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Making such corrections is interesting. I'd like to hear more comments on it. Whether it's equivalent current value is $600 (as posted elsewhere) or $5400, bot
by ctdonath 12y ago
Making such corrections is interesting. I'd like to hear more comments on it.
Whether it's equivalent current value is $600 (as posted elsewhere) or $5400, both numbers are believable. The functional difference between a modern $600 rifle and a $5400 one is, to most casual observers, minimal - though the owner may have reason to pay $4800 for that difference.
- fennecfoxen 12y agoIf you'd really like to make price-corrections look at a place like http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/ http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/ that has a bunch of indexes.
- djrogers 12y agoIn modern terms, anyone selling a $5,400 rifle would be hard pressed to sell 2,500 of them, let alone 25,000 to the civilian market. And while we're making adjustments, the US population in 1900 was just a hair over 75m, meaning that one of these was produced for every 3k people. Don't let the raw numbers fool you - this was an everyman's gun. A good one, yes. Still though, an everyman's gun.