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Looking back to 55 years ago.

Post by bladeracer » 26 Jul 2021, 2:29 pm

I managed to get a copy of the July 1966 Sporting Shooter recently.
Thought some might enjoy a look back :-)
Cover - 35-new-fangled-cents!
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1966 Sporting Shooting cover
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I was shocked to see this article from Nick Harvey on the .204!
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.204 in 1966!
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Took me some time to realise it's a typo, he's talking about a .240 :-)

What's this RCBS stuff?
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RCBS arrives in Oz!
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Finally we can shoot on Sundays!
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Sunday shooting is a go!
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Police licence required for pistols "for target or protection".
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Handguns for protection!
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Colt Cobra .38 4" revolver for 45 quid!

Super Simplex press for £14/19/6 or $29.95 new-fangled dollarydoos!
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Super Simplex
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CCI Mini-Mags 92-cents a box!
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CCI ammo.
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.22 Hornet 9-cents apiece!
.303 13-cents apiece!

Super Ammo - Victoria made!
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Super Ammunition
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.303 wildcats, .243, .308 - all £4/15/- or $9.50 per 100rds!

Sako L461 Vixen .222Rem for $126.92.
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Sako of Finland
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Cheap air-rifles.
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$18 air-rifles.
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Post by bladeracer » 26 Jul 2021, 2:53 pm

Bushnell scopes.
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Bushnell
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Sportco .22's with "10-shot clip magazine".
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Sportco Rifles.
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Weatherby Mark V Magnums for $279, ammo is 40-cents apiece.
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Krico 600-series rifles.
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Myra 6x43mm "may re-write the name 6mm as an Australian bench rest cartridge" - did it?
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Myra 6x43mm
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Tasco scopes and binos.
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Nikko-Stirling - More in my price range at £12/10/- for the 4x40 :-)
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Nikko-Stirling
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Riverbrand Ammunition - .243 80gn SP 3010fps, not too shabby!
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Riverbrand ammo
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The Shooter's Home. Jungle Carbine .303 $35, but only to property owners or Queenslanders. Everybody else has to pay $55 for a wildcat version!
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Spoilt for choice!
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Sako SE in .243 - appears to be a sporterised Lee-Enfield rifle? 20-quid for the rifle, 90-shillings for 100rds, or eleven-big-copper-pennies per round.
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Post by pomemax » 26 Jul 2021, 4:07 pm

Prices are interesting some still in Pounds I wonder how many of the gun shops are still where they were then
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Post by Lsfan » 26 Jul 2021, 4:34 pm

Quite nostalgic to see all that stuff. It was marketed very differently back then. How big would your safe need to be if those prices were current?
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Post by Die Judicii » 26 Jul 2021, 6:01 pm

I find some of the ads in those early magazines amazing with regard to their choice of "wording"
I saw one the other day in an even earlier, Outdoors issue that wouldn't be allowed to be printed in todays world.
I'll see if I can find it again,,,,, and post it up.
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Post by Shootermick » 26 Jul 2021, 6:46 pm

Lsfan wrote:Quite nostalgic to see all that stuff. It was marketed very differently back then. How big would your safe need to be if those prices were current?


You’d need a big safe these days.
But back then they were probably behind the seat of the ute and under the bed.
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Post by Bugman » 26 Jul 2021, 6:58 pm

Brings back great memories for me.
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Post by bladeracer » 26 Jul 2021, 6:59 pm

Shootermick wrote:
Lsfan wrote:Quite nostalgic to see all that stuff. It was marketed very differently back then. How big would your safe need to be if those prices were current?


You’d need a big safe these days.
But back then they were probably behind the seat of the ute and under the bed.


I kept all mine in the wardrobe :-)
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Post by bladeracer » 26 Jul 2021, 7:00 pm

Die Judicii wrote:I find some of the ads in those early magazines amazing with regard to their choice of "wording"
I saw one the other day in an even earlier, Outdoors issue that wouldn't be allowed to be printed in todays world.
I'll see if I can find it again,,,,, and post it up.


Please do, also anybody else with similar stuff even earlier than this.
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Post by LawrenceA » 26 Jul 2021, 7:01 pm

pomemax wrote:Prices are interesting some still in Pounds I wonder how many of the gun shops are still where they were then

Yes even in the same ad there are some in pds and some in $
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Post by deye243 » 26 Jul 2021, 7:31 pm

Shootermick wrote:
Lsfan wrote:Quite nostalgic to see all that stuff. It was marketed very differently back then. How big would your safe need to be if those prices were current?


You’d need a big safe these days.
But back then they were probably behind the seat of the ute and under the bed.

Most of the houses I went into as a kid they were just hanging on the wall
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Post by Blr243 » 26 Jul 2021, 7:37 pm

DJs mention of WORDING reminds me of a couple of product descriptions I saw the last couple of days....I been haveing an awful time trying to get a bull bar fitted in bris because everyone is flat out and lead times are 3 months so I started to look at lead times in Toowoomba...boomer bars have a standard Bull bar line and aNother line Called FERAL THUMPER ....then I discovered another bull bar company In Toowoomba. They call themselves HOPPER KNOCKER bull bars ....people in the bush are not terribly bothered by this, they are probably just sick of fixing the fronts of their vehicles . Doesn’t bother me what they call themselves. I do what I can to avoid Roos, and I always stop and do the right thing if I hit one
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Post by Harrynsw » 26 Jul 2021, 8:18 pm

Thanks for the glimpse back in time, very cool.
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Post by bah! » 26 Jul 2021, 9:07 pm

