On Apr 17, 5:48 am, wrote:
OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?

TC,
R

Hereter was the last place I bought parachute fly hooks. They had the
shank bent to form a regular eye and then backwards and then up 90
degrees to a "reqular" eye. that eye being 90 degrees to the shank.
I still have a lot of herters hooks. The parachute hooks I gave
away.
I had a surplus Mexican Mauser ( $18.95 for the barreled action) and a
Herters second stock ( $8.95) that was really sweet.
Herters had lots of good fly tying material ( and lots of gaudy stuff
as well ) that was cheap. The reason they went out of business is
they got in trouble for importing endagered species more than once.
When they went out business they had a small store in suburban
Minneapolis. They brought up lots of stuff from Waseca. I bought
probably 40,000 hooks for maby $20-25. I also bought 75 -80 sets of
reloading dies. All for not very popular calibers like 218 bee,
25-35, 6.5 sweedish, 9.3 x 65 etc. Not an 06, 270 or anything like
that in the lot.
Christian Herter was not related to George and the folks from
Minnesota.