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Posted: 1/12/2015 11:52:57 AM EDT
$300.00 would get you this.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 11:53:37 AM EDT
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I have one SA 5.56 battle pack left, for old times sake. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 11:54:18 AM EDT
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I still have 1 crate of Aim $139 per thousand shipped Portuguese .308
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Posted: 1/12/2015 11:56:00 AM EDT
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The good old days. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 11:56:37 AM EDT
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Remember Century's specials on surplus 8mm Mauser? Think it was 50s Yugo for like $59.95/900rds. I bought so much of that stuff.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:00:51 PM EDT
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Remember Century's specials on surplus 8mm Mauser? Think it was 50s Yugo for like $59.95/900rds. I bought so much of that stuff. They were practically giving it away. Wouldn't they pretty much give you a case if you bought a rifle? |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:01:23 PM EDT
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Sigh, SA, guat, izzy white box, and whatever the British 5.56 in stripper clips was. A person could shoot all weekend for $100.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:01:37 PM EDT
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Remember Century's specials on surplus 8mm Mauser? Think it was 50s Yugo for like $59.95/900rds. I bought so much of that stuff. I still kick myself over that one. I didn't order because of the $75 minimum order. I actually said to myself "I don't need 1,800 rounds"...
In defense of myself, I still have plenty of surplus 8mm 10 years later. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:03:04 PM EDT
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I remember getting a couple battle packs of that stuff. Good ammo.
I also picked up a case of the South African commercial shit, the PMP stuff. I still have a couple hundred rounds of it, actually. IIRC, it's 55gr, and chrony'd about 100fps slower than the milsurp stuff. I'll eventually blast it off and save the cases for reloading. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:03:13 PM EDT
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Sigh, SA, guat, izzy white box, and whatever the British 5.56 in stripper clips was. A person could shoot all weekend for $100. Radway Green! Still have some cases of that somewhere in the stash. Lead sealed brown ammo cans. The SA smelled like cat piss when shooting it but i was genuine 5.56 velocities even decades after it was manufactured. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:03:29 PM EDT
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I had several cases of that at one time....yes, those were good times...
I wish I had bought a pallet load of it. 
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:04:49 PM EDT
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I was just starting to get some disposable income at the very tail end of it. Was able to buy a 1000 round case of Portuguese surplus 7.62x51 for 130 shipped in 2003
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:06:30 PM EDT
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I hate this thread |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:06:48 PM EDT
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I'm still shooting SA .308 that I bought from Aim for $ 22 a battle pack.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:07:05 PM EDT
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I still have shit loads of .22lr bricks for $4.99 wont ever see that again
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:07:32 PM EDT
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I used to pay between $125.00 and $150 for a can of this. Wish I could find it for that today.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:07:57 PM EDT
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They were practically giving it away. Wouldn't they pretty much give you a case if you bought a rifle? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Remember Century's specials on surplus 8mm Mauser? Think it was 50s Yugo for like $59.95/900rds. I bought so much of that stuff. They were practically giving it away. Wouldn't they pretty much give you a case if you bought a rifle? I bought it on special for $50. Bought 4 of them. They used to give a Cetme bayonet with every item ordered. I have about 15 of those. Best deal was the can of polish 7.62x25 for 99 bucks. I also bought 440 spam cans of 54r and the romanian 8mm spams for $30 each. It used to be like Christmas getting that Century specials email Monday morning. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:09:22 PM EDT
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I kept this around to remind of the good ole days:
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:09:43 PM EDT
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In 1993 I bought a Polytech underfolder for $225 and he sold me 1K of 7.62 Chinese for $39.99... I was making $160 a day working off shore! Chinese 30 rounders were $2.99 a piece...
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:09:49 PM EDT
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I was generally broke in the late 80s and still couldn't have afforded that $300 cost
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:10:59 PM EDT
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I hate this thread
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:12:03 PM EDT
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There was a time that CTD actually had decent prices. I can remember buying my first case of M855 from them in 2000 or 2002 for ~$175.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:13:01 PM EDT
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The Guat 5.56 was right near the end. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:13:21 PM EDT
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I really wish I'd set myself up for life with those battle packs. I have some of the SA packs left in both 308 and 5.56, but I should have bought several tubs worth.
Wasn't there a story behind the SA surplus? That it wasn't really surplus and the guy who authorized it... shouldn't have? 
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:14:22 PM EDT
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They were practically giving it away. Wouldn't they pretty much give you a case if you bought a rifle? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Remember Century's specials on surplus 8mm Mauser? Think it was 50s Yugo for like $59.95/900rds. I bought so much of that stuff. They were practically giving it away. Wouldn't they pretty much give you a case if you bought a rifle? The first sks I bought was 89.00 and came with a spam can of steel core x39... Canned hams were 55/case of 2 cans. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:14:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I still have 1 crate of Aim $139 per thousand shipped Portuguese .308 That was the expensive stuff. I got the HXP for $80/k. Turned out it was boxer primed, so double win. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:14:46 PM EDT
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I hate this thread yup 
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:15:17 PM EDT
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I really wish I'd set myself up for life with those battle packs. I have some of the SA packs left in both 308 and 5.56, but I should have bought several tubs worth. Wasn't there a story behind the SA surplus? That it wasn't really surplus and the guy who authorized it... shouldn't have? You can thank the UN for that s--t. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:15:30 PM EDT
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Hindsight can often be sooooo very painful
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:16:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was generally broke in the late 80s and still couldn't have afforded that $300 cost |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:19:25 PM EDT
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I am pretty sure we are talking about the late nineties and early 2000's. It wasn't that long ago really. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I was generally broke in the late 80s and still couldn't have afforded that $300 cost Yep, the mid 90s to early 2000s. Everyone was downsizing because the ''cold war'' was over. When it dried up, it dried up quick. Out matra was ''Buy it cheap and stack it deep.'' |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:22:15 PM EDT
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Hindsight can often be sooooo very painful Yeah. I've often said that if time travel was invented, the first things I'd do is 1: go back to the 60s and buy several tractor-trailers worth of great surplus guns and put them in storage, and 2: go back to the late 90s/early 00s and buy several Conexes worth of SA ammo. Then I'd go back and start solving the world's wrongs. 
