Old Beeman catalog!

[sekiar]

A great neighbor just dropped off this like nice old Beeman catalog!

 

[GeneT]

That's a little newer than I was thinking of, but I recall when a friend of mine got a Beeman springer and shared the catalog that came with it. That whetted my appetite something fierce, but such guns were outside of my means at the time. Might have helped trigger my airgun obsession in later years however...

GsT

 

[Airgun Al]

Cool piece of history!

The advertisement that really "triggered" my appetite for PCP's, was a 30 second video produced by FX, about 15 or 20 years ago....
Unfortunately, I can NOT locate a copy of the video, even after e-mailing FX directly.
Nobody else, not even FX, seems to remember it.

It was a short video FX advertisement, of a elderly woman knitting, while watching the television....
Birds outside her window were getting really loud, and interupting her knitting while watching television....
So she gets up, calmly grabs her FX rifle, (Revo or Monsoon maybe?) that was proped up in the corner of the room, and takes care of business!
Then she sits back down, and continues enjoying knitting while watch her televison!
The video was priceless, yet I seem to be the only person that remembers it!
Id love to watch it again!

 

[Jimtx200]

Here is my little collection of Beeman catalogs. It is nice to go back and look at old guns.

 

[marflow 777]

the old Beeman and Dynamite Noble catalogs are very handy and collectable
the info and the timeline for a gun is hard to find info about but the old catalogs helps
many a question on a forum was answered by having a catalog

 

[vmaxpro]

I drooled over that for christmas so bad! My dad got me a webley tempest that year. Thanks for the memories!!

 

[maxtrouble]

Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, any gun was verboten. Somehow, I ended up on Mr. Beeman's mailing list when I was still in grade school. I used to receive one or two? catalogs a year. I saved every single one of them. They got tossed as "junk" while I was in the Navy. Man I miss those catalogs! At least I have some high end springers now, all thanks to Mr. Beeman.

 

[houston]

I received a few catalogs back in the 80s . Man, I would drool over the pages....funny thing I still do.

Back then...there was no way in hell my parents would've popped for a rifle.



Thx Doc Beeman

 

[r1lover]

A great neighbor just dropped off this like nice old Beeman catalog!

I followed the original ARH from 1970 until their demise, then Beeman's starting around 1980. I watched the catalogs get thinner and thinner in later years. The number of models and accessories offered shrunk for sure but equally disappointing was the eloquent, glamorous sales pitches that played on your imagination and made you want to buy everything began to fall by the wayside. The catalogs were almost saying "We know you know, that's why you're here. Here's what we have for sale". Even though I eventually acquired many of the models I lusted over in the early years, I still enjoy perusing my old ARH catalogs once in a while just to get that old, magic feeling back again.

 

[DualMagMike]

I like collecting the catalogs and other Beeman items too.

 

[Iowa Airgunner]

I had just gotten my first Springfield 1911 45 auto and when I spotted the P1 magnum on the cover of the Beeman catalog and I had to have it.

Actually sold the Springfield to buy my Tx200.

 

[r1lover]

I like collecting the catalogs and other Beeman items too.

Now that's cool!