Question for you Oldtimers

[AWS]

I have a neat neck sizing die, it is pretty much a universal die and with the right bushing I could use it for neck sizing just about anything.  It is marked "Riverton Heights Gun Shop  Seattle 88 WN".  Can anyone give me some history or a source for additional bushings?

[Biggerhammer]

Way cool.

[mazama]

Went to riverton heights school but donot remember a gunshop, area is a little north of seatac airport.

[AWS]

I lived in Riverton Heights for 20 years in the 80's and 90's and never heard of it but from the "Seattle 88 WN" suggests it was pre mandatory zip code and pre 1963 when the two letter state abbreviation (WA) was inaugurated .

[Smokeploe]

AWS
I think I found what info you are looking for in an old mag. Date form 1963.
Here is the link: www.gunsmagazine.com/1963issues/G0363.pdf
Go down to page 65
Don't get too lost in reading the articles some are interesting.
Look for a sub title JAX DIES on the left side of the page
Smoke pole


Ps I resent the old timers I'm not old--just aged like wine
Only been reloading 44 years

[AWS]

That sure looks like the source for this die.  From this one example it looks like they made some pretty nice equipment.

Thanks You

[Mauser]

Riverton Heights Gun shop was originally located in a strip mall at 170th and International Blvd, near Sea-Tac. He later moved to a building near Foster. The gunsmiths name was Mort Bossler. I use to stop by there when walking home from school. Mort always welcomed kids. He built my first rifle on a mauser action in 6.5X55. Prior to gunsmithing he was a machinist at Boeing.

[Mauser]

A little additional information here that others seem to be questioning. "Seattle 88" was a postal zone assigned to the Riverton Heights area. Postal Zones were used before zip codes.

[pd]

AWS
I think I found what info you are looking for in an old mag. Date form 1963.
Here is the link: www.gunsmagazine.com/1963issues/G0363.pdf
Go down to page 65
Don't get too lost in reading the articles some are interesting.
Look for a sub title JAX DIES on the left side of the page
Smoke pole


Ps I resent the old timers I'm not old--just aged like wine
Only been reloading 44 years

Where in the world did you find that old magazine?  It was like a trip down memory lane.  Did you notice the advertisement from a gun builder in Bremerton?

[JJB11B]

Read Page 40 of this article

[pd]

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I did.  What changes remains the same.  51 years later...