Originally Posted by shootbrownelk
A Winchester model 21 in near unfired condition. A widow was selling off her husbands gun collection because she didn't want guns in her house. A Sheriff's deputy friend of mine was selling them for her. She wanted $250.00 for the model 21. This was 1969 and I was just married and broke. I had to pass.


Same here in '69. If they were selling riverboats for a nickel back then, all I could do is run up and down the bank hollering "Ain't that cheap!"