From my dad's collection...$0.99 for a brick of large rifle...
Low Price for Primers in Past
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From my dad's collection...$0.99 for a brick of large rifle...
Rube Shooter
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WOW!!! A buck fifty was the regular price.
Coyotefurharvester
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Yep 10X wish I had a pile from the 70's when I started loading.
jds holler
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I'm thinking that the price was .99 per hundred. The 10x on the lable is to clue the checker that the brick holds ten boxes @ .99 each. That was a pretty standard price during the time when that vintage was sold. (ask me how I know) jd
I know he paid $0.99 for that brick, he kept it for this reason...
CJ6
Silver $$ Contributor
Cashiers mistake.
KMART had a sale on 22 shells (early 70s) for CCI hi vel 100 packs 99 cents. Well they marked the sleeve 99 cents (5 100 count boxes) and not the 100 count packs. Picked up 5 sleeves for 5.00 and change (tax). They were priced that way for 4-5 days until they ran out.
KMART had a sale on 22 shells (early 70s) for CCI hi vel 100 packs 99 cents. Well they marked the sleeve 99 cents (5 100 count boxes) and not the 100 count packs. Picked up 5 sleeves for 5.00 and change (tax). They were priced that way for 4-5 days until they ran out.
durand mortenson
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I started reloading in 1973! I don't remember the cost of primers back then, BUT a pound of H4831 (no such thing as SC back then) was $9.95! Not bad!
hoz53
Gold $$ Contributor
yep it was 99 cents per hundred box -i remember them days not so long ago
When I was in high school the minimum wage was $1.15 and I was working after school at a local small town store for $1.00 hr. Buying a box of 50 Winchester HP's at the local hardware store cost me ~$.50. This was in the early '60's.
I remember my grandparents telling me how they use to work for $0.25hr.
LOL, looking back and talking about what things use to cost, is really pointless.
What is best for our economy? Deflation? Stagflation? Inflation?
I know which one adds to one's personal wealth over time.
I should have bought a lot of gold over the year and see where I am now that gold is over $2,500 an ounce. . . .though real estate outperforms gold.
I remember my grandparents telling me how they use to work for $0.25hr.
LOL, looking back and talking about what things use to cost, is really pointless.
What is best for our economy? Deflation? Stagflation? Inflation?
I know which one adds to one's personal wealth over time.
I should have bought a lot of gold over the year and see where I am now that gold is over $2,500 an ounce. . . .though real estate outperforms gold.hoz53
Gold $$ Contributor
the guy that sold me my 1st reloading setup in about that year, when i was in high school, sold me a pound of 4831 in a coke bottle for 3.00
topclass2017
Gold $$ Contributor
In the early 60's I collected soda bottles from neighbors in my wagon, took them to the local mon'n'pop grocery store to get the return deposit, and walked across the parking lot to the hardware store to buy a box of .22LR shells for 49 cents. In High School, I worked at that grocery store for $1.35/hr.
dgeesaman
Gold $$ Contributor
"... two hours of pushing broom
buys an 8x12 four bit room ..."
motel 6 is now motel 60+
the gov't has managed to devalue the usd by factor of ten (except for electronics... anyone remember the original price of VCR's?)
who takes it in the shorts? mostly us old retired pensioners
buys an 8x12 four bit room ..."
motel 6 is now motel 60+
the gov't has managed to devalue the usd by factor of ten (except for electronics... anyone remember the original price of VCR's?)
who takes it in the shorts? mostly us old retired pensioners
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