Powder and Caps

[Jim Blair]

Given the current shortages and high prices,here's a blast from the past from the 1957 Dixie Catalog price .25c-

Black Powder:$1.25 per pound can 6 1/4 pound keg $5.50 25 pound kegs $16.75

Percussion Caps:Sizes 10,11,12,13 $4.00 per thousand.Musket Caps $7.00 per thousand.

Original Tins of Maynard Tape Primers:ten rolls in a tin box,not sure fire.$2.25

Match Lock Fuse two feet for .15c


The New Dixie Squirrel Rifle-This gun to the best of my knowledge can not be duplicated for less than $130.00 by any reputable and well known gunsmith. $79.50

 

[rafterob]

And penny candy actually cost a penny.

 

[Jim Blair]

And penny candy actually cost a penny.

Ahh the candy counter at the Corner Cupboard,you could fill a sack for a dime.

 

[wattlebuster]

Thats back when america was america. Look at it now :idunno:

 

[bobthemotorcycle]

A few years back I was working at a machine shop and one of the machinist found one of his checks from 1963. It was $97 for a little over a 40 hour week.

He goes, "It was only $97 but I had more money in my pockets back then and I had a house, car and boat payment".

 

[cynthialee]

When I was a little kid I remember that all the houses in my neighborhood either had two cars in the garage or a car in the garage and a fishing boat in the yard. Every household had only one bread winner. One working adult could support an entire family.

 

[Col. Batguano]

it's all relative. If the average man made less money, and still live and purchase what he needed then he could. Take today's prices and your income and eliminate the decimal point, and you have (pretty much the same) prices in Japanese Yen.

Time machine calculations are fun, but would be more fun if you could get your flux capacitor to work.

 

in my profession, before i retired from it, i made more in actual dollars in the mid 80's that most guys do currently.

i remember making 5-7k per month in '88, currently guys doing the same work are doing good to make 4-4500 per month. and in many parts of the country, far less than that.

that is sad, in my opinion.

we as a people, much like a frog in the pot of water on the fire, have been swimming for the last few decades, only to find out now we are being cooked. or should i say, we have been cooked.

and now we live in a time where talking heads, politico's, and actors think they know how we should be living?

i say screw 'em all!



bob g

 

[Jim Blair]

Ain't gonna take long for this thread to get moved or deleted.

 

[ohio ramrod]

Back in the early 60's I could shoot my 28 gauge shotgun : powder, caps ,and lead shot for 2&1/2 cents a shot. 12 gauge shells were 10 cents each. Which is why I started shooting black powder and i have been shooting it ever since. :hmm: :hmm: