O boy Chris: Now you do take me back. Yes, my Mom or Dad would give me a nickel or dime and I and a buddy would scrounge up some bottles, sell them and make up the difference, which, as I remember, about .15 a box, for some shorts, as you stated. Good times, but sadly gone, in many ways.Yeah, me too Bill. I'd bum some two-cent returnable bottles from neighbors and then turn them in for the cash. A 50-round box of Revelation .22 RF Shorts cost $0.14(!). Hard to believe how much our currency has been devalued since then.
Chris Mitchell
Western Auto Ammo
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My first real gun was a Revelation single shot .22, probably 1971. Still have it and is now a safe queen.
butchlambert
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I was a Western Auto store manager in Dallas at the Gus Thomason store in the middle 1960s. Most hated job that I ever had.
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
I have a revelation auto 22 which resembles the marlin tube fed without the squirrel stampings on the wood. First non BB gun i remember shooting
You and me, we raised 30 acres. 2 brothers and Dad.
That looks like a early '70's box that was marked up to '80's prices. I remember our home town Western Auto you could get 'big gun' ammo for $4.59 a box. Magnums (.300 WM & 7mm) ran $5.99. The prices never went down after that.
Oh, and .22LR was $3.99 for a brick of .22 LR.
SSL
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Yeah, that sounds about right. As a kid I used to buy boxes (50) of .22 LR hollow-points for 35-cents a box. Little higher than solids. Our area was plagued with groundhogs to the point the County offered a bounty of 50-cents for each scalp brought in to the local courthouse. Our area ranged from hills and gullies to woods bordered fields and lots of creek banks. Not like today when every fence line, brush pile or stand of trees has been rooted out to give more cropland. Back then no one cared about a 10 year old kid and his .22 roaming those hills and farmers were happy to have them shooting groundhogs...as long as you didn't shoot one of their cows. I had dozens of hot-spots and it wasn't unusual for me to get two or three each outing and, on one memorable day, I got eight with my trusty Remington 510. Darned good return on ammunition investment.
okie
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remember OTASCO???
I googled it to see if there was ever one around me. The last store closed in Feb. 2019!
I remember seeing the sign, but can't remember where.
okie
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yeah--I can barely remember them when I was a kid--ours closed maybe early 80's????
could get guns and ammo there.
brokeasajoke
Silver $$ Contributor
Got some lever revolution that does the same thing.Can’t help on the date but I had a box of 30-30 like that and shot it up about 10 years ago. Every neck crackedI was shooting them so I could reload the cases. Obviously didn’t work out.
butchlambert
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Yes sir, Oklahoma Tire and Supply Co. On Saturdays when the folks went to town to shop for groceries and to do the laundry. I headed straight to the OTASCO store. This was in Ada, Okla.
Mark W
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I remember the store, but I had no idea what OTASCO meant.
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