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There was an inflationary spiral of sorts after WWII when wartime wage and price controls were lifted, the creeping inflation we know started about 1969-1970 as a results of attempts to pay for both the War in Vietnam and the War on Poverty with printing press dollars.
Curiously enough my otherwise modest income family had two cars. My mother had a 1950s vintage Plymouth or Desoto, my grandmother had a 1950 Plymouth.
 
Costs of Hunting/Shooting

If you take the amount of work by the hour, against the cost of the item you are buying, that is the true value of the item.

In Oklahoma in the early 60s I bought gas of as low as 18 cents a gal, most of the time I paid 30 cents a gallon. But I was only being paid about 75 cents an hour . When you figure a hamburger, fries and coke cost you $1.25 to $1.50 that was three hours work. If you make $25 dollars an hour and if you paid the same ratio now, a hamburger, fries and coke will cost you $65.00 to $75.00.

Oh yea I get a touch of nostalgia every time I see some of the old prices. I was at a gun show here in Oklahoma City today. I walked by a pile of metal ammo cans marked $18 ea. I remarked that I must be getting old as I could remember when those thing were given away. I think we remember the good old days be cause we did not hurt so much when we got up from picking something we dropped.

Just my two cents worth!
 
I think the point here is how "we" let that America go. Not talking about the prices but how firearms were just a normal and non-negative part of our society. Children are now suspended from school if they simply point their finger at another child or even if they draw a gun. I know we won't ever take our country back and will only continue to throw it away as opposed to just giving it away. I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!!
 
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ok i worked this out. during the great train robbery the robbers stole 2.6 million pounds - equivalent to 40 million today which means inflation during this period was 1500%.

assuming there wasn't too much variance between the average exchange rates then and now (theres periods of great variance such as 2008 to now but overall the average is close) that means $20 is $300, which is pretty much what a milsurp rifle will cost now - give or take and without considering collectibility.

Of course all milsurps were less collectable then. The prices only really look great to the young folk. it explains why we all don't have 1,000 guns each.

Still, its fun to drool
 
For any of you familiar with the Gibson's discount stores they used to have a barrel full of military surplus rifles setting at the end of a row in the sportings goods department. They were all hacked and you had to look though them to find the ones that still had its bolt. They were $15 each. That was in my teen years (40 years ago) I always called them Gibson guns. Dad bought several.
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Anyone else recall buying comic books for around 25 cents, and on the inside cover of the back page there were always ads for military rifles, i.e., Mausers, Enfields, etc., for around $15.00 each? (the other page had the X-ray vision glasses and Sea Monkey ads :eek:)

It must have been in the mid 1960's, prior to the 1968 gun act. I recall riding the city bus to downtown, getting my 50 cent haircut at the barber school (almost lost an ear more than once), and then hit the used book store downtown to buy used comics for 10 cent each. I was probably 10 years old or so then, riding the bus alone.......:D

I would also hit the Army/Navy surplus store, always looking for that milsurp gem. Bought a few different items there, leather WWII German belt 'clip' holders, an old Esinhower jacket, bayonets, insignia, etc.
 
Dallas Jack, I was living in Kerrville a few years ago and that's where I first experienced Gibson's. I absolutely love that place! It is like stepping back to my youth. I just hope Walmart doesn't kill them out.
 
"Anyone else recall buying comic books for around 25 cents"

All of mine that my mother saved say 10 cents. :) I feel so old.

I was working at McDonalds in the late '60s when they raised the price of a hamburger from 15 cents to 18. I made $1.15 an hour.
 
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