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Its all a big lie
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You're bluffing!Its all a big lie
Not a good analogy. You're talking about buying several tanks of gas on your own from one party before you buy a car with a partial tank of gas in it from another party.When is the last time you purchased a car without any gas in it?
Chances are had you stocked up on .40 back then, you could have MADE money selling it now. So there's that.Not a good analogy. You're talking about buying several tanks of gas on your own from one party before you buy a car with a partial tank of gas in it from another party.
Somewhere in this thread you mentioned the gun and caliber you want, which was a .40 caliber. I had a Glock 23 for a while, a 40. It was pleasant to shoot with lighter loads but too snappy, I thought, with heavier loads. This surprised me since I enjoy shooting .44 mag revolvers. But then, the G23 was a very light gun. The heavier load would have been no problem in a heavier gun. Fortunately I didn't stock up on the ammo with the heavier load. I bought just one box, as I do with any ammo I have not tried.
I kinda doubt it. I bought the G23 and ammo in the 80s. Internet tells me inflation from 1980 to 2022 is $1 then is equivalent to $3.44 now. So a price then would have to be 3.5X higher to be equivalent. But what about opportunity loss? How would "investing" in .40 cal ammo bought at full retail 30 or 40 years ago and sold wholesale now compare with other investments, such as just putting the money in a stock market fund based upon Dow Jones stocks? Dow Jones for last 30 years to 2020 went from roughly 7,000 to roughly 35,000. That's a 7X difference. So very roughly about half the apparent appreciation in stocks was inflation, but the stocks did manage to appreciate about 3.5X in three decades. At any rate, the ammo price now would need to be 7-fold higher now than then to match a mundane uncreative investment in stocks. Anybody have some boxes of .40 cal ammo from the 80s with price tags on them?Chances are had you stocked up on .40 back then, you could have MADE money selling it now. So there's that.
I didn't know we were talking about the OLD days. All I had then was a Ruger 10/22 that was buried in the closet. I spent all my free time fishing back then. Still have the .22 though. And a couple more now.I kinda doubt it. I bought the G23 and ammo in the 80s. Internet tells me inflation from 1980 to 2022 is $1 then is equivalent to $3.44 now. So a price then would have to be 3.5X higher to be equivalent. But what about opportunity loss? How would "investing" in .40 cal ammo bought at full retail 30 or 40 years ago and sold wholesale now compare with other investments, such as just putting the money in a stock market fund based upon Dow Jones stocks? Dow Jones for last 30 years to 2020 went from roughly 7,000 to roughly 35,000. That's a 7X difference. So very roughly about half the apparent appreciation in stocks was inflation, but the stocks did manage to appreciate about 3.5X in three decades. At any rate, the ammo price now would need to be 7-fold higher now than then to match a mundane uncreative investment in stocks. Anybody have some boxes of .40 cal ammo from the 80s with price tags on them?