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Anybody out there remember Herter's. I have some herters bullets, I was just wondering what happened to the company.
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Yep, I have a Herter's press that a member helped me out with when I was breaking Rockcrusher's. Couple of Herters dies too, 30-06 comes to mind. Les
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I have some of their old catalogs. Its fun to look through those. I don't know when they closed shop.
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Got a Herters cast bullet sizer I bought about 30 years ago. Looks to be a Saeco without the ratchet handle on the lube press.
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I have a couple or three hundred Herter 338 caliber rifle bullets of various weights. Also some 338 Winchester Mag. brass that I bought way back when marked Herters.
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Cabela's owns the Herter's trademark. I think they brought back some of the Herter Decoys and are selling them.
I had picked up a Herter's Recoil reducer that looked like a Flash Gordon device, but never found a Funky enough gun to put it on.
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They went out around 1980. I'm still using Herter's ammo boxes and Dad is using plenty of Herter's reloading gear.
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they were the cabelas/bass pro shop of the day. they even had guns as i remember ordering a piece of junk 22 pistol from them for about 15 bucks. delivered right to your house. those were the days.
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Herters in Beaverdam, Wisconsin, sold hunting equipment until around 1999. They were bought out by Cabela's, and continued to make decoys there. The Cabela's store lasted a few years. About 3 years ago I drove by and the decoy factory part was shut down, as well.
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Herters had a store in Lacey, Washington not far from where Cabelas is today. They had a going out of business sale and I was young, single, and had cash. I got dies, brass, ammo, fishing gear, two barreled actins, rain gear and lots of fishing stuff. The other day, I was getting out some fishing gear to get a friend's grandson started. There were swivels, hooks and weights with the Herters tags on them that were unopened thirty years after the sale. Maybe I went a little overboard?
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They even sold diamonds .The investment grade . They were importers primarily , I'm thinking .
It was the only source we had for reloading supplies in the sixties .
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For kids like like us, in the early sixties, living in backwater towns, no Gander Mountain, no Bass Pro Shop, no Cabelas, no internet, no credit cards.... the Herter's catalog was like another world. Save and save, nickels and dimes, get a money order, fill out an order form, send it to Waseca Minnesota and a month or so later (after you'd forgotten you'd ordered the stuff) it would arrive.
We all hated Jaques Herter Jr., a teenage kid with his picture on every page, hunting and fishing in exotic, far away places. We all probably envied him to.
As I recall, I was always pleased with anything I got from them. I still have a set of their .32 Win. Spec. dies in the original box, and some of the original foam-bodied decoys.
Several years ago my brother gave me a mid-sixties Herter's catalog for Christmas, he'd bought it on Ebay. I love looking through it once in a while.
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I believe the owner died & either the wife or daughter ran for awhile. I purchased lure & rod making kits & supplies from them. Some of their knives were great buys & some junk. Every product was advertised as the worlds best. Many were indeed great buys.
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everything from Herter's was Model Perfect......I had a 6mm Rem they sold on a BSA action in a sort of faux Weatherby stock that shot lights out, but since I could hardly look at it without snickering even at that young age, I sent it down the road. Still have one of their "Canadian" knives floating around somewhere.
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Anybody out there remember Herter's. I have some herters bullets, I was just wondering what happened to the company. The story I heard was that daddy Herter sold flies made with polar bear fur, after having been warned repeatedly it was illegal, following the Marine Mammal Act of 1972. In the following dust up with the friendly feds he needed lots of money to pay his fine and was so disgusted overall, he sold the whole shebang. While I doubt the veracity of the story, but not the teller, it was a good one.
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Herter�s was based in Minnesota and everything was advertised as the "World's Finest". I got sucked in and bought a ton of the stuff (gun stocks, bullets, gun parts, fishing gear) and was never disappointed - it was not of the highest quality - ever! I knew this but as a 15 year old in the '50's kept hoping that their advertising would be honest. It never was, but their catalogs were great!
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I have a Herter's chamfering tool in the box that my Dad gave me a few years ago. I keep it here with my "trophies."
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Been to the Herters store in Waseca many times. Have two Herters shotgun presses, one of which has loaded most everything I've shot for more than 40 years. Have one rifle in .243 that's ugly as sin but shoots as well as any I have. The other is a pretty 300 WM which is easy to drop into an inch. I still have wood left from when they closed. I also managed to get some wood out of the Mitchell store closing. I load with Herters dies in some calibers.
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