When I started loading, I would have died to see powder selling for $15.00 a pound. $4.00 a pound for powder a buck for a hundred primers and two to three for a hundred bullets. Loaded rifle ammo ran 4.00 for the good stuff and .22’s were S0.50 a box.
But, I brought home $75.00 per week. (Or after becoming one of Uncle Sam’s finest, about $200 per month before I shipped out to Vietnam.) Then with combat pay, I got the princely sum of $325.00 per month and sent most of it home. Got all the ammo I ever dreamed of wanting for free on LZ Chippewa.