Starline Price List 1999

[alamogunr]

I was going through some old articles I had filed away and ran across a Starline brochure w/price list. The list is somewhat shorter than their current offerings.

Examples:

.44 Mag. $52/500 $94.50/1000
.45 Colt 54/500 97.00/1000
.454 Casull 103/500 189/1000

I wish I had had the cash to "hoard" a supply.

[dragon813gt]

So they're at slightly less than a 40% increase. W/ the cost of brass alone I'm surprised it's not more.

[alamogunr]

Truthfully, I am too. And, I can better afford it now than I could when I was still saving for retirement.

[bangerjim]

No surprise. I used to buy brass sheet and barstock (1/2" - 4" diameter) for 0.70/# back then. Now I am luck to get it for $3.50/#. I did stock up (or "hoard" as we seem to call it on here) on brass bar and sheet I use and have hundreds of pounds of it at those lower prices.

Just the price of copper and brass these days.

bangerjim

[smokeywolf]

So, in 15 years the price of brass has about doubled. Up ---------------------100%
I was paying $1.12/gallon for diesel 15 years ago. Now it's $4.00/gallon; up 357%
Commodity prices are up by about --------------------------------------------100% to over 300%
CEOs compensation is up a whopping -----------------------------------------300%.
Blue collar worker wages have increased by about -----------------------------36%
Those danged American blue collar workers have a lot of gaul to declare that they're worth more money.

smokeywolf