I'll chime in and indeed those were the days. I turned 18 in 2004 and started buying then and I bought a lot between then and 2008 or so, I got in on the tail end of the cheap days. There were still some deals to be had up until around 2015 or so and then things really dried up. I still have all that ammo I bought back in those days and some of the rifles, I'll be able to shoot 54R and 8mm until I'm too old to shoot anymore.