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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: lazydrifter on April 12, 2009, 07:04:59 PM

Title: old gun prices
Post by: lazydrifter on April 12, 2009, 07:04:59 PM: I came across an old 1969 Williams How To Convert Military Rifles catalog. Check out these low prices.
Title: Re: old gun prices
Post by: bowhunterforever on April 12, 2009, 07:11:35 PM: To bad prices still arent that low. :(
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Post by: Huntbear on April 12, 2009, 07:27:49 PM: Can I order a dozen of those Finnbear actions at that price????? Pretty PLEASE???????
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Post by: woodswalker on April 12, 2009, 07:31:07 PM: Those get a whole lot more expensive when you are earning $1.75/hr or so.....roughly min wage when that was out. at that time I was making $.50 /hr as a kid helper for the carpenters building a bunch of homes near where my folk's place was....Dad tells me that the mill was paying $5.00-$7.00/hr for green chain...skilled jobs hit $10.00/hr.
Title: Re: old gun prices
Post by: Mookie on April 12, 2009, 07:51:31 PM: With inflation that $141 finn comes to $815.24 in today's market. That can get you a whole lot of rifle today. Considering a dual port savage action is only $500.
Title: Re: old gun prices
Post by: phishisgroovin on April 13, 2009, 06:52:58 PM: Quote from: woodswalker on April 12, 2009, 07:31:07 PM
Those get a whole lot more expensive when you are earning $1.75/hr or so.....roughly min wage when that was out. at that time I was making $.50 /hr as a kid helper for the carpenters building a bunch of homes near where my folk's place was....Dad tells me that the mill was paying $5.00-$7.00/hr for green chain...skilled jobs hit $10.00/hr.
You got 50 cents an hour!? I was robbed!
All i got was 335 a day!

Three meals and thirty five cents! lol!