Like many of y'all, I came of age in the shooting world via the Herter's catalogue. I have about 400# left, in the original cans. IIRC I paid less than $3.00 a "bag" for it. I got hundreds of pounds of copper plated 7 1/2 shot in 5# cans. I got in on some very neat deals at the Yelm, WA store closeout. They basically had no one in the family that wanted to continue the business. but they sold guns and details of the jc issues are a matter of public record and are available on line. I have no idea where the FFL got conflated with reloading materials and their jungle cock issues. It cost them their FFL and they then lost the sales of reloading items.Īs it turned out this loss of business was the straw that broke their back.they might have survived had it not been for a long line of blatant lies about the products they sold and other grievous errors they committed. Herter's was charged with importing feathers from an endangered species.the jungle cock from India.
#Herters archery equipment license
Hell.you haven't heard the half of it yet!!!Īs I recall at that time one needed an FFL license to sell reloading items such as powder, bullets, primers etc. I still have an old Herters catalog and remember the quick 300 mile day trip visits to Waseca from our central WI farm.had to milk 'em morning and night you know. They had a photo in the archery section of the catalog of the supposed archery taken World Record Dall sheep.killed by Bob Hansen, an Alaskan that later was charged with flying women out into the bush in his Super Cub and murdering them (true story). The brother's recurve bow was a very quick bow but the limb broke.and Bob Barrie was a heck of an archery pioneer and bowhunter. 338 Win Magnum U9 barreled actions from them to make up two big game rifles back in '70.but they were not available. We had a lot of their $10 stock blanks with the roll over combs, a 16 ga shotshell reloading press that was OK, a powder scale that was not OK, a powder measure that was marginal, fishing lures that I don't remember, bulk monofilament line that was junk, and probably a lot more stuff I can't remember. Brother had a Herters square end fiberglass canoe he affectionately named "Lennie" after George Leonard cent but heavy as hell. Between the two older brothers and I we had quite a bit of Herters gear.