In a gun related email I received today, a friend stated, "Remember some banks would give you a gun to open an account there." I said, as a kid I remember those ads in the back of some of the gun magazines. Bank Of Boulder comes to mind. Open an account with them with so and so many thousands of dollars, and receive a brand spankin' new......
Weatherby Mark V rifle. And the photo they showed was always an absolutely gorgeous rifle. I assume you would not have been able to touch the money then for a number of years, but I think that was innovative marketing. It seems though if you had that kind of coin to put away and not be able to touch for years, you'd just go out and buy a brand new Mark V. But this way you got your interest money up front first, with something really nice. Did any of you get a Weatherby that way. MM