History, Value to be Found in Gun Seller’s Stockpile

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 6/11/2019 | J Dickson

[Sasparilla]

I bought an M1 carbine from them in the early 1960’s for about $15.00.

[yarddog]

I ordered quite a few when I was young. I had little money but you didn’t need a lot. One of the first was a Chilean 95 Mauser. Workmanship was superb. It was stamped, “Mauser Chileno, Deutsch Waffen Und Muntions Fabriken Berlin” I may have misspelled one of those words as I am going on memory.

Also a Polish Radom, an Astra 400 which may have had the best finish of any gun I have ever owned. Also an Astra 600 with holster and spare mag. A Swedish Mauser. Probably a lot of other ones I can’t recall.

Those were the days.

[mylife]

And somehow mass shootings never occurred.

[mylife]

Circle 11 factory made good stuff.

[norwaypinesavage]

"And somehow mass shootings never occurred."

Of course not. There were too many people around who would shoot back.

[mylife]

Numrich and RobertRTG are great.

[yarddog]

I had to look up “Circle 11 Factory”. Yes they did indeed make some good stuff tho it was marked “VIS” on the early pistol I had.

An interesting design with elements of the Browning Hi-Power, Colt 1911 and Walther P-38.

[mylife]

You could get a 20mm anti tank gun for the price of a mini bike LOL

[afsnco]

I, too, remember the days of mail order guns.

[mylife]

I am sad Bricklee imports burned and all records were lost in the 80’s

[mylife]

VIS is correct.

[knarf]

Is DIXIE still around ?

[mylife]

https://www.robertrtg.com/store/pc/home.asp

[bruoz]

Yep. I bought an M-1 carbine for $17.50 + 2.50 shipping through the DCM that was shipped from the Army directly to me. The good old days (except for Vietnam).

[gundog]

Score one for The Blind Hog Gazette. Love me some milsurps.

[gundog]

Score one for The Blind Hog Gazette. Love me some milsurps.

[gundog]

Score two, then.

[hanamizu]

Is DIXIE still around ?

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Yes they are. But you won’t find $12 Belgian smoothbores...

https://www.dixiegunworks.com

[hanamizu]

There were too many people around who would shoot back.

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While there were lots of firearms for sale and freely available, I don’t remember very many people carrying handguns on a regular basis. In most states concealed carry was very highly regulated. Police had handguns, of course, but not the average guy on the street.