Local deer hunters discover charger clips..

[Adam Helmer]

GOB,

The Military Surplus stores of today are not like the stores in the 50s and 60s! Nowdays, they have stone-washed jeans, sweatshirts, etc. In the olden days, we kids bought lots of stuff for a quarter or fifty-cents that we could use.

I bought many web ammo pouches for a nickel or dime and most bayonets were a dollar or two. Web slings were a quarter and leather M1907 rifle slings with brass frogs were fifty cents. They sold quarts of GI bore cleaner for fifty cents and quarts of GI rifle oil for a dollar, and the instructions for use were printed on the outside of the quart cans. Fortunately, the GI bore cleaner was cheaper than a 2-ounce bolttle of Hoppes #9 and the GI stuff saved all my rifle bores from the hazards of the cheap corrosive ball ammo I bought by the bucket full back then.

That old GI bore cleaner cleaned corrosive-fouled rifle bores and one's sinuses at the same time! Ah, if only I could go back for one hour to K's Army-Navy surplus store, I'd fill a lot of empty spaces in my military collection.

Adam