Gimme that Sako!
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Post by Sarco » 26 Jul 2021, 9:28 pm

aaaah loverly, but remember, according to the ABS, the average weekly earnings in 1955 was about 14 pound, 14 shillings odd and varied quite a bit across the states.
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Post by Die Judicii » 26 Jul 2021, 9:59 pm

The one particular ad I wanted to post,,,, dammed if I can find it now.
It was for an antique firearm,, and the wording said something along the lines of ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
"probably the same weapon used to kill the chinamans fatherinlaw"

The pics here are from 1960 to 1966 magazines.
> Clayton Firearms are still in business.
>"Ideal for Pigs, Roos etc (can't say that these days)
> Gotta love the ad for Remington semi auto's
> The future of Kangaroos,,, are they going extinct (if only they knew at the time how they would breed up)
> The pig shooting article,,,, (these days "wounded" never gets a mention, let alone,,, they finished them off.
> "He seemed very nearly dead" (Geez, the greenies and PETA would've had a field day on that cameraman.)
> A 35 yd in house testing range ??? ( not these days )
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Post by duncan61 » 27 Jul 2021, 12:33 am

Nostalgia is a good thing.When I first got in to shotgunning in the early 90s I called in on my parent heading North and dad gave me a plastic bag.When I checked it out it had a bunch of plastic clay target shells and 9 cardboard sellior belliot sg cases.I handed out the cardboard sg cases to mates like something out of lord of the rings and when my best buddy died his son and I found one after all those years.He had treasured it and now I have it back.One shot shell to find them all
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Post by wanneroo » 27 Jul 2021, 11:36 am

A load of Mk5 Lee Enfield "jungle carbines" surplus from some country just got imported into the USA. It's funny how much of that surplus is still floating around.
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Post by bigpete » 27 Jul 2021, 2:40 pm

I once had an Outdoors magazine from 1944 from memory that was very interesting reading. Wish I knew where it went
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Post by bladeracer » 27 Jul 2021, 3:02 pm

There's some good stuff there JD, thanks for sharing!

Die Judicii wrote:The one particular ad I wanted to post,,,, dammed if I can find it now.
It was for an antique firearm,, and the wording said something along the lines of ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
"probably the same weapon used to kill the chinamans fatherinlaw"

The pics here are from 1960 to 1966 magazines.
> Clayton Firearms are still in business.
>"Ideal for Pigs, Roos etc (can't say that these days)
> Gotta love the ad for Remington semi auto's
> The future of Kangaroos,,, are they going extinct (if only they knew at the time how they would breed up)
> The pig shooting article,,,, (these days "wounded" never gets a mention, let alone,,, they finished them off.
> "He seemed very nearly dead" (Geez, the greenies and PETA would've had a field day on that cameraman.)
> A 35 yd in house testing range ??? ( not these days )
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Post by on_one_wheel » 27 Jul 2021, 8:07 pm

Awesome.

How much better did the old magazines look in basic print without all the fancy, techno coloured, eye popping, brain straining rubbish.
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Post by bigpete » 27 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm

on_one_wheel wrote:Awesome.

How much better did the old magazines look in basic print without all the fancy, techno coloured, eye popping, brain straining rubbish.


And less ads showing " superhunterman " decked out in all his glory standing atop a mountain in NZ looking glorious....
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Post by Peter988 » 27 Jul 2021, 9:29 pm

Used to be good to read in the barber shop while waiting a haircut. When I had hair.
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Post by animalpest » 28 Jul 2021, 1:09 am

Ahh, when I joined the State government 40+ years ago I was given a .303 and a 4 gallon kerosene tin of ammo.

I have a 1981 edition of Gun Digest which I still occasionally refer to.
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Post by bigrich » 28 Jul 2021, 4:55 am

Thanks for the nostalgia trip . The really interesting one is the lee Enfield that was reworked by sako into a 243 and sold as a sako se. I saw one of these on usedguns about a year ago for $750 ! A rare unique piece made for the Australian market that was organised by someone in the Aussie industry
Who would’ve thunk it ! A bloody sako Enfield in 243 !
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Post by ThePlinkster » 28 Jul 2021, 7:42 am

"Pistols for Target or for Protection"

What the heck :lol:

Was it really legal to use firearms for self defence in Australia back then?
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Post by ClaytonT88 » 02 Aug 2021, 7:07 pm

How cool!
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Post by Larry » 02 Aug 2021, 8:11 pm

ThePlinkster wrote:"Pistols for Target or for Protection"

What the heck :lol:

Was it really legal to use firearms for self defence in Australia back then?


No it wasnt but the advertising laws were very different.
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Post by Downunder » 03 Aug 2021, 1:51 pm

Life without the whinger and social justice warrior platforms, I can remember when I was a child 50 odd years ago dad parking along side the old Ringwood rail station and waking with a rifle in one hand and me in the other a good 5 to 600 Mt back to Melbourne Firearms (which incidentally I believe is still in the same little brick building, I stand to be corrected as it’s been probably 35 years since I’ve been to Ringwood.
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Post by bladeracer » 03 Aug 2021, 2:12 pm

ThePlinkster wrote:"Pistols for Target or for Protection"

What the heck :lol:

Was it really legal to use firearms for self defence in Australia back then?


It was legal then, and is legal now.
It is no longer legal to possess _anything_ for the purpose of defence though.

Ownership of a handgun (or any other firearm) though is a contract in which you agree to secure it as required and use it _only_ for the purposes for which you were granted ownership. Using any firearm defensively will virtually always result in some charges against you, even though they may be dropped later on.
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