September 1970

[Lawdwaz]

Gman posted this link in another thread.  If you were born in 50's or 60's and were as hooked on this stuff as I was at an early age you might want to take a look at some of it.  Lots of cool old ads that I remember very vividly.  I had just turned 9 years old when this issue was printed, I can't say for sure that I read that particular one but between Field & Stream & Outdoor Life I was always kept busy............

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=zmoCGEO-nrMC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=german+methods+of+mounting+skulls&source=bl&ots=h7fDUukjQD&sig=exrsBCWpyYMmQnuV_kndCQY-S1k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Q-GgVKbEGYGbgwS-2YOoDw&ved=0CE0Q6AEwDjgK#v=onepage&q=german%20methods%20of%20mounting%20skulls&f=false

[Pygmy]

Cool beans, Larry...

 

When that magazine issue was published I was  20 years old, working as a grocery clerk in an A&P store, awaiting my draft notice from Uncle Sam...

[philoshop]

I would have been 11 (and a half ) and I lived for those magazines. Nice memories.

[First-light]

I remember it all. I lived for OL back then. The ad that did it for me was the Forest Ranger. "sleep under the stars and catch your breakfast from a stream"

become a Forest Ranger! I have some OL that go back to the 60's at my cabin. 

[ants]

That was very cool!!  I was just a kid but I remember a lot of those ads….A friend and I got screwed on the "2 switch blades for $1.98" ad. LOL!!! They weren't even switchblades  and were the cheapest flimsiest things ever. I remember my dad laughing at us after we opened the package on my front porch.  We got the shaft on those damn Sea Monkeys too!!!  Good memories …LOL!!!

 

Thanks..

[genesee_mohican]

I saved some of my Outdoor Life mags from back then and have a few older ones too. Great stuff too look at on a cold winter day.

 

[Uncle Nicky]

That was very cool!!  I was just a kid but I remember a lot of those ads….A friend and I got screwed on the "2 switch blades for $1.98" ad. LOL!!! They weren't even switchblades  and were the cheapest flimsiest things ever. I remember my dad laughing at us after we opened the package on my front porch.  We got the shaft on those damn Sea Monkeys too!!!  Good memories …LOL!!!

 

Thanks..

I got burned on the "X-ray Specs"...I never was able to see what was under Mary Lou's training bra....and the principal confiscated my "spud gun"...memories....

Edited December 31, 2014 by Uncle Nicky

[First-light]

I have a lot of the things that OL magazine offered back in the 60-70's. I have b/w prints that was a set of four. Coasters and a number of patches  for my hunting vest. 

[wildcat junkie]

I started reading the "cheers & jeers" section & found it puzzling how "sportsmen" of that erra were so concerned about enviornmental issues while today we seem to be at odds with conservationists.

[jjb4900]

http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html

this is a great site for looking up history, my family has a pretty lengthy history in our town so I found a lot of good stuff.........back in the day they put every little thing in the local papers

[WNYBuckHunter]

I love looking at those old magazines. Thanks for sharing.

 

 

Check out the Redfield Ad on page 89. "Lead running game more accurately" Whoever wrote that would get harassed right off this forum...

[2012_taco]

Thanks for the memories! I remember reading those old OL and  F&S magazines when I spent the summers at my uncle's cottage on Cayuga lake. Although by sept 1970 I was probably l spending more time looking at his hidden collection of playboy mags!!!

[Lawdwaz]

How about the pet monkey for $17.00 What an awesome pet that would make!

[wildcat junkie]

I liked the Sears ads W/Ted Williams. When I 1st started hunting hear the S. side of the Chicago suburbs in the '60s I bought a lot of my hunting stuff & shotgun shells from Sears. My 1st shotgun was a J. C. Higgins 16ga pump made by High-Standard.

 

Lots of gun ads for brands no longer prevailent. The H&R M300 Bolt gun ad brought back memories & some very high quality European names were also represented.

 

Again I was amazed @ the concern for the enviroment. Almost all of the articles about political/social issues were stressing the need for conservation. I remember how you could see the reddish cast in the air over Lake Calumet & the smog rolling up the Alegheny River in the summer. Pennsylvania did a great job cleaning up coal mine polluted streams in that era, turning many into pretty nice put & take trout fisheries.

Edited January 1, 2015 by wildcat junkie

[greg54]

Some great stuff and memories!!