Old milsurp flyer from 1975

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My buddy had this VERY cool cabinet that was used in a lab building for flammable liquids... nice for all my ammo, I thought... and it locks too.
Only cost me a bottle of whiskey!!

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But what's really cool is that while sorting through all my crap... I found this old flyer when I went to Cegep in Montreal way back then. I remember pining away for the Luger, but really... $275 back then, for a student. Just wasn't in the cards, you know? Beer and girls...hell yeah! Ass, gas and grass... and now I am kicking myself...repeatedly.
Ah well, enjoy!

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Man, was I stupid.
 
man...that looks like my wish/shopping list - every gun on there is on my list!! (and then some). In today's money I am looking at 20-30k for what I want... and many of those I cant have (anymore 12.6 etc)...but there is still hope that OICs are coming to remove the previous OICs... ahhhh....to dream...
 
What I don't understand is why there's not more Liberators and G43 still around in Canada today considering these prices?
 
I was just doing some cipherin' ....

With tax, that Luger would come to $297 ... now, I remember that summer we made $4.25 an hour down at good old Thurso Pulp & Paper, and that was unbelievable money for a student back then.

So, it would have taken 70 hours to buy it. If a decent wage today is, say $25 an hour...that frigging Luger would be $1800 !!!

Guess it wasn't much of a deal, to think of it in those terms. About the same price today??? Too bad that 4 inch barrel is SOOooooo evil !!! Minute you pick one up your all of a suddenly a friggin Taliban-totin' Al Qaida operative... or in some red-neck, nutbar " Mullisha" . Geezus wept.
 
That's awesome! Thanks for posting this. I was thinking about starting a thread asking anyone if they had old flyers. I still kick myself for not getting anything back then, but growing up in a small town made it hard. I didn't realize any of this was out there for sale until it was too late. I think I'll take an M1 carbine for 129.50 and what the heck throw in 10- 30 rd mags at 6.95 each.
 
chofo said:
I was just doing some cipherin' ....

With tax, that Luger would come to $297 ... now, I remember that summer we made $4.25 an hour down at good old Thurso Pulp & Paper, and that was unbelievable money for a student back then.

So, it would have taken 70 hours to buy it. If a decent wage today is, say $25 an hour...that frigging Luger would be $1800 !!!

Guess it wasn't much of a deal, to think of it in those terms. About the same price today??? Too bad that 4 inch barrel is SOOooooo evil !!! Minute you pick one up your all of a suddenly a friggin Taliban-totin' Al Qaida operative... or in some red-neck, nutbar " Mullisha" . Geezus wept.
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True, according to inflation..297.00 in 1975 is the same as 1,256.78 today. I think its more what you could buy and the no mag restrictions.
 
I was tortured by the SIR catalogue every year in the 1970s too, while I was newly married with a baby trying to save up enough money to buy tarpaper, nails and power saw gas for my cabin on the rural property we bought.

Convinced my wife I needed a "spare" rifle in addition to my Remington 243.

Ended up getting two Mosins ($29.95 and $39.95) and a Swede model 96 ($49.95) though. Still have the Swede and the 1938 Mosin.
 
I was a regular "International Firearms Junkie" back then.

I bought 11 of the offerings on those two pages....still have them.....
 
the good old days

HMS Canada Ross rifles with matching bayonet for $125. S M L E rifles in .22 Rimfire for $34.95. Ah, the good old days.

But the late 1950s and early 1960s preceeding this flyer were even better. SMLE #1 Mk.III rifles stacked like firewood for $9.95 each. A complete cased Lewis Gun, spare parts, spare barrel, anti-aircraft sights, 4 drums cost me $65. A UNFIRED 1928 Thompson made by Savage for $125, a No.4 Mk. 1T sniper Lee Enfield, cased, for $85.

But best of all was that there were no Idiotic Gun Control Laws. With a carrying permit you could shoot the full autos on the ranges.

What in Hell happened, besides the Liberal Government?
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From the M917:

"Extremely popular because of the ready availability of surplus and commercial ammo".

If only that were true today. :(

Why didn't you old guys think of the children (AKA ME!?).
 
buffdog said:
HMS Canada Ross rifles with matching bayonet for $125. S M L E rifles in .22 Rimfire for $34.95. Ah, the good old days.

But the late 1950s and early 1960s preceeding this flyer were even better. SMLE #1 Mk.III rifles stacked like firewood for $9.95 each. A complete cased Lewis Gun, spare parts, spare barrel, anti-aircraft sights, 4 drums cost me $65. A UNFIRED 1928 Thompson made by Savage for $125, a No.4 Mk. 1T sniper Lee Enfield, cased, for $85.

But best of all was that there were no Idiotic Gun Control Laws. With a carrying permit you could shoot the full autos on the ranges.

What in Hell happened, besides the Liberal Government?.
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That was enough to take all the fun out of it!!!:(
 
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