Gran'pa tell me bout the good ol days

[hornetguy]

Thought you guys might get a kick out of this. like I did. I had a friend give me a bunch of reloading stuff of his dad's after he passed. I'm doing some reloading for him, but he had no use for all that stuff...
I was re-arranging some of it today, tidying up my reloading bench, and noticed this on one of the boxes of primers.... yep, the good old days....

 

[General Zod]

Somewhere I have a box of .38 Special with a Gibson's price tag on it. The price has faded so I can't read it, but the only Gibson's we ever went to closed down around 1982.

 

[Vaquero]

Thought you guys might get a kick out of this. like I did. I had a friend give me a bunch of reloading stuff of his dad's after he passed. I'm doing some reloading for him, but he had no use for all that stuff...
I was re-arranging some of it today, tidying up my reloading bench, and noticed this on one of the boxes of primers.... yep, the good old days....

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I used to buy a brick of primers for $10.00
Powder was about the same per lb.

I SMDH at today's prices.

 

[Moonpie]

Yep. Reloading is almost getting to the point where it isn't worth it unless you're shooting something totally obsolete.

 

[TX OMFS]

Like a 1911.

 

[Chewbacca7685]

Like a 1911.

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[BigRed]

Like a 1911.

 

[Moonpie]

Like a 1911.

 

[BigRed]

Like a 1911.

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[deemus]

I have a box of primers with $16.99 for 1k on it.

 

[BigRed]

Good ol days?

When hardware stores sold guns and ammo.

You could order a gun from Sears, Roebuck and Company and have it mailed to your house.

All without massa say so.

 

[usmcpmi]

Old days? I remember my grandfather taking me to "his" favorite gun shop when I was about 10 or so...they had an old wooden water barrel i.side stuffed full of trapdoor rifles. Marked "$5.00 each" I told Papa I had $5 in my pocket...he said..." you don't want that old junk"... now I have 3... cost a little more than $5 each though...

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[Charley]

Primers at $10.00-$12.00 a thousand. What a deal! 1970 minimum wage was $1.60 an hour, though. Student minimum then was $1.36 an hour. So, $10.00/1000 wasn't such a great deal after all...

 

[reddog]

Grandpa, Dad, Uncle story. WWII Grandpa was a driver in the ETO, jeep, truck, tank retriever, all over Europe. He was often one of the first guys in bringing in supplies to newly captured areas. He often got to pick through the captured weapons before they were destroyed, and he could send anything he wanted home as long as it fit in a box so big. He told me that he even got to walk through a factory making Lugar pistols and that he picked a new one right off the production line. My Dad and Uncle being around 12-14 or so then would sit on the porch and open up these packages and reassemble the arms and trophies that were sent home. Swords with gold filled engravings, helmets, canteens, penet flags that would be on the front of staff cars, uniforms, and guns lots of guns. Pistols, rifles, drillings, and as the story goes even an MP-40, I asked dad once before he passed where it ended up and he told me he thought Grandpa gave it to his brother dad's Uncle Ed, it is the one I never saw.
Well the war ends and Grandpa comes home and Grandma gets to stay home and not work in the uniform factory any more. And then boys being boys one day my father had enough of his older brother's bullying and decides to take a sword to him, chasing him through the house and around the yard. Grandma decides enough of this and the next day set out all that old junk grandpa sent home for the trash man, I'm sure he thought it was a holiday. Grandpa comes home from work to find his war treasures have been thrown away, my understanding is that Grandma was granted a second life cause Grandpa was ready to take the first one. I'm sure her saving grace was that she didn't throw away any of the firearms, if she had I probably would have had to visit Grandpa in prison...

 

[pbratton]

Walmart .22's

 

[usmcpmi]

My wife wondered where I got my passion for firearms. Here is a picture of my father in 1941. He was 6.

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