old stuff

[Mescalero]

Found a 50 round plastic box of .22LR Stingers.
Price tag says $2.46 on it, how old do you think that is?

[Blaine]

80's sometime?

[sore shoulder]

Yea, not from this century that's for sure.

[Blaine]

I still have part of a brick of Winchester Wildcats that were 8 something for the brick....I actually remember when shorts were half the price of Long Rifles

[Pete44ru]

Found a 50 round plastic box of .22LR Stingers.
Price tag says $2.46 on it, how old do you think that is?

1976...............



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[Mescalero]

Were Stingers part of the landscape in 76?

[redlevel42]

I still have part of a brick of Winchester Wildcats that were 8 something for the brick....I actually remember when shorts were half the price of Long Rifles

I still have a few bricks of $8.99 Thunderbolts (or are they Cyclones? I'll have to check.) And at least one brick of 1000 lp primers marked $8.99. The primers were around $10.00 to $11.00 until the Great Primer Scare during the first Clinton Administration. About 1994 I believe.

[Washita]

....I actually remember when shorts were half the price of Long Rifles

Ditto. Two bits for shorts, $.35 for longs, four bits for LR's. I shot the LR's in a Winchester 72 that I think Dad paid $12 for, new. I always wanted to use shorts so I could shoot more, but Dad wouldn't let me. It's been awhile.

[hfcable]

I still have part of a brick of Winchester Wildcats that were 8 something for the brick....I actually remember when shorts were half the price of Long Rifles

back when we had a Kmart up here, they would periodically sell bricks for winchester wildcats, remiington or blazers for 7.99, limit of 3 per customer.. i generally bought my alotment of 3 whenever i saw that. that was the late 80s i believe.

i have a 'few' rounds of 22 lr--- havent counted them all but likely well over 20,000 left

wish i had bought three times that many!

[1894]

Just ran across a box of 50 rem thunderbolts 22 lr . $ 1.49 .

poked around a bit and found a box of 20 rem. 35 rem 200 gn core-lokt that has a tag on it for $ 4.50 !!! ( they have been reloaded a time or two since they were bought )

[geobru]

I have a couple of bricks of Red and White box CCI Minimags from the early 70's. IIRC, they were 8 something per brick on sale. I used to wait for the 22 lr wildcats to go on sale for $4.90 per brick.

Recently, I was looking for some Winchester brass and found a couple of boxes of yellow box Super_X Silvertips for $4.59. Sounds like a good deal now, but when you think of what the wages were like, ammo was expensive!

[Pete44ru]

Were Stingers part of the landscape in 76?

AFAIK, they were first introduced in 1975.



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[Mescalero]

I need to come to grips with the fact I am old.

[Chuck 100 yd]

I am still using up powders that have 6&7 $ price tags. I bought my first NEW 94 at
K-Mart for $69.95 on sale.

[bdhold]

shortly followed by 18% inflation during the Carter administration.

[mikld]

Yeah, Yeah ,Yeah. And my first car used $.24 per gallon leaded, regular and during a gas war nineteen cents per gal. I could get a quart of beer and a pack of smokes with a buck and still get change back. When I got hungry away from home I could get a can of sardines and a full loaf of bread for around seventy-five cents, or I could go to Mickey D's and get 15 cent burgers or 17 cent cheeseburgers. And I'm only 65...

I grew up with a father that went through the Depression and I heard storys like this all the time, except his storys were cheaper (nickel loaf of bread. Lard and onion sandwiches, ad infinatum.... ). If I asked him for a half buck for gas to go out on Fri nite, his reply was "what did you do to earn it?" I got real sick of "Depression stories", and how expensive everything is now, "darn Democrats". Kinda like $.49 box of .22 lrs...

[6pt-sika]

I still have one full box of Winchester 22LR Pistol Match left over from a couple bricks my father and grandfather had back when I started shooting about 1968 or 1969 .

Also have a quarter of a 30 cal ammo can filled with metal case M1 carbine ammo left over from the Korean War I believe .

When I was growing up that ammo can was about full and my grandfather used it up over the years . That was about all he shot in the old Carbine . Although he did have one box of Norma 110 grain soft points for it and of course I still have those . He and my father bought Carbines in 1962 so I assume he bought that box of Norma ammo about the same time .