Ammo prices: .22 LR

[irish ike, SASS #43615]

We shoot 22 silhouette. We shoot 50/100/150/200 yards. We buy 22 ammo loaded for the Olympics. We ran it through a chronograph. They varied not more than 4 fps.

 

But they are $18.50/50????????????????????

 

 

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

 I found a box of 22lr , stashed in one of Granddads tool boxes ,  marked 19 cents 

my brother saw it and took off with it 

I recall Walmart adds back in the early 70s , 4 for $1 bx of 50 

 

  CB 

[Brandon A Bovine SASS 27688]

I bought a 5000 round case of Winchester T-22’s for fifty dollars once when a sporting goods store was trying to raise money quickly.  Back in the late 80’s that was pretty good. 

[German Jim]

And remember, Y'all made about $100/Week.  Least I did when first starting out in 1969.

[High Spade Mikey Wilson]

Back about 10-15 years ago I stopped off at my LGS every week for a Thursday night BS session with my shooting buddies. If I had nothing else I needed to purchase I would pick up a brick of Federal Eagle .22LR ammo for $9.80. I still have about 8-9 bricks left in mys stock, which I use when I take the grandsons out shooting.

[High Spade Mikey Wilson]

On 7/3/2024 at 4:30 PM, Sixgun Seamus said:

It was either 66 or 67, I was at Boy Scout Camp and decided I wanted to take Marksmanship merit badge that week. I can't remember what rifles we used. There were four of us in the class and I was the only one that earned the badge that week. I also was the only one who had never shot any gun in my life. In 67 at my first trip to Philmont, I took thr NRA Hunter Safety course (using Remington 513T) at on of the back country camps. I still have the targets......three of them with a dime size hole or less out of the center. The following summer I answered an ad out of Boy's Life magazine to sell Christmas cards. I earned for myself a brand new Mossberg 320B .22 rifle. Mom wouldn't buy ammo so I had to earn money to buy my own. Like I said in an earlier post, I bought Remington long rifle ammo for about 51 or 52 cents a box down at Mill's Hardware store in town. Unfortunately that rifle was stolen back in the early 80's. I did qualify as 50 ft  small bore expert at later years in Scout Camp but I was using my own Ruger 77/22. I have a rather large stockpile of 22 ammo that hopefully the grandkids will help me burn up. I bought each of my grandkids a Henry Golden Boy when they were born. We had them all together at Easter so I gave them their rifles. The serial #'s are their initials and birthdate.

You were one of the lucky ones, lol. When I shot .22 at Boy Scout camp you were lucky to just hit the target with those rifles.

[Idaho Gunslinger]

13 hours ago, German Jim said:

And remember, Y'all made about $100/Week.  Least I did when first starting out in 1969.

For me starting out in 2007 I was making $206 a week before taxes. Probably $160-170 after taxes.

I believe a box of fifty 22LR was $1 to $2 plus sales tax then. Just before the 2008 price hikes. 

[Captain Bill Burt]

As I recall my early childhood most of my money was spent on Barqs, BBs, candy, firecrackers and pinball, not necessarily in that order.  As others have mentioned, empty soda bottles were a good source of income as were Grandmas.

 

I remember a summer spent at my paternal grandmothers while my great-grandmother was also living there.  My grandmother had been fighting a mouse problem and had found that the traditional cheese as bait in a trap wasn't working for her, so my great-grandmother offered me a quarter a mouse.  I figured mice would like what I liked so I baited my three traps with pecans with some chocolate rubbed onto them.  

 

I had a lot of funds that summer and played a lot of pinball.

[Widder, SASS #59054]

Capt BB,

Before I can properly judge your method in the riddance of mice, I gotta know if the chocolate was sweet, semi-sweet or

dark chocolate.

 

Was it the type of chocolate used on Nanner Splits?

 

..........Widder

 

[Captain Bill Burt]

Sweet chocolate of course.

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

Back in the mid 80's my first job was working at KMart.   One day the Sporting Goods manager noticed that we had a plethora of discontinued ,22 ammo.   He said to mark it all down 97 cents a box.   

 

The most  numerous stuff was Remington Yellow Jackets.   I called my Dad, and he and my brother came over to the store and bought up ALL of the discontinued 22's.   There were at least a dozen bricks of the Yellow Jackets as well as miscellaneous other stuff.   We STILL have some of the Yellow Jackets.   It's to powerful for plinking or shooting into the trap in the basement, so we've held onto it for use in small game hunting and other uses.

[Red Rider Rudy]

Edited July 26 by Red Rider Rudy