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Posted: 11/29/2014 11:30:39 AM EST
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50 to 99 cent boxes of 50 wasn't out of the ordinary 15-20 years ago.
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I used to buy .79 boxes of 50 at the local Hart's store in the early 80's. And I wasn't even 18. Nobody batted an eye.
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Lowest I remember paying as a kid was a 1.02 after tax for a box of 100.
Have seen that brand though. Shot a bit of it here and there and think my grandpa still has a couple boxes of it in his gun cabinet. |
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Thunderbolts and Fed lightning went for 99 cents/50 as late as about 2000 or so as I recall.
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By brick, do you mean 500 rounds?
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I use to buy Federal bricks for $3.99 back in the day but not that low for a brick, guessing 1950's or 1960's.
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Big question is will OP shoot collector ammo or trade off for plinking ammo so as to double or triple his stash?
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Friend of mine found this in her grandfather's stash of ammo... Full brick, never opened. I never even heard of Western ammo. I assume since it is Super X it is now the Winchester brand. http://i59.tinypic.com/nmkqpu.jpg View Quote I've still got 4 boxes...but I paid about $14 per brick. " /> |
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At one point Winchester went under and was purchased by Olin Western Cartridge Company. They have sold under the brands western and winchester.
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I had 7.99 on an old brick of Thunderbolts. You win. View Quote My first .22 ammo was bricks of Thunderbolts, 2 for $7.99. And that was in the mid '90s at Sam's Club. I still have a couple bricks of Blazers I bought for $7.99 a brick around 2001. I have old boxes of various .22s with price stickers of around 35 cents. |
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Somewhere in my boxes of stuff, I have some old Remingtons marked $.99. I was a kid working in a hardware store, though, and we got everything for store cost. So I probably paid about 60 cents a box, lol.
But that was 30 years ago. |
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I got bricks for 4.99 at Value House then renamed Service Merchandise , they had a great gun department
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Isn't anyone here for enough to remember "Winchester - Western"?
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Friend of mine found this in her grandfather's stash of ammo... Full brick, never opened. I never even heard of Western ammo. I assume since it is Super X it is now the Winchester brand. http://i59.tinypic.com/nmkqpu.jpg View Quote that color scheme and layout were used in the 80s.... I have a couple bricks of 'longs' like it.... good sale price at 20 cents a box for 500.....usual was around 30 cents if I recall correctly.... |
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I remember getting boxes of 50 rounds for @.50-.75 cents at woolworths back in the mid 1980's
Me and my brother burned through a shitload of .22 back then |
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I'd bet it was actually $1.34 per 50 rnd box. I used to buy .22 for under a dollar for 50 rnds, and the 100 round plastic slide lid boxes was about $1.50. Shorts and longs were really cheap.
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Google, it's a motherfucker.
Western Cartridge Company acquired the Winchester Repeating Arms Company after Winchester went into receivership in 1931. |
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Friend of mine found this in her grandfather's stash of ammo... Full brick, never opened. I never even heard of Western ammo. I assume since it is Super X it is now the Winchester brand. http://i59.tinypic.com/nmkqpu.jpg View Quote Western was Winchester's Ammunition division for a long time..then it went to Winchester-Western |
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The good old days of $9.99 bricks of .22 Winchester Western Wildcat ammo.
That's about the lowest I can remember buying it at. |
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Of course I'm older than most of you, but as a kid I used to buy Peter's .22 Short ammo for 50 cents a box in Egan, Louisiana at the local grocery store.
Winchester Western was good ammo and I shot a ton of it too. And BTW DrFrige, that was $1.34 a box, not for the whole brick. |
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I remember when that ammo was 39 cent's, i always bought federal when on sale for 19 cents.
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When I was a kid in the 80's we could buy single .22lr rounds for like 2 or 3 cents a piece from the owner of the local hardware store. We grew up in a poor town and we were dirt poor kids.
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I have shot thousands of rounds of under $5 a brick .22 ammo. I am old
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You'd lose that bet.
I remember $1 a box of 50 was less than 15 years ago. $2 for CCI mini-Mags. |
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