I bought it used for $140 after I came back from Vietnam and sold it years ago and received enough to buy a Bulgarian AK and a Saiga 12. I thought that it was a good deal but boy should I have hung on to it! :)
If there was one gun we had to see and shoot at SHOT Show 2020 “Media Day at the Range” it was, of course, the COLT PYTHON.
We’ve been not-so-secretly tracking the rebirth of this widely coveted snake gun for some time now.
We first got faint whispers of its imminent return as far back as SHOT Show 2016; I kid you not. We were told then that it was coming, it was only a matter of when.
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Geez, $140 is a great price back in the day. The AK and Saiga are nice to have also, but yeah - I hear ya, having that 357 today :D :D
ReplyDeleteYes, just checked and they are over $2,500 today.
DeleteThe $1,500 seems like a lot. But I compared it to the price of a gallon of gasoline.
ReplyDeleteIIRC, in 1975, gas was just topping $1.00/gal. That $140 would buy 140 gallons.
Today, gas is around $3.60 in CA. That $1,500 would buy 416 gallons.
I reckon you could do the same comparison using milk, bread, a Big Mac*, etc.
Another way is labor wages. In 1977 I was earning $5.55/hr working as a shift chemist. That was a damn good wage at that time. A 40 hour work week would gross $222. 140/222 = 0.63. It would take 25 hours to be able to earn $140.
My wage in 2005 was $28/hr. A 40 hour work week would gross $1,120 1,500/1,1200 = 1.34. It would take 53.6 hours to earn $1,500.
Of course, wages have been flat for the most part. I've worked since 2005 but I don't count those since the wages have been trifling as I have taken work more for the fun than for the money. It would be interesting to see what wages are in today's Trump economy of very low unemployment/increased labor demand.
*I think it was the 1980s that it was reported that the U.S. government used the Big Mac to figure the value of a USSR Ruble compared the a U.S. Dollar.
Rick
Interesting. I read somewhere that a loaf of bread in ancient Egypt took the same amount of gold to buy as it does today.
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