Hickory, North Carolina (US) Airgun Show November 1-2 2024

Topic starter 05/11/2024 17:54:02

With thanks to Mike.

He says:

Time machine back to about 1975: about a dozen literally NEW FWB, HW, Wischo, and Anschutz classics in their minty Air Rifle Headquarters boxes, with all paperwork and accessories. One of the most jaw-dropping things I've ever seen at a show...but all hoovered up by a well-known dealer...

The gent who brought them was the son of a man who'd had an airgun shop in Chicago (forgive me...forgot names already 🙁). It's long since been closed, leaving a stack of NOS items behind. He told me, "These things have been under my bed for 10 years!"

The stack included 2 Anschutz 250's, 3 FWB 300S's including the tyro in the photo foreground, 2 HW 30S's, 2 HW 55's also including a tyro, a Wischo 55N, and others I'm forgetting. Interesting accessories included 2 HW 55 barrel sleeves - a blued 400g one, and a 900g one with a beautiful matte phosphate finish I've never seen before.

There were other goodies as well, including an NIB Crosman 600, as-new boxes of old pellets and CO2 cartridges, and a 50+ year collection of "American Rifleman" magazines in lovely leather binders, which Mike Abernethy took home.