[CatoRenasci]

Always wished I'd had the $399 to buy the 37mm Rheinmetal antitank gun adverstised in Shotgun News in the early '60s, but at $10 each the rounds were expensive! My Dad did have a legal pair of Thompson's and a Johnson automatic rifle with a selector switch, though. Those were fun to shoot, and .45 ACP and .30-06 ball were cheeeeep....

[Gritty]

at $10 each the rounds were expensive!

Yeah, I know. These guns and their ammo were wa-a-ay too expensive for a kid working 60 hour weeks in the summer for $35 a week (no taxes) who had to put money away for college. How else could you afford school if you spent all your money on cannon ammo?

But other military surplus ammo was pretty cheap, and there were lots of places to shoot it when you felt like it and had a few extra bucks and no date.