Old Guys: Remember When..............

[philoshop]

I'll second Doc's nod to Fur, Fish, and Game. They published things like 'expected market prices' by area and updated throughout the trapping season to actual prices. I heavily relied on them when making decisions regarding trap and stretcher purchases when I was 13 or 14 YO. In many ways I knew more about 'market economics' 45 years ago than I do now. :-)

[maytom]

16 hours ago, Lawdwaz said:

A Cabela's catalog was something to get excited about? 

Boy it's been a long time since THAT has happened for me.  I just "fanned" through the latest catalog to make it to our coffee table, the "Spring" edition.  WTF is a "Spring" edition?  Just a bunch of crap from A-Z that doesn't light my wick......

I guess its just a combination of me getting older and the electronic age.  I'm OK with it, it's just a memory anymore (and a good one at that) how years ago you'd dream of going to a Cabela's store.  Now all I have to do is jump in my VW Bug (I'm freakin' kidding!) and drive a half dozen miles and walk into a Cabela's store.  Not Kearny, not Sidney; but CheektaVegas has a CABELA'S!!

Heck, I can have dinner at Mighty Taco then walk next door and shop for more "stuff" I don't need. 

OK, rant over.

It's more for the turkey hunters out there. Just like they have a separate catalog for camping, auto's, bow hunting, cabin/cottage. shooting.

Just think if they came out with only one catalog!!! it would be about 6" thick!!

[dbHunterNY]

i used to get the crazy version of the Cabelas master catalog sent to me.  honestly i never ordered from a catalog though.  i've called cabelas to have them not send me so many.  without fail though i ramp up hundreds in cabelas bucks and go a while without spending any of it.  they send me emails and every catalog they make, to get me to purchase something.  i usually surf the bargain cave or club offers. then pull the trigger and get something free; optics, muzzleloader, processing equipment, lowrance fish finder/gps, etc.

[hunter49]

  TF.   might be too young but I remember the Western Auto. store & the Firestone store on Main st. in Lancaster. They had all their guns & ammo. on shelves behind the counters. People would buy guns & ammo. & walk right down the side walk, street & no one would make anything of it. Now days the cops would be on you like stink on shyt & people would be calling them on cell phones!  Hell I even remember when Main St. wasn't a dead end.

Edited February 5, 2018 by hunter49

[Dom]

16 minutes ago, maytom said:

It's more for the turkey hunters out there. Just like they have a separate catalog for camping, auto's, bow hunting, cabin/cottage. shooting.

Just think if they came out with only one catalog!!! it would be about 6" thick!!

There was a time the catalog covered allseasons.They Cabelas used to send you a hat with every subscription.Other than a few local gunshops/bait stores I first started buy from KMart we didn't have any shops/sporting goods near by.

[turkeyfeathers]

4 minutes ago, hunter49 said:

  TF.   might be too young but I remember the Western Auto. store & the Firestone store on Main st. in Lancaster. They had all their guns & ammo. on shelves behind the counters. People would buy guns & ammo. & walk right down the side walk, street & no one would make anything of it. Now days the cops would be on you like stink on shyt & people would be calling them on cell phones!

How about Joe Basher's on Broadway by Cemetery ? I remember going in there with my Pop. You could buy anything from an oil filter to old paper shotgun shells ,.22 ammo . At that time my dad had a pet raccoon and he'd buy it hard candy. The coon would sit on the back of the seat in the pick up. Reach down into my dads shirt pocket, grab a piece of candy, unwrap it and eat it.  My dad has that old Pepsi cooler in his basement from there.

Don't recall the other store you mention

[mowin]

14 hours ago, Lawdwaz said:

They're ya go....Bowhunter's DISCOUNT Warehouse IIRC..........from somewhere in PA, right?

I bought from them too but I think that was the late 80's?

That's. I was missing the discount.  I graduated in 82, and I think I purchased the bow in '80. 

[Culvercreek hunt club]

16 hours ago, Lawdwaz said:

A Cabela's catalog was something to get excited about? 

Boy it's been a long time since THAT has happened for me.  I just "fanned" through the latest catalog to make it to our coffee table, the "Spring" edition.  WTF is a "Spring" edition?  Just a bunch of crap from A-Z that doesn't light my wick......

I guess its just a combination of me getting older and the electronic age.  I'm OK with it, it's just a memory anymore (and a good one at that) how years ago you'd dream of going to a Cabela's store.  Now all I have to do is jump in my VW Bug (I'm freakin' kidding!) and drive a half dozen miles and walk into a Cabela's store.  Not Kearny, not Sidney; but CheektaVegas has a CABELA'S!!

Heck, I can have dinner at Mighty Taco then walk next door and shop for more "stuff" I don't need. 

OK, rant over.

Yeah but you also had the same reaction to the Women's lingerie section in the JC Penny's Catalog. lol

[RyanT]

4 hours ago, helmut in the bush said:

You guy's are old

LOL Thought I was the only one thinking this... 

