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Some guys would have to work a long time to save $600 today. Yet, they still own a Hawken.

If it was 1830 i'd be working as a hunter in a brigade and supplying meat to a fort too. Not sure what that would earn me. However, no matter how long it took. I would have bought a Hawken. It would have my tool to earn more money.
 
I don't believe it. We We're all so obsessed with the old timey stuff that if you were alive back then I bet you'd be toting around a matchlock and griping about the newfangled flintlocks 😅
I believe what I don't like now. I wouldn't have liked back then either. Which means what I like now, i'd have liked then. I have a soft spot in my heart for a Hawken.

You know what Popeye says..............I yam what I yam.
 
I believe what I don't like now. I wouldn't have liked back then either. Which means what I like now, i'd have liked then. I have a soft spot in my heart for a Hawken.

You know what Popeye says..............I yam what I yam.
I do not believe in predestination, I believe a person is molded by their experiences and the decisions that they make.

If you were born in 1750 it would be hard to argue that you would have liked Hawken rifles
 
But how long/hard wound you have to work for that $25.00?
About six weeks.............
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89071501472&seq=63Wages at the time for skilled work was around $1 per day.

Historical gold:
https://nma.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/historic_gold_prices_1833_pres.pdf
So a person would have to work around 20 days to buy one ounce of gold. The gold standard works out pretty good for comparison.

Today a person making $20 per hour grosses about $140 after with holding . 2000 / 140 = 15 Days. So, not far off from my original estimate.

Be very careful with government inflation figures. They changed how the CPI was calculated in 1980. The figures given today grossly underestimate inflation. They do this to keep people from understating what is happening to their savings.

https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
Oh yes, Hawken rifle prices? A couple months wages back then. That is a lot of money. A person could do well with a smoothbore for a lot less money.
 
About six weeks.............
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89071501472&seq=63Wages at the time for skilled work was around $1 per day.

Historical gold:
https://nma.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/historic_gold_prices_1833_pres.pdf
So a person would have to work around 20 days to buy one ounce of gold. The gold standard works out pretty good for comparison.

Today a person making $20 per hour grosses about $140 after with holding . 2000 / 140 = 15 Days. So, not far off from my original estimate.

Be very careful with government inflation figures. They changed how the CPI was calculated in 1980. The figures given today grossly underestimate inflation. They do this to keep people from understating what is happening to their savings.

https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
Oh yes, Hawken rifle prices? A couple months wages back then. That is a lot of money. A person could do well with a smoothbore for a lot less money.
Good sir, if ask wages for what job? Laborer? Farmer? Blacksmith? Typesetter? Rag picker? That’s a big variable too
 
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