Nostalgia: Gun prices from 25 years ago ...

Have a box of Kleenex handy.

https://www.gunboards.com/threads/of...-weep.1182464/

However nice those prices appear, I have a page from "Hunters Lodge"
listing firearms for sale (circa late 50s,early 60s)

43 Spanish Rolling Block, NRA Excellent - $35.
FN semi auto 30/06 NRA good - $30.
1917 Enfield NRA good - $30
M1 Carbine (good) $66.
Mauser models, 8 total - range around $30,
some come with bayos, all with slings.
Bayonets $4.

Dontcha just wish you could time travel ?

I remember when they were making lamps out of Remington Rolling Blocks. 1903A3 Springfields were $15.00

.45 G.I. ball $3.00 box, 3006 G.I. ball .06, M1 clips .02, I sure miss those days!
Sam

Inflation.

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Originally Posted by Roadkingtrax

Inflation.

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The way the fed is printing money, It might not be too long till we think of pre-2021 as the good old days.

I remember 98 Mauser rifles at 40 dollars and you could buy a box od 100 rounds of 8mm Mauser for 10 dollars. Woolco, 1977.

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Originally Posted by gwp

The way the fed is printing money, It might not be too long till we think of pre-2021 as the good old days.

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I'm happy to have the couple rifles that I do. Things got expensive very fast in the last two decades.

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Originally Posted by Hal O'Peridol

I remember 98 Mauser rifles at 40 dollars and you could buy a box od 100 rounds of 8mm Mauser for 10 dollars. Woolco, 1977.

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I remember FINDING a Bren gun at Siwa Oasis in Egypt in 1954, with all the ammo you wanted -- it was a small, abandoned Brit dump. Dad wouldn't let me bring it home, though.

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Originally Posted by Vern Humphrey

I remember when they were making lamps out of Remington Rolling Blocks. 1903A3 Springfields were $15.00

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They were still doing with Vetterlis until fairly recently. Maybe 20 or so years ago?