Before my time

[JayHHI6818]

Looking through ammo and found these. Wonder how old they are?

 

[Bill K]

Remember using them all, small general store sold some of them, and a Western Auto store sold the revelation one's, if I remember right, way back in the 40's and 50's. Mostly in the 22 short.

 

[drover]

I remember those from the 1950's, Revelation was Western Auto house brand and I believe that Hawthorne was Montgomery Ward house brand.

drover

 

[ckrifles]

Seeing those old .22 ammo boxes got me to thinking. When I was a kid (long time ago) my uncle used to butcher pigs for people. He would come by and get me to help. Their was an old country store were you could buy 1 .22 short for 1 penny he would buy one. I worked pretty cheep too.

 

[searcher]

I recall going to K-mart back around 1970 and buying bricks (500) of Federal Lightning lead-nosed LRs for $6.00 on sale. The "better" stuff like Remington High Power, CCI Mini Mag, etc, went for around $10.00 to $14.00.

 

[1shot]

Hawthorne is Monkey Wards, never saw the others.

Lloyd

 

[JayHHI6818]

Thx for the replies. Interesting you could buy at department store and auto parts store. Penny a .22

 

[Bill K]

Before the

Thx for the replies. Interesting you could buy at department store and auto parts store. Penny a .22

Before the coocoo's got involved in ammunition sales, you could find and buy all kinds of the calibers in those days, at grocery stores, gas stations, dept stores and a few others, they had some on the shelves and counters all the time. Even shot shells.
Those were good times and you sure did not hear of all the crimes and problems related to such sales then. Sad that a lot of folks now days did not see that time in history, but then again to do so you must be a old person like me and even somewhat older.

 

[searcher]

Interesting you could buy at department store and auto parts store

Yeah. Used to be able to buy ammo just about anywhere bicycles were sold (Western Auto brings back memories - bought my first .44 Mag there) and at most country gas stations and markets.

 

[SSL]

Yep. I bought my first new shotgun at a Western Auto. Mossberg 500 12-gauge , 28" Vent, modified choke. Decent wood and the full forearm slide. Traded it off, like an idiot. Still miss that old girl.

 

[INShooter]

Then came the Gun Control Act of 1968 and everything started to change.

 

[Outrider27]

What Bill K and drover said; I remember buying the Revelation at my local Western Auto in the late 1950's and early 60s. Not sure about the Hawthorne brand - we didn't have a Montgomery Wards in the town I lived in back then.

 

[SSL]

Monkey Ward also used the Westernfield marking. Still have a 4 X scope that still works after being on everything from a .22 to a 45/70 and 12-gauge slug gun.