Colt’s catalog 1888.
Bullets per 1,000, $7.00.
Price per 1,000, $22.00. Powder, 40 grains. Bullet, 250 grains.
Colt’s catalog 1888.
Bullets per 1,000, $7.00.
Price per 1,000, $22.00. Powder, 40 grains. Bullet, 250 grains.
Here is what $10.50 in 1888 is in today's dollars:
In 2010, the relative worth of $10.50 from 1888 is:
$248.00 using the Consumer Price Index
$238.00 using the GDP deflator
Data from: http://www.measuringworth.com/uscomp...ativevalue.php
The average unskilled laborer in 1888 made $138. a year
Last edited by fecmech; 02-28-2012 at 01:52 PM.
"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyrannies.” Aristotle
Not much different when I was a kid. .22 shells were .25 for shorts, .30 for longs, and .35 for long rifles. Killed many gophers with shorts. .303 British Enfields were $19 at the hardware store.
Man, those days way back when, do bring back some memories. I remember well, buying some kind of 8mm rifle, maybe a Mauser, in our neighborhood hardware store for $12.00 and I also remember buying two Webley Top Break Revolvers through the mail from an ad in some magazine, back in the day. One was a .38 short and one was a .455 something. I believe I paid about $18 or $19 for both of them. I remember shooting the .38 short quite a bit but I don't think I ever was able to get any ammo for the .455
I recall selling all 3 of those guns, a year or two after getting them, for money to buy a Marlin over n' under 12ga shotgun. I was into pheasant hunting back then. 12ga #7 1/2 were $1.55 a box, as I recall.
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Doesn't matter how much you make but how much it takes to live...Ray
Proud member in the basket of deplorables.
I've got the itch, but don't got the scratch.
Hell, waaaaaaaaayyy back when I turned 18, the assault weapons ban was still in effect!
1900 Sears catalog, Winchester 1886 Saddle Ring Carbine, Cal .50 Express $12.55(not a typo!)
Anybody have a time machine for rent?
The .357 Magnum......
1935
Major Douglas Wesson, using factory loads, which were a 158 gr. soft lead bullet, traveling 1515 fps, from an 8 3/4" barreled S&W, producing 812 ft. lbs of muzzle energy.
Antelope - 200 yards (2 shots)
Elk - 130 yards (1 shot)
Moose - 100 yards (1 shot)
Grizzly Bear - 135 yards (1 shot).
It kind of makes one wonder, why today, it will bounce off anything bigger than a rabbit
Let's look at that cost... others have compared to today's dollars via this index or that, but I look at it in GOLD....
So, if I were to buy gold today to make that purchase in 1900, say a $10 and a $2.50 dollar gold piece (today that is, before I rent the time machine), they would cost me about $1,150 dollars in 2012 currency... not sure what a good 1886 SRC is worth today; probably more than that... but you also gotta add the rental of the time machine.... gonna be pricey....
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |