Right when before my license came in and was looking at what to buy, anyone else have old pictures from Cabelas or gun stores showing what we had at the time?
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I miss the variety we had, when I was waiting for my license to be approved I would go online and look at all the sales and think what I would get 1st then 2nd and so on..
I feel this for sure the one by my place doesn't even sell used ones anymore :/
And they used to have such a awesome selection of rifle bags! They're all cabela brand now :(
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Most small towns in more rural area that had a home hardware sold guns and ammo at one time. Use to be able to buy ammo there when I was kid. Had to be 12 and have a letter from the Local RCMP and parents permission. Small town I’m from was population 900 in town, and everyone knew who you were. Use to ride to town on my bike, stop at home hardware, pick up ammo for my 22 and 410 and then go hunt rabbits and grouse.
I’ve been hunting since I was 8 or 9 by myself on family land we had back then. My mother use to tell us make sure you take your compass, matches and hatchet when you go out to play even. Good times and ways that are as alien to most people these days.
Our sears, home hardware and drugstore were all in one 3 story building and they sold everything from Tylenol, guns, fishing gear to building supplies, appliances and even some furniture other than flat packed sawdust stuff.
Brother I remember when they had Russian SKS ($75) and mosin nagant ($50) in Alberta gun shops stood up on A frames and they offered a combo ; if you payed $100 you’d get a mosin or SKS of your choosing off the frame with 100 rounds of surplus ammo .
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Haha yes this is about 2 years ago, not really old but since then that’s when the big bans started hitting and prices have sky rocketed and it sucks seeing how much I missed out on
Tbf I felt the same way in 2021 when I got my license. Seeing pictures of the ar-15’s I couldn’t have. Hilarious to think someone looks at a Gsg16 and thinks “if only I could have that”
Sport highlights in my lifetime:
-Sub 300 dollar SKS and SVT 40 rifles
-25 cent non corrosive 7.62x39 ammo
-Canada Ammo M16 pens lol
-TV Press Pass & Civil Advantage
-Sub 700 dollar forged receiver M14s, ARs and CZ 858s
-Sub 2000 dollar .50BMGs
-XCRs finally becoming accurate lol
-1000 dollar NR EHr receivers
-Type 81s
-Easy to find and import Russian Optics
-Good PCCs.... in that order.
You don't have to accept the way things are. Its going to suck but we can get back what we lost if we refuse to accept where we are today. The name of the game is to keep applying pressure on the government for them to lift these useless laws.
Yeah I had a stack of Canadian Access To Firearms magazine/flyers from mid 24 to 26. The front pages in '24 started with Tav 7s and Type 87s and Brens then switched to Cryptos and the Sterling Arms R9 MK1 after the first ban, now it's all high dollar fudd guns and the odd $800 SKS. I was going to take pictures of the front covers and make a post of them in chronological order, but it was just depressing so I threw them in a dumpster..
I got my PAL right befoe the first big ban wave of the 2020s. I wanted an ISSC Mk22 to start with, which was basically a variant of that GSG 15. Then I decided Id go for a Kriss Vector in 22. Double sike.
I ended up settling for a Turkish plinker I - thankfully - have had no problems with, at least.
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Those weren't MP5s. They were .22 semi-automatic rifles that were made to look like them. Cabelas was not in Canada when fully automatic firearms were legal (late 70s).
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