) with the butt snapped off on GB right now, The really rare ones like bolt action, chrome "apache" and those in seneca green have become almost too valuable to shoot. Not sure about the later off shore knock offs.
 
ApacheCoTodd said:
I reuse old calendars all the time. You need one for each of the seven possible leap year options and then seven more for each of the normal years. Or something like that. I have a pile of 20 or so and keep buying cool old calendars when I find them and then wait until the applicable sequence comes along.

For instance - you can use calendars from; 2010, 1999, 1993, 1982, 1971, 1965, 1954, 1943, 1937, and 1926 can all be reused in 2021. Among others.

A guy could have the same 14 calendars for the rest of his life.

Call that your relatively useless trivia of the day.

Todd.
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Good Lord, I'm old and easily confused so if I tried that I might easily find my self thinking I'm back in 1971. :D Of course all I would have to do to be brought back to reality is to watch the news and see who our new president is. :eek::cuss::notworthy::thumbdown:
 
This old Stevens shotgun was my mom's. It sat unused in the safe for 65 years until, after a routine cleaning, I apparently placed it too close to the Goldenrod. While the Goldenrod is warm to the touch, it does not seem to put off much heat. "Plastic" furniture does have some advantages, but............
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Regards,
hps
 
@ApacheCoTodd, I thought I recognized the B-26 in your avatar. Interesting aircraft, which fits in to the time frame of this thread nicely.
For a time in 1942, pilots in training believed that the B-26 could not be flown on one engine. This was disproved by several experienced pilots, including Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who flew demonstration flights at MacDill Army Air Field, which featured take offs and landings with only one engine. Also, seventeen Women Airforce Service Pilots were trained to demonstrate the B-26, in an attempt to "shame" male pilots into the air.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_B-26_Marauder
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vintovka said:
That is a real shame!!!!!!!
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It is a shame. The old shotgun is the very popular Model 311, made by Stevens, but is branded "Eastern Arms". Dad purchased it from Montgomery Ward for mom just prior to WWII, I believe, but I was just a pup, @ the time.

Fortunately, there is a company ( http://www.gunstocksinc.com/web_pages/Plate-pics/Stevens-stocks/311-seiries-I-descrip.htm ) which provides good quality, unfinished stocks at reasonable prices. I was afraid to tackle the inletting required to fit the stock, but found a local gunsmith who did, so the old gun has been restored & is back in the safe once more. Now all I have to worry about is those cussed termites. :D

Regards,
hps
 
Bush Pilot said:
It's sad to think what a thread like this would look like in 50 (or more) years when the ads from today are "antiques". In 50 years many of us won't be here and I can't even imagine what gun laws and ownership will look like.
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There's no real need to have such a grim outlook. Future is always bright for anyone who builds his own. Prohibition of alcohol didn't really change anything in a profound manner; when there's a will, there's a way. Regardless of what powers that be dictate, they have little chance to change the way the world works in practise.

Now that new full auto permits are more or less a thing of the past in Finland, we just celebrated what exists and is grandfathered by several M16/M4 mag dumps (selector switch in forward position, gentlemen) on Wednesday. I still could build at least a dozen more - which I now legally can't and for the time being won't, of course - but you never know what the future brings. All draconian laws have an expiration date and no-one knows what it will be. Be it my kids or grandkids who can assemble a bunch of "fun guns" legally again, some day. It will happen, that's for sure, and meanwhile I'm pretty much covered... :)
 
Speedo66 said:
80 year old Tenite plastic stocks are still going on Savage shotguns
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I have an old 124 (I think it was) straight pull bolt action. Has that stock. They were definitely known to crack.

but I agree that I trust my modern "plastic" guns.
 
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