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DocDoc Member Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭
edited August 2017 in General Discussion
When I was a young man I recall the big double rifle cartridges selling for a dollar a piece and I thought "Wow."

Now you can't hardly buy 30-30s for under a dollar a piece.

Just saw an ad for once fired 45/70 brass at a dollar a piece. Empty cases for a dollar each.

Wow.
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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Doc
    When I was a young man I recall the big double rifle cartridges selling for a dollar a piece and I thought "Wow."

    Now you can't hardly buy 30-30s for under a dollar a piece.

    Just saw an ad for once fired 45/70 brass at a dollar a piece. Empty cases for a dollar each.

    Wow.

    And someone with your job was making 10K a year back then. It's all relative.
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • redneckandyredneckandy Member Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gas used to be a quarter too.
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yall gonna make him holler! Don
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've got some new Winchester 25wssm brass, wonder what that is worth now
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One problem with getting old, is you remember when it cost fifty nine cents, and you think it still should, though 60 years have gone by.
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  • dhallz71dhallz71 Member Posts: 247 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Doc--try buying some 505 Gibbs, or some 375 H&H flanged.
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  • DocDoc Member Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't have either of those but I have a couple that are pretty outrageous. Last time I bought 404 cases they were $4 each and that was 15 years ago.
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    .348 Winchester was the one that pushed me into reloading.

    Your library may have a reprinted copy of the Sears catalogue- 1896 and 1902 have been reprinted in hardback. Check out their 69 cent .22 revolver.
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  • buddybbuddyb Member Posts: 5,394 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I sold some used 35 Rem brass for 80 cents each.The buyer was happy to get them.
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It wasn't that many years ago that the CMP was selling Lake City 30-06 milsurp for a quarter.

    Price comparisons over a generation seem to usually track fairly well with inflation. Supply/demand made for investment opportunity.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dhallz71
    Doc--try buying some 505 Gibbs, or some 375 H&H flanged.


    308 Norma Mag.
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    Inflation touches every market.
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • iceracerxiceracerx Member Posts: 8,860 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Copper and brass have increased in price since you were a young man.

    35 years ago Copper & Brass sales in Detroit used to give away 5 gallon buckets of 'cast offs' or scrap 'bar ends'. Those days are well behind us.
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