Thread: Old school hunting

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?

Greetings,
One thing that is well below old prices is chronographs. Over 30 years back (1991) I bought an Oehler 35P chronograph which cost $849.00. They are still made today, possibly upgraded a bit and cost in NZ roughly $1700.00. In the latest NZ Hunter Greg reports favourably on the new Garmin chronograph, cost $1,200.00. The damned thing is small enough to put in your pocket which beats my 4 foot screen spacing and tripod. The 35P is safe in my cupboard though as it works for me and the proof channel gives me confidence in its output. Yes it is cranky about light conditions but being retired I can wait for the right conditions.
Regards Grandpamac.

Winchester 30/30s have held value well.in today's market they still worth more than many others new price.

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 )

Greetings.
I think that we underestimate the level of inflation. The property I mentioned in my earlier post was purchased in 1971, about the same time as bumblefoots price list. It was sold, with some improvements, in 1996 for $120,000.00 and the current Capital Value is $760,000.00. We bought our 8 ha block in 1992 for $58,000.00. Currently the Land value is $790,000.00. In 1974 we bought a new car for $3,900.00. An equivalent new car today is on the thick end of $40,000.00.
GPM.

my grandfather bought a brand new latest model top of the line Ford motor car for the price of one bale of wool.......
be lucky to by a push bike for that now...

great thread changing subject slightly we all talk about the good rifles we had or still have but what about the dogs - mate bought a Brazilian converted Mauser back late seventies .308 cheap as - asked me to zero it for him - bugger me the foresight was 3mm at least out of line to bore - when the FS decided to issue .223 some jumped on the Ruger Mini Matic looked the deal for goat culling - big mag semi auto but the damn things just would not shoot pity as looked well made - then there was Sportco enough said - BSA CF2 a culling mate wrapped his around a kanuka after umptenth jam up -

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

my grandfather bought a brand new latest model top of the line Ford motor car for the price of one bale of wool.......
be lucky to by a push bike for that now...

ha how many bales was it for a Lada

Mark 2 Zepher or Concil was about 700pds brand new.1959( Dodge (kingsway?) was about 2000pds.

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

ha how many bales was it for a Lada

they were swapped for surplus cheese n butter if my memory serves me correctly....government to government type deal???

In sixty nine I had to pay cash for a new land rover, three thousand dollars. I did buy a mini 14 but it was plenty good enough to shoot thru two inch openings in the supplejack that I used to hunt that was the urewera national park and maori land that we used to shoot.

yes I believe some Mini 14.s were okay the two we had nah - some of the Armalite,s we had aerial shooting were not that accurate either - much much better were the Heckler and Koch and Valmets although hard to get back then

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

my grandfather bought a brand new latest model top of the line Ford motor car for the price of one bale of wool.......
be lucky to by a push bike for that now...

You are lucky if you can get someone to buy wool now.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

my grandfather bought a brand new latest model top of the line Ford motor car for the price of one bale of wool.......
be lucky to by a push bike for that now...

For my coarse wool we now only sell the main line and bp and the BP barely covers the price of the fadge. Massive loss on shearing throughout the year now. See you later wool. Shedding sheep for me now

Greetings again,
Looking through the photos and posts made me wonder a little about the kit we used. I think that the first 10 years after WW2 it was because that was all there was. In the mid 1960's (when I started ventures into the hills) any rifle other than a cut down .303 was expensive. Even the base model Parker Hale .303 at $29.00 was more than a weeks pay and a months pay for a .308 Parker Hale plus expensive ammo rather than the sixpence a round milsurp .303 that most of us used. Little wonder we seldom saw other than .303 rifles in the bush.
These days I potter around with the two .303 rifles still here. As I clean them their barrels gleam back at me and I can almost hear "Just one more trip GPM, Just one more". Who can argue with that. At least the rifles are up to it.
Regards Grandpamac.