Pics of old ammo boxes with original price tags

[EUGENE the REALTOR]

I noticed this price tag on a box of 45 ACP (50 rounds) I had laying around. I thought it'd be interesting to see what other members had in the safe, especially the ol' timers...

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[Gene Rojas]

The Gi Joes price tag is awesome too- I miss that store. Dick's can suck itself off.

Geno

 

[Gbirk]

I miss GI Joe's. Even as a kid if my Dad gave me the choice between going to Toy R Us or GI Joe's, it was Joe's every time.

That said, I am surprised at how much that box of 45 cost back then. Pre-pandemic prices were only a couple bucks more than that.

 

[Medic!]

Feels like yesterday.

 

[3MTA3]

I remember seeing ammunition on store shelves.

 

[UNO]

I got this cool (still full) box of 10mm JHPs from the gun room Circa 97'

 

[CountryGent]

Too bad GI Joes is no more.

 

[Wood Worker]

I thought of a few other ancient things that I purchases while Barry was in the white house, but these were more fitting and from about 24 years ago.

 

[WAYNO]

My ammo cabinet is a museum.

 

[Wood Worker]

I just remembered this box was in the safe next to my first side by side, and every time I see it I think of Ash saying shop smart, shop S-Mart.

 

[washagonian]

Back in the mid 80's I remember dropping $10 for a brick of 500 22LR at GI Joe's or BiMart. We'd head-up into the woods and shoot the entire thing. Other than the gas for the truck and forgoing the deposit return on the cans we shot-up, that was the only cash outflow for an entire afternoon of fun.

I remember that 9mm was running about $10 a box back then. About a year ago $10-$12 was about the average, non-sale, shelf price per box of 9mm. Up through this January I could get S&B for $7.50 per box but I had to buy a case of 1000. Even back in the early 90's, 1000 rounds of 9mm reloads from a reputable reloader was running $180 to $200 (w/out brass exchange). Although that did include a 30 cal ammo.

It is amazing that over the past 35 years 9mm prices have stayed about the same, other than those years when things went wacko and prices went up for a while - like right now. I rarely shoot other calibers than 9mm or 22LR (even though I own pistols and revolvers in several other calibers) so I really don't have a feel for their prices over the decades.

It will be interesting to see where things are a year from now.

 

[osprey]

I have many vintage boxes of ammo but very few with prices.

This is a full box of Remington 30-06 core-lokt, you can barely read the price which is $5.90 I believe.

 

[Mikej]

Dang! I got some pretty old boxes, but none of them have price tags? Got this stuff when me Dad gave me his old guns back in '09. That box had been on the shelf in our basement since before I was born I suspect.

 

[bzltyr]

I noticed this price tag on a box of 45 ACP (50 rounds) I had laying around. I thought it'd be interesting to see what other members had in the safe, especially the ol' timers...

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That's vintage

 

[MrTwentyTwo]

About a year ago, I was cleaning out the garage and found these in the bottom of a dusty ol' box! There are 5 bricks of 'em!





If I remember, these are from the late 70's or early 80's. I believe these were selling for about 2-3 times what the MiniMags, or other .22LR were going for, at the time! Look at those... regularly, $1.97 on sale for a buck-77 and if I bought the brick (which I bought 5 of!), they were $1.39! I have both of the packaging showing the infamous RC Cola and Campbell's Soup cans..., blown to smithereens! These were the steel ones... not that aluminum crap!

Ahhhh... the good ol days!

Great thread!

 

[WAYNO]

Great thread!

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Payless was large into the shooting sports market back in the day. In 1975, as I was getting out of the Army, Payless promised me a manager position in their gun department, at $3.50 an hour. When the time came, they reneged.

 

[WAYNO]

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[Runs With Elk]

In 1981 I inherited a 1965 Winchester Model 70 in .338 Win Mag. It was a gift to my grandpa from his employees for Christmas 1965. Due to the war in Vietnam, he bought a lot of ammo between 1966 and 1973 (aparently ammo was in short supply then too, the more things change....). The next year they bought him a complete RCBS reloading set for it, he never opened it because he had purchased so much ammo.

When I inherited the rifle on Christmas eve 1981, it came with 24 boxes of ammo and another bag of about 30 spent .338 WM casings. Attached is a picture of three of the boxes. He had a habit of writing the year that he bought ammo (he did it for all the different cartridges he had). As you can see we have some .338 WM for $6.99 (notice 250 gr. Silvertip) from 1972 and $7.65 from 1973. The box with no price tag is from 1966, wonder what it cost.

I still have one full box of the 250 gr. Silvertips that is almost in pristine condition.

I just recently sold five of those boxes full of never reloaded cases to one of our members on NW Firearms.

Reminiscing and heritage, two of the greatest things about hunting, shooting and guns.

God bless America!

 

[Runs With Elk]

I forgot to mention, for those from Forest Grove, Cornelius, Hillsboro area, you might recognize the Hank's price tag!

 

[Lasers]

Finally have some pics to add to this cool thread.

Some of these are written in pen, does that still count?!