Off Topic The Burly Arms

I had a mate who I use to go into a hardware store with to buy shotgun cartridges, i can't ever remember seeing them selling guns, but they might have done, if they are selling cartridges for them.

 

And?
Mail order is mail order regardless.

from the same site

Shame, they fetch good money on the Bay....There was a discussion a while back in another section regarding how many older guys on here had their first air and shotguns on the never never from various catalogues in the 70's / early 80's, so I had a look online to see if there were any out there, a late 70's one was up to £30 odd quid

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(that's bids not B.I.N.).

If you look people even sell DVD's of various years of these catalogues, I suppose it is a combination of nostalgia, plus they are a handy reference to styles / products from another era.

ATB, Ed

All catalogues sold them back then under "sporting goods", usually just before the fishing tackle.

 

I had and have still got a BSA Meteor, very similar to the BSA in the catalogue, had it when I was 13, bought my lad a .22 when he was 13 too. Lot more restrictions now than back then but we do get less pigeons than our neighbours.

 

Did they sell them or not?

 

Who, Littlewoods? Dunno mate

 

and?

You said FREEMANS and LITTLEWOODS, that's your and, not some other random catalogue you then choose.

That's like saying you've got a collection of Man UTD match day programmes and it turns out they are a collection of Man CITY programmes

 

I thought Littlewoods was the place you went to pick up a jumper for your nan, imagine her delight when you buy her a gun instead.

 

Yes, yes they did

 

Manic

I think I told this before but when I was 14 yrs in the Guards section of the Sea Cadets my best mate and I used to take home Lee Enfield 303 and 18" bayonets the rifles had the bolts in place but the barrel was cut so if you tried to fire it would blow your eyes out

One evening taking a short cut across the golf course we were stopped by a gang 6 local yobboes who thought the could take the rifles, we fixed bayonets and presented and one of them said oh yehhhhh, so I pinned him to the tree he was leaning against through his jacket, he **** himself and the rest ran home screaming,

I grew up in a tough neighbourhood

 

Perhaps i should have highlighted this bit for the hard of reading

Shame, they fetch good money on the Bay....There was a discussion a while back in another section regarding how many older guys on here had their first air and shotguns on the never never from various catalogues in the 70's / early 80's, so I had a look online to see if there were any out there, a late 70's one was up to £30 odd quid

please log in to view this image

(that's bids not B.I.N.).

If you look people even sell DVD's of various years of these catalogues, I suppose it is a combination of nostalgia, plus they are a handy reference to styles / products from another era.

ATB, Ed

 

I’ll give you that they were available by mail order back then, I don’t ever recall it tbh. But your original post read like you could just order a ****er just like that, they were still licensed firearms then and I’d wager the ordering conditions pointed out on that page would require someone to prove they had a licence before being able to purchase.

 

I had a mate, younger than that, he was in the Sea Cadets, he use to try and get me to join, he was one big fooker though, and went boxing down the gym. Chatham docks wasn't far from me in them days, but life moved on so I never knew what happend to him, but he'd have been suited to the Marines.

 

Mate I'm not that arsed.

 

Pretty sure they sold to anyone, it was up to the purchaser to get a license if they wished to use it.

 

We used to have a shooting range where we fired 303 Lee Enfield barrelled down to fire short nosed .22 ammo

One night there was lad who was very nervous but was persuaded to give it a go, first shot he jerked the trigger and shot the wire holding up the targets up. that was repaired, the instructor said take a deep breath and squeeze the trigger, this time he shot out one of the lights over the targets, third time lucky said the instructor, this time he hid a bit of ironwork holding up the roof, the bullet bounced around the room and hit a wooden door

For some reason we never went back there

The same boys was on a trip with us to the training ship at Portsmouth, and we tried ten pin bowling, he grabbed a bowling ball ran down to the alley, flung the ball as hard as he could but could let go because his gingers where jammed in the ball. he a the ball slid down the alley and he almost scored a strike

He was unlucky or accident prone, probably both, never saw him again after that

 

I still can’t have that like.

 

Times change

 

Just casually reading, and someone called Roger a racist.

Ffs.this is the bloke who reached out and asked everyone to donate shirts to African kids he was helping.

 

Have i mentioned i too served in the cadets. Army branch