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crazy prices on used guns

I remember a box of .22LR at .25 at the local grocery store, gas was the same price then. I'd fill the SL100 up for .50 and have enough of that dollar left over for 2 boxes of shells for the local graydigger population. When I was 17, I got a gift certificate for Christmas, it was $100. I was able to get a Remington Model 600 .308 for that and got some change back, but not enough for any ammo. I still have that Model 600, and another in 350 Remington Magnum.
 
350 Rem mag is great black bear or wild hog medicine. In a light and quick handling carbine, exactly what was needed. Too bad folks didn't see it back then. For North America, a .308, a .223 and a 350 Remington Magnum covers all the bases. And with the bonus of all the rifles on the same platform...I am all for as many guns as possible but if one is a minimalist they could get by with those three rifles and a Ruger 10/22. Add a 12 gauge shotgun and a couple of sidearms and a fella could scrape by.
 
I have a 03-a3 that my dad bought from n.r.a in 1961. The bill of sale says $ 4.50 for rifle $10.00 to crate and ship. I checked the serial number and it was made by singer sewing machine co. Action and barrel have been parkerized, green looking, so it means it was sent back to the armory and gone over. It has a small brand, hot iron, logo on right side that was checked over by some col. with his initials. My dad used to shoot it here at local n.r.a. 600 yard matches.It still looks brand new. My uncle bought a new browning medalist .22 at a army px back in the early 70's. I have bill of sale $72.00 with 1 clip and extra clip was $2.50. He gave it to me years ago and its a great shooter. I have a winchester 32-20, its a model 89 or 98 i forget but anyway my granny and great granny used to talk about the rifle and if i remember right only gave $ 8.00 and some hay or beef or something.They had a ranch a lil south of byers,col. My dad and my aunt used to go hunting for rabbits, deer. my granny would give my dad 3 shells and you better come back with at least 2 kills. It was a *** wooping for sure if they weren't HEAD shots lol. My granny would say that because of her strick shooting rules my dad became a great shot with rifle and handgun and she would take credit for some of the matches he won lol. My dad would just roll his eyes LOL. my family would sit around and talk about them days and laugh and just have a good time. I have 20 or so of the black powder shells that he used back then. The bore is messed up a lil from the black powder shells. I shoot it every now and again with modern ammo but im not sure if the new ammo has to much pressure for the ol girl. It is 1 of my favorite guns. I got a bit off topic here.
 
There used to be two stores here call Ames's and Roses's about like a K-mart. they has mosin's for $29.00 and ak's for $85.00 when they had their price wars. Some were ruff to say the least. We would look at them and say we have nice guns home we aint buying these. I go to some of the ak sites here on the inter web and you would not believe what mosin's and old ak rifles and parts are going for, wood stocks and wood pistol grips etc. 7.62x39 spam cans for under $30.00. If i knew then what i know now.........well ya'll know the rest.
 
I don’t know about the rest of you, but back when some of you are referring to, I was making $1.65 hour (74-76), before joining USAF (and hours put in there made it significantly LESS than $1.65 an hour).

And now that minimum wage is $20+, or headed that way, in many places, 50 years from now folks are going to be reminiscing about how nice it was to to be able to a buy a Staccato 2011 for “only” $3000 back in the good old days.

From AI overview “a standard production M1911 cost about $26.38 in 1938 (around $589 today)”
 
And yet, as cheap as guns were back then, people still weren't running around shooting up schools with them (except that one guy in the UT bell tower (and I'm sure a couple of other instances I'm missing). I wish the anti gun crowd (who swear they're not really anti-gun) would take a step back and realize the problem lies with something besides the guns.
 
Mr. Untactical said:
And yet, as cheap as guns were back then, people still weren't running around shooting up schools with them (except that one guy in the UT bell tower (and I'm sure a couple of other instances I'm missing). I wish the anti gun crowd (who swear they're not really anti-gun) would take a step back and realize the problem lies with something besides the guns.
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While that’s a whole other topic, I agree 100%. Even this last one at Brown. Perhaps just a “little” security on the doors (either locked and opened with student ID or staffed by Brown University PD as it was a special Saturday mid-terms study session) AND some type of camera monitoring. I know we’ve had long discussions about camera surveillance here, but I think a college campus (especially with all the violent protests lately, would be a no brainer.

Not sure which talking head mentioned it yesterday, but apparently Brown University used to have over 800 cameras placed for security. Some PhD student used that as a basis for a research project (complaining about the overuse of surveillance), so they removed most of them. Probably shouldn’t base security protocols on student whims.

And, of course, none of that even takes into account what sort of mental deficiency allows someone to just start blasting innocents. No doubt the psychological will always be debated, but physical security is sure cut and dry.

And no one should be under the misconception that guns are the problem. Even with zero guns available, a determined psychotic individual has many other means to kill just as many victims “for their cause”.
 
FMJ said:
I have a 03-a3 that my dad bought from n.r.a in 1961. The bill of sale says $ 4.50 for rifle $10.00 to crate and ship. I checked the serial number and it was made by singer sewing machine co. Action and barrel have been parkerized, green looking, so it means it was sent back to the armory and gone over. It has a small brand, hot iron, logo on right side that was checked over by some col. with his initials. My dad used to shoot it here at local n.r.a. 600 yard matches.It still looks brand new. My uncle bought a new browning medalist .22 at an army px back in the early 70's. I have bill of sale $72.00 with 1 clip and extra clip was $2.50. He gave it to me years ago and its a great shooter. I have a winchester 32-20, its a model 89 or 98 i forget but anyway my granny and great granny used to talk about the rifle and if i remember right only gave $ 8.00 and some hay or beef or something.They had a ranch a lil south of byers,col. My dad and my aunt used to go hunting for rabbits, deer. my granny would give my dad 3 shells and you better come back with at least 2 kills. It was a *** wooping for sure if they weren't HEAD shots lol. My granny would say that because of her strick shooting rules my dad became a great shot with rifle and handgun and she would take credit for some of the matches he won lol. My dad would just roll his eyes LOL. my family would sit around and talk about them days and laugh and just have a good time. I have 20 or so of the black powder shells that he used back then. The bore is messed up a lil from the black powder shells. I shoot it every now and again with modern ammo but im not sure if the new ammo has to much pressure for the ol girl. It is 1 of my favorite guns. I got a bit off topic here.
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Singer didn’t make 03-A3s, only Remington and Smith Corona made them. Probably the S is for Smith Corona. Smith Corona rifles also didn’t have marked parts due to wartime production.
 
GPS I just checked the o3-a3 and you are CORRECT it has US over top of Smith Corona then serial number under Smith corona. There is a door on the butt plate and inside the stock there is a plastic tube with yellow ends that has a small screw driver fastened to 1 of the caps other is just a cap.inside the tube is a brush and some coiled up string. I'm glad you know about these rifles.
 
FMJ said:
GPS I just checked the o3-a3 and you are CORRECT it has US over top of Smith Corona then serial number under Smith corona. There is a door on the butt plate and inside the stock there is a plastic tube with yellow ends that has a small screw driver fastened to 1 of the caps other is just a cap.inside the tube is a brush and some coiled up string. I'm glad you know about these rifles.
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You bought a typewriter? :unsure:
 
Good clean fun don't come cheap. Buy what you like and shoot the heck out of it.
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On the right side of stock just behind where the cut out is for the safety there is a 1" wide x 1/2" tall scribed outline of a box with the initials FJA in it is that the guy who inspected it? From what i can find in 1944 smith corona serial numbers ran from 4708000 - 4992000 my numbers falls in between. thanks for the info, some crack head at a gun show 1 time give me all wrong info.
 
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