This what You paid then.
Dick

And it wasnt even that long ago.

I've recently seen a bucket of 1400 Remington Golden bullets for $79

I bought a 1000 pack of M-22 a week ago for $49 at Walmart.

Winchester SuperX box of 50 is $1.97 at Walmart(today)

CCI Mini Mags 40gr $7.29~$8.00 box of 100

Boxes of 50 Federal Champion are $2.49 at Gander Mountain

So,$0.05 per round is not bad for 2016

I recall CCI Mini-Mags in the orange plastic boxes of 100 at K-Mart at $1.99, on sale. Wait...here they are!

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SWCA LM 2023, SWHF 220

But the mini mags were less than 4 cents and now they're 8 cents and more. And while that's not pleasant to see, it wouldn't be all that bad if you could walk into a store and get mini mags whenever you wanted them. That's the part that is bad for 2016.

I know my father in law left some 22lr in his gun case (he has since passed). I wonder if the prices are on any of the boxes. I think all he bought was mini mags. I'll take a look next time I'm over the house helping mother in law.

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I paid 99c for a box 0f 100 minimags in the yellow plastic case when i first started to shoot. Then it went to $1.29 and then $1.99. That's when I switched to bricks at $9.00. The last Federal bricks i bought were just when the ships hit the fan, and that was $15.00 on sale.

Lots of youngsters here. Back through most of the 1950s, .22 Short was typically about 35-40 cents per box, with .22 LR about a dime more. Even in the late 1960s, I was buying .22 LR in case lots for around 65-70 cents per box.

I started shooting WAY to late to see that stuff. Even so, I'm a little wistful.
When I started, CCI mini mags were around 5 bucks or less a box of 100. It's all I bought, 'cause it was mostly what was around. Not so much anymore.

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Ah yes, the good old days.

Winchester rimfire was .69 cents a box and the Mod 17 to shoot it in was $89.



GF

Don't remember what I paid for a box in the 70s,but in the 80s a brick of Remington's was about $7.When it went to $9,I quit buying it

I wish Winchester still made .22s as good as the red and yellow boxes. Larry

Back in the day, I had a real love affair with the older (1946 box style) Winchester .22 ammunition. It was the style used before the all-yellow box shown. I wouldn't use Remington or Federal .22s if I could get the Winchester. No performance-based reason for it, I just liked the Winchester box.

Best I can remember was CCI Mini-Mags for $1.59 per 100 round box - the nice yellow plastic boxes with the sliding top and the clear plastic shell-holder inside. That was at the Western Auto stores in the late 70's.

My Dad was a die hard Winchester/Western kind of guy. nothing but W/W Silvertips in 270 Win were used at deer season. Reloads for playing.

I liked the yellow boxes too but at times was forced to shoot "cheap" Revelation and liked the Blue Peters boxes and ammo too but not everyone carried it.

A guy I went to school with's Dad owned a liquor store and sold ammo. Down and out GI's would trade W/W 22LR bricks of Match ammo for some Falstaff or what ever was the cheapest. His Dad had bricks of it in the back for, uh, personal use. His son kept bricks of it handy, most every day I gave him my lunch money and took 2 boxes home to shoot. I could buy 2 boxes of the Match for the price of 1 box of revelation. I'd Grab a cold chicken leg and or left over, Dad's Ruger and shoot.

These were cheap back in the day.
Part of my collection which keeps getting bigger....






Chuck

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We paid $.50 a box of 50 long rifle and $4.50 for a brick. This was in the early 50's.

Nice pictures - I'm old enough to have bought some of that ammo new!

When I was a senior in college (1964) I shot a lot of .22 LR. It was almost all Federal Monark at $5.00 per brick, which is a penny per round. Adjusted for inflation that's about 7.65 cents per round in todays dollars, so the "good old days" may be right now! Center fire handgun ammo and reloading components are also cheaper now than in the mid-1960's when adjusted for inflation.

When I was 18 (1978), I could buy a box of 100 Remington Golden for a buck. That was always a good afternoon for me and my 10-22.

At this moment, I have a stack of bricks marked $11.95, and there WILL be some left over when I'm outta here!

Chud 333 That is a great collection, thanks for sharing!!

I remember back in the early 60's going to Sears & Roebuck with my dad and him buying 50rd boxes of .22lr for .49 cents. They were red boxes & were Sears own brand. I may even still have one of those boxes somewhere in all my "stuff".

It's amazing how much our dollar has lost its value since that
time. It's almost like you could use ammo as currency these
days because our dollar is basically worthless.

Less than 10 years ago I was buying Winchester Wildcats on sale at Sports Authority for $8.99 / Brick! The sad thing is that the Wildcats which is promo ammo, was far better in over-all accuracy & quality than even the higher end stuff is today.

Those old pretty little .22 boxes are another downfall of mine.

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S&WCA #2726

As a kid during the 1950's .22 LR were $0.39 per box. .22 Shorts were $0.29 per box. Those were hardware store prices; if you bought your .22 shells at the gas station you could pay a little more.

