DUNKS Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 Bought a shed load of early 1960s monthly GUNS REVIEW magazines today. So much interesting info on older guns. The prices are incredible. For instance an AYA No 3 for £43-10 shillings. A BSA single barrel Snipe for only £15-17-6 Going to keep me quiet for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 Good find indeed! It was one of my favourite magazines back in the 1980’s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 31 minutes ago, DUNKS said: Bought a shed load of early 1960s monthly GUNS REVIEW magazines today. So much interesting info on older guns. The prices are incredible. For instance an AYA No 3 for £43-10 shillings. A BSA single barrel Snipe for only £15-17-6 Going to keep me quiet for a while. The adverts for guns really made your mouth water when you glance in the old shooting mags from that era , my first gun was bought from Darlows in Norwich , it a Webley and Scott single 12 bore that cost £17.00 , this was saved up after working all the Summer in a chicken on the spit shop down near the seafront , this would have been about 1960 as I left school in the winter of 1962 , cartridges were 12/6 a box , this was saved up from what should have been my dinner money from school , happy days indeed . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 49 minutes ago, DUNKS said: Bought a shed load of early 1960s monthly GUNS REVIEW magazines today. So much interesting info on older guns. The prices are incredible. For instance an AYA No 3 for £43-10 shillings. A BSA single barrel Snipe for only £15-17-6 Going to keep me quiet for a while. A today that Snipe won't even make £10 at auction. The other effect of the Labour Government of harold Wilson introducing the Shotgun Certificate. That and the inexorable decline of the ability to take a stroll...with his or her permission...on a farmer;s land to shoot "one for the pot". Nowadays pigeon shooting nothwithstanding the General Licence seems to be all about the money to be made from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunman Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 I had every copy of Guns Review , bar 2 from June 1968 till sometime in the early 90's 's when I felt that it was no longer relevant or giving anything new . I tried several time to sell them .One dealer offered £20.00 if I sent them which would have cost way over that to do so . Sorry to say they went to the tip . Do I regret it doing so ? Only when I read something like this and think OK some one might want them now ,but then think of the space they took up and what I would have done with them in the last 30 years . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 The BSA Snipe was actually a cheaply made gun and not half the gun of the model which it replaced, the BSA Single Twelve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka54 Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 14 hours ago, DUNKS said: Bought a shed load of early 1960s monthly GUNS REVIEW magazines today. So much interesting info on older guns. The prices are incredible. For instance an AYA No 3 for £43-10 shillings. A BSA single barrel Snipe for only £15-17-6 Going to keep me quiet for a while. Yeah Dunks, them prices do look incredible compared to todays. However, when you consider that in the early 1960's the average weekly wage for a manual worker was only £14, that means that the AYA you mention would have cost the average "Joe" nearly a month's wages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 Just now, Tonka54 said: Yeah Dunks, them prices do look incredible compared to todays. However, when you consider that in the early 1960's the average weekly wage for a manual worker was only £14, that means that the AYA you mention would have cost the average "Joe" nearly a month's wages. When the price for the AYA No.3 (then their cheapest double) reached something like the mid fifty pounds region they introduced the yeoman as more affordable for “ “Joe”. The yeoman was introduced, from memory, at £47-10s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DUNKS Posted September 22, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Gunman said: I had every copy of Guns Review , bar 2 from June 1968 till sometime in the early 90's 's when I felt that it was no longer relevant or giving anything new . I tried several time to sell them .One dealer offered £20.00 if I sent them which would have cost way over that to do so . Sorry to say they went to the tip . Do I regret it doing so ? Only when I read something like this and think OK some one might want them now ,but then think of the space they took up and what I would have done with them in the last 30 years . Yep should have kept them but hindsight is a wonderful thing. I was pleased to pay 50p a copy for mine. Not sure i would want all yours though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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