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Hahaha, when I was in Montana you couldn't even buy a decent pizza, speidies or good BBQ there. Hell have you heard of sub shops yet ? Talk about a bass ackwards, left behind shyt hole. Besides, the prices I gave were consistent with prices at chain stores across the Country at the time. Don't have to look any further than my collection of old Sears and Wards catalogs to see that.

Winchester Wildcats 50 cents a box a Paulsen's Hardware.

Sorry.

What's crazy is the price of .22 Shorts now... (As in before the shortage)

They are far more expensive than .22lr.

I think I have some 100ct boxes of CCI 22 Shorts. I'll have to go check and see if they have a price. Bought about 10 years ago.

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

So you started drinkin at an early age. Or the Paulsen's were habitual drunkards. Understandable due to the lack of good food.

So you can immediately reference your vast library of old schitty catalogs......but cant remember or didn't save your "prestigious award" you supposedly received?


Mmmhmmm.

I have some of those 100 ct. boxes of CCI shorts I bought about 3 years ago. Price is 9.99. Got some Mini Mag LR's at the same time from the same GS for 7.99.

What prestigious award was that ? l lost a lot of stuff in 2006 when my home was destroyed by flood but your stupid, drunken ass can't remember that. Same reason you can't accurately recall the price of .22's in the 90's. And old shytty catalogs ? The ones I have are in excellent collector condition. Have you checked the prices on those old catologs from the 60's and '70's ?

The fugg would I need to?

We bought locally....and at good prices.


I bought a 5000 round case of 22lr here a while ago for 3 cents a round.


Thats cheaper than when you bought them in the 70's.

Your memory of prices differs from everyone else here. Take that into account and have another drink Einstein. Also take into account what I said about quality of .22 ammo then vs now. The bulk pack shyt of today is no bargain. Hell, even the supposedly "top of the line" stuff like Super -X ain't worth a shyt today.

Hahahaha!

Yeah....golden bullets aren't as good as Tenex......shocker.


Going by inflation....you were paying several times more in the 70's than a year ago.


For the plinking ammo.....




Oh....the good old days....



Back when gas was more expensive than today and you had to kit your carb every couple years.....

I don’t recall us ever having enough money when I was a kid to keep 10K rounds of .22 ammo around

Perhaps just never felt the need to

I remember the riots in ‘68 & my dad saying “ let them try that chit here & I’ll break out my Sako .243”

I thought that was a helluva big gun back then, largest caliber we owned, he might have had two boxes of shells for it 🤦🏼‍♂️

my uncle got us Federal seconds box of 500 L.R. for under $2.00 a box , L.R. ammo worked just fine,uncle got us 2 / 500 boxes every 2 weeks and we always ran out.

Golden bullets of today aren't anywhere near as good as the old Mohawks. Neither are Winchester Super-X. You have to buy Mini Mags now to get that level of reliability and accuracy. Last Mini Mags I bought were 45.00 a brick. Nearly 8 times what the Mohawks cost in the 70's. Prices on nearly everything have come down since the '70's though. You'd know that if you had some of those old shytty catologs but hey that old toilet in your front yard is much better.

We had a lot of friends in the early 70s who worked for Winchester. Shot more than a little with free ammo.

I bought cases mini mags from PSA for 4.5 cents.

Idgaf about Mohawks.

You were still getting raped in the 60s and 70's.

I need to sample some awesome NY bbq next time I make trip up through. I had no idea.

I wouldn't think a poor farmer who uses old toilets for lawn decorations could afford ammo by the case. You ain't gonna be buyin' any .22LR from PSA today but things are much better now than they were in the '70's.

LMAO

Stop at Brook's BBQ in Oneonta and try the chicken.

And you dumb ass was still overpaying in the 90's.