22 find - how it goes sometimes

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Interesting turn of events the last week.
Had to run to the local fleet store for unrelated household needs, when I see piles of people literally running to sporting goods - naturally curious, I went myself. lo and behold - a case of Remington golden bullets had arrived. Ironically, they were piling in from one end of the isle, and I headed from the other. beat the press as it were - score one box of 525 for me. Price? meh - $25, but less than the gougers.

Then, I had to run to Brainerd to give someone a ride, and we stopped at yet another fleet store to meet the other person. We had some time to kill so, why not walk around for a bit- They also had a stack of 22 on the shelf. and no one rushing towards it oddly, score 2 more 525 packs.

Then had to go to Dresser, WI yesterday for a wedding, and stopped at cabelas on the way home - becase why not - and they had shelves full of CCI 22. literally hundreds of boxes. $5/50 round box. okay - not exactly cheap, which is why it was on the shelves. so I bought another 300 rounds.

yeah, it wasn't cheap like yesteryear, but I went away from the weekend pretty satisfied. I have plenty of 22 now to get the step-grandchild started on shooting this fall in prep for the winter jr rifle program. She turned nine this year, the minimum age to be in the program - and she's been hounding me all summer to practice, lol
 
Had a friend drop by last week. While going through some of his late brother's stuff he said he found this and has no use for it. Asked if I would please take it. With several grandchildren starting their shooting with grandpa, it was most welcome.
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I believe that is the date on that sticker - '76...that would explain that........ :D

Around 2000, I scored some for $95 OTD for a case of 6250 - still have some of that left, but like the OP, it is there IF you are willing to forget a out a penny a shot pricing from decades ago....................
 
1976 could be. SSK? S S Kresge/ Kmart?
We were short on oil and gasoline but we had plenty of .22 ammo! :) :)
 
Chiggerbyt, I do hope you treated him to a good "Bro Lunch"! He probably has no idea of the value of that ammo stash in today's market.
 
Oh, he knows the value all right. Trading favors and gifts without expecting anything in return or keeping score is just how he is. If I'm able to help him out its the same way.
 
Oh, he knows the value all right. Trading favors and gifts without expecting anything in return or keeping score is just how he is. If I'm able to help him out its the same way.
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You both sound like fine gentlemen. ;)
 
If I'm reading that correctly....22 ammo was 2 cents a round in 1976...and the OP just purchased ammo for just under 5 cents per round.

In 40 years the price has risen at only a 2.93% annual rate of inflation. Very interesting.
 
Looks like the price on the 1976 CCI ammo was 2 100 round packages for $3.00. OP stated he purchased 50 rounds of CCI for $5.00.

1976 = 1.5 cents per round
2015 = 10 cents per round

If my math is correct that is more than a 500% increase.
 
And the price has been considerably higher in recent years. It's sliding back down now. It will NEVER be what it was ten years ago though. I miss the 550rd bulk packs for under $9. Ancient history.
 
Years ago when i was shooting a lot of .22, I could buy a case (5000 rounds) of Winchester dyna points for I think $125.00 from Wal Mart. I wish I had bought 20 cases at that price.
 
savage24 said:
Looks like the price on the 1976 CCI ammo was 2 100 round packages for $3.00. OP stated he purchased 50 rounds of CCI for $5.00.

1976 = 1.5 cents per round
2015 = 10 cents per round

If my math is correct that is more than a 500% increase.
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He quotes various prices...but the first paragraph states that he purchased 525 rounds for $25. That's 4.76 cents per round.

Even if we use the prices you quote...1.5 cents increasing to 10 cents...that rate of inflation is still only a 4.9% rate of annual inflation...not 500%.

Quoting it as a 500% increase is misleading because you don't take into account that this happened over a roughly 40 YEAR time horizon...literally half a lifetime.

His numbers show me that .22 ammo cost the same today as it did 40 years ago on an inflation adjusted basis. .22 ammo increased in price...but our wages have increased over that time period as well.

For example, in 1976 I wasn't driving to the store in a $45,000 truck to buy ammo...everything cost less in 1976 on an absolute basis...housing, milk, vehicles, everything. But on an inflation adjusted basis...which is the only logical basis for comparison...it's about in line with what you'd expect...that's all I'm saying.

Sure there may have been a year or two when prices were higher due to panicky gun owners...but consumers have choices. I didn't pay elevated prices for anything during that time period.
 
I just scored 3 bricks of 500 Remington for $29 each... .06 per round after tax is much better than available online... I also scored Federal AutoMatch for .07 each... also not bad... been stocking up as well... I love big box stores.
 
"Even if we use the prices you quote...1.5 cents increasing to 10 cents...that rate of inflation is still only a 4.9% rate of annual inflation...not 500%."

I like using the prices I quoted because they are comparing CCI then and CCI now - not CCI then and crappy Remington Golden Bullets now.

Since I was responding to your post, I probably should have presented my price increase figure in the form of an annual inflation rate over the past 39 years (truth is, my math skills are fairly rudimentary). I never intended to suggest my 500% figure was an inflation rate.

Any way you slice it, 4.9% annually is pretty steep inflation.
 
"Quoting it as a 500% increase is misleading because you don't take into account that this happened over a roughly 40 YEAR time horizon...literally half a lifetime."

Sure I did:

1976 = 1.5 cents per round
2015 = 10 cents per round
 
Many people at times seem to forget the context that wages & salaries were also much less in the 70's/80's....

You guys can buy all of the cheap Rem. you want. The nice 1940's Savage .22 blows gas into your shooting glasses about every other shot with basic yellow/green Rem. and "Thunderslug", ehh, Thunderbolt.

Other US .22LR ammo brands never do this in the Savage or Romanian M-69 Trainers.
 
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Our local Sportsmans had Thundercrud for 32.99 last week, no line, 1 brick limit. Still too much for that stuff buts it's the first time I've seen .22 there in 3 years.
 
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