Barnaul - the good old days
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The happy go lucky are easy prey for tyrants.
Don't be foolish. Happy != easy prey.
...or the Norc 1911 with 1k .45 deal
Canam had all the best deals on this side of the 2000s. I went wild when they had the buy 3 get one free deal with Norinco .223. I'd still be shooting the stuff if it hadn't burnt in a house fire.
Hi,
Too bad for me that I got back into this hobby 10 years too late! Even so, when I paid $450 for a really nice SKS, I didn't mind one bit.
Cheers,
Neil
Hi,
I miss the days when Barnaul 7.62x39 was $200/case.
But at least I don't have to pay $.75/round from Cabelas!
Cheers,
Neil
You can blame a lot of that on the rising Canadian National Debt and the lowering of the dollar against other currencies.
Of course, the UN edicts don't help much with that.
I miss the days when the retailers would supply a rifle and ammo not only for free but would pick you up and drive you to the range and back and give you $200 for the privilege of doing business...ah those were the days. Phil.
a shame im too young to remember those days ...
I don't see anyone #####ing, just reminiscing, so being absurd is a bit silly.
C'mon Phil, you're dating yourself now.
That only happened with some extremely high end firearms or an order of several firearms/ammunition.
I went on a couple of those outings back in the day when I worked for Lever Arms and Mr Lever. Depending on the size of the order, sometimes the schmooze included lunch.
God I remember Mr. Lever vividly. First time I met him he was very abrupt but as soon as he found I was spending money he changed his tune. He used to give Dianne and I unescorted access to his warehouse to hand pick Garand rifles and parts. I ran into Mr. Lever at the Shot Show years later and we had a good laugh. Sorry to hear when he passed away. Phil.
I used to take apart pallets of M1 Garands, depending on where he got them, they had to be dipped in a hot Varsol vat, stock and all to get rid of the parasites, small snakes and whatever else came with them.
The rifles that came out of Greece were usually well worn but immaculately clean. Anything from Turkey went into the vat.
I really liked the US surplus rifles, they were almost always clean and functional, but mostly on the verge of being worn out an ready for refits.
Alan could be quite crusty and didn't have much time for "observers" as he called them.
The thing is, his old shop down on Dunsmuir was as much of a museum as it was a retail outlet.
Alan used to brag that he had enough supplies on hand to refit a three masted schooner. There were stacks of everything from mast logs to sails and thousands of feet of hemp rope in his warehouses. If you got into the Garands, you likely got into the warehouse below the store???
There were also a lot of very nice firearms.
