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  • Rocklander97
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2016
    • 729

    I remember …

    I remember when SVD was $3000 at my Local gunstore. Now they going for $18000 on gunbroker. [emoji51] anyone got a time machine ?


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  • #2
    Dutch3
    I need a LIFE!!
    • Oct 2010
    • 14181

    I remember when CCI .22LR was 99 cents/100 rds at Kmart.
    Just taking up space in (what is no longer) the second-worst small town in California.

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    • #3
      Mr. Beretta
      Calguns Addict
      • Dec 2005
      • 6614

      Originally posted by Dutch3
      I remember when CCI .22LR was 99 cents/100 rds at Kmart.
      Yup.....Me too.

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      • #4
        ARDude
        Veteran Member
        • May 2006
        • 2723

        Yeah, prices from then seem cheap. But not so much back then.

        I got my Python brand new from B&B Sales in the 70's for about $350.00. That was alot of money back then.
        Last edited by ARDude; 05-03-2022, 11:27 AM.
        Real-life Girls

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        • #5
          sealocan
          Calguns Addict
          • Mar 2012
          • 9951

          I remember seeing incredibly cheap aks, sks, Grendel the precursor to Kel-Tec, and other imported firearms of all types and calibers, police revolver trade-ins, and so much more in the old Shotgun News and a second firearms trade magazine that I can't remember the name of.

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          • #6
            Maulerrr
            CGN/CGSSA Contributor
            CGN Contributor
            • Oct 2016
            • 2058

            I wasn't around back then. My earliest gun pricing memory was seeing $80 mosins at Big 5 about 10 years ago. Prices have nearly tripled for a rack mosin at this point.

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            • #7
              pennstater
              Veteran Member
              • Aug 2010
              • 4660

              I'm trying to remember what I forgot! Damn!

              MLC

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              • #8
                tuolumnejim
                I need a LIFE!!
                • Jun 2008
                • 11068

                South African 7.62x51 battlepacks were 27.99, 30 carbines were 50.00 which is all I would pay for one of now. And so much more.
                In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
                Publius Cornelius Scipio

                Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
                ― Thomas Jefferson

                Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
                John Adams

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                • #9
                  EBR Works
                  Vendor/Retailer
                  • Dec 2007
                  • 10492

                  ..buying my first rifle. A Colt SP1 with 3x optic for $189 at and I was too young to buy ammo for it based upon bizarre CA laws, even back then. My dad had to buy the ammo for me. I even pawned it once for a few hundred dollars during tough times as a young 20 something. Luckily, I redeemed it. Still have the rifle.

                  ..buying Big 5 Mosins for $75 of which several were 1943 M44. Still have those as well.

                  ..riding my bike as a kid in Malibu with my .22 rifle slung over my shoulder in my little business of shooting gophers & other varmints for neighborhood farmers. The local sheriff saw me once and asked how much I charged.
                  Last edited by EBR Works; 05-03-2022, 1:15 PM.


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                  Serving you from Prescott, AZ

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                  • #10
                    naz
                    Veteran Member
                    • Jun 2020
                    • 3108

                    $20-30/k primer bricks up until Oct 2020… super fast and steep cost increase to $90-100/k

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                    • #11
                      Dan_Eastvale
                      I need a LIFE!!
                      • Apr 2013
                      • 10390

                      Barrels full of Milsurp M1 Carbines at Army surplus stores in LA in the 50s

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                      • #12
                        Oceanbob
                        I need a LIFE!!
                        • Jun 2010
                        • 12720

                        I remember when. Surplus P-51 mustang was $10,000.
                        May the Bridges I burn light the way.

                        Life Is Not About Waiting For The Storm To Pass - Its About Learning To Dance In The Rain.

                        Fewer people are killed with all rifles each year (323 in 2011) than with shotguns (356), hammers and clubs (496), and hands and feet (728).

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                        • #13
                          Dutch3
                          I need a LIFE!!
                          • Oct 2010
                          • 14181

                          Surplus Enfields at Woolworths in the late 1980s for $49.99.

                          Mother in law worked there, could have leveraged the 'employee discount'.

                          Father in law talked me out of buying one, said, 'you'll never find ammo for that thing'.

                          Just taking up space in (what is no longer) the second-worst small town in California.

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                          • #14
                            ja308
                            I need a LIFE!!
                            • Nov 2009
                            • 12660

                            I remember last year some cities in Indiana auctioned off to citizens, firearms they took from criminals !

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                            • #15
                              golfish
                              I need a LIFE!!
                              • Mar 2013
                              • 10115

                              Originally posted by Dutch3
                              I remember when CCI .22LR was 99 cents/100 rds at Kmart.
                              I sure miss those days. They always had 10-20 bricks sitting up by the register in case you forgot. Kind of like gum, bic lighters and candy.
                              It takes a lot of balls to play golf the way I do.
                              Happiness is a warm gun.

                              MLC, First 3

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