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:25:12 PM EDT
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My 3rd sks was a new manufacturer norinko, paid 250 in the early 90s, any idea what it's worth now?
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:25:36 PM EDT
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Yup, still got some battle packs moth balled away.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:26:58 PM EDT
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I still have a british (?) ammo can of that 7.62x51 SA ammo in battle packs. I was surprised it was berdan primed. Luckily, it doesn't seem to be corrosive.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:27:24 PM EDT
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Radway Green! Still have some cases of that somewhere in the stash. Lead sealed brown ammo cans. The SA smelled like cat piss when shooting it but i was genuine 5.56 velocities even decades after it was manufactured. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Sigh, SA, guat, izzy white box, and whatever the British 5.56 in stripper clips was. A person could shoot all weekend for $100. Radway Green! Still have some cases of that somewhere in the stash. Lead sealed brown ammo cans. The SA smelled like cat piss when shooting it but i was genuine 5.56 velocities even decades after it was manufactured. Still have some! That stuff was very accurate for me. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:28:18 PM EDT
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I am pretty sure we are talking about the late nineties and early 2000's. It wasn't that long ago really. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I was generally broke in the late 80s and still couldn't have afforded that $300 cost I was busy raising a family working three jobs Still not an option |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:28:40 PM EDT
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Yeah. I've often said that if time travel was invented, the first things I'd do is 1: go back to the 60s and buy several tractor-trailers worth of great surplus guns and put them in storage, and 2: go back to the late 90s/early 00s and buy several Conexes worth of SA ammo. Then I'd go back and start solving the world's wrongs. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Hindsight can often be sooooo very painful Yeah. I've often said that if time travel was invented, the first things I'd do is 1: go back to the 60s and buy several tractor-trailers worth of great surplus guns and put them in storage, and 2: go back to the late 90s/early 00s and buy several Conexes worth of SA ammo. Then I'd go back and start solving the world's wrongs. In fairness, you'd need the guns and ammo to solve the world's wrongs, so you might consider that two birds with one stone. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:35:16 PM EDT
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I remember those days. Should have bought that instead of stocks.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:35:49 PM EDT
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There was a time that CTD actually had decent prices. I can remember buying my first case of M855 from them in 2000 or 2002 for ~$175. CTD used to consistently have the best prices of just about any of the big ammo distributors until they went full retard. I fondly recall $69/1000 cases of Wolf 7.62x39... |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:38:00 PM EDT
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Still see lots of vendors at gun shows using those crates. I like the metal 308 crates.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:42:47 PM EDT
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Bring it back.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:43:42 PM EDT
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I am pretty sure we are talking about the late nineties and early 2000's. It wasn't that long ago really. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I was generally broke in the late 80s and still couldn't have afforded that $300 cost I was 15 in 2000. Never had a chance.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:45:25 PM EDT
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I was 15 in 2000. Never had a chance. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I was generally broke in the late 80s and still couldn't have afforded that $300 cost I was 15 in 2000. Never had a chance. I'd buy a case of surp for my kid every Christmas along with a couple bricks of .22. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:45:41 PM EDT
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$300.00 would get you this. http://i62.tinypic.com/2lj6xz4.jpg http://i57.tinypic.com/2uop1j8.jpg 
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:46:06 PM EDT
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I used to love the Australian 7.62x51. Those cases were $139. SA and Port battle packs. Sigh, the glory days.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:47:28 PM EDT
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The guys in Canada can still get them???
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:47:37 PM EDT
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Paragon Sales had British WW1-era .303 for $59.95/1000 back in the early 90s. My friend and I split a case to shoot through our $40 Australian SMLEs. I remember one or two duds, but it was good shooing stuff for the most part. A buddy owned a lot of F/A guns refused to use the ammo in his BREN or Vickers, but it was great blasting ammo for young guys with Lee/Enfields.
In the mid or late 90s South Africa sold off the last of its .303, and it was selling here for $189/1000. I wish I'd bought a pallet of that ammo, because it was all late-manufactured, boxer primed, and non corrosive. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:48:10 PM EDT
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yeah the good ol days
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:48:20 PM EDT
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I only have some polish 7.62x25 left from the glory days.
I got in at the tail end of surplus ammo golden age. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 12:48:48 PM EDT
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I was just starting to get some disposable income at the very tail end of it. Was able to buy a 1000 round case of Portuguese surplus 7.62x51 for 130 shipped in 2003 The good old days are long gone, that is for sure. I remember buying a case of RG 7.52x51 for $100 around 99' |
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