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Can we get back to the old days?
- Thread starter 155mmpaladin
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Way back when i first started reloading you could buy large rifle primers for 75 cents per 100 & dupont powder was around $ 4.00 a lb. i sure miss the good old days!
Lets just roll wages back to what they were in "the good old days". When I started shooting, min wage was $1.25 / hour. But ammo was cheap, and most hardware stores had trash cans full of milsurps for a few bucks.
I remember reloading my own 9 mm and 38 special for about five cents a shot.
That's with all the components, and estimating 10 reloads per brass case before it splits or I lose it.
But, when cheap steel cased ammo from former Soviet countries first came to the U.S. market, they were inly 8-10 cents per round. I gave up reloading and went with the case-quantities of that factory stuff.
That's with all the components, and estimating 10 reloads per brass case before it splits or I lose it.
But, when cheap steel cased ammo from former Soviet countries first came to the U.S. market, they were inly 8-10 cents per round. I gave up reloading and went with the case-quantities of that factory stuff.
Our politicians will allude to inflation. I call it monetizing the debt. in 1930 an ounce of gold was $30 today spot is $1,327.84.
This is what happens when you run trillion dollar deficits and overspend by a million dollars per minute
This is what happens when you run trillion dollar deficits and overspend by a million dollars per minute
I was probably making $150 a week and couldn't afford to reload or shoot a fraction of what I do now.
It wasn’t that long ago when I could buy win white box 9mm at wal mart for 10 cents a round.
The price of metals went up and so did ammo. The price of metals has fallen but the price of ammo has not returned to the same price. I did see that blazer brass 124s were back to 140/thousand somewhere. If I had not found how clean VV powder runs, I would stop reloading for a while. I csnnot reload jacketed 9mm for 14 cents each.
The price of metals went up and so did ammo. The price of metals has fallen but the price of ammo has not returned to the same price. I did see that blazer brass 124s were back to 140/thousand somewhere. If I had not found how clean VV powder runs, I would stop reloading for a while. I csnnot reload jacketed 9mm for 14 cents each.
