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I can’t say about their current catalog, but in the recent past the paper catalog has been both more comprehensive and easier to navigate than the website. Sadly, this is especially true of their books. Dixie has a tremendous selection of books and publications, but the online search function seems to not apply consistently to authors or book titles, and the book section of the website is thoroughly disorganized.

I just checked, and the catalog is still only five bucks… not much at all in today’s money. The tips and tables in the back are a good resource. My latest Dixie catalog is several years out of date, but I still use it to look up items I can’t find on the website. You can get the item number from the print catalog, and enter that in the search box on Dixie’s website to determine current price and availability.

In my opinion, everybody needs a Dixie Gun Works catalog, even if it’s a little out of date. There is no other publication quite like it, although the old Herter’s catalogs from the 1960’s were just as entertaining.

Notchy Bob

EDIT: I haven’t been to any gun shows recently, but the larger shows in my area always seemed to have at least one vendor with a stack of Dixie catalogs. If you find a larger gun show in your area, it might be worth checking. That way, you could flip through the catalog before you buy it to determine whether it meets your needs.
 
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I can’t say about their current catalog, but in the recent past the paper catalog has been both more comprehensive and easier to navigate than the website. Sadly, this is especially true of their books. Dixie has a tremendous selection of books and publications, but the online search function seems to not apply consistently to authors or book titles, and the book section of the website is thoroughly disorganized.

I just checked, and the catalog is still only five bucks… not much at all in today’s money. The tips and tables in the back are a good resource. My latest Dixie catalog is several years out of date, but I still use it to look up items I can’t find on the website. You can get the item number from the print catalog, and enter that in the search box on Dixie’s website to determine current price and availability.

In my opinion, everybody needs a Dixie Gun Works catalog, even if it’s a little out of date. There is no other publication quite like it, although the old Herter’s catalogs from the 1960’s were just as entertaining.

Notchy Bob

EDIT: I haven’t been to any gun shows recently, but the larger shows in my area always seemed to have at least one vendor with a stack of Dixie catalogs. If you find a larger gun show in your area, it might be worth checking. That way, you could flip through the catalog before you buy it to determine whether it meets your needs.
That's what I needed to know. Item numbers from the paper catalogue being entered in the online catalogue.
I spent many, many hours just paging through Mr. Turner's catalogue when I was a kid like it was a Christmas wish book.
Good times indeed.
 
I can’t say about their current catalog, but in the recent past the paper catalog has been both more comprehensive and easier to navigate than the website. Sadly, this is especially true of their books. Dixie has a tremendous selection of books and publications, but the online search function seems to not apply consistently to authors or book titles, and the book section of the website is thoroughly disorganized.

I just checked, and the catalog is still only five bucks… not much at all in today’s money. The tips and tables in the back are a good resource. My latest Dixie catalog is several years out of date, but I still use it to look up items I can’t find on the website. You can get the item number from the print catalog, and enter that in the search box on Dixie’s website to determine current price and availability.

In my opinion, everybody needs a Dixie Gun Works catalog, even if it’s a little out of date. There is no other publication quite like it, although the old Herter’s catalogs from the 1960’s were just as entertaining.

Notchy Bob

EDIT: I haven’t been to any gun shows recently, but the larger shows in my area always seemed to have at least one vendor with a stack of Dixie catalogs. If you find a larger gun show in your area, it might be worth checking. That way, you could flip through the catalog before you buy it to determine whether it meets your needs.


So they still have as much knowledge/tidbits in the new catalog compared to the older one?

Maybe it was TOTW? But I know I read somewhere where someone was saying a catalog with all the info was not available anymore...
 
You need a Dixie catalog! There's a lot in there that you'll never be able to find on the website. You can mark it up and fold pages over when you see something interesting and make notes on the cover. You can read it in bed or the bathroom; try that with a computer. When you've finished with it you can leave it in the outhouse or make paper cartridges from it. You can put it on a chair to stand on to reach the cookie jar. An indispensable item for a black powder shooter and 20 years from now you can look at it and say "I wish I'd bought that gun back when I could have afforded it". Still got my first one from over 50 years ago.
 
That's what I needed to know. Item numbers from the paper catalogue being entered in the online catalogue.
I spent many, many hours just paging through Mr. Turner's catalogue when I was a kid like it was a Christmas wish book.
Good times indeed.
Yep, screw Sears. The Dixie book was the one to have. It is unbelievable how much stuff they could cram into that publication.
Their pages were also better for wiping than the wish book...
 
A number of my old gun catalogs went the ‘recycling’ path during an unsupervised pre-move cleanup years ago. They left along with Herters catalogs and publications like the Gun Digest annuals, basically what I guess one would call the ‘internet’ information source of the day. A few were saved but not many. Priceless in many ways to some that own them, but likely only worth a few bucks to a select few on the open market.

All I believe I have left is a 1990 and late 1990 Dixie catalog. Without checking dates, believe one has Chuck Conners on the cover, the other maybe the Mandrel Sisters. In a file cabinet and I am not going to check right now.
 
Did you get it signed?
Haha!
Actually, yes.
The gal who served me was very kind and talkative. She talked for 45 minutes during checkout as no other customers were there and I was in no hurry. When she gave me my bill I noticed I wasn’t charged for about $150 of powder 😂. She corrected her mistake and we visited some more. She was a gal who had been there awhile and she happily signed her photo in my catalogs.
My dad was a firearms collector and student of history. I ogled all the cool stuff in the Dixie catalog since 1970.
 
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