Those are great! They all pre-date me, but I have read a pile of Outdoor Life mags from that era.

The Nash-Goldilocks "grisly bear" story slayed me. Love it!

What ever happened with those "dual dial" Weatherby scopes anyway??

Cheers and Thanks as always Nick,
Canuck

My father-in-law has one of those Willys Station Wagons, in mint original condition.

Man I wish I was born way back in those days. Most 16 year old kids like me don't like old stuff like that, I love it. I think if I could choose when I would be born it would be in '47. Don't really know why other then I could have seen a better world back in those days.

I like the Weatherby advert, "kills game even when no vital spot is hit"......

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Man I wish I was born way back in those days. Most 16 year old kids like me don't like old stuff like that, I love it. I think if I could choose when I would be born it would be in '47. Don't really know why other then I could have seen a better world back in those days.

Cory, You are exactly right and it is a rare pleasure hearing such from a perceptive young man. The post war years were indeed a wonderous and fascinating time to be young. Family was still "Family" yet, in all else, change was revolutionary.

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Originally posted by C.Wathen:
Man I wish I was born way back in those days. Most 16 year old kids like me don't like old stuff like that, I love it. I think if I could choose when I would be born it would be in '47. Don't really know why other then I could have seen a better world back in those days.

Cory, You are exactly right and it is a rare pleasure hearing such from a perceptive young man. The post war years were indeed a wonderous and fascinating time to be young. Family was still "Family" yet, in all else, change was revolutionary.

Cory, I feel the same. Interesting (to me anyway) to note that you are young enough to be my son, and my Father was born in '47.

My GF and I are stuck in the 40's/50's even though we were not alive then. As a for-instance, the most watched TV channels in our house are TCM for the 40s/50s/60s movies, Lonestar for the same vintage western TV shows and movies, and Deja Vu for Andy Griffith. Most books I read are non-fiction, covering the 1860s to 1960s.

Cheers,
Canuck

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Man I wish I was born way back in those days. Most 16 year old kids like me don't like old stuff like that, I love it. I think if I could choose when I would be born it would be in '47. Don't really know why other then I could have seen a better world back in those days.

Well I was born in 1947 and I remember most of those ads--I had one for a Browning A-5 I was saving for--it was about $115.

But as appealing as the "good old days" are, just remember that someday, the times we are living in now will be "the good old days." Pretty scary, huh?

Besides, if you had been born in 1947, you'd be fast approaching 60, and there would be a lot more behind you than ahead--so be glad you are young (although I would hate to be a teenager in this day & time) and have everything to look forward to--just don't waste it!

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Originally posted by C.Wathen:
Man I wish I was born way back in those days. Most 16 year old kids like me don't like old stuff like that, I love it. I think if I could choose when I would be born it would be in '47. Don't really know why other then I could have seen a better world back in those days.

Cory, You are exactly right and it is a rare pleasure hearing such from a perceptive young man. The post war years were indeed a wonderous and fascinating time to be young. Family was still "Family" yet, in all else, change was revolutionary.

Cory, I feel the same. Interesting (to me anyway) to note that you are young enough to be my son, and my Father was born in '47.

My GF and I are stuck in the 40's/50's even though we were not alive then. As a for-instance, the most watched TV channels in our house are TCM for the 40s/50s/60s movies, Lonestar for the same vintage western TV shows and movies, and Deja Vu for Andy Griffith. Most books I read are non-fiction, covering the 1860s to 1960s.

Cheers,
Canuck

Yea, and you shoot sheep just like they did in the old days too.

Nickudu, et al: Anybody know where one might be able to get some of those original ads? I remember one of my favorites was a Smith & Wesson adv. It was a guy fly-fishing, the caption read "when the woods are full of surprises." it showed a griz charfging across the stream right at the man, and he was in the process of dropping his rod and going for his revolver on his hip. Way cool, even more so, the ad was on a Junior Scholastic magazine ad! Can you imagine that today? Yet something else the liberal democrats and the NEA gooned up. jorge

Jorge - I suggest you set up a "Favorite Search" at EBAY for "Smith & Wesson Ads".
There are many there and you'll receive emails as new ones arrive.

Hate to admit this but Seeing the Weatherby add really brought back memories. I remember visiting Weatherby's shop on Firestone Blvd in Southgate, California. That would have been in 1957. One of my first solo trips in dads car.

Had to wait until 1962 (school, $$ issue) to buy my first "big game rifle", a M70 300 Win Mag.

Great Post Nick

Nick: Thanks, I just might have to do that. Jboutfshn: It's the little things in life that often-times give us the most pleasure.
I grew up "drooling" over the Weatherby Guides and the guns at the local gunshop in Miami where I lived. One day I said to myself, I'm going to actually GO to the Weatherby store in South Gate and hand pick my own rifle in 257 Weahterby.

Fast forward many years later right after the first Gulf War. As part of our squadron training, we were required to take cross country flights to build up flight time and instrument time. One of my squadron buds live out west near LA, so we took a cross country flight one weekend from NAS Cecil Field Florida to North Island in San Diego. He went home to see his folks and I rented a car and tooled righ on up to Firestone Blvd in South Gate.

Since I had (and still do) an FFL, I was able to walk right in and buy the rifle I always wanted. Not only that, they were having a "closeout" sale on the short-lived (and now revived) Ultra-Marks for a "measly" 750 bucks. I asked how many they had and the salesman named Victor said "about eight or nine." Bring them all out I said.

After about an hour or so, I hand picked one particular rifle with a gorgeous piece of wood that I still have to this day. I'll always remember that day and this great ads brought back great memories. Thanks, Nickudu! jorge

Nic,

Thank you once again.

I especially like the old Weatherby ads which claims "you don't have to hit a vital spot to kill"... Now I know where so many of my friends learned how to shoot!

LOL

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Yea, and you shoot sheep just like they did in the old days too.

Thanks! I never thought of it that way, but it does look like some rams from the "Heyday" of sheep hunting. I am not much for giving "trophies" names, but I may have to start calling that one my "retro ram".

Cheers,
Canuck

Nick,

Nice real nice...Days of yore....

Mike

Thanks, Nick, for making me feel like an old man!

No kidding, those ads pretty much define nostalgia for me. I remember looking at my uncle's old American Rifleman, Outdoor Life and Field & Stream issues from the late '50s and early to mid '60s and just being transported to places of inestimable joy by the ads in the back!

As for these particular ads, I, too, was adversely affected by the Weatherby nonsense. What a disgrace! To think that any hunters might have taken that BS as gospel and ignored the mandate of precise shot placement is too much to take!

And forgive me if I quibble a bit with the taste in firearms of David Ommanney as well. Yankee dollars will buy a lot . . . . and sometimes too much.

And our favorite joke in junior high school:

"Did you hear that (fill in the name of an older kid who worked at a gas station) is in big trouble?"

"No, why?"

"He got caught pumping Ethyl!"