Thread: Old school hunting

It was a different time; but wages were different too. Take the Ruger for $434. When you consider I was being paid about $60-70 in the hand; that M77 was damn expenxive! We are now in a golden age when it comes to the cost of buying good and generally inherently accurate rifles...

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

It was a different time; but wages were different too. Take the Ruger for $434. When you consider I was being paid about $60-70 in the hand; that M77 was damn expenxive! We are now in a golden age when it comes to the cost of buying good and generally inherently accurate rifles...

look at the zkk 308 @ $168 = 3 weeks wages and a cz 600 today @ $1769 only a week and a half wages (for me)
but as an apprentice starting at 50% of tradesman rates or there abouts if i was qualified at the time we could say double the take home pay to get an equivelent rate so just roughly $100 per week makes the zkk about a week and half wages...... so not that different?

Originally Posted by scotty

look at the zkk 308 @ $168 = 3 weeks wages and a cz 600 today @ $1769 only a week and a half wages (for me)
but as an apprentice starting at 50% of tradesman rates or there abouts if i was qualified at the time we could say double the take home pay to get an equivelent rate so just roughly $100 per week makes the zkk about a week and half wages...... so not that different?

$168 in 1970s dollars is the same as $3,328 in todays dollars for CPI. Wages it's over $5k. ( https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary-po...ion-calculator )