[hunter49]

41 minutes ago, turkeyfeathers said:

How about Joe Basher's on Broadway by Cemetery ? I remember going in there with my Pop. You could buy anything from an oil filter to old paper shotgun shells ,.22 ammo . At that time my dad had a pet raccoon and he'd buy it hard candy. The coon would sit on the back of the seat in the pick up. Reach down into my dads shirt pocket, grab a piece of candy, unwrap it and eat it.  My dad has that old Pepsi cooler in his basement from there.

Don't recall the other store you mention

   I remember Bashers. How about Mikes bike shop at Bowen & Clinton St.?  Anyone remember when they started digging Lake Erie ?

[52 farmer]

Dusty's Bait shop,Penora + Terrace Blvd. Depew,remember stopping their for bait with my Dad 5 o'clock in the morning.Not sure what the owners real name was but he was one miserable SOB

[turkeyfeathers]

9 minutes ago, 52 farmer said:

Dusty's Bait shop,Penora + Terrace Blvd. Depew,remember stopping their for bait with my Dad 5 o'clock in the morning.Not sure what the owners real name was but he was one miserable SOB

I used to sell Dusty's nightcrawlers for .03 each. Picked off the tightly mowed tee boxes at Lancaster Country club.

Does anyone still get the Cabela's bible ? That thick azz coffee table catalog book

[G-Man]

Cabela's was always fun to look thru.. never had money to buy anything.. 25 years later I don't buy anything because I have everything.... sigh

[Lawdwaz]

1 hour ago, hunter49 said:

   Anyone remember when they started digging Lake Erie ?

It was already dug by the time I was born in 1961.............

[left field]

 

[Steve D]

3 hours ago, philoshop said:

I'll second Doc's nod to Fur, Fish, and Game

I still get it...just renewed my subscription for two more years. One of the best out there for $15.00 a year. Every issue has something worth reading and a number of issues have something that will capture my attention.

[turkeyfeathers]

6 minutes ago, Steve D said:

. Every issue has something worth reading and a number of issues have something that will capture my attention.

I say the same thing about Playboy

[clayshooter25]

I also bought my first bow from Bowhunter's Discount Warehouse - - Martin Cougar Magnum.  Still have the receipt at home, even though the bow and the catalog company are long gone.

There was also a Fisherman's Discount Warehouse (or something like that - probably the same company in PA).  I used to buy fishing rods from their catalogs and have them delivered.  Since I was so young and didn't have a credit card, I'd order them COD (That is NOT Cod Fish for you young guys, but Cash On Delivery).  I still have every one of the rods I bought all those years ago (late 1970s).

[Steve D]

1 hour ago, turkeyfeathers said:

I say the same thing about Playboy

The problem with playboy is there is nothing there I could buy, use, or learn that would help me be a better hunter, trapper, or caller and the "fur" by itself is probably worth less than a possum.

[Pygmy]

1 hour ago, Steve D said:

The problem with playboy is there is nothing there I could buy, use, or learn that would help me be a better hunter, trapper, or caller and the "fur" by itself is probably worth less than a possum.

Perhaps....But that fur and what it conceals  can and HAS  changed history and moved mountains...

Never underestimate its power....

[Steve D]

15 minutes ago, Pygmy said:

Perhaps....But that fur and what it conceals  can and HAS  changed history and moved mountains...

Never underestimate its power....

I hear ya..just look at what the beaver has done:

 

[hunter49]

2 hours ago, Pygmy said:

Perhaps....But that fur and what it conceals  can and HAS  changed history and moved mountains...

Never underestimate its power....

  Dad always said if you didn't know what it was and for you would never touch it!  lol

[Will_C]

I would read the Cabela catalogs for hours. Like another poster mentioned, in those days I didn't have enough money to buy anything, now I don't need anything.

[The_Real_TCIII]

A Cabela's catalog was something to get excited about? 
Boy it's been a long time since THAT has happened for me.  I just "fanned" through the latest catalog to make it to our coffee table, the "Spring" edition.  WTF is a "Spring" edition?  Just a bunch of crap from A-Z that doesn't light my wick......
I guess its just a combination of me getting older and the electronic age.  I'm OK with it, it's just a memory anymore (and a good one at that) how years ago you'd dream of going to a Cabela's store.  Now all I have to do is jump in my VW Bug (I'm freakin' kidding!) and drive a half dozen miles and walk into a Cabela's store.  Not Kearny, not Sidney; but CheektaVegas has a CABELA'S!!
Heck, I can have dinner at Mighty Taco then walk next door and shop for more "stuff" I don't need. 
OK, rant over.

I wish I had the ones from 20 years ago, they’d be fun to flip through


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[Daveboone]

I don't remember Cabelas catalog as a kid, but I do Gander Mountain. I tied trout flies, so I drooled over the Orvis catalog and several other fishing supply catalogs....names long forgotten. Dixie Gun Works though, wow.....that was and still is a love affair.