Cheap bullets or chunk rocks?
I'll take the cheap bullets.
I got into reloading in the early 70's.
At that time, Sierra was the "cat's meow" with 101 bullets in every box.
If you were a paper puncher, Hornady was cheap and regarded as not a particularly good hunting bullet.
Speer was just coming on the scene and was the preferred handgun projectile.
Bullets ran less than $5/hundred.
Primers were ninety nine cents per hundred. Winchester and Remington were about the only options.
Powder was about $4/# and any reloader that didn't have several pounds of various makes and blends on his bench wasn't much of a reloader! LOL!
Unfired brass was nonexistent unless you went to the local public shooting range. NOBODY picked up spent brass!
Where I grew up in east Texas, that's about all that was available on the local market.
Them wuz th' good 'ol daze! 😉👍
You forgot the part about working for $1.50-$2/ hour.
