Remember when...

[JRiddle]

I was loading a batch of .223's yesterday evening, using up the last of my 'old stock' primers.  I just bought several thousand a couple of weeks ago at the local gunshow, $34 for small, $36 for large.  I noticed the price on the pack as I used the last of em, and thought I'd share it with you guys...Just to remind you of the good 'ole days.
JR

[Land_Owner]

Yep...sad!  A bygone era. 

Price "corrected" quickly to supply and demand, settled into a new "Norm" and will never recover "The Good Old Days".

[SHOOTALL]

I had some powder in the 6 dollar a pound range .

[shot1]

I have some Unique $9 a pound powder and two 8 pound jugs of Surplus IMR 4895 I got for $48.00 each. I have lots of around $9 a 100 box bullets. I sure am glad that I bought up all this stuff a number of years ago. I tend to find something that works great and get a lifetime supply.  

[Graybeard]

Actually that price wasn't so very long ago just before obama put the fear in folks and the shortages that resulted. I remember when they were half that price.

[bobg]

I have 10 boxes of Rem. 7 1/2 primers marked $1.99 a hundred. Have a pound of IMR3031 marked $9.95. The last powder i bought was $18.99 a pound.

[hillbill]

i got a 1000 lp primers this last weekend at a show for 26$. he had a ton of them.it was a guy from a local shop. when i told my dad, he said the guy had charged him 34$ a couple weeks ago.got a lb of reddot for 18$. so im pretty good to go for some 45 lc loads im fixin to work up.

[tacklebury]

The good ole days, like when you could buy powder for cheap in a metal can even and at a grocery store!  lol  



If you cannot make it out, it says $6.95...

[gypsyman]

And I can remember pumping gas at my dad's store for .25/gal for reg., and .27/gal for ethyl.(didn't call it premium back then-Fleetwing gas) But, I think those days are long gone. gypsyman

[Dezynco]

The good ole days, like when you could buy powder for cheap in a metal can even and at a grocery store!  lol

Odd thing is that I don't EVER remember hearing about anything blowing up or catching on fire on the shelf or while being shipped!!

I remember riding bicycles without helments too.  Most of us skint our butts a time or two, but people these days seem to get maimed and dismembered without their helments, etc. etc. etc............blah, blah.  If you broke your tail from jumping a bike 25 feet through the air, folks would laugh, point their fingers and say "you dumba$$, don't do that again!"  The "legal system" is really driving a lot of prices these days!

It really sucks! Sorry to rant.

[bigswede]

Did anybody else have lawn darts to play with? I did and still have both eyes ans my skull is intact.

[dickttx]

One of the saddest sights I have ever seen is a 10 year old boy riding his bicycle round and round a cul-de-sac in an upper class neighborhood, wearing a helmet, knee pads, elbow pads, and safety glasses.  I sat there a few minutes watching, and thought, what a shame that kid can't go out somewhere and be a boy.

[temmi]

I don't remember $16 but I do remember $20...


Those days are gone....