Older Ammo prices

[Bozz10mm]

I thought this 9mm ammo was cheap when I bought it at Walmart 22 years ago. $5.96 adjusted for inflation = $10.41 today. Good luck finding it for $10.41 these days.

 

[Moonpie]

I remember buying ammo at Walgreens.
Ammo was expensive then for a working guy.
I can recall $15.00 for a box of .45Colt.
Prior to the mid 1980’s 9mm was rare and very expensive. Hardly anyone used it until the Glocks showed up.
Back then I had a .22 Hornet rifle. It was expensive as hell. Something like $35.00 a box of 50rds. That hurt to buy.
You could find .30-06 on sale sometimes for $5-6 per 20rd box. My dad had an old .30-40 Krag then. Ammo for it was $12-15 per box of 20. It didn’t get shot much. LoL.
One of my hunting buddies had a connection to surplus USGI ammo. He would buy 20rd boxes of .30-06 for .99cents. 30 Carbine for $1.25.
When you made $3.65 an hour these prices were steep.

 

[seeker_two]

I wonder if I can use this thread for the price-match guarantee.....

 

[Jim Lahey]

And its only gunna get more expensive

 

[rmantoo]

Adjusted for inflation, it would be interesting to figure those numbers out.

ETA: $1 in 1980 was $3.14 in 2020.

I don't think most inflation calculators are even remotely accurate... for several reasons.

A Toyota Corolla SE was $2070 in 1980. a 2023 SE is now $23,000. (yeah, yeah, I know: Cars now have TONS- literally- of more safety, horsepower, reliability...yada yada yada... they still cost 8-15 times what they cost back then)

A Toyota pickup then vs now is skewed even further.

Loaf of white bread in 1980 was, per the internet, $0.50/loaf. But I vividly remember mom complaining in the 1982-83 year (I was a freshman in high school and often ate an entire loaf in about a 3-4 minute time span, about 5 minutes after she'd get home from the grocery store) about having to pay $0.39/loaf.... now, though, is $2... so that's about 'right.'



Of course, a Porsche 911 had a base price of about $36k in 1980, and the base price has 'only' gone up to $109k now... So I guess Porsche has been holding the floodgates back, lol....