Unbelievable mark up on bullets

[bob936]

you just have to compete in the vintage component class

This discussion brings back memories of the early reloading years and the costs. I still have about one half of a gallon paint can of H4831 which my sportsman club distributed in the late 1950's. It was surplus powder. The powder looks as fresh as the day it was sealed in the can. Almost 60 years old and no red rust color. We also used alot of military Ball C 1. in the .222's both for hunting and target. Really "cheap powder" compared to today's prices and performed very well. I still have some 55gr. Sierra, .224 bullets which were $2.69 a box in 1967. Target shooting was expensive in the 1950 early 1960 years which started more shooters to reload to save money. Herters, Krupp, Wells, Belding & Mull and others produced reasonable priced products.

 

[Chuckhunter]

Those box's look a lot older than these.

 

[Burnt Powder]

I’ve got a few pounds of H-4831 out of the 50# I bought from Hornady in January of ‘73. I’ve got a big square, galvanized powder can with some still in it. Still a hand written shipping label on it by Bruce Hodgdon himself. The old Surplus powder still performs better than current off the shelf powder does. Oh, I paid $.70 a pound for it, Mrs. Hornady was so apoplectic about the price, it had gone up from the $.50 @# it had been in December of ‘72. We were getting “reject” .277 and .308 Hornady bullets for from a penny to a penny and a half a piece. Not directly from Hornady but from an old friend who ran a gun shop out of his house in a little “jerk water” town in the middle of Nebraska! He was the largest distributor of Diana and Midas grade Browning firearms in the country in the mid-‘60s. Sold a lot of Safaris too. Of course they could me mailed anywhere in those days, and he sent them everywhere, I know, I licked and sticked some of the labels on the boxes myself. Great days for a gun nut, like me!

BP

 

[Dave Way]

These babies are less than a week old and I guarantee they will be shot at 1K long before I have to worry about corrosion.



Dave.