Inventorying my ammo $1.25 for 500 22LR-Edit; more likely 1.25 per 50

[Mustang93]

Inventorying my ammo and saw the price on this box of 500 Federal. I shot 50 rounds of it and no misfires and plenty accurate.

The good old days.

Edit; after reading your guys comments, I think you're right it is $1.25 for 50 rounds not the brick.

 

[tops]

Inventorying my ammo and saw the price on this box of 500 Federal. I shot 50 rounds of it and no misfires and plenty accurate.

The good old days.

What year? In the middle 60s I bought Winchester .22 shorts for $5.00 a carton (10 boxes). That was about 1/2 days work. If I was still working I could buy the same amount for less work. Larry

 

[murphydog]

Cool, but I think the sticker on the outside of the carton means $1.25 per 50?

 

[Chris68]

Nice! Don't throw those empty boxes away!

 

[jschmidt]

We paid 25¢ a box back when I shot for the NRA HQ junior rifle team. To let you know how long ago that was, we shot in the basement of HQ, on Rhode Island Ave in DC.

 

[robvious]

I remember Federal bulk-pack 550 for $5.99... still have some on the shelf..

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Cool, but I think the sticker on the outside of the carton means $1.25 per 50?

I agree, I don't think 500 rounds of .22 ammo was ever $1.25.

 

[llowry61]

I was going to make the same comment as others. I remember 5.00 for a brick of 500 when I was a kid in the 60's. Don't ever remember them being less than that.

My dad used to buy me the shorts since I was just plinking cans and the occasional crow or chipmunk. Full Long Rifle were not really needed. I could stuff a bunch of them in a tube fed Marlin bolt action and the starlings near the Bing Cherry tree were the enemy. There were many, many, casualties.

 

[Rudi]

Until the madness started $9.99 for a brick was the sale price. Miss those days.

 

[Mustang93]

I don't know the year and I think you guys are right, I think the lowest I remember was 50 cents a box of 50 for shorts so this must have been the price per 50 and not the brick. These were given to me by a friend about ten years ago and are the oldest 22 I have. My dad bought me a sears 22 rifle in 68 and that would have been the first 22s I would have been aware of the price.

What year? In the middle 60s I bought Winchester .22 shorts for $5.00 a carton (10 boxes). That was about 1/2 days work. If I was still working I could buy the same amount for less work. Larry

 

[Dave Lively]

Am I the only one seeing $1.50 on the price tag in the picture instead of $1.25?

I agree with everyone else about that being the price per 50 round box. And that those were the good old days.

 

[Borderboss]

I have plenty of Remington Thunderbolts that I bought for $0.50 per box of fifty. They all went bang back then, and they aren't any more dirty than any other ammo. From what I read on forums, it sounds like they might have both problems now.