r/canadaguns • u/DarkHeroes5 • 28d ago

Misc Old picture from Cabelas

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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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u/Cornpop_Cat 28d ago

I remember when a Chinese SKS was going for 189 on Black Friday, wish I'd picked up a dozen

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u/cockydildoa 28d ago

Old screenshot on my phone from 2019

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u/TheRealBlue68 26d ago

What ?? 😧😧 when was that… what year ?

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u/alphawolf29 28d ago

I got my PAL in 2007 i think and yea SKS's were regular $179 at the time.

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u/EnvironmentalFox7532 28d ago

Me too, even Home Hardware had them for $199 back in the day and a crate of ammo for $299.

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u/SoldiersofChristBR 26d ago

I didn't know home hardware ever carried guns, never seen any have them.

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u/EnvironmentalFox7532 26d ago edited 26d ago

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.

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u/alter3d 28d ago

$189? Hella expensive. I got mine from Marstar back when they were selling them for $75 if you bought a case of ammo with it.

My order was a case of ammo (1400 rounds), the SKS, a bunch of stripper clips, and some snap caps, order total was $399.90.

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u/FD4L 28d ago

Back when you didnt have to clean an sks after using corrosive ammo, you could just buy a new one every time you wanted to go shooting.

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u/T-Breezy16 27d ago

This makes me big sad

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u/BackToTheCottage 28d ago

Marstar in like 2015 had a $75 Chinese SKS with ammo.

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u/Icecreamandelk 28d ago

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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u/looloopklopm 28d ago

Do you know what year that was?

Would be interesting to see if dumping cash into sks's would have been better than investing in the S&P

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u/Cornpop_Cat 28d ago

2018 or 2019 I think

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u/Dependent_Account603 27d ago

Well for sure. Of course they could have banned the SKS as well.

Thats another question is if they ban the SKS, will the confiscation compensation be 200$ or 800$?

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u/Current-Speed4096 28d ago

a dozen? were you hosting a NDP convention or something?