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I still consult recipes in George L.'s cookbook. Simple honest fare.

I forgot about the cookbook. Some hilarious recipes in there. Wyatt Earp doves, exactly the way Wyatt ate his most favorite fowl. I remember some recipe attributed to Charlamagne and another that was a favorite of Mary mother of Christ.

I need to dig my copy out for a laugh. Have to look for my Official Northstar Guide Association Guide’s manual too.

The "Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices". Complete with instructions on how to make a proper peanut butter sandwich.

If you stumble onto his complete book of bait fishes grab it. Quite valuable these days.

How about "How to Live With a Bitch"?

Sage advice therein. But I suggest you don't heed it!

You know it! First hand experience with the first one, got a keeper now.

The shell holder adapter for using generic shell holders in the Herter presses is from RCBS. Still in their catalog as of ~5 years ago.
I have an old "C" press. Still in good shape.
Mark and Belle

Just curious as to your handle and your sign-off.

I recall buying fishing line and fish hooks from them. I believe I sent cash in the mail for the orders. That was mid 1960s.

I have some of their old decoy weights

Neat stuff. I didn’t know the history of that brand, Herter’s

By the time I was thru Kindergarten, I had read both full catalogs we had in the house. Color plated of all the lures I wanted...no needed! Asking my Old Man what a 'Tippet" was (as I was in a hurry to be an expert fly tyer) (my dad said it was a leader.) ..true enough but I meant Golden Pheasant Tippets) Any way between Herters and Bonanza them Star Trek it was pretty sweet being a little boy in 1964-5-6.

I become a Herters fan in the early 1960's. It was my dad that I caught the bug from. He had made two Herters fiberglass fly rods that I still have. I have the Herters Pheasant flusher call, the Squirrel call, and the deer call.
Also I refinished the stock on my Remington 510x with the Herters gunstock refinishing kit which I still have in the orginal box.,. What else? I still have a partial can of their
Bear Grease leather hunting boot dressing. That stuff really worked back in the day before Gortex. I still have a very worn out pair of their Hudson bay leather boots. I also have a Herters metal match case and the Improved Bowie knife that has butchered many Whitetail deer. . I still have a number 80 Catalogue from 1970 on my bookshelf. I need to take a look and relieve my youth. As I recall it was the only complete mail order catalogue to order hunting and fishing gear in the 1960's

300 Savage

300Savage, everytime you post I think...WTH, I didn't post on that forum! Bet your Dad had a M99EG too.

300 Savage. My dad was a bow hunter. Bear Grizzly Recurve, vintage 1957. The neighbor across the street was a gun hunter, he used a Savage 99 in 300 Savage. I still remember as a kid seeing a cars come down the street with a buck tied to the roof rack on a station wagon and the hunter showing the retrieved bullet stuck in the fired shell casing. The hunters would head to the north woods of the lowerr or even take the ferry across the Straits into the upper for the really big bucks.

I ordered some of their 4 blade Broadheads in the late 60's or early 70's. Total waste of money that was hard to come by. Blades were warped and there was no way they could be called sharp, To read their description you would have thought they were the best in the world and needed nothing but gluing to the arrow. That wound me up on anything with Herter's name associated with it. I never ordered another thing.

Very nice!

I always enjoyed getting their catalog. I bought a bunch of fishing stuff from them and some reloading stuff mostly for shotguns.
They were pretty heavy into waterfowl hunting.
I still have a scope floating around here somewhere.
I miss the old "mail order" places. Writing a order form, going to bank to get money order, then in week or two getting a package. Good times.