How we ordered before the internet

Sidney Smith said:

Yep, and by the time your order arrived, the original excitement of placing said order was long gone, and one almost forgot even ordering the item.

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Not me, it was always like Christmas

All the phone orders were "long distance", but sometimes worth the extra cost b/c some stuff in the catalog would not be available. Tried several times to order one of Dixie's little brass-framed spur trigger percussion pistols. They were always out.

Old DGW catalogs are still fun to read. Bannerman's original catalogs even more shocking. But - in those days, $2.00 an hour wasn't chickenfeed. In the early 60's the few fellows I knew shooting BP shot originals as factory guns outside of DGW and a couple of others hadn't hit the market.

Finding parts was a gunshow thing mostly for us.

flintsteel said:

Heck, I remember $1.00 pound Dupont black powder that came in oval flask shaped cans. Threw away a lot of the empties! Stupid!

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Yeh, the Dupont tin in my collection is marked $1.25 ,,, in grease pencil.. Polecat

I think my first kit build was from Dixie in the 70's. I remember my buddy and I in the 60's ordering our fishing gear from Herters and riding our bikes to the post office hoping the package was there.

Herters!! I miss them. I have one of their catalogs from back when. They were cheap even then.

I ordered a 28 gauge M/L shotgun from DGW in December 1969. It arrived on Christmas Eve. IIRC, the cost was $24.95. It's in the back of the gun safe; hasn't been shot in years.