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It is all relative at the time a nice Norinco Sks that takes Ak mags was $75 but I was making $95 a week.
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That's funny about your dad. My grandpa was the same way. He would buy a box of 25 peters shotgun shells one at a time and he just figured he could get me to do 25 days worth of work on the beef Farm shoveling manure just so I could go try to shoot a gopher with one shell haha. He was a damn good shot. Grew up in the depression. HardscrabbleI picked these up last weekend. Talk about nostalgia! I used to shoot these by the brick back in the mid-'80s.
I remember one time I'd been to Bimart with a friend (I was too young to drive). I bought two bricks because they were on sale for $1 per box. My dad was enraged when I got home and he saw them. He couldn't believe that I'd spent $20 on ammunition. For him, a gun was a farm tool, nothing more. A box of 50 .22LR rounds should last a couple years at least.
This brick cost me $35 last weekend, a lot more than the $10/brick they cost back then. Funny thing though, when you punch the numbers into an online inflation calculator, $10 in 1985 is equivalent to around $28 now, not much less that what they cost now.
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Longs is a drugstore chain in Canada.So I was out testing some 9 mm that I loaded up a couple weeks ago. This guy shows up with his 9-year-old kid to teach him how to shoot. So I watch them do their thing it was kind of a heartwarming father and son moment you know. They had one of those single shot bolt action 22s. I asked the guy if he wanted to let his son shoot my 9 mm carbine and he agreed and the kid was like lights out with it haha. So his Dad goes in his pickup and comes out and hands me a box of 50 .22 rounds. I thought that was mighty nice of him. He didn't have to do that. Check out the price on the rounds
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My Dad had a FFL and subscribed to Shotgun News. My brother and I would also wear them out after my Dad was done.Would thumb through these til worn out!
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$10/brick of 500 round sounds about like it should be, to me too....Hell, these days, I'd even settle at $20.Still hoping for the time when a brick of .22LR gets to be affordable once again, with the state of world events, I'm having my doubts...
This got me thinking, so I put that price into an inflation calculator.People don't realize 93 cents was a lot in the good old days.
A week of buying school lunch was $1.25,for those kids who could afford it. Rest of us took a sack lunch.
You mean its not anymore?!Ahh the good ol days, when tar and feathering was a thing...