Prices 15 years ago!!

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gunfighter48

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I'm just getting setup with a Hornady L-N-L Ammo Plant to start reloading again after a 15 year break. I remembered that I had some reloading things packed away in my storage unit from my last move 15 years ago. I went to the storage unit and after much digging around I found 2 - 1lbs bottles of Unique powder at $12.90 per pound and 1 - 1lb bottle of Titegroup powder at $11.80 per pound. All three bottles had never been opened!! I also found 2000 CCI large pistol primers and the price on the boxes was $15.95 per box!!!!! I just bought 2000 CCI 300 primers for $32.99 per 1000 at Cabelas. And they were cheaper than several local gun stores. Titegroup locally is going for well over $22.00 per pound. I also found a media separator, 6 loading manuals, loading blocks, and lots of odds and ends!
 
Embrace the fact that you payed $39 for a brick of primers, and only payed $22 for a pound of powder. 15 years from now that same brick of primers will cost $65 and that lb of powder will cost $35... it's all fundemental economics...
 
Hate to ask but what kind of storage was it?

Did not get too hot did it?

I hear powder does not like hot temps.

Same for the primers I guess.

All of my powder has been house stored for the same time I would say 2001 or 2003, so close.

Waiting to crack open the pound of Bull'seye that says $12.95 on it.:eek:


Jeff
 
I went through that when the Great Obama Ammo Panic began. Most of my stuff was purchased in the 80's and early 90's. Today's prices on ammo and components is about double, and add to that the additional hazmat fees now required, and triple the shipping costs.
 
You have to factor in inflation for fair comparison. 3% per year for 15 years pull $13 to $20. Things for reloading are definitely more expensive even after adjusting for inflation, but just not as much as the first impression. For that you need to consider political factors.

-TL
 
I'll bet that storage unit that the stuff was in costs more to rent today than it did 15 years ago, too. Time and inflation wait for no one.
 
Been to a grocery store lately?
Compare those prices to fifteen years ago.
As long as the Fed keeps creating money inflation will be with us.
Although the increase in prices can be selective.
The more expensive the basics of life cost, the less disposable income is available for other things.
But that's a whole nuther subject.
 
My storage units have always been dry and usually on the cool side (I live north of Seattle, WA). The powder and primers have weathered ok. I emailed Alliant and asked them how long you could store powder. Basically they said smell it, look at it, look for any whiteish residue (bad powder if it has white residue). If it smells good, is loose and not all stuck together it should be ok. They said put a little in a pile, lay a track of powder a little ways away from the pile and light it. If it burns with no sputtering or spitting, it's good to go. I opened one jar of Unique and it seem to be just fine.

While I was dialing in my press, I loaded 10 45ACP cases with some of the 15 year old primers. I then shot them (no powder or bullets) in my New Ruger Blackhawk 45LC/45ACP revolver and they performed just like the new primers I bought.
 
The median household income in 2000 was about $41,000. In 2013, the most recent year I can find, it was $58,000.
 
I started shooting Registered Trap in 1969 . A round of Trap(25) was $2.10 a bag of shot was under $3.00 no sales tax . I do not remember the price of powder But a new Model 12 Trap was $375.00 . I shot four nights a week and Sunday year around .
 
Gunfighter, How much income did you have, fifteen years ago, compared to today? I know inflation takes it toll so part of the increase is due to this but most of it is because of politicians. You remember those politicians, including the president, who swear to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Oh wait, I guess that means the Constitution except the second amendment. I don't know how they sleep at night.

And speaking of fifteen years ago, I was buying Remington and Federal bulk 22LR for $8.95 at Wal Mart.
 
The median household income in 2000 was about $41,000. In 2013, the most recent year I can find, it was $58,000.
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So...... while median income rose by what? ~35% ..... the median price of powder more than doubled? How 'bout gasoline? Nigh doubled, right? Beef? More than doubled, despite the year 2000 having broken records (at the time) for both production and prices ......


Somethin's SCREWY. I'll give you 3 guesses who's gettin' screwed, too.
 
Could not be us who's getting screwed, our Pres told us will not happen.;)

But yep I have 1 lb can's of powder that I bought back 13 years ago and that is way cheaper then today.

Even a brick of 1000 primers win Large rifle ,that say's $16.99 on it.:eek:

Gees would of known that , would have 10,000 more laying around, same for the powder.

Now like what $35.00 local.

Double plus some.


Jeff
 
Gunfighter, How much income did you have, fifteen years ago, compared to today? I know inflation takes it toll so part of the increase is due to this but most of it is because of politicians. You remember those politicians, including the president, who swear to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Oh wait, I guess that means the Constitution except the second amendment. I don't know how they sleep at night.
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15 years ago I made $15,000 a year more than I do today for doing the same job!
 
I used this CPI calculator to learn that $12.90 in 2000 would be $17.83 today. You can sometimes still get Ramshot powders that cheap, but most powder and primers have been driven up in constant dollar terms. Many industries do worse. Medicine, higher education, and of course government, have all surpassed the rate of inflation in dramatic leaps and bounds. Mathematically, if they keep that up without limit, after awhile the one that grows fastest, in absolute terms, will have all the money there is, at which point the rest of us will be bartering again, I suppose.
 
$125 in 1985 would be $276.42 today. So at the current price of $384.95, it seems like Dillon's price has grown 139% in constant dollars. It's not quite an apples-to-apples comparison because they add features and improvements over time. Still, I think the Harvard bean counters have taught American industries all to try to grow faster than the rate of inflation so investors see returns that exceed the rate of inflation and compound their savings in real terms.
 
Your money is worth less

In many ways it's not so much that the price of tithe goods went up its that the value of your money went down it takes more and more dollars to purchase the same goods
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