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Old ammo prices
cavemanshane
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There!! didn't mean for it to post like it did
I wouldn't mind seeing the old Turkish 8mm ammo back at five or ten cents a round. I regret not buying several cases when it first hit the market. Corrosive primed, and burned dirtier than Unique, but my VZ-24 loved the stuff.
I remember as a kid buying bricks of .22LR at Kmart for less than $10 each
I ran across an empty box where I bought 1000 rounds of Wolf 7.62x39 I paid $90. It would have been around 1997.
Got my first shotgun at Kmart, an H&R single shot .410. $79.95, if memory serves. When I was a kid, my Aunt worked at the hardware store on main street. They always stocked a bit of ammo, and sold a lot of .22s. The owner let her buy ammo at his cost, and a couple times a year she'd grab a brick of CCI Stingers. $19.99 per brick is the cheapest I remember. Been a while, and I still haven't found that time machine....
I bought rifle in 1969 (37.00) Also a box of .22s......for
.37 cents.
I still have bricks of .22 that are in white cardboard cartons that were military? Seven bucks marked on the cartons.
Like this? To be honest, I had no idea that surplus .22 ammo even existed.
got a box of 12ga, 6 shot in the cabinet with a price sticker from J.C. Pennys for $4.99, most folks today would never believe Pennys sold guns and ammo.......
In the early '90s WalMart had bulk pack Federals 550/$8.88. I bought several cases of it. I think I may still have a carton left. I still see it for sale online occasionally. The 550 pack was brownish colored with loose rounds pictured.
I recently did an ammo inventory and embarrassed myself. I might be an arsenal.🤔
Came across boxes of 9mm "reloads" I picked up a some gun show 40 years ago. $5!!
I still have a can of Unique powder with a $2.49 price sticker.
Me too.......
Except my children were kids at the time.
The bricks I bought.......at about 8 bucks each.......were Winchester Dynapoints. Accurate stuff.
I think I still have some stashed somewhere.
You're a kid, I bought bricks of .22 at Western Auto as a kid for $5.
If you are up for a challenge, try to find some 22 Hornet.
I have contacted most of the manufacturers and Remington was the only company that responded with positive news. They are going to make a production run of 22 hornet sometime in 2023, and they said to watch their website for availability.
I pretty much feel like I will have better success staring at the sun.
I still have some CCI Minimags I bought at kmart on a "blue light special" for $1.88 a box (100 rds) back in the early 80s. They are packed away in ammo boxes with silica-gel. They didn't announce a limit, so I bought 10K rounds! I hope when I die my wife doesn't sell them for the labeled price.
I have to laugh every time the subject of cheap prices comes up. Yes, compared to todays cost they do seem cheap. But in 1962 I was paid $1.72 per hour to drive truck and 100 bullets went for $3.00 - $4.50 per hundred and powder was about three bucks a pound, and primers were less than a penny apiece according to The American Rifleman Magazine May, 1962. When I retired I was getting $26.00 per hour and the afore mentioned items (before the drastic price gouging increase) was $15.00 - $25.00 for bullets, Powder was $17.00 - $20.00 and primers $15.00 per 1000. BTW, my boot camp pay in 1964 as an E-1 recruit was $78.00 per month but that did include room and board!!!!
The arsenal bar is pretty low today, HeDog. I was moving over 1,000 pounds of milsurp 30-06 recently and one of my left leaning friends thought 1,000 rounds was a ridiculous amount of ammo. Didn’t have the heart to correct him.🙂
Brad Steele
I have 12ga 7.5 shot from just a few years ago at $5.99. Sears also sold firearms up the early 80s?
Sears had their own line of firearms. I believe JC Higgins produced them.
Actually J.C.Higgins was a brand name used by Sears (there actually was no guy named J.C. Higgins) Sears sold firearms under the Westernfield, JC Higgins, Ted Williams, Revelation, Ranger, and Glenfield names. Those guns were produced for them by Winchester, Marlin, High Standard to name some. Sears produced no firearms, they simply retailed them.
Meriden arms was own at least in part by Sears between 1905 - 1915.
I have a box of 358 Winchester priced at 8.99.
They did (and sold bigger brands, too) and I have a JC Higgins 102.25 12 gauge that was my grandfather's. Stevens made for JCH/Sears from John Browning patent with semi-humpback and poly choke - a little Auto-5 influence with the humpback.
I received my first gun for Christmas when I was 9 or 10 years old. A Winchester 190 I still have it. I think is was about $60 new
Their name was on the guns along with JC Higgins or whatever else. I knew Sears didn’t produce them but they were produced with Sears and Roebuck on the guns.
I miss the day when I ran to a local big box store when they had 9mm on sale and could walk out with 1000 rds of Winchester White box for under 165 bucks out the door....
Last 1000rds I purchased was Herter's at 35 Bucks per hundred rounds....
I remember in the 90's being able to buy an SKS with a thousand rounds of ammo for 99 bucks...
My first was JCH model 30, made by the old High Standard and sold by Sears. It had thousands of rounds through it, and still shot better than I when I sold it last year. $60 in 1960.
If I am not mistaken I think my dad bought a Mossberg 12 gauge from Sears back in the late 60’s
Right, That’s just a good start.
How about 22,000 rounds of .22lr to start?
I have only about half that many 22lr.. more than I will use in my lifetime
Me too, thus the embarassment mentioned above!
Things were cheaper in the past, I hear.
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
Huh Now I know why I cant find anything and when I do I pay through the nose for it!