23 Sep 2023 7:52 am
Every good hillbilly boy used to keep as much track of the price of an individual paper box of 50 .22 shells (yes they are cartridges but it’s pronounced Twenty Two Shells) as he did a gallon of gasoline.
The price depended on brand with Federal shorts being forty cents and Winchester Super X hollow point high speed long rifles being fifty five cents, in 1968, when Elmer Kieth was the Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association.
Longs were still available.. I haven’t seen a new box of high speed longs since I was in high school in the seventies. By 1979 when all the majors began charging over a dollar a box the only thing you could buy was high speed Long Rifles and high speed Shorts which were a nickel more.
I can’t count all the .22 rifles I’ve owned over the years.
But the most accurate and reliable .22 sporter I own is a .22 All American Ruger with the 22” barrel.
Ruger firearms are made in factories in the United States of America.
And if a Ruger needs fixing Ruger will fix it for free.
The price depended on brand with Federal shorts being forty cents and Winchester Super X hollow point high speed long rifles being fifty five cents, in 1968, when Elmer Kieth was the Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association.
Longs were still available.. I haven’t seen a new box of high speed longs since I was in high school in the seventies. By 1979 when all the majors began charging over a dollar a box the only thing you could buy was high speed Long Rifles and high speed Shorts which were a nickel more.
I can’t count all the .22 rifles I’ve owned over the years.
But the most accurate and reliable .22 sporter I own is a .22 All American Ruger with the 22” barrel.
Ruger firearms are made in factories in the United States of America.
And if a Ruger needs fixing Ruger will fix it for free.