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going through the gun room, forgot I had kept these. magazine companies would promote their subsriptions by offering prizes, each item had certain amont of subs. to get that item free. there were a lot of different promos in the late 40's and 50's that targeted kids.

I do not remember this magazine, but they are nice reading during these cold winter months. I will pull out older publications like Gun Digest or Shooters Bible and read the articles written up.

Enjoy,

38superman

I remember those ads. I wonder how many youts cashed in on one of those EG's?. Boys Life had them, others as well.

I forgot about boyslife, my mom ordered that for me, it was 3/4 mile to the mail bx, I think I probably run the all the way when it was due.

15 cents/month X 12 is $1.80/year X 45 subscriptions is $81.00 worth subscriptions for 99EG in 1940! (Provided subscription was same as cover price) Of course company planned on subscribers staying more then 1 year with them.
I'm too young to have tried for 99EG, but did sell seed packets and name labels for "prizes" like my 1st sleeping bag, canteen and backpack.

When I was a kid here in Michigan, we sold subscriptions to a farm / outdoor magazine called "Grit." I don't recall any Savage guns offered as subscription sales perks, but other guns were, mostly cheap .22 rifles and shotguns.

I wonder what would happen today if a company developed a marketing plan that involved the use of child labor AND guns as incentives.

Rod

I remember Grit! Hadn't thought about that in many decades. I remember the ads: "SELL GRIT!"

Yessir!! I too was a Grit salesman back in the early 60's. I wasn't a very good door-to-door salesman. That plus a sparsely populated rural area we lived in kept my income pretty low. Truth be told, barely enough to keep me in .22 ammo. Also, the (seemingly) large number of vicious dogs that preyed on bicycle-riding kids kept my efforts to a minimum. I often wondered why they kept me on when I had such a dismal sales record!

On the other hand, evidently my old man was pretty good at it in the mid-40's. I still have the Marlin 81DL he won through door-to-door sales.

I remember Grit very well. They gave you a cloth sack to carry them when you where going from door to door to sell them .

If you didn't read it in Grit then it couldn't possibly be true.