1927 Bannerman Military Catalog

[PJ Hardtack]

I have a reprinted 1927 Bannerman catalog. The amount of military hardware available was staggering! Guns, ammo, kit of all kinds, even Gatlings!

56-50 Spencer ammo was $1.50 per 100; $13.75 per 1000!

"100,00 Spencer Rim Fire Cartridges, 56-50 calibre. Packed in pack, 6 packs in paper box, 1,000 in case.These are copper shell, lead ball cartridges with the fulminate contained inside the rim. Used in Spencer, Peabody, Palmer, Ball's, Scott Triplett, Ballard and Joslyn rifles and carbines.
To all whom we have sold, they have given fairly good satisfaction." Blanks were the same price.

Spencer carbines "in working order" were $4.50.     By comparison, military 45-70 Peabody rifles in "good, serviceable condition" were $2.95.

Oh, to have been around at that time with a pocket full of cash .....  

[St. George]

You would had to have had a helluva wage, in a time when many men weren't making $5.00 per week.

Odds are high that you've figured out food and rent were way more important than buying Civil War surplus ammunition.

Scouts Out!

[PJ Hardtack]

Of course I was thinking in terms of today's buying power and yesterday's prices. It's called daydreaming when it's too bloody cold for birds to fly.

[El Supremo]

Fascinating:

Too cold ....

A figure of speech or reality in canukistan?  Am curious, please.
Have been in -70F wind chill.  Didn't bother about birds.
Tx.

El Supremo/Kevin Tinny

[PJ Hardtack]

Generally speaking, after -25C, it's just "cold". Doesn't seem to matter after that.

When I was stationed at CFB Churchill, a nice day to do phone cable maintenance was -25C with NO wind. Metal still 'burned' a bare hand and while up a tripod (no single poles in permafrost), you dare not drop a mitt!