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j_h_smith · Aug 16, 2015

Combloc said:
Todays prices will seem cheap in just a few years. There are plenty of C&R opportunities out there but you have to pay to play:

That's no joke. I can remember buying run of the mill M1 Garands for $500-$600. Now these same firearms are going for $800-$1000.

That's better than a 7% savings account of yesteryears.

teratos · Aug 16, 2015

j_h_smith said:
That's no joke. I can remember buying run of the mill M1 Garands for $500-$600. Now these same firearms are going for $800-$1000. That's better than a 7% savings account of yesteryears.

I worked at Woolworth's in Harford Mall ~ 1986. We sold Garands for $150 and Carbines for $99.

protegeV · Aug 16, 2015

teratos said:
I worked at Woolworth's in Harford Mall ~ 1986. We sold Garands for $150 and Carbines for $99.

Woolworths sold guns???

I vaguely remember the place from the early 90's when I was a kid and my mom had a small book kiosk in the mall. Didn't raise they sold guns.

DaemonAssassin · Aug 16, 2015

protegeV said:
Woolworths sold guns???

I vaguely remember the place from the early 90's when I was a kid and my mom had a small book kiosk in the mall. Didn't raise they sold guns.

Hechinger's used to sell guns a long time ago too.

shootin the breeze · Aug 16, 2015

teratos said:
I worked at Woolworth's in Harford Mall ~ 1986. We sold Garands for $150 and Carbines for $99.

I didn't work there but remember seeing racks of garands and carbines. Too bad I didn't buy them all. Sigh.

teratos · Aug 16, 2015

shootin the breeze said:
I didn't work there but remember seeing racks of garands and carbines. Too bad I didn't buy them all. Sigh.

Tell me about it. I had a 20% employee discount, too.

Threeband · Aug 17, 2015

I remember a big bin full of Garands at the Security Mall Woolworths back in '86. They were shot-out, ragged-out Korean rifles, probably the infamous Blue Sky imports.

I think about them from time to time, wish I'd bought a dozen. I didn't know enough about Garands back then to pick the good ones with the valuable parts, though, and I didn't have money to waste on junk guns.

I did buy a Blue Sky Carbine a few years later for about $170 or so. I picked it from about a dozen at a gun show. It's always been a good shooter: nothing wrong with it at all.

The Blue Skies were notorious for their huge import stamps, but the joke is, compared to today's billboards, the Blue Sky stamp looks positively discrete. Also, the stamp is on the barrel, not the receiver. If someone bought a shot-out rifle, he could just replace the barrel with a NOS one, and have a nice un-stamped Garand or Carbine.

I remember Lee Enfields for $50 each. Also, it wasn't all that long ago Turkish Mausers were $49 with bayonet, sling, and cartridge boxes.

Phone calls were a nickel, consarn it, and buggy whips were two bits. Dadburned whippersnappers has no respect, doesn't appreciate the sacrifices their elders made so as they can sleep under a roof. In my day, we didn't have roofs. No one did. Most folks were lucky to have three walls. We only had two. Codswallop!

Threeband · Aug 17, 2015

protegeV said:
Woolworths sold guns???

...

One of the nicknames for the STEN submachine gun was "the Woolworth gun". (Also the "Stench" gun, but that wasn't very nice.)

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