Price Check at the Ammo Counter

[Chili]

Do you think when this ammo was originally purchased, the buyer complained about the cost? I mean, we are talking about several hours' worth of pay.



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[Plinkmeister]

I'm sure he did. (I would have.) This is about from the era when a new Ruger 357/9mm Blackhawk retailed for $98.00.

[Chili]

Sounds about right to me!

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[Delkal]

Seems like the gun to ammo price ratio was the same as it is today. A new Blackhawk is around $700 now so doing a 7x multiplier on the ammo gets you $68 for the +p and $38 for the match rounds in today's dollars. Basically the same price Midway is now selling the ammo for.

[ACC]

They had to check and shop around.

ACC

[Der Gebirgsjager]

I remember those days......

DG

[gmsharps]

I started casting and reloading when 9mm and 38spl was costing in the $5 range. Just couldn’t afford the ammo on military pay.

[HWooldridge]

I started casting and reloading when 9mm and 38spl was costing in the $5 range. Just couldn’t afford the ammo on military pay.

Me too - I started casting and loading in the 70’s, when I was a broke college student who still wanted to shoot regularly. $5 to $10 was a lot of coin for fifty rounds, but I had a 44-40 rifle and 50 factory shells was $30 at the time. I was forced to reload or else…

[Bad Ass Wallace]

The "good ole days", my first RCBS boolit mould was $11.45, a stick of lube $2.00 and a Lube-a-matic was a fortune at $33.80 (my salary was only $23.10 per week)

[35 Rem]

I still have the box for my RCBS Lube-a-Matic and it's marked $68.13. This was about 1980. I paid for it by selling the gun shop bullets I cast.

[ascast]

I remember minimum wage at about $3.50, those boxes look about right

[Land Owner]

My reloading has seen costs rise fast, supplies dwindle, and then price goes down slowly to an ever increasing "new normal". I bought components low, plenty of reusable cases, which eventually cost NOTHING if properly cared for, reloaded dozens and dozens of times, before the run up in price.

I lucked into an FFL / reloader's estate sale (my boss's Dad) that was about to be thrown to the curb by the widow, so she would not think on it again, with more powders, primers, components, reloading equipment, shotshell making equipment and components, casting linotype, factory 22lr rounds by the case, than I will ever shoot, and 40 guns before the run up in price. I sold a lot of it after the run up.

I make reloads now at $0.045 each (45 Colt, 45 ACP, 380 ACP, 38 Special, 357 Magnum) that sell over the counter for $0.35 to over $0.50 each.

[farmerjim]

I remember minimum wage at about $3.50, those boxes look about right

I remember minimum wage at $0.48.

[turtlezx]

farmerjim must have just had his 100th birthday need help blowing out the candles

[Tall]

I bought my Model 19-5 nickel plated revolver new in 1981 for $320 cash. A blue one (new) would have cost me $299. The ammo was $22 a box for the cheap 357; as much as $29 for a box of 50 Winchester Silver Tips. That same gun show I bought a reloading machine and powder and primers. The ammo was too expensive then and it has not gotten cheaper.

[atfsux]

Winchester has announced their price increases.

[Kestrel4k]

I guess Winchester didn't get the memo from the Biden administration.

[dtknowles]

Winchester has announced their price increases.

While the increase is expected the rationale about rising costs of inputs does not justify that size of a price increase. Inputs have not risen that much, and they are only a small part of the cost of ammo, unless by inputs they mean labor, like CEO pay. That is the only thing that has risen by 10%. So. with wholesale prices to rise 10% how much do you think retail prices will rise. Do you think retailers will wait until they recieve the new more expensive stock before they raise prices?

Tim

[Land Owner]

Price goes up fast, supplies dwindle, prices come down slowly, settling at a higher "new normal" every time. Announcing an expected 5% to 10% increase becomes the new normal. Inflation has hurt everyone and everything.

FU Joe Biden and Crapola Harris. You did this, along with the Obama's, the Clinton's, Soros, Piglousy, Upchuck Todd, Schummer, Schiff, FNN talking heads, Liberals, Democrats, illegal aliens, non-assimilating muslims, Hands Up Dont Shoot, Black Lives (don't) Matter, Socialists, Communists, Victim baiters, race baiters, Soddham and Ghemorah baiters, men in women's sports baiters, men in women's bathroom baiters, transgender baiters, anti-semites, et al.

[farmerjim]

farmerjim must have just had his 100th birthday need help blowing out the candles

77. I was a bicycle delivery boy in downtown Baton Rouge delivering Office Supplies. The minimum wage was $.048. I now own 5.01% of the business.