February 24, 2021, 08:49 AM | #1 |
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Check the picture. When was .22 ammo 96 cents a box?
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February 24, 2021, 10:16 AM | #2 |
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A long time ago. Probably when you could buy it at your local hardware store.
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February 24, 2021, 10:44 AM | #3 |
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I remember buying 550rnd bulk bricks of Federal 22LR for 19.99 at walmart.... I miss those days. Used to run a 550rnd brick of 22lr through my 10/22 every weekend......
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February 24, 2021, 12:15 PM | #4 |
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Peel of that price tag and see if the one on top is higher or lower than the one under it.
I've got a 10 box brick of Remington for $9 that I bought in 2007.
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February 24, 2021, 01:48 PM | #5 |
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Underneath the sticker was $1.46 so it was a nice sale!
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February 24, 2021, 02:26 PM | #6 |
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Rummaging through my closet I found a brick of Remington's marked $9.99.
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February 24, 2021, 02:39 PM | #7 |
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About 2004-2006, daughter was in college then and bought me thunderbolts at 99cents per box for Xmas gift.
Sold the last of it recently for $5.00 a box. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
March 1, 2021, 10:29 AM | #8 |
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I used to buy the Remington Golden Boy 525 round box at my local hardware store for $6.99 but I can't get it anymore because that store closed.
So as the last panic when the .22s price went through the roof I bought up a bunch of rounds that no one wanted the price of these was at the time less than the .22s per round. I bought most of this 5.45x39 ammo for less than $0.09 cents per round. Each spam can has 1080 rounds in it & each case has two spam cans, so that's 17,280 rounds not including the 750 rounds in the cardboard box on top. Total cost I paid was about $1555.20 what the stack is worth at todays prices, $17,280.00 or more since these can not be imported anymore, probably worth more. |
March 3, 2021, 08:44 AM | #9 |
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I remember when cans were under $100 each and I bought several. I have 5-6 cans stashed back for use in my 74SF. They are as high as $450 or more on some sale sights.
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March 3, 2021, 10:15 AM | #10 |
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I used to goto the gun shows in Fort Worth in the late 90's & buy 1x commercial reloads for $100/1000...9mm, 40 S&W or 5.56...& I could chose FMJ or SP's. I was buying 1440 rnd cases of the good Russian 7.62x39 HP's for $100. At the same time, until the mid 2000's I could buy Federal bulk packs of 22 HP's of 525 rnds for $8.88 at Wal-Mart. Dang I wished I would have bought & stored a warehouse full...but I didn't.
Last night I found a brick off CCI SPP primers that a friend gave me that his father had. They had a date hand written on them of January 1986...price tag said $7.69. Days gone by...never to be repeated.
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March 6, 2021, 08:37 AM | #11 |
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Federal bulk packs were about $12 or so about a decade ago.
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April 12, 2021, 06:19 PM | #12 |
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I'm 53, and as a kid, from about 6 years old until 12 (so 35-40 years or so ago) a box of .22 long rifle was about $1.35-$1.50 each, or a brick was $5.
My Grandpa, born in 1889, said that when he was a kid a brick of 22 long was 25 cents. |
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April 13, 2021, 03:31 PM | #14 |
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During the 80s and 90s Bi-Mart monthly coupon books always had .22s, Remington Golden Bullet or Vipers limit 2 bricks at coupon price which was $7.99 going up to $9.99 by the later 90s.
In addition to my shooting supply I bought a couple bricks each month anticipating the time my kids would start eating their way through my ammo stash. Turns out they didn't get it all and I still have around 10,000 left. BTW, 5,000 rounds in 50 rnd boxes fits just perfect in a USGI .50 cal ammo can!
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I have enough problems with .30 cal ammo cans not even full of .22LR.
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April 14, 2021, 09:08 AM | #16 |
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I still have a few CCI blazer bricks I bought for under 10$ probably 15 yrs ago.
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April 14, 2021, 11:44 AM | #17 |
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I have some American Eagle .22 ammo that I got on sale for $2 a brick of 400 rounds but to be fair that was a killer deal at the time...
I have a 16 pound keg of Red Dot (mostly used up now) that's labeled $56. That had to be a long time ago... Tony |
April 14, 2021, 12:48 PM | #18 |
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I remember buying it for 0.89 cents a box of 50 back in the day.
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April 17, 2021, 10:40 AM | #19 |
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Back about 2002 the bulk Dynapoints were 9.87 or so at WM. I have a couple that grandkids will get when they arrive this summer.
I stocked up and told the clerk I had to take scout troop to the range for merit badges, 10 scouts-so many rounds and oh yes two trips so how many boxes do I need. He sold me several to cover the trips. I guess I over estimated pr some scouts didnt show. |
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