Posted: 3/2/2015 10:31:53 PM EDT
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When M4 profile barrels were all the rage, when Magpul sold followers, instead of having followers. When M193 sold for around $200 per case and was plentiful. When ARMS mounts were cool, and KAC rails were the in thing. Romanian AK kits were about $70 bucks, and a case of x39 was about $120. You didn't give burning half a case at the range a second thought, you could order another from AIM or CTD (when we liked those guys) whenever you wanted. That was about 2006-2007, back before I had any kind of money as a poor college kid.
The good old days.  The sad thing is, we kinda fucked ourselves for the most part.
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AShit.......I used to stop at a sporting goods store on the way to small game hunting and get a 100 plastic box of CCI .22, a snickers bar, and a mountain dew in a glass bottle for................wait for it................wait for it
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shit.......I used to stop at a sporting goods store on the way to small game hunting and get a 100 plastic box of CCI .22, a snickers bar, and a mountain dew in a glass bottle for................wait for it................wait for it $2.00 Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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When M4 profile barrels were all the rage, when Magpul sold followers, instead of having followers. When M193 sold for around $200 per case and was plentiful. When ARMS mounts were cool, and KAC rails were the in thing. Romanian AK kits were about $70 bucks, and a case of x39 was about $120. You didn't give burning half a case at the range a second thought, you could order another from AIM or CTD (when we liked those guys) whenever you wanted. That was about 2006-2007, back before I had any kind of money as a poor college kid. The good old days. The sad thing is, we kinda fucked ourselves for the most part.Hmm...you're join date is before mine, but I recall ammo being even cheaper than that. I started into this stuff around the same time 2005 or so. Didn't find this site till a bit later. I recall purchasing brass case ADCOM ss109 for less than $200 a case. Still have a small amount of it. Wolf was around $100 for both .223 and x39. Built my first AR-15 back then. Upper bought from legal-transfers, who still sells on this board, a 20 inch HBAR 1-9 twist Rock River Arms. I recall being excited because Rock River Arms had just started using chrome lined barrels. I built the lower from a double star lower purchased from centerfire systems for $100 (a good deal then), fulton-armory lower parts kit, RRA two stage trigger (gen 1), and a bushmaster A2 stock purchased in the EE. Still have that gun. Came in 2nd place in a rifle competition with it using red box American eagle .223 shooting against a guy that had a match m1A with handloads. Good times. Gun parts cost more, but it was a hell of a lot cheaper to shoot them. Times certainly have changed. I recently tried to locate any newly manufactured barrel with an A2 barrel extension (no M4 cuts). It appears they no longer make them. ETA: now that I think about it more, it seems the ammo market never recovered from the 2008 election of FBHO. Then there was the re-election, then sandy hook, prices had started to drop just ever so slightly, now BAM, another scare. 
Maybe with a republican congress, and a republican president, and by some miracle they can neuter the fucking ATF, then maybe it will drop a bit. I doubt will every see sub .20 a bullet 5.56 ever again. |
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You must be a young one. 
I miss cases of M193 for 99.99 delivered, and 7.62x39 for 69.99 delivered.
Colt AR15s for 499.99 and they were the only ones in town. Colt M16s were 599.99. Those were some good days, weren't they? Go buy a can of Lake City surplus and enjoy a day shooting it up without blowing a week's pay and not feeling guilty about shooting up so much ammo. When going to gun shows was not todays form of social dumpster diving and Class III items were on dealer tables with prices that were tempting for a poor GI. When Shotgun News was a couple of inches thick every week and was something you looked forward to reading and deals could be had that trump the best deals on Armslist or Gunbroker. Got a time machine? I'd head back there in a heartbeat. |
Magpul mag loops, a KAC RAS II, and several cases of M193 that I stashed away back around 2002.
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When M4 profile barrels were all the rage, when Magpul sold followers, instead of having followers. When M193 sold for around $200 per case and was plentiful. When ARMS mounts were cool, and KAC rails were the in thing. Romanian AK kits were about $70 bucks, and a case of x39 was about $120. You didn't give burning half a case at the range a second thought, you could order another from AIM or CTD (when we liked those guys) whenever you wanted. That was about 2006-2007, back before I had any kind of money as a poor college kid. The good old days. The sad thing is, we kinda fucked ourselves for the most part.you said it! We invited idiots into our shooting sport. Then they voted for Obama twice and now morphed into neckbeards. |
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Quoted: When M4 profile barrels were all the rage, when Magpul sold followers, instead of having followers. When M193 sold for around $200 per case and was plentiful. When ARMS mounts were cool, and KAC rails were the in thing. Romanian AK kits were about $70 bucks, and a case of x39 was about $120. You didn't give burning half a case at the range a second thought, you could order another from AIM or CTD (when we liked those guys) whenever you wanted. That was about 2006-2007, back before I had any kind of money as a poor college kid. The good old days. The sad thing is, we kinda fucked ourselves for the most part.Romanian K kits where about $49.00 back then from Southern Ohio Gun 7.62x39 was $62.00/1000 with Minnesota sales tax from FAC ARMS mounts sucked back then too |
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Quoted: Yep my first Colt SP1 was $550 in 1986(pawn shop prices) Quoted: Yep my first Colt SP1 was $550 in 1986(pawn shop prices) Quoted: You must be a young one. I miss cases of M193 for 99.99 delivered, and 7.62x39 for 69.99 delivered. Colt AR15s for 499.99 and they were the only ones in town. Colt M16s were 599.99. A brand new HK91 was cheaper than a AR back then |
