Do you remember when…

[franzfmdavis]

You could get 1000 large rifle primers for $4.00?

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Don't make me cry...

 

[Fryeguy]

I can only remember $13……and then for a while I was super happy you could 5k fed match for $200ish. I wish I had bought a few more cases…sold them on gunbroker and gone on a month long safari

 

[Ridge Runner]

You could get 1000 large rifle primers for $4.00?

Guess I'm not that old after all.
IIRC when I started reloading paying around $1.00+ per hundred primers, $7.00+/- per pound of IMR3031 powder, and $4.00+/- per hundred 150 grain 30-30 round nose soft point bullets. And paid around $6.00 for a Lee 30-30 hand reloading kit that came in a small cardboard box; mallet sold separately. At the time 30 - 30 ammo was around $4 - $5 per 20 count box. Making reloading a money saving hobby; providing one didn't include personal labor at $2.25 per hour (minimum wage) civilian pay.

 

[steve white]

I remember $15--there is also a good chance I wasn't paying much attention before that. Things were once so cheap you didn't HAVE to pay attention, which was good because many of us were too poor to pay attention. Sometimes folks practically gave stuff away at garage sales.
People today would beat my door down if I offered to sell components for what I paid for them or even what was marked on the box. Today I walk about in a state of total sticker-shock.

 

[steve white]

Why stop a "Do you remember when" thread with just primers....
Anyone remember when you could hunt just by knocking on the door and asking?

 

[franzfmdavis]

Why stop a "Do you remember when" thread with just primers....
Anyone remember when you could hunt just by knocking on the door and asking?

We still have some luck with that in North Dakota around Rugby during the migration!

 

[Ridge Runner]

Why stop a "Do you remember when" thread with just primers....
Anyone remember when you could hunt just by knocking on the door and asking?

Sometimes just mentioning hunting would get an invitation to come and shoot varmints, ie groundhogs. Come fall the farmer often extended the invitation to allow rabbit, squirrel, .....and ' if you see a fox shoot it!!..' hunting. Farmers, especially chicken farmers, wanted us to shoot anything and everything no matter the time of year, in or out of season, to protect his/her chickens and their eggs.

 

[F. Vaccaro]

Cartons of 550 .22LR for $9.99

 

[matt85]

I remember when stores not only HAD powder and primers but actually had a selection of them!

Those days are gone. Now you use what you can find, if you can find something useable.

 

[Ridge Runner]

Cartons of 550 .22LR for $9.99

500 count bricks of .22 Short, long, and long rifle for $5.00 including tax. And the purchaser was suppose to sign in the block on a page in a 1 inch 3 ring binder (small town, mom and pop hardware store) that the buyer were 18 or 21 years old. Legal age respectively to purchase rifle or handgun ammo.

 

[bashaw]

I remember when Copenhagen was .35/can then I got married and couldn't hardly afford primers or Copenhagen.

 

[BlueFlyer]

I can remember when I could take a pump action shot gun and box of cartridges on the school bus for trap shooting as a Friday afternoon activity.

 

[375er]

I remember when you could hunt waterfowl with lead shot.

 

[bashaw]

I remember when you could hunt waterfowl with lead shot.

you mean I can't shoot waterfowl with lead, when did that happen?

 

[Ridge Runner]

I remember when you could hunt waterfowl with lead shot.

What waterfowl. The only waterfowl we had were the ducklings we got at Easter (supposedly as pets) and ate at Thanksgiving or Christmas.

 

[Ridge Runner]

you mean I can't shoot waterfowl with lead, when did that happen?

I was shootin' at a square'l up in the top of that tree when that ________(duck, goose) flew over.

But it was an accident. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[BlueFlyer]

It is not all bad though.
I can remember when I saw the first Sambar deer on our property - probably about 45 years ago.
Now it is a matter of how many can we see. On our property in the alpine area we are now culling the stags with weak or deformed antlers to improve the herd. The hunting opportunities are now so much better.

 

[Tra3]

I remember when a shotgun could be brought to show-and-tell in grade school.
I remember when everyone hunted in jeans.
I remember bringing my hunting gear and rifle in the car to high school, leaving the car door unlocked, then going hunting after classes got out.

I also remember when I was a lot smarter. (I think around 18 was my pinnacle of perceived intellect.)

 

[Hefty Jefe]

I remember buying an Remington 1100 before school. Left the gun in my truck during school. Told the superintendent about the gun over lunch. Got pulled out of math class so the superintendent could look at the gun and he asked to borrow it for pheasant hunting that weekend.