Memory Trip Friday

[Liven The Dream]

Have Prices Gone Up ?

Forum BoSS: Look carefully — those prices are for EIGHT pounds!

 

[pirate ammo]

So. I used to buy gas for 10 cents per gallon and they'd pump it, check the oil, and clean the windshield.

 

[Rick in Oregon]

I've got some H4831 in a can marked "WWII Surplus Powder" with a price tag of $2.75. We'll never see that again either.

Or how about a more recent box of ammo from just prior to the ChiCom debacle.....remember prices like this?



Yeah, Obiden is in charge now.

 

[Liven The Dream]

I've got some H4831 in a can marked "WWII Surplus Powder" with a price tag of $2.75. We'll never see that again either.

Or how about a more recent box of ammo from just prior to the ChiCom debacle.....remember prices like this?



Yeah, Obiden is in charge now.

Rick could of had Two old Pickle Jars ( 4-5 gal.) Full of WW2 4895 in a Garage Sale two years ago.
Past on it been in the garage for Years No heat.

 

[drover]

Using H4895 as a comparison basis at $58.50 in 1978 calculates it to $246 in todays money. Looking at Powder Valley prices it looks like around $256 for the same item in todays money, so it really hasn't gone up.
Availability is another issue though and if someone is really needing powder they may well have to pay above suggested retail.

drover

 

[Bc'z]

Have Prices Gone Up ?

I remember buying powder from a fella from Bend Oregon at the beginning of this DemPanic.
I believe the price worked out to $15 a pound.

 

[ebb]

I totally miss H870 I would buy several hundred pounds at that price, and drive to pick it up if i had to.

 

[liljoe]

Heck those prices are just about the same as current ones, just a little smaller container now.
Joe

 

[tmwinds]

1978 prices and 2021 income would be nice.
Unfortunately that doesn’t work. If you compare prices and income, powder cost about the same. You also have to discount the temporary gouging that we are seeing.

 

[ckaberna]

Using H4895 as a comparison basis at $58.50 in 1978 calculates it to $246 in todays money. Looking at Powder Valley prices it looks like around $256 for the same item in todays money, so it really hasn't gone up.
Availability is another issue though and if someone is really needing powder they may well have to pay above suggested retail.

drover

I’ll bet the availability of it was better back In 78’. Sad that income hasn’t kept pace with inflation.

 

[Bill K]

I can remember when one local gun shop, in the mid 50's, obtained 55 gal barrels of 4895 and I believe 4831 and we bought it from him for $ .50 a lb. Did we ever shoot our 222 rem and 30-06's a lot.

 

[tygranch]

I bought a set of Central Sights (among other equipment) from O.K. Weber when I got into the High Power game. Great guy with great service.

 

[mike a]

Using H4895 as a comparison basis at $58.50 in 1978 calculates it to $246 in todays money. Looking at Powder Valley prices it looks like around $256 for the same item in todays money, so it really hasn't gone up.
Availability is another issue though and if someone is really needing powder they may well have to pay above suggested retail.

drover

In 1978 I was a private E1 making $419 a month.

 

[Ned Ludd]

The good news is that your money is now only worth a fraction of what it was back then.

 

[old_heli_logger]

FJB

 

[jackson1]

Until the pandemic, felt or told myself prices were mirroring inflation. Price went up, along with my paycheck. Have looked at Gunbroker, just to see where prices were going. Checked the bare shelves at my local dealers and am glad I bought years ago. Worked the trap and skeet desk at my local club on a Sunday a few weeks ago, beautiful day, but only 2 shooters and 4 rounds shot. Back in the day, the parking lot would be full. At least it didn't take me long to load the houses.