Airguns From Catalogue

[patterdale 672]

Who remembers when you could order an airgun from catalogues like great universal and kays etc and could pay off weekly? How times have changed!

[evenbad 8]

Yep bought a BSA meteor off my mums catalogue, so excited at 14 came with targets and holder

[courser 73]

Do you remember the "Exchange and Mart" ? you could buy an single barrel 12 bore for about £12.00 Posted. No certificate needed!!!

Edited February 6, 2014 by courser

[reaper1064 285]

My mate picked up a Webley Vulcan out of the catalogue for £12 week, I was really jealous

[secretagentmole 1,701]

My dad got a Super Meteor from the catalogue my mother had when the pheasants invaded the garden, he also got a tin of Eley Wasps too!

[paulus 26]

i remember when they sold shotguns too

[walshie 2,804]

Got my first air rifle out of my mum's Peter Craig catalogue. Can't remember if it was a Diana or a Webley. Wonder where that is now?

[whistler1 26]

Ah the good old days.I could never get one....my mum owed them a fortune,Think thair still looking for her :laugh:

[patterdale 672]

i remember when they sold shotguns too

how did that work? did you have to show your cert first.i remember the old type SGC the cardboard ones with no picture on or list of guns owned, just name address post code and stamped.i remember i was sent two by mistake,that wouldn't happen now.my first SG was a single barrel webly bolt action 410,i bought it off my mate for £25 thirty years ago,i was 15 but i didn't have cert for it! not sure if he did either how relaxed the

laws were then.

[The one 8,400]

Shown your age buying airguns out the catuagloue ,but when where shotgun certificates brought out ?

[patterdale 672]

Im 45 this year,dont know when cert were introduced

[paulus 26]

 

i remember when they sold shotguns too

how did that work? did you have to show your cert first.i remember the old type SGC the cardboard ones with no picture on or list of guns owned, just name address post code and stamped.i remember i was sent two by mistake,that wouldn't happen now.my first SG was a single barrel webly bolt action 410,i bought it off my mate for £25 thirty years ago,i was 15 but i didn't have cert for it! not sure if he did either how relaxed the

laws were then.

 

The 1967 Criminal Justice Act required licences - but not registration - for shotguns.

Hard on its heels, the 1968 Firearms Act consolidated existing laws and gave the Home Office the right to set fees for shotgun licenses.

[patterdale 672]

Oh bum good job i registered it on my cert when they changed them to new type with photo etc back in the day.glad i didn't get caught with no cert.was never asked where it came from just put it on new type cert.

[courser 73]

In the early sixties a shotgun licence was ten bob (50p) and you just bought it at the post office! It was just a piece of paper, like a dog licence. A dog licence was 7/6 in old money, (37p). I bought my first Shotgun in 1963 for 6 pounds from a second hand shop and just walked into the town center with the gun broken over my arm with no cover. I walked into the post office with the gun and bought a licence and nobody batted an eyelid (I was fifteen years old). God, I am an old sod.

Edited February 6, 2014 by courser