Ahh the good old days

[ageingstudent]

Hunting and fishing in my day was fantastic. You had a limit of 3 silver salmon so when you went out it was worth the trip.

Special deer tags were issued for areas newly planted with trees and you could harvest 2 deer.

Lots of Elk and bear hunting was a riot.

Lakes full of fish and the bays full of crabs.

Population was a lot smaller and most didn't want to hunt and fish.

Yeah. When I was a kid in the late seventies and early '80s I think there were around 350,000 people in the entire metro area. Wikipedia says it's closer to 3.5 million now. I couldn't stand it anymore I had to get out of there. It has changed so much. Not for the better.

 

[Caveman Jim]

I can remember $.47 for a box of ammo and $.25 a gallon of gas to mow lawns.

 

[Caveman Jim]

I think I have been very lucky to have lived in America, growing up in the 50s and 60s.

Same here. I spent my preteens growing up on military bases and it was just cool to get along with anybody and everybody except for that bully at school.

 

[JadeFox]

I still have a lot of Federal 550rd bulk pack that was $8.88/box.

People use to make fun of me for throwing 1-2 in the grocery cart every week back in the mid-'90's.

Husband used to do the same thing. 550 packs at Wal-Mart for $8.86. I snickered at him. Not so funny now but we still have boxes of it and it shoots great.

 

[ageingstudent]

I can remember $.47 for a box of ammo and $.25 a gallon of gas to mow lawns.

25 cents a gallon? Damn you are old . I remember 45 cents I'm not that much younger haha

 

[bionic knees]

I remember 6 bucks a brick at the Monument store, my cousin and I would burn nearly a brick a day during the best of the sage rat hunting. my uncle had 600 acres of alfalfa and would buy a brick a day as long as he thought we were killing rats. we killed a lot of rats!!!

 

[2ndtimer]

The Mini Mags were always the high dollar stuff. Top shelf. CCI did make about the most Dependable ammo I've ever seen I think they still do for a 22

I remember the mid '70's when White Elephant had the 500 packs of CCI Mini-Mags for $9.99 and the Blazers for $7.99. Being broke college students, we usually opted for the Blazers, reserving the expensive hollow points for "special occasions" which usually involved ground squirrels.

 

[JadeFox]

Husband's grandfather, Roy, would give him a quarter and he'd walk down the board walk in Teneha, TX about 3 stores down to the hardware store to buy a box of 50 .22 longs. When Roy was done at the cafe' they would go sit on the back porch and shoot armadillos that would stroll into the tomato patch. Probably about '51 or '52.

 

[ageingstudent]

Yep. Gosh white elephant I forgot about that. In Beaverton we also had the wigwam. It even had an Indian brave painted right on the false front wall in a canoe. I don't know whatever happened to The Wigwam I guess they just went out of business. GI Joe's probably ran them out of business and then GI Joe's got run out of business .

Interestingly, there used to be a bar in Beaverton called the white elephant as well and my dad and my grandpa would go in there and get schnockered after work haha. My grandma and my mother did not approve haha.

 

[po18guy]

A ridiculous price for 22s!


Oh, except they're 22 Mag.

 

[bellarum]

Haha! I remember the Wigwam on sandy! It had a teepee for the facade. Pretty sure you're right about Joe's pushing them out. I always liked going there sitting in front of my dad on his Suzuki hanging onto the handle bars cross bar. Then we would hit Pappy's or Kings drive-in on 82nd up by the old Maddison HS

 

[ageingstudent]

Haha! I remember the Wigwam on sandy! It had a teepee for the facade. Pretty sure you're right about Joe's pushing them out. I always liked going there sitting in front of my dad on his Suzuki hanging onto the handle bars cross bar. Then we would hit Pappy's or Kings drive-in on 82nd up by the old Maddison HS

I forgot about the one in Sandy!

 

[po18guy]

Haha! I remember the Wigwam on sandy! It had a teepee for the facade. Pretty sure you're right about Joe's pushing them out. I always liked going there sitting in front of my dad on his Suzuki hanging onto the handle bars cross bar. Then we would hit Pappy's or Kings drive-in on 82nd up by the old Maddison HS

Some of my friends' cars ran on Wigwam oil. Like 50¢/gallon and worth it!

 

[ageingstudent]

Some of my friends' cars ran on Wigwam oil. Like 50¢/gallon and worth it!

Wigwam used to buy kerosene from the company that my dad worked for. The one in Beaverton anyway. I saw the price of some kerosene the other day holy crap.

 

[Pete F]

I think that my Dad bought a crate of CCI Blazers and charged us $.50 for 500 in the early 70's. It was some special deal in Shotgun News. I should have bought more, but still have 4 full boxes of 500.

I also got CCI Mini-Mag 100 packs for $.75 in 1977, but I couldn't find them to verify.

Total .22 LR is around 15,000.

Edit: it must have been $.50 per 50, not 500. It just doesn't sound right. The 500 count boxes were marked $.50.

 

[Nosferatu]

You guys are sure brining a new meaning to the term 'necro-thread'!

 

[ageingstudent]

You guys are sure brining a new meaning to the term 'necro-thread'!

Drift happens

 

[bellarum]

Annnnd…drift……
My dad always had Shotgun News laying around when I was in my teens. I would read every ad cover to cover,

 

[ageingstudent]

Annnnd…drift……
My dad always had Shotgun News laying around when I was in my teens. I would read every ad cover to cover,

I read that thing from front to back every time I could steal it from the old man

 

[Caveman Jim]

I bought these for $2 a box of 50. Recently!!!