New Dixie Catalog;

[springfield art]

Got my newest Dixie Catalog; probably won't keep getting them every year; if I want something I can simply google. Got it out of habit going back to the 60's. Stuff is simply eye-popping expensive! Muskets and such. Not to blame Dixie, it's just that today's world prices are higher than ever; glad I got what I got when I got! The "used musket" market is strong for this very reason!

 

[Tim_IA]

Got my newest Dixie Catalog; probably won't keep getting them every year; if I want something I can simply google. Got it out of habit going back to the 60's. Stuff is simply eye-popping expensive! Muskets and such. Not to blame Dixie, it's just that today's world prices are higher than ever; glad I got what I got when I got! The "used musket" market is strong for this very reason!

I have noticed the same with online prices, cap and ball revolvers are way up! About the least expensive new side lock rifle is getting close to $300, and that is with a plastic stock!

 

[Rancocas]

Yep. And I remember paying .25 cents for a gallon of gasoline.
Civil War show coming up February 1 & 2 in Dalton, GA. I usually get my Dixie catalog from a vendor there.

 

[sheriff john]

I still buy a Dixie Gunworks catalog every year to support a company that, for decades has been my first "go-to" for lots of things and never disappointed me. Tho' I have Dixie catalogs when they were about as thick as a comic book, for a long time when I get a new one the old one gets passed along to someone who shows an interest in Muzzle loading or historic stuff.

Prices today? Well, when I got my first ones in the 60's, I was making $2.00 an hour. Times change.

 

[waarp8nt]

Last Dixie Catalogs I bought were in person at the NRA show in Indianapolis. One for me and one for a friend. Last two catalogs they had on hand and it was the morning of the 2nd day of a three day show.

I don't buy them every year, however I find myself scrounging around for early ones, just think it's neat to see the old prices.
Found a Cabela's Catalog in my parents basement from 1990, from the first year my wife and I were married, fun to look at for sure.

I remember wanting a T/C Anniversary Hawken in 1995, it kept staring at me when I walked into the muzzleloader shop along the Little Wabash River in Louisville, IL. I could afford to buy one, but prioritized buying a house over a wall hanger. We kept saving for a house. We ended up buying a house and 8.75 acres for $29,500 and sold it for $162,000, 12 years later. I ended up getting a unfired .54 caliber T/C Anniversary Hawken several years later at an auction for a bargain price, as they didn't list it correctly. I truly believe life improves if your living right, although I find myself complaining about prices like my father and my grandfather, some things are just a family tradition.

 

[sheriff john]

One thing about patronizing those businesses who support muzzle loading is that if there is no demand, products disappear for no business endeavor can exist without profit. My son was a product manager for RCBS. I needed a .58 minie ball mold and saw that they had been dropped from their product line. When I asked about it, he said "there's no demand, we didn't sell enough to justify keeping them in production". Enter new production for recent introduction of new calibers' types. Old standbys - round ball and darned few others, at least sold enough to remain.

So ..whether it's sidehammers, revolvers, or various accessories - if no one's buying, goodbye.