And Now You Know!

[Claybreaker!]

 

[yanici]

I never knew what?

 

[JayMcB]

price was lower.

bullshit meme is bullshit

 

[enbloc]

So, what was a "Hi Ball"?

 

[W.E.C]

And still to this day, when we buy ammo for our pistols,

we we go in and ask for a box of shots.

now you know.....


the the rest of the story.

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So, what was a "Hi Ball"?

When the giraffe is buying.

 

[jkelly1229]

Yah I was gunna say couldn't you get an acre of land some string and taffy for 12 cents

 

[LoginName]

I'm not buying it.

Maybe a toss in the rack with a 'lady of the evening' cost that much back then (15 - 20 cents for the top of the line ones), ... but for a 'shot' of whiskey, or a bullet, no.

 

[enbloc]

I wonder how many powderless .45 Long Colts were traded for watered-down whiskeys...

 

[Zappa]

I'm not buying it.

Maybe a toss in the rack with a 'lady of the evening' cost that much back then (15 - 20 cents for the top of the line ones), ... but for a 'shot' of whiskey, or a bullet, no.

I agree, a two fingered shot of whiskey was 2 cents back then, or a pinch from your bag of gold dust.

http://www.westword.com/restaurants...ng-all-those-old-bar-terms-the-finger-5747968

 

[teaser452]

1875ish.

So a bullet for a pistol was about 4 cents on average. 1 shot of decent whiskey, 50 cents.

2016

Say, 30ish cents for a 9mm. 50 centsish for 45.
1 decent shot of whiskey, 8 bucks, maybe more for blue label or a high end single malt.

So 16 bullets per shot in 2016. 20 bullets per shot in 1875.

Yup, bullshit meme. But still fun.







http://www.theroadtodeadwood.com/forum/index.php?topic=3331.0;wap2



To:Beagle333
Found your post very interesting (saved to study at leasure)
Remington 1877 catalogue all rim fire price per 1000.
.22 = $6 .22 long = $8 .25 = $8.80 .30 =$11 .30 long = $12.50 .32 short & ex short = $12 .32 long = $13.50 32 ex long = $16.50 .38 short = $17 .38 long = $18 .38 long = $24 .41 =$15 .41 long = $19 .44 short = $22 44 long = $24 .44 Henry = $24 44 ex long = $34 .56-46 & 56-50 =$40 56-52 rifle & 56-56 carbine = $38
45-70 Gov = $37 (I assume 500gr bullet) 45-70 carbine (405gr?) =$35

Rim fire & center fire per 1000 CNMR = Colt new magazine rifle

From colt catalogue 1890 center fire and rim fire price per 1000
.22rf = $5 .22rf long = $6 .30rf = $9 .30rf long = $10.50 .41rf short = $15 .41rf long = $17.50 .32cf Short colt = $11 .32cf (CNMR) = $16 .38 short colt = $13.50

it is late more tomorrow

Sorry 45-70 rounds are center fire in my last post All those below are center fire Cost per 1000
38-40cf (CNMR) = $19 .41cf short colt = $15 .41cf Long colt = $17.50 .44-40 (CNMR) = $19 .45 colt = $22 all the rest fit the colt new magazine rifle i.e the lightning pump action rifle. .38-56cf = $33 .40-60cf = $33 .45-60cf = $33 .45-85cf = $37 .50-95cf = $40
Winchester 45-75 would probably cost $37 per 1000
It all sort of point to cowboys not riding into town advertising their arrival by shooting six guns in the air.

stolen from this forum because I am way too lazy to go find a primary source.

http://thefiringline.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-480020.html

 

[Claybreaker!]

I did a quick google of this before posting and some stuff like it came up. My bad if its wrong but I thought it was interesting. Why the hell is it called a shot then?

 

[the_shootist]

I did a quick google of this before posting and some stuff like it came up. My bad if its wrong but I thought it was interesting. Why the hell is it called a shot then?

No worries dude, who knows? No good deed goes unpunished here at the NES Fun Park and Entertainment Emporium

 

[smokey-seven]

So, what was a "Hi Ball"?

In the early railroad era, there was a signal at the stations that was a ball on a halyard to the pole. If there were passengers or mail to be picked up, the ball was lowered to tell the engineer to stop. No stop required, the ball was raised to the top. When the engineers saw the, "high ball" they broke out the flask and took a drink. There ya go...

 

[Robert J]

I looked around, and it appears there is not a clear history for the word. It seems in the "old west" it was a jigger of whisky and from all the guesses on line to me most plausible is that it came from the Schott Glassworks or from the small glass placed on the table for collecting lead that did not get removed from meat before cooking.

 

[Chevy 2 65]

BS.

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-saloons.html

Earning as much as $10 per week, most saloon girls also made a commission from the drinks that they sold. Whiskey sold to the customer was marked up 30-60% over its wholesale price. Commonly drinks bought for the girls would only be cold tea or colored sugar water served in a shot glass; however, the customer was charged the full price of whiskey, which could range from ten to seventy-five cents a shot.

 

[Neverknowsbest]

Plugged it into an inflation calculator. Looks like $.12 in 1860 comes out to 3.20 in today's money.... So that is either a cheep shot or one expensive bullet.

 

[Stryker]

according to wikipedia (and that is pretty limited) the term 'shot glass' may have been a more modern invention

The Oxford English Dictionary's first citation for the term "shot glass" is in The New York Times during the 1940s, but the earliest known written reference was in a 1913 book by Dr. Jehu Z. Powell, A History of Cass County Indiana from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [Lewis Publishing Company, 1913].[citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_glass

 

[A Defiant Goose]

It's called a "shot" of whiskey because the same amount of whiskey goes into the shot glass as the amount of a "shot" that I have of taking home the prettiest girl at the bar. Duh.

 

[Zappa]

It's called a "shot" of whiskey because the same amount of whiskey goes into the shot glass as the amount of a "shot" that I have of taking home the prettiest girl at the bar. Duh.

But the more shots you have, the prettier the girls look.