Guess my age ????

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

I've seen a Wigwam store, but don't remember where. I'd guess mid 60's on the oil can.

I couldn’t resist anymore so I googled it





Looks like they had a 30 year run

 

[mtmuley]

The .25-35 boxes have the brass in them. mtmuley

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

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The .25-35 boxes have the brass in them. mtmuley

Is it just me or does all the old labeling and the old boxing or old advertising just seem so much cooler than the stuff they do nowadays or maybe I’m just old and nostalgic

 

[mtmuley]

Is it just me or does all the old labeling and the old boxing or old advertising just seem so much cooler than the stuff they do nowadays or maybe I’m just old and nostalgic

The old stuff is pretty cool. I am going to somehow display all the old boxes I have when I get my manroom done someday. mtmuley

 

[Addicting]

Exactly. My great grandfathers.


Been out a couple days but no luck so far

I inherited my grandfather’s as well. I am half tempted to send it out to have it redone, it’s well used. Curious to see if we can get another century out of it.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

The old stuff is pretty cool. I am going to somehow display all the old boxes I have when I get my manroom done someday. mtmuley

Amen to Man Rooms !

 

[Dougfirtree]

I found this a year or two ago, just sitting in the garbage can at my local range, like someone had just finally finished the box. New Plastic!

 

[MarvB]

I remember GI Joe’s when I moved back to Oregon in 87 , I seem to have a faint memory of a WIGWAM in Hillsboro ? maybe I went there with my grandfather in the 70s when I came down on vacation to visit relatives , I think they had a Tee Pee logo in their design . But my memory is very very very faded on the Wigwam is even accurate

If I remember right, they had one in Hillsboro and one in Tigard

 

[44hunter45]

You don't see this a box of 6.5CM.

 

[MTTW]

A couple of shell boxes that I keep on the bookcase in the house. The 12 ga. shells are all loaded. The Silvertip shells were used to cull elk in Yellowstone Park back in the day. The guy that shot them came into the shop that my brother was working at years ago wanting to sell several hundred once fired cases. He had worked in the park and said that damn near every shell had killed an elk, mostly bulls, because that is what was there in the winter when they were shooting them.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

You don't see this a box of 6.5CM.

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From Sweden no less !!!

 

[fishing4sanity]

As long as we're going down Nostalgia Road.....

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

As long as we're going down Nostalgia Road.....
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I like how the peters shotgun shell box says it’s smokeless ! We cant
Be killing critters with a smoking gun .
And how much smoke back in the day came out of a shotgun after you shot it ? before they went to smokeless. These are the random thoughts that go through my mind when I read things like that

 

[duckhunt]

Cleaning and packing for my move , came across this old gun oil can, it’s an antique now , still got oil in it, Must’ve been my dad’s , I have no idea why I have it or when I got it , the old faded price tag looks like it says .29 cents , and was sold at the Wigwam ? Guessing that was an old sporting good store was this a national chain or a local ? I could Google all this stuff , but I’m more curious to find out what other peoples answers are . Anyone got a clue as to when this might have hit the shelves ? Is it 70s or the 60s can’t be 50’s .29 cents seems to expensive for that decade

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I believe my dad had some of that in the late 70s early 80s. That's when I was young and that can looks really familiar.

 

[duckhunt]

As long as we're going down Nostalgia Road.....
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I love the 410 shells. When I was a kid I shot alot of rabbits with my mom's bolt action 410. In the the early 80s would hunt wearing my moon boots.

 

[choc dogs]

Man room. Yep, it’s the living room in my house. OR, my sainted wife lets me display them there

 

[choc dogs]

I found this a year or two ago, just sitting in the garbage can at my local range, like someone had just finally finished the box. New Plastic!

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Have some 3” 1 5/8 left. Great fun to shove in a friends bag during a dove hunt.

 

[BucksnDucks]

Ca Hunting license front and back

 

[mtmuley]

A couple of shell boxes that I keep on the bookcase in the house. The 12 ga. shells are all loaded. The Silvertip shells were used to cull elk in Yellowstone Park back in the day. The guy that shot them came into the shop that my brother was working at years ago wanting to sell several hundred once fired cases. He had worked in the park and said that damn near every shell had killed an elk, mostly bulls, because that is what was there in the winter when they were shooting them.View attachment 207414View attachment 207415

I can shoot those shotshells. I have a Model 12 Featherweight. Cool stuff. mtmuley

 

[Bullshot]

Someday everyone who values and remembers this old nostalgia will be gone….

But it is not THIS day!!!!

Awesome stuff, lets turn every thread into a nostalgia photo thread. Can never get enough.