Cheapest reloads of the Decade.

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I made my cheapest reloads in a LONG time. I used up some stuff that was sitting around, I'm thinking since the 80's.

1 lb tin can of Imr 4831. $14.00 on the SIR price tag.
100 primers. SIR Sale on the price tag. .99 cents
6.5mm Barnes Solid Bullets. Boxes of 50. SIR Sale on the tag $18.00.

I wish they still had sales on reloading stuff. I'm thinking I picked it up when they switched locations in Winnipeg. And yes they still went bang, and grouped not to bad too.
 
TedNugent said:
Ah the good old days of SIR and how I used to ogle over their printed mailed out flyer.
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I'll second that for sure.SIR accounted for a pretty good sized chunk of my paychecks for quite a long time. I also have a few part boxes of components still kicking around here with the SIR sticker on them,almost hate to use them up now.Used to love the smell of those old fashioned catalogues, a bit weird but there ya go.
 
TedNugent said:
Ah the good old days of SIR and how I used to ogle over their printed mailed out flyer.
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bjmurata said:
I'll second that for sure.SIR accounted for a pretty good sized chunk of my paychecks for quite a long time. I also have a few part boxes of components still kicking around here with the SIR sticker on them,almost hate to use them up now.Used to love the smell of those old fashioned catalogues, a bit weird but there ya go.
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I, too, loved SIR. I still have hundreds of bullets they used to sell in bulk and at least a 500 pc bag each of .308, .303Br, and .30-06 cases I have still not touched. I used to LOVE their bulk sales.
 
I still have a bunch of powder I paid $11/ lb for from higginsons...I bought 60 lbs of 6.5 bullets for $160.. have killed a couple moose with them. I bought 6.5 norma dual core plastic point bullets for $8/ hundred back in the day, only bought 400 because I thought it was a life time supply.
 
Otto V said:
$14 for a 1lb tin . . . that is way too expensive! LOL!

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If that was purchased in the late 50s, or early 60s, it was still too much for it $3.25.
Hodgdon's had train loads of the war surplus powder they eventually named H4831. In the mid 1960s a licenced gun store in central BC was still buying surplus H4831 for $18 for a fifty pound keg, delivered!
The store I'm referring to then sold it in paper bags at fifty cents a pound, in order to increase the sales of their reloading equipment.
The can pictured at $3.25 is typical of a store putting the powder from 50 pound kegs into empty powder cans and selling it for a dollar a pound less than regular brands of powder sold for.
I still have some of the original surplus powder that once was distributed in 50 pound kegs.
 
I remember buying 1000 Sako 6.5 /156gr SP bullets at $90 and the Nobel 4831 powder in the 8lb cardboard box from Higginsons...I too loved the SIR flyers ...Harold
 
H4831 said:
If that was purchased in the late 50s, or early 60s, it was still too much for it $3.25.
Hodgdon's had train loads of the war surplus powder they eventually named H4831. In the mid 1960s a licenced gun store in central BC was still buying surplus H4831 for $18 for a fifty pound keg, delivered!
The store I'm referring to then sold it in paper bags at fifty cents a pound, in order to increase the sales of their reloading equipment.
The can pictured at $3.25 is typical of a store putting the powder from 50 pound kegs into empty powder cans and selling it for a dollar a pound less than regular brands of powder sold for.
I still have some of the original surplus powder that once was distributed in 50 pound kegs.
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Thanks, I'll let my uncle know that he got "ripped off." LOL!
 
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