Since I have such a surplus of these things now, I might post them more often.  This is one that I just snagged from the internet; I don't have a hard copy of it.  This was an ad from The Literary Digest of July 14, 1917.

So the American Boy of 1812 is using a muzzle loading rifle, unsupervised except for his trusty dog.  Yet in 1917 the American Boy is reduced to using a BB gun.  I can't help but think that someone somewhere should have already seen that something was going wrong.

Still, note the faux bayonet on the lower air rifle.

Technorati Tags: firearms history

Okay, I finished updating the links to the vintage gun ads, and that's enough for tonight.

I also noticed that the firearms news feeds in the sidebar were hanging up and causing the page not to load, so I removed them.

Read part 1 here.

Nothing today because I'm working on getting most of the graphics hosted at photobucket.  I did set up the usual weekend posts already, and will probably get back to normal tomorrow.

Also I found another possible cartridge for the Wincester 94 and I need to do some research on it.