There was a .22 single shot rifle that us kids had ready access to. Of course I wanted one of my own, so I saved all the S&H Green Stamps my mother would let me grab for a year or so, licked them until I ran out of spit, pasted them into the booklets, and went to the Redemption Store when I had enough for my own .22 rifle. They made me come back with my mother before they let me have the rifle. Had to go back with more Green Stamps to get the Hoppes .22 Rifle Cleaning Kit (red metal box, still around here somewhere). Repeated the exercise a few years later and got a brand new Mossberg 20-gauge pump.

I remember buying 550 ct. boxes of Remington Golden bullets for $7 at Walmart just a few years ago and a 555 ct box of both Winchester and Champion were $7.50 each.
We have 2 Walmart stores here in my town and neither one has had any 22LR in so long, they've removed the price tags from the shelves.

She it, I remember when gas was $4.00 a gallon. Oh, wait...

In the mid sixties, I could buy a box of 22lr for $0.50. But I could take that same fifty cent piece to McDonalds and get a burger, fries, and a drink. Or get two gallons of gas for my VW, 16 first class stamps, or ten Snickers candy bars. Just to put it in perspective for you younger guys.

Back in my earlier teens in the mid-1950s, I was brought up in what would today have been called a "disadvantaged" rural Appalachian area. My major source of .22 ammunition was a local Mom & Pop (it really was one - run by an elderly couple) general store. In the ammunition line they sold only .22s and shotshells (Federal only), and they would sell them by the round to those who couldn't afford a full box. As I remember, .22 Shorts were 30 cents/box, and that's all I bought. .22 LR was too expensive, at, I think, 40 cents/box. I believe they sold the Shorts for a penny each and shotshells for around $2/box and maybe 15 cents each. No problems in buying them in those days even if you were a kid. I still remember how good the bologna was there - they sliced it as thin or as thick as you wanted from large round rolls. I grew up eating a lot of bologna sandwiches for my school lunch. Much better bologna than you can get today.

Federal was the typical .22 and shotshell ammunition brand carried by most rural stores and gas stations all over the country back then. You had to go into town to a larger store if you wanted to buy Winchester or Remington ammunition. I don't think CCI existed yet. And Federal made only .22 and shotshells, no centerfire metallic cartridges until quite a bit later, in the 1960s I think.

For those of you who are Walking Dead fans:
Eugene stated on the last episode that he was going into the ammo production business. He took Abraham to a facility he believes is suitable for that purpose and stated that ammunition would in his opinion be the currency of the future.
Jim

Some survivalist books recommend stockpiling ammunition and cigarettes as "currency" for trading in the event of SHTF. They may be correct.

The range I go to sells 22lr for .07 a round and they're making money at it.

That was about the same price I paid for my K22, I think it was in 1967.

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Here's a few more pix of one of my "addictions". The other is collecting what these go in to. The Bang Bangs.

We all remember the (private labels)..
Sears, JC Higgins, Revelation (Western Auto), Coast to Coast,
Hiawatha (Ace Hardware), etc....


I never knew Hodgdon made .22 shells until i started collecting.
The plain white Winchester Olin boxes went to Police or Military training
i guess.


One of my favorites, a 100 ct. Remington CB caps. Hard to find.


Remember the "Gallery Boxes"? These are usually 250 ct. boxes
of shorts that are splatterless.




Some old paper shotgun shells on left and some more .22's


I've only got two full bricks in the collection so far.....
One Remington and one Western. The full bricks can get expensive.
By the Way, all of these are full boxes pictured. They are worth
more WITH the original ammo intact and in good shape.


I can remember paying little over a penny a piece back when i first
started shooting. Seems to me like .79-.80 for box of 50 were the norm
when i was a pup. I am 56 now.

Chuck

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"The plain white Winchester Olin boxes went to Police or Military training
i guess."

There was also some .22 LR RF made having jacketed bullets to meet Hague Convention requirements. They were used during WWII in silenced Hi-Standard pistols by the OSS. I saw some once. Very rare ammunition. By the way, Francis Gary Powers had one of those pistols and ammunition with him when his U-2 was brought down by the Russians.

Looking back, you have to appreciate the genius of 'Cascade Cartridge' (CCI) marketing the 'Mini Mag' .22 LR. The magazine ads of the day inferred the subliminal message that they were 'more powerful' and it was the era where the word 'magnum' had a power of it's own.
This marketing worked well into the late 90's and beyond.
And, it's good, clean ammo, but I suppose many have not heard of SAAMI.

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SWCA #2275

Anyone else remember the thin flat packs of Remington "Rocket" .22 Short ammunition from the 1950s? Basically repackaged shooting gallery loads for public sale. Also sold under the Peters label, but I don't remember the name.

Ahhh the good old days!

Same for a Long Island Junior Club that shot on the basement range of the "new" High School!!!

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Here ya' go DWalt,
Thunderbolts

Here's the Rockets also known as the "chicklet" boxes.
They have 28 rds.

This full early brick of Rockets just brought 1419.00
at an auction last month. Too rich for my blood.


Chuck

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