remember when???

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borkon

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a friend called the other night and asked if i still had a 250. i said yeh,. he said he had 2 full boxes of old cartriges if i wanted them.???. can't hardly get .22 rimfires for this price
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I did some reloading the other day at my folks house. When I opened the 50 cal ammo box to get primers, I noticed the price tag said $.61.
They are CCI large rifle, and I still got a bunch!
John
 
Those look like September/October 1972 prices, I recall 30-06 at the same prices also.
I have a full box of LC 30-06 shells with a Kmart tag & price of $1.50 on it in my bullet collection.
 
I have a box of Rem. Super speed I bought when I was 13 at
at Carl's Liquor and gun for .34 cents . It showed up in a box at my dad's house.
Try opening a liquor store and a gun shop together these days and then sell a 13 yr. 22 shells and for .34 cents - I don't belive that will ever happen again.
 
I got a Remington 700 22-250 (first year commercial production) A few years back (after 20+ years of trying) from a friend who ordered it in 1965 and had to wait almost 7 months to get it. He also had the two boxs of shells that he purchased the day he picked it up, Rem 55 gr psp, they were marked for $2.69 By the way he said that that is the only ammo he ever bought for that rifle and 2 were missing. I knew that he had not shot it in the 20 years that I had known of but had no idea that he had only shot it twice. Said he just didnt like it as much as he thought he would! Its prolly the only gun that he has ever gotten rid of.
 
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Originally Posted By: fuzzytailYa'll must be some old farts. HA HA!!!!!!!!

Yeah, that's true. Back then History class in high school wernt but two weeks long. But we didn't get no week off at Christmas because He hadn't been born yet!
 
A couple of years ago, I finished up 2 pounds of Topmark powder in 38 Spl wadcutter loads - the price on the cans was $3.84 ! (And yes I'm an OLD fart - I hope you get to be one too!!!) (Check the sig line)
Mark
 
My wifes grandfather who is 92 some odd years old. He gifted me his Colt 1911 that was originally issued to him in 1937 to guard the Denver mint. He also gave me the original box of hardball ammo that he got the same day. Ya have to wonder what a box of .45 auto sold for in 1937 but you can bet it wasn't much.
 
I'm not a spring chicken at 52 but have bought dove and quail loads for a 1.00.(Winchester) Grandfather passed on Winchester single barrel he paid 6.52 in 1930"s at sears in Wilmington NC. Thumbed there and put on layaway and then thumbed there a week later to pay off. Could not buy buckshot to deer hunt so got #2 lead.
 
I remember when we would plan out trip to South Dakota every summer and I would be saving up for my ammo all winter from my paper routes. I would order Black Hills Blue box of 223 a 100 round box for $8.99. I would order 8 boxes for a week trip and then sit and reload 22-250 for a week straight for my dad and it only ended up to $7.00 a box of 100. I still have a couple of old boxes, empty now, of those Black Hills with the price tag still on them. Wow have the times changed. I am getting old but still young at heart. Seems like yesterday we sat all day on a town and my dad would grab the rifle away and tell us "let it cool" and our fingers itched for 20 minutes looking at all the Pdogs sitting there laughing (barking) at us. We sure got revenge when we were allowed to grab them again though. This was up in Winter SD in the late 80s.
 
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How long ago was this?

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I bought the powder form a friends dad about a year ago. I paid him 26$ for eight pounds. This stuff shoots great.
 
Originally Posted By: land308I bought the powder form a friends dad about a year ago. I paid him 26$ for eight pounds. This stuff shoots great.

Now that's just obscene!!!!
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