{"id":5933,"date":"2019-07-31T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5933"},"modified":"2019-07-23T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T20:45:32","slug":"prices-value-and-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/prices-value-and-time\/","title":{"rendered":"PRICES, VALUE, AND TIME\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the road\nwith a day or two off between classes, I found one of those libraries where\nthey sell the old books cheap. I left with a copy of the 1989 Stoeger Gun Bible\nthat I bought for a dollar. It was a blast from thirty years past, years I\nremembered well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What struck\nme was how many examples of where modern economies of manufacture had stayed\nahead of three decades of inflation, providing value today at the same \u2013 or\nless! \u2013 cost in 2019 dollars compared to those of 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only\nAR15 in the old catalog was Colt\u2019s basic model, starting at $815.95. Today,\nthanks to demand and advances like CNC machining, we have countless\nmanufacturers producing serviceable AR15 rifles for literally hundreds of\ndollars less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Remington\u2019s\nModel 700, the most popular conventional bolt-action hunting rifle out there,\nstarted at $380 manufacturer\u2019s suggested retail price in 1989.  Today, the Model 700 is the deluxe model of\nits kind in the Remington line, and the lowest price I can find for one on\ntheir website today is $731.  However,\nlike Savage and Ruger, Remington has come up with a similar economy bolt-action\nhunting rifle that will do pretty much anything the 700 can, and those Model\n783s start at only $399, COMPLETE WITH TELESCOPIC SIGHT, and therefore cheaper\nthan their 1989 counterparts even if inflation could be disregarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another\nhugely popular Remington is their Model 870 slide-action shotgun.  Its bare-bones Express version was MSRP $223\nin 1989.  With a baseline of $417 today,\nit\u2019s still an excellent value if you allow for inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pistols?  The Colt Government Model .45 semiautomatic\nstarted at $565.95 in 1989.  According to\nthe Cabela\u2019s website, they sell that model today for $899.95. However, we have\na plethora of good 1911 manufacturers today. Springfield Armory is currently\noffering their very well-made Defenders Series 1911-A1 Mil-Spec for $549, less\nthan the 1989 price tag for the roughly equivalent Colt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And ammo? It\nhas been, by and large, an inflation-beating commodity.  The most notable example is 9mm full metal\njacket practice ammo.  The 1989 Gun Bible\nquoted that stuff for $19.34 per box of 50 cartridges.  Today, it\u2019s not hard to buy 50 rounds of the\nsame 9mm ball for ten bucks, and really careful shopping will get it for you at\nnine dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can bitch\nall we want about inflation, but a lot of guns and ammo seem to be more\naffordable today than three decades ago, sometimes by far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the road with a day or two off between classes, I found one of those libraries where they sell the old books cheap. I left with a copy of the 1989 Stoeger Gun Bible that I bought for a dollar. It was a blast from thirty years past, years I remembered well. What struck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5937,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions\/5937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}