Herter's stuff....

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

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?

Herter's was a little before my time. I was in a rod building
club in 7th grade and we all built spinning rods using Herter's
blanks, cork, reel seat, guides and thread. The Herter's catalog
was one-stop shopping for rod builders circa 1969.

--
Ken Fortenberry

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:41:54 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

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?

Herter's was a little before my time. I was in a rod building
club in 7th grade and we all built spinning rods using Herter's
blanks, cork, reel seat, guides and thread. The Herter's catalog
was one-stop shopping for rod builders circa 1969.

Huh? You're MUCH older than me, and it wasn't before MY time.
Seriously, they were still producing the "George style" catalogs into,
IIRC, the mid-70s (definitely the early 70s). I think the name is still
around (it was a year or two ago), but it's about like A & F...well,
nothing in sporting goods is THAT bad, but...

And speaking of A & F....

TC,
R

wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
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?
Herter's was a little before my time. I was in a rod building
club in 7th grade and we all built spinning rods using Herter's
blanks, cork, reel seat, guides and thread. The Herter's catalog
was one-stop shopping for rod builders circa 1969.

Huh? You're MUCH older than me, and it wasn't before MY time.
Seriously, they were still producing the "George style" catalogs into,
IIRC, the mid-70s (definitely the early 70s). I think the name is still
around (it was a year or two ago), but it's about like A & F...well,
nothing in sporting goods is THAT bad, but...

And speaking of A & F....

By the time I started doing a lot of catalog shopping and buying
my own fishing gear Herter's was already out of business. I do
remember the Herter's catalog from the late 60's - early 70's but
the only time I remember actually using the catalog was that time
in 7th grade. A lot of folks have memories of some of the more
outlandish and "PT Barnumesque" aspects of the catalog but I don't
remember any of that.

I assume you're talking about Abercrombie and Fitch ? It's funny,
I was looking at old Hardy reels on eBay and a lot of the classic
lightweight series reels for sale were manufactred by Hardy for
Abercrombie and Fitch.

And what's with this MUCH older crap ? Hell, I'm only 50.

--
Ken Fortenberry

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:06:43 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
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?
Herter's was a little before my time. I was in a rod building
club in 7th grade and we all built spinning rods using Herter's
blanks, cork, reel seat, guides and thread. The Herter's catalog
was one-stop shopping for rod builders circa 1969.

Huh? You're MUCH older than me, and it wasn't before MY time.
Seriously, they were still producing the "George style" catalogs into,
IIRC, the mid-70s (definitely the early 70s). I think the name is still
around (it was a year or two ago), but it's about like A & F...well,
nothing in sporting goods is THAT bad, but...

And speaking of A & F....

By the time I started doing a lot of catalog shopping and buying
my own fishing gear Herter's was already out of business. I do
remember the Herter's catalog from the late 60's - early 70's but
the only time I remember actually using the catalog was that time
in 7th grade. A lot of folks have memories of some of the more
outlandish and "PT Barnumesque" aspects of the catalog but I don't
remember any of that.

I assume you're talking about Abercrombie and Fitch ? It's funny,
I was looking at old Hardy reels on eBay and a lot of the classic
lightweight series reels for sale were manufactred by Hardy for
Abercrombie and Fitch.

"Abercrombie and Fitch?" Never heard of them...are they friends of Don
Imus?

Yep, Abercrombie and Fitch.

And what's with this MUCH older crap ? Hell, I'm only 50.

Oh...um, er...sorry...

....gramps...

TC,
R

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.

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

Christian Herter was not related to George and the folks from
Minnesota.

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.

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?

I never had one, but I was always amused by their duckling harnesses
(used for muskie fishing).

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:19:08 GMT, rw
wrote:

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?

I never had one, but I was always amused by their duckling harnesses
(used for muskie fishing).

A PETA favorite in the making...anyone interested in resurrecting them
for a little, um, street theater?

TC,
R
....I wonder what a baby seal harness for spotted owl hunting might
do...naturally, it would need to be trimmed in force-fed mink and be
packaged with steak tartare, fois gras, and veal recipes...