Prices of powder in 1976

[Outlaw75]

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Even more amazing; they totaled up the bill by hand and I bet the figured the sales tax off one of those little laminated tax charts!

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Even more amazing; they totaled up the bill by hand and I bet the figured the sales tax off one of those little laminated tax charts!

More likely did it in their heads.

I remember the days when cashiers at the grocery stores ran the groceries down the belt as fast as today's scanners, if not faster, all the while with their fingers flying over the register keys without looking.

And they only taxed those items which required the state sales tax.

http://www.in.gov/dor/files/sib29.pdf


Then they actually counted your change back when you paid.

And I was hard pressed to find ANY errors. Certainly no more, and quite possibly less, errors than I experience nowadays.

 

[Don McDowell]

Keep in mind that in 76 if you bought that powder you bought it across the counter, there was no mail order like today. You also paid cash or check, unless you made enough to have a Diners Club or American Express and you paid the balance off on those every month. Chances of a gunshop taking those cards was pretty dang slim..
If you bought a house or car you put 10-20% cash down to get financing, if you bought a new rilfe, pistol etc, you paid cash or put it on layaway, and you did not get it until it was paid for,, no loading up the Visa back then.. Yup things look like they were cheap, but looks can be deceiving.

 

[Lethal rx7]

Most people then would spend what they could actually afford to....MOST

 

[jmr40]

Those prices are actually in line with inflation. We can't expect to pay 1976 prices and earn 2015 wages. When you look at gun and ammo prices in general we are working fewer hours today to purchase the same items. All things considered guns and ammo are cheaper than ever. Especially optics.

 

[lysanderxiii]

Yeah, the prices haven't changed much in relation to inflation, but availability on some things has.

I remember talking into Woolworths in 1984 and seeing a rack of twenty or so M1 Garands and M1 Carbines for $200 each, brand new No 4, Mk2s were $70 or $80 each. More in the back if you didn't find a bore you liked...

Shotgun News had ads for M1 stripped receivers (not rewelds) 5 for a hundred.

 

[Don McDowell]

There was a store in Cheyenne called Tempo's, they had barrels full of 1917's and 03's for 25$, you could get a sporterized mauser at monkey wards for 20$... But that was a ton of money back then.

 

[skeet028]

I remember things back then. I did much of my gun/reloading shopping in Pa cause they had metallic stuff for sale. Got married in 71 and sold 56 Win M-12s so I could buy a house..and enough money to make it nice.. I hated to sell some of them..especially the 28 ga guns and the 42's. Shot 200 registered skeet targets that day(won my class in both gauges) and didn't shoot another round of registered for 11 yrs. Money was always tight and I couldn't afford to shoot. But I guess it was worth it..still married to that woman. on another note..a couple of months ago I bought 9 lbs of Winchester 230 3 lbs of Win 295 2 lbs of 680 and 2 lbs of Win 630. Paid 1 dollar a pound but I had to take it all. I have data for all except the Win 295. But I think it is actually the Win equivalent of WC 820. One day I will find 295 data. And 2 weeks ago I bought 5 one lb cans of Winchester 540 at a gun show for 40 bucks. 540 is the same powder as HS-6. I am not afraid to use older powders..as long as they smell ok....and look to be what they should be.

 

[Garrobo]

OK, all you

young whipper snappers, when I was a kid a 16 oz bottle of Pepsi was a nickle as was a large candy bar or popcycle. I bought gas for 15 cents a gallon. I can remember old-timers b***g about the high prices back then too. Many times I heard them complain that you could buy a whole grocery bag of food for a dollar in past times. Everything is relative.

 

[788Ham]

Bud0505,

I was in Olongapo in '68, aboard the Gunston Hall LSD 5, shore patrol were busy then too! lol
I remember buying gas for 18 cents a gal. in '67, started working at the brewery in Golden about then too, made a whopping' $3.15 an hour.... then went into the Navy.

Remember paying $2.75 a brick for .22's at K Mart.

 

[armarsh]

I was in grade school in 76, but remember very clearly my father ordering powder from what became Accurate. Gallon jugs of 4895 and 4831 pull down with a discount if you bought 6 or more. No hazmat at that time either.

 

[Poper]

In 1965 my mother would send me to the neighborhood store with a $1 bill for 2 packs of L&M, a half gallon of milk and a loaf of bread with the admonishment : "And I want my change, too!"

 

[TwoEyedJack]

Seeing H450 on that list brought a tear to my eye. I've never found a powder for my Remington .270 that equals H450. 5-shot clusters .375" running a 130 grain ballistic tip to 3100 fps. Those were the days.

 

[skeet028]

H450..

No..Those are the days. It is a great powder and I happen to have about 5 lbs here..and some H240 4676 and some Hodgdon 205...and one pound of Bl-C..not lot 2. That was ny go to powder in the 270..It just shot well. No longer have a 270.

 

[Officers'Wife]

I seem to remember my uncle making the comment that prices were the same in his day as they are now, it's just that the dollar isn't worth as much.

 

[skeet028]

prices

Now days it costs more but back then prices were low..but so were wages. I was at a gun show this weekend and got two cans of 700X for 12 bucks..one wasn't quite full. And I also got 5 lbs of Win 540 for 40 bucks. 540 is the same powder as HS 6

 

[Lloyd Smale]

believe me powder was just as expensive then to a working man as it is now. If not more so.