Low Price for Primers in Past

[outasite`08]

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From my dad's collection...$0.99 for a brick of large rifle...

They aren`t a self serve merchandise item anymore. Lock and key.

 

[M14AMU]

Paid right at $500.00 yesterday for some powder! Price had exactly DOUBLED within last 3.5 years!! Thank you Joe Biden!!

 

[perazziguy]

"... 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

I remember when we rented vcr's because no one could afford to buy one...

 

[Old Navy]

I remember when we rented vcr's because no one could afford to buy one...

And about every third time it would not work and you had to take it back for another. Some of the good old days that people keep bragging about.

 

[Straightshooter1]

And about every third time it would not work and you had to take it back for another. Some of the good old days that people keep bragging about.

Yeah, the "good old days" like 1973 waiting in long lines to only get 10 gallons of gas at a whopping 55cents per (like over a 40% increase from the year before).

 

[Evan]

Well here is a perspective:

Average hourly wage in 1972 was $3.80.

Average hourly wage in 2024 was $30.27.

$1 per 100 primers then is equivalent to $7.97 per 100 today in relative wages. That suggests primers don’t cost anymore today than they did then.

 

[chop house]

How many homes had TV's in every room? 3 bathrooms? A vehicle (or two) for every licensed driver?

 

[CJ6]

How many homes had TV's in every room? 3 bathrooms? A vehicle (or two) for every licensed driver?

1 TV, 3 channels sign-off at midnight.

 

[chop house]

1 TV, 3 channels sign-off at midnight.

Oh man, forgot about the national anthem sign off with waving flag video. !!!

" This concludes out broadcast day ..."

 

[boltman13]

1975, my first 1# can of DuPont IMR 4320 was $8.99+ 2% sales tax. 100CCI LRP's were $0.99 +tax. Speer 150 gr Hot Cores box of 100 were about $12.00 as I recall + tax. With my trusty Lee Load All, I quickly fell down the rabbit hole and many thousands of dollars later I consider the friends I made, things I saw and learned, animals I chased, and killed a few, and targets I shot. PRICELESS

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Early 70's (I was an early teen) I also traded bottles for 22Lr. The cafe owners in town always had shells in the basement, I would bring in bottles. Trading for 22's and shot shells if I saved up bottles for awhile. First couple times he asked me if my dad knew. A few years later my mom started baking and making breakfasts at the cafe. By than I had a dirt bike and also needed gas money, bottles no longer could keep up with expenses.

 

[M14AMU]

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!

I've got several empty one # containers marked $1.75

 

[ShtrRdy]

In the 2000's I was doing pistol competitions. I was able to buy a 5000 piece carton for $70.

I've got a 100 piece package I bought in the mid 70's. I think the price on that was $0.69.

 

[Will Henry]

I bought CCI 200's for 7.90 a brick in 1973. From the White Elephant in Spokane. BR2's were 9.90. Those BR2's were just under 2 hrs pay. If I was doing the same job today, I would be making roughly 7 times as much. Do the math.
At the same time, I think a hamburger at Arctic Circle was 24 cents.
The dollar has lost so much value over the last fifty or sixty years that comparisons almost can't be made. They just don't make sense. WH

 

[6MMsteve]

when I first started reloading in 1983 primers were 8.95 a brick, powder was $89 for 8lbs bullets 3.50 to 10.00 for 100

 

[jxb]

They aren`t a self serve merchandise item anymore. Lock and key.

Not at our local Cabelas, bricks are on the normal shelves when in stock. They were behind the counter during the big shortage but this spring they went back to normal shelves and actually some really nice finds on prices too. Trouble is it's totally hit/miss unless you were to visit regularly.

 

[ISS]

I'll be 75 next Tuesday. I used to ride my pony to a discount hardware store in town to buy 22 shells as a kid. Anybody remember 22 shorts for a nickel a box? Longs, dime a box, long rifles were twenty cents. That's a box of 50! The place was so old they had a hitching rail out front. Nickel soda pop, plus two-cents deposit for the bottle.

It's still a wonderful world we live in, we just need to guard the polls to prevent a repeat of 2020.

 

[bluesako]

i know its nowwhere near that price on the pic, but i bought 20.000 of these primers off a RFD years ago for this price in £ pounds, talking about prices, a guy i know just bought his new rifle and scope it cost more than i paid for my house ?

 

[Wild Bill IV]

Oh man, forgot about the national anthem sign off with waving flag video. !!!

" This concludes out broadcast day ..."

Don't stop there!!!
After the sign off of broadcasting, there was that irritating tuning sound and visual picture for tuning for contrast and tint!!!!!

 

[chop house]

Don't stop there!!!
After the sign off of broadcasting, there was that irritating tuning sound and visual picture for tuning for contrast and tint!!!!!

Tint!? we're talking b/w here... hahaha