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    I would like to travel to a time period when ammunition and reloading components are readily available for reasonable prices.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EMC View Post
    I would like to travel to a time period when ammunition and reloading components are readily available for reasonable prices.
    2005-2006?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TriumphRat675 View Post
    Two words: dental care.
    I can think of more: Modern indoor plumbing -- never underestimate the importance of toilet paper! --; modern anesthetics and modern standards of cleanliness/sanitation; modern power/lighting/heating; the ability to jump in my car and drive to the east coast or Tierra del Fuego if I feel like (and can afford it); mini skirts and hot pants ; Robert A Heinlein, John Ringo, Tom Kratman, Larry Correia, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig Mises, Ayn Rand (not so much, actually); John Moses Browning, Eugene Stoner, and Bill Ruger...

    So, yeah, given a choice I would live here. If the technology existed, there are a few other eras I'd like to play tourist in, I named two; if it were like that Star Trek episode where the solution to "The sun is about to go nova and our only way out is to go back in time!" then I suppose I'd choose one of those.

    The morning of the IPOs for Microsoft, Apple, Google, Starbucks would be good choices. (Although I'd be afraid of folding myself...)
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    Quote Originally Posted by FredM View Post
    2005-2006?
    Immediately prior to Hurricane Katrina, IIRC. Price and availability have never returned to pre-Summer '05 levels.
    Books. Bikes. Boomsticks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tamara View Post
    Immediately prior to Hurricane Katrina, IIRC. Price and availability have never returned to pre-Summer '05 levels.
    Remember those 40 round boxes of WWB .223 for ~7 bucks?

    I'm all nostalgic.
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    Remember those 40 round boxes of WWB .223 for ~7 bucks?
    Nice, thanks for the reminder. Now why don't you just give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BOM View Post
    Remember those 40 round boxes of WWB .223 for ~7 bucks?

    I'm all nostalgic.
    I remember those 100rd WWB 9mm packs for $11 at Wally World, next to the $7 bricks of .22LR...

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    Repeat of Post 44

    Penicillin is a good thing. As is Polio Vaccine.

    Today isn't perfect, but, we shouldn't give up on yesterday's values.

    salty

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOM View Post
    Remember those 40 round boxes of WWB .223 for ~7 bucks?

    I'm all nostalgic.
    Why yes I do. I stumbled across a couple cans of those in a closet while looking for something else.

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