Gift box of bullets...how OLD are these things?

I wonder if they have an outlet store.

"Honey, lets go to the outlet!"

Seriously though, I remember hearing of people buying blem bullets from Sierra when they were in CA, that shot just as well as the "good" ones.
 
yes, they have a BULLET outlet. Sedalia is otherwise kind of boring...
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Drove through Sedalia countless times for old Marine Corps reunions in Branson MO. Never clicked in my head to stop and check out Sierra. I understand some great deals can be had on blemished bullets which shoot great. Maybe next year if I do the unit reunion thing I'll have to stop and check it out.

Ron
 
Sedalia is known in missouri as one of the best towns to drive through.

Being one of the best states to drive through in one of the most important of the flyover states is quite an accomplishment.

A number of years ago, it was also determined that macdonald county was the "worst meth county in the nation" as reported by the FBI in the ucr.

I could never locate exactly what that statement was based on, but I can say that it was probably spot on. Any of you who watched "winter's bone" about the meth problem in MO would be surprised to know that they used barry county because it would be recognized.
 
price tag - $5.99.
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If its from the 70s, the price was outrageous!

I clearly remember paying $6 for Sierra .30 cal premium bullets in the 70s. .22 cal were $4 or so.

Now maybe they were extra spendy because they were benchrest bullets, I don't know, never bought the benchrest stuff. Or maybe the were from an expensive store...

or maybe they are 70s bullets (or the 70s box style) and an 80s (or 90s) price tag.
 
Actually, 44AMP, the box style is early 60s.
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OK.

That box style was still on the shelves when I started buying them in the early 70s, and I still see them sometimes on gun show tables in 2016! They never seem to sell them for the old prices, though! ;)
 
Have you priced that mustang that has been sitting in the backroom since the sixties?

Vintage bullets are a bargain.
 
(briandg) " Sedalia is known in missouri as one of the best towns to drive through.

Being one of the best states to drive through in one of the most important of the flyover states is quite an accomplishment. "

Gil Favor and Rowdy Yates drove a lot of cattle through Sedalia.

Pete
 
Baxter springs down here calls itself America's first cow town, but the people around here call it "that bunch of houses next to the power plant".
 
Do bullets spoil?
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No, but the gilding metal jacket can tarnish.

Every couple of decades or so, I get out my "classic bullets", wash them in a weak acid, rinse them, tumble them in walnut media and box them back up.
 
Sierra was using those boxes as recently as 25 years ago
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Now THAT just made me feel even older today........ ;)

There was a time, IIRC, when Sierra gave you 101 in a box so you could use one to set your depth. That was a while ago, way back when they were located in the Sierras.....
 
There is also a Sierra box late 70 early 80 with a picture of shooter and a dog.says on box A product of The Leisure Group Inc .My oldest boxes are mid to late 70 they al have a five or six digit code stamped on them some have two encircled numbers. I missed the above post that what my box looks like
 
I have fired most of them, very accurate little buggers. Too expensive to keep buying, Hornaday is cheaper and so far, pretty darn accurate as well. It was fun.
 
I was given a box of 50g .22 Sierra bullets around 20 years ago and they were old then. When I finally got around to opening them there was a car key stuffed in the box with the bullets. I called Sierra and they thought it was funny but no idea why it was in there. They offered to compensate me for any missing bullets but the was actually one extra in the box. They were so old that there wasn't a lot number on the box...

Tony
 
I took a picture of one of my bullet drawers, the picture weighed 200 pounds. I do not believe I will ever get around to sorting my bullets by matching the boxes.

F. Guffey
 
Dad brought a bunch of stuff home from an estate auction a couple months ago. The guy was obviously a reloader and had notes and load data written on a lot of boxes, with dates from the early 1970s.

There was also one box of Nosler Partition bullets like I'd never seen before. The cannelure was obviously lathe turned. I believe these were some of their early bullets that were machined from copper rods, back before they had equipment to start drawing the bullet bodies in huge dies. Dad saved those back for a conversation piece.
 
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