a levergun ad from years ago ....
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a levergun ad from years ago ....
found these ad pictures tucked away on my computer .....
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It's a wonder they ever sold any of those .444 rifles with a crazy price like $124.
Do you have a number where I could order one of those if I can save that much up?
Do you have a number where I could order one of those if I can save that much up?
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Dang! I must be gettin' old. Although I was just a kid, I remember when those guns came out as all the "old heads" were talkin' 'bout 'em.-------------Sixgun
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The good old days when things were cheap and made good.
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Great ads.
Love my triple 4. And those 265 grain Hornadys do the job alright! Best medicine on sambar down here.
Love my triple 4. And those 265 grain Hornadys do the job alright! Best medicine on sambar down here.
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The thing is, I can easier afford a $500 rifle now than I could a $124 rifle back then.Larkbill wrote:It's a wonder they ever sold any of those .444 rifles with a crazy price like $124.
Do you have a number where I could order one of those if I can save that much up?
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I bought one of those .444's, at Woolco (F.W.Woolworth & Co) Sporting Goods Dept for $109 "on sale".
IIRC, it wasn't long, before I took a hacksaw to the barrel, cutting it back to 16" & rasped down the monte carlo comb.
I ended up making my first blackpowder percussion pistol from the 8 inches of barrel I had lopped off.
Here's the 1st ad introducing the .35 Remington in the Marlin 336 in 1950 :
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IIRC, it wasn't long, before I took a hacksaw to the barrel, cutting it back to 16" & rasped down the monte carlo comb.
I ended up making my first blackpowder percussion pistol from the 8 inches of barrel I had lopped off.
Here's the 1st ad introducing the .35 Remington in the Marlin 336 in 1950 :
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And $1.25/hour was the best wage in town.Pitchy wrote:The good old days when things were cheap and made good.
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Wish I had kept my first 444, but I am making do with the one I have now.
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"And $1.25/hour was the best wage in town."
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BINGO! A number of folks seem to remember how "supposedly" economical things were in the 1950's-60's, but forget about the low wages....
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EVERYTHING'S relative. .
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1957 when I was 16 years old I paid $65 for my model 94 brand new. Still have it. I was getting $1.00 a hour working my butt off summers for green giant in a canning factory at the time. My ride was a 1946 chev that I also paid $65s for. Now its more than that every time I gas up! Wish I would have kept the chev. Here I am at about that age. I belive I shot the deer with my shotgun though as we lived in a shotgun slug only county in wisconsin.
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I used to read every gun mag I could from my wages on the neighbours farm. The week I turned 18 and legal to buy a 444 I bought one. It is rare when a young man's impulse even remotely appears to be common sense. It turned out I bought the perfect Canadian hunting rifle. It still shoots straighter than I do four decades and more later!
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redlevel42 wrote:The thing is, I can easier afford a $500 rifle now than I could a $124 rifle back then.Larkbill wrote:It's a wonder they ever sold any of those .444 rifles with a crazy price like $124.
Do you have a number where I could order one of those if I can save that much up?
That is what I was thinking. They are cheaper now.
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Ah yes...my "go to" rifle, the .444 MArlin. My wife bought mine for me 25 years ago. I don't know what she payed, bought it from a friend who bought it new and never used it. I did chop the barrel to 20 inches and add a scout scope...the one in the pics on the South African Safari post....and it shoots like a house on fire..
I still use the original brass from the rounds she got when she bought the gun, and it has taken a few animals over the years, including my warthog in Africa.
The older Marlins, pre-safety, are just awesome guns that shoot forever..
I still use the original brass from the rounds she got when she bought the gun, and it has taken a few animals over the years, including my warthog in Africa.
The older Marlins, pre-safety, are just awesome guns that shoot forever..
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Headed "upta camp"