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Blowout Sale at Winchester!
08 March 2006, 22:21
NickuduBlowout Sale at Winchester!
08 March 2006, 22:28
vapodogA guy would shell out more than that $2,800 for just the M-70 in .375 H&H and it's pal in .300 H&H.
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08 March 2006, 22:37
hikerbumI will take one of each...........
wish it were true today
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
This is why I never sell any of my guns. I wish I had one of each.
08 March 2006, 22:47
NickuduI bought my first new Model 70 in 1962-3 for $129.00. I remember a friend who purchased one at some military PX around that time for $99.00.
08 March 2006, 22:56
Michael RobinsonIn comparison, using the CPI inflation calculator, $2,819.90 in 1963 dollars would have the buying power today of $18,274.06.
It would seem that appreciation in value of pre-64 Winchester rifles (assuming mint condition) has outpaced inflation.
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
08 March 2006, 23:08
NickuduThanks mrlexma! I had been wondering about that.
09 March 2006, 01:41
JohnTheGreekWow, that is some pretty dubious advertising since $2819 constituted 59% of the average annual 1960's salary!
Best,
John
09 March 2006, 03:55
invader66Summer of 64 I had a construction job here at $1.25 per hr. Highest pay in town. If you worked
in a store $.75 per and bucking hay was $.05 per
bale if you had the truck and trailor. That was
stacked in the Barn. $10. a LONG day for labor.
Took me a while to pay for my $82. Marlin and
K4. Still have them.
Semper Fi
WE BAND OF BUBBAS
STC Hunting Club
09 March 2006, 04:17
Sendero300quote:
Summer of 64 I had a construction job here at $1.25 per hr. Highest pay in town. If you worked
in a store $.75 per and bucking hay was $.05 per
bale if you had the truck and trailor. That was
stacked in the Barn. $10. a LONG day for labor.
Ditto that!! Only we were paid $.10 per bale..(making the big bucks!!)
I did receive the .243 Featherweight for Christmas from my Dad in 1960. I was an excited teenager and shot my first deer with it open sights. Later we installed a Lyman 6X scope....good stuff..My father had the 30-30 bought in 1959. Those were our "deer rifles"..
Other guns were a single shot JC Higgins .410, Remington 48 .410, and a Rem pump .22.
Sendero300>>>===TerryP
invader,
You are exaggerating! When I was bucking hay in about '68 or '69 I was getting .05/bale for picking it up, putting it on the wagon, and putting it up in the barn. But I got a free supper.
Those were the good ol' days.
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09 March 2006, 04:49
500grainsYou guys were way overpaid. I got 50 bucks for a whole summer of hay raking, bale stacking, pig and calf feeding, gutter cleaning, etc.
09 March 2006, 05:14
invader66Will, in 68 I made Corp E-4 and that was $224.
+ 65. Combat pay. Thought I was rich.
Semper Fi
WE BAND OF BUBBAS
STC Hunting Club
In 1964 when they quit making them, my Dad bought a few new Mod. 70 for $60 each on clearance. Could have bought thousands of them!Wish I had them now, eh?
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Will / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun.
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and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor, GOA, NAGR
_________________________
"Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped.
“Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped.
red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com
_________________________
If anything be of note, let it be he was once an elephant hunter, hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go.
09 March 2006, 05:50
gunnyFor the most part it sounds like you were all overpaid.
09 March 2006, 06:01
NitroXWhat if you don't want a purple camo one?
09 March 2006, 07:39
jstevensInvader-Will
By my figures at .05 a bale, 1000 bales a day, that's $50 a day split between two kids. Five days work for a Model 70 in .375 H&H assuming someone would discount one $30, doesn't sound that bad to me and I've done a lot of it, we typically put up 25000 bales a year on our place, back when we baled small round or square bales.
A shot not taken is always a miss
09 March 2006, 12:57
JagterNoticed that on the Model 100's the bolt is sitting on top of the magazine - not in the usual position.
Never seen that before on rifles in SA!
Why would that be? and
Isn't it difficult to handle in that position?
OWLS
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09 March 2006, 19:42
Lhook7quote:
Originally posted by invader66:
Summer of 64 I had a construction job here at $1.25 per hr. Highest pay in town. If you worked
in a store $.75 per and bucking hay was $.05 per
bale if you had the truck and trailor. That was
stacked in the Barn. $10. a LONG day for labor.
Took me a while to pay for my $82. Marlin and
K4. Still have them.
I made $.10 per bale each summer vacation from '84-'87. On a short haul to a good barn I could make up to $100 per day, on a long haul to a bad barn I would make about $40. That is the hardest money I have ever earned. I bought a Remington 1100 12 gauge and a Remington .243 pump action (model 760??), but both were stolen when I was away in the Army.
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