Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire who knows much about herters rifles.....pic added

When I was a kid in Texas in the 50s, I was an avid reader of the Herter's catalogues. I had this romantic picture of a store somewhat along the lines of what Bass Pro Shop does today, on a lake somewhere in Minnesota with loons bobbing in the distance. Finally got to Minnesota on a collecting trip about 1977 and detoured by the main Herter's facility. There I found a barn-like metal building adjacent to a corn field! Talk about shattering childhood dreams.

I did , however, buy a nice rough blank of American walnut that eventually (years later) got shaped and put on a good barreled action...

The 300 is in a short action stock I bought to get rid of that ugly ass piece of wood on the .243. The 300 cracked it's stock and started stringing shots vertically, so I hogged out the short action inletting and rough fitted the 300 into it before I ran out of time. A local gunsmith finished it and bedded it so it maybe won't crack the new one. I am not quite sure what I will replace the .243's stock with, but it will likely have to go. It's just too ugly even for a gun that shoots that well.

I think the stock on the 300 came from Hoosier.

Here's my Herters J9 6mm Rem in a Boyds' Laminate

I believe Herters closed down due to the 1968 gun control act.
Before that, you could order guns on-line. I had ordered a 357 and one of my brothers ordered a 44 Mag from them. They were much like a Hawes single action revolvers, I think.
When Herters in Mitchell, SD was closing, my dad and a couple of my brothers went there and bought every Weaver scope they in stock. I think I was in Camp Pendleton guarding prisoners at the time so I missed it. (I was in USMC - not positive where I was though.)

Old guy on my first deer lease had one. He killed a lot of deer with it.

You guys DO realize this is an ancient thread that dates back to 2011, don't you?