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Originally Posted by dinkydow
Good old days for me was when the local surplus store had hundreds of Mausers, Enfields, 1903 Springfield, 1917 Enfields etc in 55 gallon drums. Before the GCAof 1968. I was 18 years old and could buy just about anything. Department stores had rack upon rack of M1 garands and carbines and huge stacks of ammo for them. An unissued m1 garand was $80.00. A. Carbine was $60.00.
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yeah but that was a lot of money for a youngster back then, I used to make about $20 a week working part time for my uncle, Still wished I knew then what I know now.