Ads from 1967.

Mike
I owned one of those Mighty Mites for years. Used it on a canoe and it always started and ran. I paid $100 for it---brings some memories back and that's for sure.
wis boz
 
It says in the ad that you can troll for 15 cents per hour. These days you couldn't burn a candle for 15 cents an hour!

Where's that motor of yours now Boz?

Mike
 
I love the decoy ad. Hand painted plastic, I gotta get me some and throw these dam bulky wood mason and wildfowler decoys in the woodstove. If only I could go back in time as I was born 50-100 yrs to late.
 
Bought a Mighty Mite from Herters in 73. Still have it although I haven't run it in a while.
 
I love these old ads.


I remember you could earn points by selling vegetable seeds to redeem for things like an aquarium, or a hovercraft kit, or even a 22 rifle.


I think I got suckered into some sea monkeys once too.
 
Ad me to the Mighty Might club. Just had it passed to me from dad from grandpa. Dad never got around to getting it "primped", hopefully I can get that done before next season.
 
Thanks for sharing those ads. It reminded me of going through my outdoors "bible" (my Herter's catalog) back in the middle 50s and just dreaming of all those decoys and duck calls a teenager could get.
Al
 
There are a lot of older Field & Stream magazines that are scanned in on Google Books. I often browse through them and look at the old ads and read some of the articles.
 
About the plastic decoy ad. Lots of hunters did toss or trade, their old wood and cork decoys, for New Plastic ones at that time. Many early collectors got good decoys that way. I do believe that Joe French mentions that in one of his many articles. We got some Wildfowlers, that way, unfortunately my cousin Repainted them. Even back then, I knew that was a Bad Move.

I have many old hunting magazines, and love rereading them. Even found Gordon McQuarrie articles never printed in books.
 
you can still buy that russell knife today and it looks the same

quite a bit more money though

http://www.agrussell.com/knives-by-maker-dh-russell/c/943/
 
Vince......Those old repainted Wildfowlers will outlast anything made today. The value is only affected if you go to sell them, but you could still get $40.00 or more for old repaints? Do you have any old repainted Oversize Bluebills? I am in need of one to make into a duplicator pattern.
In case you didn't realize it, Wildfowler Decoy Co. is still in existence. I purchased the company late last year and should making decoys in a month or so. I will be making gunning decoys.

Tim
 
Tim - My cousin still has the repainted mallards. I have a repainted Atlantic Coast Model Broadbill, solid balsa with keel, and a hollow pine Broadbill . Also a oversized Can Drake, OP, Old Saybrook. The only oversized blue bills I ever saw, were in Joe Anderlick's room at Westlake years ago. They were huge, more like magnums. I bought a tucked head Black. I do believe they were from the rig of a Beer Baron.

As far as I'm concerned Wildfowler's were the best factory hunting decoys made, and I guess many are still in service. Good luck, and I look forward to seeing your catalog.

I'm sure any of the quality old decoy dealers can help you out, as can the auction houses. Or put a ad in Decoy magazine, or H&FC.
 
Wow! Hard to believe how pricey the plastics where in 1967 when I'm use to look at gas prices and such and thinking how much more expensive things are now... but makes sense relative to manufacturing methods at the time and hand painting each decoy.
 
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