On Apr 17, 9:21 am, wrote:
On 17 Apr 2007 07:06:50 -0700, BJ Conner
wrote:





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.

Don't happen to have either a .256 Win Mag or a 6.4mm-30/40 Krag in
there somewhere, do ya?

TC,
R



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Sold em all at gun shows. Made money on all of them. Had at least
one 30-40.
Gerke is the guy I gave the parachute hooks to. I still have some
Model Perfect keel hooks. The size 4 make great smallmouth flys. I
can tie a little lead wire on them and get big flys to the bottom of
the Umpqa. I had some model something or other size 28 dry fly
hooks. I gave those away while I could still see them.
All the Herters hooks were made in England or Norway. None from Japan
or east of the Suez.