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Bamaboy says my cash register got stuck on 1990, 'cause I'm always griping about the cost of stuff. I dabbbled in F-TR class shooting for a couple of seasons in about 2010 or so, and got out primarily due to cost. Till I burned a day of leave on Friday to drive to the 2 day match, got a room for 2x days (I slept in the truck a few times, not often) ate out Fri and Sat night, paid the match fee, gas, and the cost of 150 rds or so of (reloaded) .308, it was pretty clear I was going to have to give up some other hobbies or leave F-TR. I love to hunt and fish too much, and put the F-TR rifle in the back of the safe. I figure a weekend like that in 2010 cost me about $250-300 bucks, and that was nearly 15 years ago. The expense of that can have only gone up since.
Local IDPA and outlaw 3-gun matches were a lot cheaper, $5-!0 bucks, for match fees and the range was less than 10 miles away. The club was reducing the IDPA stages to about 50 rds so that cost was not prohibitive to non reloaders. Three gun ammo cost was expensive when the boy and I shot them together (it was like 6-gun) but it was worth it to me.
Numbers.....100 bucks? That could buy you 500 .30 cal match slugs, or 1000 FMJ slugs for short range practice. Same money would get the better part of a 8# keg of powder if not all of it. Two nights at Motel 6.
Close to 3 tanks of gas in my '91 Toyota pickup. Better than half of a blue collar Leupold hunting scope (VariX-II-a)....new.
Today...my hunt club dues have doubled. Cup and core hunting bullets sell for $40.00 a box of 100 and God help you if you shoot Partitions. A room is $100 bucks a night if you're lucky. It costs $60-70 bucks to fill up the 4-Runner, locally, and more if I go North. An entry level Leupold is $300 bucks and forget about a Nightforce, Trijicon, Zeiss, etc. A new Ruglin lever carbine will cost you at least 10 of those $100 bills.
Retired, I will not get into what I made then, and what my income is now. I'm still better off than a lot of folks, the boy's raised, the house is paid for, and so too ( almost) all the veh's. And best of all, I'm still healthy. Physically anyhow....mental health is up to debate.
Bamaboy says my cash register got stuck on 1990, 'cause I'm always griping about the cost of stuff. I dabbbled in F-TR class shooting for a couple of seasons in about 2010 or so, and got out primarily due to cost. Till I burned a day of leave on Friday to drive to the 2 day match, got a room for 2x days (I slept in the truck a few times, not often) ate out Fri and Sat night, paid the match fee, gas, and the cost of 150 rds or so of (reloaded) .308, it was pretty clear I was going to have to give up some other hobbies or leave F-TR. I love to hunt and fish too much, and put the F-TR rifle in the back of the safe. I figure a weekend like that in 2010 cost me about $250-300 bucks, and that was nearly 15 years ago. The expense of that can have only gone up since.
Local IDPA and outlaw 3-gun matches were a lot cheaper, $5-!0 bucks, for match fees and the range was less than 10 miles away. The club was reducing the IDPA stages to about 50 rds so that cost was not prohibitive to non reloaders. Three gun ammo cost was expensive when the boy and I shot them together (it was like 6-gun) but it was worth it to me.
Numbers.....100 bucks? That could buy you 500 .30 cal match slugs, or 1000 FMJ slugs for short range practice. Same money would get the better part of a 8# keg of powder if not all of it. Two nights at Motel 6.
Close to 3 tanks of gas in my '91 Toyota pickup. Better than half of a blue collar Leupold hunting scope (VariX-II-a)....new.
Today...my hunt club dues have doubled. Cup and core hunting bullets sell for $40.00 a box of 100 and God help you if you shoot Partitions. A room is $100 bucks a night if you're lucky. It costs $60-70 bucks to fill up the 4-Runner, locally, and more if I go North. An entry level Leupold is $300 bucks and forget about a Nightforce, Trijicon, Zeiss, etc. A new Ruglin lever carbine will cost you at least 10 of those $100 bills.
Retired, I will not get into what I made then, and what my income is now. I'm still better off than a lot of folks, the boy's raised, the house is paid for, and so too ( almost) all the veh's. And best of all, I'm still healthy. Physically anyhow....mental health is up to debate.
