The time to stock up is now.

[SupressYourself]

... Primmers where 8$ Thousand. Powder same, bullets to, 223 ammo 3 cents a round and list goes on and on.

That must have been quite a while ago. I started reloading 10 years ago, and the cheapest I remember is like $30-$35 per brick of primers.

 

[Kentucky Windage]

That must have been quite a while ago. I started reloading 10 years ago, and the cheapest I remember is like $30-$35 per brick of primers.

That’s just a number wall-eyes came up with because that’s as high as he can count on his hands.

 

[WormWiggler]

Damn am I glad I stocked up many years ago, I am the guy everyone hates. If my house/ shop burns you all will hear WW 3 somewhat I do have a special room with concrete thicker than shit and all temperature-controlled kind like big ficking Fort Knox with vault door built for hell. If a war does break out, I am set. My insurance company thinks I am crazy till they bill me for premium. God please America as Ted Nugget says. Primmers where 8$ Thousand. Powder same, bullets to, 223 ammo 3 cents a round and list goes on and on.

can you expand on the insurance part? I mean is the insurance company up charging you for having a "vault" room, or are they evaluating firearms and ammunition that are present?

 

[1lessdog]

That must have been quite a while ago. I started reloading 10 years ago, and the cheapest I remember is like $30-$35 per brick of primers.

I have been loading for over 47 or 48 yrs. Still using the same RCBS Rock Chucker I purchased back then. Primers were 1.50 per hundred and the cheapest I remember powder was 13.00 or 14.00 a lb. I would go to Sodak sport in Aberdeen and buy powder. He would put it in plastic pop bottles as he purchased it in 30 lb kegs. Back then there was no hoardings like now as the shelves were never empty. The popular powders were, 4064, 3031, 4831, 4350, 4227, 4198. I look at old reloading manuals and they show only 7 or 8 different types of powder for that cartridge and only 3 to 5 types of bullets.

Boy have times changed.

 

[SDMF]

Now is the time to build/re-build your own supply. At present, one can nab a little at a time. Take advantage of “blanket” sales retails sometimes run, as an example, “20% off all reloading” happens through several retailers a couple times/yr.

1# of powder = 7000 grains. Take your favorite load and divide the powder charge by 7K and you’ll know what a pound will get you. An example would be in 223 I use 26gn of several different powders, that equals 269 loads/#, I always figure I’ll spill a little so a safe bet is 250/#. One can use that as a guide for how much they might need to have for a rainy day.

 

[1lessdog]

Ammo better come down because people are buying it unless it’s $10 for a box of 9mm like Runnings had last weekend. Sold out a whole pallet before the afternoon

Runnings in Moorhead never had that sale. I'm sure it a Blazer ammo. Runnings not on sale is 12.99

 

[PrairieGhost]

You guys are making me feel really old. I had 100 primers dad used in his model 43 Winchester. They were .49c in 1957. He bought a Speer reloading ammo that year too. Powders must have changed because some of those loads I'm sure would turn a rifle into a bomb.

 

[1lessdog]

I just looked at my primer and found this brick of CCI primers. They were 6.00 a 1000. I think they came from Harvery enterprise in Minot maybe like 1974 or 75. A older guy from Harvey was getting me into reloading. I didn't buy my own reloading set up till like 1978.

The primers for .89 cent a 100 came from Osco drug in Minot in about 1972. I remember buying a fishing rod from Walgreens in West Acres in 1976 when in Fargo for FFA for the Little I.

 

[bucksnbears]

 

[riverview]

i remember looking at a ruger 10-22 in local hardware store for like 49 dollars.

 

[PrairieGhost]

Do you fellows remember the old 22lr shells called Rockets? They came in a package like Chicklets gum packs. I bought them in Devils Lake from Jim's Sport Shop. I bought a Bear recurve from that fellow too. I think it was called an Alaskan --- maybe. It was big money at $30.
Oh the shells I spoke of were .39

 

[Migrator Man]

Runnings in Moorhead never had that sale. I'm sure it a Blazer ammo. Runnings not on sale is 12.99

The former home of economy stores had their runnings grand opening and had it for $10 a box. Saw the pallet too the night before

 

[LBrandt]

Do you fellows remember the old 22lr shells called Rockets? They came in a package like Chicklets gum packs. I bought them in Devils Lake from Jim's Sport Shop. I bought a Bear recurve from that fellow too. I think it was called an Alaskan --- maybe. It was big money at $30.
Oh the shells I spoke of were .39

Those Rockets on a good clear day if you shot them into the sky you could see them go. LB