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I found a cardboard box full of ammo laying in the back of the closet that I don't even remember buying, it had been so long ago. While poking thru all the different calibers I ran across this Mobile Oil gas receipt dated 11/6/65 where the customer bought 11.4 gallons of fuel for the grand total of $3.40. Works out to around .29/gal. We've come a long way baby!!! :mo money:

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I found a cardboard box full of ammo laying in the back of the closet that I don't even remember buying, it had been so long ago. While poking thru all the different calibers I ran across this Mobile Oil gas receipt dated 11/6/65 where the customer bought 11.4 gallons of fuel for the grand total of $3.40. Works out to around .29/gal. We've come a long way baby!!! :mo money:

 

Wow Condor, don't know if I would trust that ammo, assuming it is that old. Lets see, I am 47 yrs old and I was born in 1963, so 2 minus the 47 leaves 45. Wow, 45 yrs old....mmmmm.

What caliber was this ammo ? 223 or 30/06 ......

You ought to mail that receipt in to congress, along with a few 100 thousand signatures .....:rotf::rotf::confused24: :325: :thumbsup2:

 

Fuzzy

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Wow Condor, don't know if I would trust that ammo, assuming it is that old. Lets see, I am 47 yrs old and I was born in 1963, so 2 minus the 47 leaves 45. Wow, 45 yrs old....mmmmm.

What caliber was this ammo ? 223 or 30/06 ......

You ought to mail that receipt in to congress, along with a few 100 thousand signatures .....

Fuzzy

 

 

BALL AND CAP!! :rasberry::rasberry::rasberry::rasberry:

BOO

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Wow Condor, don't know if I would trust that ammo, assuming it is that old. Lets see, I am 47 yrs old and I was born in 1963, so 2 minus the 47 leaves 45. Wow, 45 yrs old....mmmmm.

What caliber was this ammo ? 223 or 30/06 ......

You ought to mail that receipt in to congress, along with a few 100 thousand signatures .....:confused24:

 

Fuzzy

 

:sign20: Yeah it's old but just like me it should still fire. Lotsa calibers. 7x57, 25-06, 243, 270, 264 mag, 300 savage, 44mag, 222rem, 5.56 ball, Western X Shot shells... etc. Also a couple of Remington Mod.742 270 4 round clips. Only 2 rounds of '06... :) I'm going to put it on The Cal Gun board and see if I can get rid of it to a collector maybe?? I used to own a custom 264mag but it got legs when I wasn't paying attention. There's about 3 boxes of the 264... Dang!! Pretty cheap gas.... :)

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That 300 Savage is getting hard to find around here. I have a Remington 760 "Gamemaster" 300 Savage. Never been cut for a scope. When the boys get their toys out and start lining up their scopes I bring out the "Savage" and show them how it is done.

 

That's rarer than chicken lips.... Most 300 Savage came in the Savage 99E Lever.

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That 300 Savage is getting hard to find around here. I have a Remington 760 "Gamemaster" 300 Savage. Never been cut for a scope. When the boys get their toys out and start lining up their scopes I bring out the "Savage" and show them how it is done.
How maney ever catch on that your really hanging a target with a hole cut out of dead center and shooting off blanks:witch_brew::rotfl:

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I found a cardboard box full of ammo laying in the back of the closet that I don't even remember buying, it had been so long ago. While poking thru all the different calibers I ran across this Mobile Oil gas receipt dated 11/6/65 where the customer bought 11.4 gallons of fuel for the grand total of $3.40. Works out to around .29/gal. We've come a long way baby!!! :mo money:

 

LOL ... in those days we could "cruise" all night long on 2 bucks worth of gas... heck, today it's more like $40 ... or 2,000 percent higher! Now if only my income had increased by that % !!!

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That 300 Savage is getting hard to find around here. I have a Remington 760 "Gamemaster" 300 Savage. Never been cut for a scope. When the boys get their toys out and start lining up their scopes I bring out the "Savage" and show them how it is done.

 

I also have a 760 gamemaster pump. It was my dads, and all of us boys grew up shooting it. It is a 30-06 outfitted with a weaver 4 power scope. My son shot it last year, but we finally relegated it to back up this year. I won a Tikka T3 in a fire dept. fundraiser raffle. I got that in a .270 short mag. Good thing deer season is usaually pretty cold. Get to wear a heavy coat which is a good thing because that Tikka will whop you when you pull the trigger. But it is pretty cool that one gun can go through 5 family members and more than one occaison a neighbor used it as well. That says a lot for how things used to be made....

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:sign20: Yeah it's old but just like me it should still fire. Lotsa calibers. 7x57, 25-06, 243, 270, 264 mag, 300 savage, 44mag, 222rem, 5.56 ball, Western X Shot shells... etc. Also a couple of Remington Mod.742 270 4 round clips. Only 2 rounds of '06... :) I'm going to put it on The Cal Gun board and see if I can get rid of it to a collector maybe?? I used to own a custom 264mag but it got legs when I wasn't paying attention. There's about 3 boxes of the 264... Dang!! Pretty cheap gas.... :)

 

If you have any original Mod. 742 mags in 30.06 I'd be interested in getting them from you.

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I can remember in my teen years I could go out on a Friday night and fill my car (1957 2dr. hardtop chevy Belair which I gave 250.00 for)and buy a case of Budweiser and a pack of Marlboros and pay me and the girlfriends way into the drive-in,all for $10.00.Was making $1.50 an hour at two jobs pumping gas and sacking groceries and thought I was rich.AHHHH the good ole days.

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I can remember in my teen years I could go out on a Friday night and fill my car (1957 2dr. hardtop chevy Belair which I gave 250.00 for)and buy a case of Budweiser and a pack of Marlboros and pay me and the girlfriends way into the drive-in,all for $10.00.Was making $1.50 an hour at two jobs pumping gas and sacking groceries and thought I was rich.AHHHH the good ole days.

 

LOL... I still tell the kids the story about getting a large combo pizza, a quart of Par-T-Pak soda, and go to a drive-in movie... for less that $5 bucks... :) Also when I packed up the 53 Ford, left L.A., and headed to Denver U my last tank of gas ran 19 9/10 a gallon. Had a heart attack when I heard gas was 36/9 in Colorado.... Yikes!!! :sign woo hoo:

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LOL... I still tell the kids the story about getting a large combo pizza, a quart of Par-T-Pak soda, and go to a drive-in movie... for less that $5 bucks... :) Also when I packed up the 53 Ford, left L.A., and headed to Denver U my last tank of gas ran 19 9/10 a gallon. Had a heart attack when I heard gas was 36/9 in Colorado.... Yikes!!! :sign woo hoo:

 

 

Come on Condor, fess up. What is the cheapest price for gasoline that you can remember. Heck, I'm not that much younger than you and I can remember buying gas for my 39 Olds for 17 cents a gallon. And I was earning the princely sum of 75 cents and hour.

 

Ah yes. The good old days.

 

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