What's interesting though is that even when you take inflation over the last 110 years into account that means that in 1900 I'll bet you got the entire gun for less money than what it costs to simply restock it today. I'm not certain of this, but even with my feeble mathamatical abilities $40 in 1900 is far less than $4200 today. Maybe Carter was right in the 1970's when he said "Isn't inflation great, we'll all soon be millionaires!" or was that from SNL.
Steve

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