Rockinbbar: My father and my Uncles (his older brothers) often told how they kept themselves in 22 ammunition back in the 1930's as children (my father was born in 1922). There was a bounty on Ground Squirrels in the country around Baker City, Oregon. The bounty was one penny per tail and they had one old pump Winchester Rifle to Hunt them with.
They took turns shooting the Ground Squirrels and because their family was dirt poor they HAD to make every shot count. They tried for head shots and the two non-shooters would run forth and cut the tails off the Varmints that had successfully been bonked.
They relayed how ammunition was 21 to 25 cents a box of 50 back then.
I recall getting Remington 22 L.R. ammunition on sale at 49 cents a box circa 1959.
Times they are a changin.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
