[Steve H]

I know I have had this for a LONG time. I bought it NEW at SEARS in Southern California (that should give you an age idea) when I was a kid. I came across it today along with a full box of 170grs.

[Onmilo]

I remember seeing those yellow boxes regularly on dealer shelves up until about 1975

[Brad Johnson]

Hmmmm... $3.95 a box. Just guessing, but I'd say mid- to late-60s.

Brad

[Steve H]

I want to think it was 1961 but for some strange reason I can't remember the exact date...............

[Larry Ashcraft]

Here's a few I have:

1962 Lake City Match and some 1932 headstamp .45 ACP:
http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=17608&d=1098157291

1943 Denver Ordnance armor piercing:
http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=17606&d=1098156834

[Iggy]

I use to buy ammo in boxes like that in the 60's and maybe into the 70's.
I still have some of them around somewhere.

[MrTuffPaws]

Wow, 3.95? 30-30 was expensive back then.

[Chuck Dye]

Considering that $3.95 may have bought 10-15 gallons of regular, expensive indeed.

[KINGMAX]

OLD

[44AMP]

never was the place to get cheap ammo.:D

[dfaugh]

I'm thinking right about the time I started shooting (in part based on the price)....That would make it late 60s early 70s...Say 1970 + or - a couple years.

[tnieto2004]

ARMOR piercing!!!! Watch out they might come after you!!

[Avenger]

My Dad turned up a box of .32ACP when we dragged his old 1903 out of the closet. Given that he hadn't shot the pistol himself ever, and had no memory of his father or grandfather (the original owner!) firing the pistol at any time, we elected to not use that ammo. The box is with the family heirlooms, but the rounds themselves have gone into the "hazardous" household waste box along with some 20ga rounds that literally floated around in the basement for a week during the last flood.

[EricTheBarbarian]

3.95, shouldve stocked up then. Im only 21, but i dont think in my lifetime sears has sold guns or ammo. I bet its still good.

[Steve H]

Im only 21, but i dont think in my lifetime sears has sold guns or ammo

I think you are correct. I remember when I was a kid growing up in Los Angeles my favorite store was Western Auto............they had a gun section. I amamzed that in the city (St. George) closest to where I live now the is a hardware store that sells guns.

[Walkalong]

62 or 63 is my guess, and yea, Sears sold ammo AND guns.:)

[JohnBT]

The list price for W30302 in the '67 Shooters Bible is $3.95.

[rhubarb]

How long has it been since Sears sold guns, anyway?

Seems I remember guns in their catalog in the early '80s. We lived too far out in the boonies for me to actually have gone to the store. I wonder if it was the bellyaching about poor service like you hear all the time here about Wally World that did in their gun sales. :rolleyes:

[A guy from Texoma]

Hahaha. I have a box of those too, only mine are 170 gr. Serial number 30304. :)

[waynedm]

Much older than myself!

[Geno]

I used to sit for hours, days, weeks, months and years drooling through the Sears' and Wards' magazines at the rifles, shotguns and ammunition sections. I remember seeing the old external twist chokes and thinking to myself, what the heck is that thing?! Then, I would look at the hunting clothing, the camping equipment, etc. Those were the days! What year is the box of ammunition? I haven't a clue...but thanks for that stroll down memory lane!

[BobMcG]

Yup, probably from the late '60s.

[kd7nqb]

I'm jelous, at 20yrs young I have never seen the days when sears sold firearms. I am also jelous that 3.95 a box was considered expensive, it costs me almost that in cast to get to my range lately.

[230RN]

Figuring $20.00 a box estimated for the "Future Value (FV)" and $3.95 for the "Present Value (PV)*" and given an average inflation rate ("Growth Rate") of 4.17% per year**, the date of purchase would be July 1, 1967 just before 1 AM Mountain Daylight TIme by the amortization formula.

FV = PV x ((1 + growth rate)) e periods

Where periods is the number of years and "e" denotes taking it to the exponent and growth rate in percentage is expressed as a decimal, 0.0417.

FV / PV = 1.04176 e periods

20.00 / 3.95 = 1.04176 e periods

5.063 = 1.04176 e periods

log 5.063 = periods x log 1.04176

log 5.063 / log 1.04176 = periods

39.65 = periods (years)

2007.25 - 39.65 = 1967.604

Which corresponds to 01 Jul 1967 at the aforementioned 1 AM MDT.

Isn't science wonderful? :rolleyes:
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*In this case, "Future Value" is today's cost, "Present Value" was the cost 'way back when.

** http://inflationdata.com/inflation/images/charts/Articles/Decade_inflation_chart.htm

[USMC - Retired]

Not only did Sears sell guns and ammo they had thier "own" line. Anyone else ever own a "Ted Williams" shotgun?

[Jorg]

Anyone else ever own a "Ted Williams" shotgun?

I didn't, but I have one of these from Sears.

http://www.gunsandammomag.com/classics/ct0407/

[Sean Dempsey]

I think you are correct. I remember when I was a kid growing up in Los Angeles my favorite store was Western Auto............they had a gun section. I amamzed that in the city (St. George) closest to where I live now the is a hardware store that sells guns.


Have you MET the Hurst family? I am surprised they don't give away a free gun with each purchase.