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.
Said something to my dad once about the "good ol days".
He laughed and said, "The best part about the good ol days is they won't be back."
@222sako
That's right, but I was always able to afford ammo and reloading supplies.
I get MUCH more money now and I can go to a store, but I can't always find the ammo I want, the powder I want, the primers I want, the bullets I want, etc, etc, etc.......