.22 LR hollow points

[Ultradog MN]

When could you buy a box of fifty .22 LR hollow points for 88 cents?
What year?
I've bought bricks of .22s over the years but it's been a long time since I bought a box of 50.
What would a box like these cost today?
I did a little job in So. Minneapolis this morning. Parked right by the next door neighbor lady setting up her garage sale in the alley.
These were on the table.
I didn't have the heart to ask if the price each was as marked.
She said $5 for all.
As a kid I couldn't afford these.
Only shorts.
Shot a lot of those though.
My cousin lived in the City and could afford LRs and sometimes hollow points and bragged about it.
I could out shoot him tho so it all evened out and we're still good friends.
First sale at the garage lady's today.

 

[stevieb49829]

Around '62, which means I had gone to gun training and hunting squirrels by myself, we would stop at Maholds hardware in Mankato, and buy a box of LR's for 50 cents, on the way home from church. That was the bounty on 2.5 pocket gophers, which was my income stream at the time. steve

 

[Russ from MN]

In 68 I bought bricks (500 rnds) for $7, that when I got my first 22 revolver and started shooting a lot.

 

[greenmech]

You got a deal anyway! Ron MN

 

[Stephen Newell]

I haven't bought 22 in that size box since the 1970's. The last I bought was a 550 round box for 15 bucks. From what I can tell that size box now would be in the 53 buck neighborhood.

 

[560Dennis]

Good buy ,I think ,quality 22 ammo

 

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(quoted from post at 16:33:41 10/19/23) When could you buy a box of fifty .22 LR hollow points for 88 cents?
What year?
I've bought bricks of .22s over the years but it's been a long time since I bought a box of 50.
What would a box like these cost today?
I did a little job in So. Minneapolis this morning. Parked right by the next door neighbor lady setting up her garage sale in the alley.
These were on the table.
I didn't have the heart to ask if the price each was as marked.
She said $5 for all.
As a kid I couldn't afford these.
Only shorts.
Shot a lot of those though.
My cousin lived in the City and could afford LRs and sometimes hollow points and bragged about it.
I could out shoot him tho so it all evened out and we're still good friends.
First sale at the garage lady's today.

If you don't have a cartridge collection, you do now. Haven't seen boxes like that in a very long time.

 

[da.bees]

When I fired my first round of 12 ga shotgun shells I bought in early 80s to shoot skeet recently everyone gasped and said wth. They had never seen wadding flying out with shot. When Bob White disappeared I lost interest in hunting.

 

[JF in MI]

How times change; now shorts are usually more expensive than LR. I shoot 22 long range competition and the only way to win is buying the best match grade stuff for $35 a box.

 

[Sprint 6]

Do the boxes have the 'Keep out of the reach of children' warning? If they do not, they are pre 1963 and have a decent amount of value in that consldition and full.

 

[caterpillar guy]

I don't know about the .88 box of 50. I have bought those boxes of Federals for 8.88 per box of 550 back in the 80's and early 90's from Walmart bought a box each time I went in and still have several boxes left. Probably a lifetime supply. I quit buying by the box a long time ago now. I only buy by the case anymore.

 

[Butch(OH)]

When I had my shop 20 years ago I purchased 50 500 round bricks of CCI 22LR for a bit less than $8 per brick, about $400. When I had to close it I still had 15 or so left and hung in to them. During and just after nnalert when people were going nuts buying guns and ammo I took 10 bricks to a gun consignment auction. My check after fees for 10 bricks was right at $800.

 

[Butch(OH)]

When I had my shop 20 years ago I purchased 50 500 round bricks of CCI 22LR for a bit less than $8 per brick, about $400. When I had to close it I still had 15 or so left and hung in to them. During and just after the big health scare when people were going crazy buying guns and ammo I took 10 bricks to a gun consignment auction. My check after fees for 10 bricks was right at $800.

 

[urbancase]

i will give a good guess by looking at the boxes and style i was very young at the time but i world place them mid to late 60's, my older brother reloaded and was a trap shooter when i was little and he the one that got me shooting by the time i was 10. i have a unopened box of Remington 22 shorts on the top od my one reloading bench for display.

 

[MJMJ]

If interested, each box should have a lot code on it somewhere that can be used to decipher when the ammo was manufactured.

 

[M-MAN]

Back in the early to mid sixties Western Auto would put them on sale pretty often. 49 cents a box. Sometimes hollow points and sometimes solid but I didn't care as long as they were that cheap. Picked up a lot of drink bottles before town day to go buy them.

 

[dhermesc]

They were around that price in the 1980s.

 

[Barts Dad]

Early to mid sixties I fed my 1915 Stevens Favorite 22 shorts. The shorts were .35 per box of fifty. Longs were a dime more and LR were .75 per fifty. This was at a local hardware store in Chilton, Wisconsin. No ID or age limit, I was 12 or 13, but I always carried a note from my Dad that said it was okay for me to buy the ammo. My how times have changed.

 

[Bonnan]

I loved them Super-X 20ga for small games years ago.

 

[hermit]

That was the price around here at that time. I also picked up a lot of bottles for spending money. Also sold a lot of vegetables and wild berries. We had to get out and work for what little we had in those days.