Some of you financial wizards figure out what each of these birds would bring in 2013. this was 1900. What would they be worth in todays inflation? Go to work!!

Canvasback prime would be about $117-165

.50 would be about $12...

What makes a CB prime vs regular?

$1.00 x 29 = $29.00

So a Canvasback(regular) at those prices nowadays would be $72.50

That doesn't seem right but that's the conversion I found.

This is a great post! Jeff where did you get this market list?

Looks like even a bit higher than that depending on the calculator. From 1900 to 1913 there was a decent amount of inflation as well. According to the Bureau of Statistics the cumulative rate of inflation since 1913 has been about 2259.1%. Yikes...

A regular canvasback for 2.50 at the rate I used was 58.98. As for what makes it prime, I could only speculate

Its his actual list he is charging his clients on wounding birds since nobody knows how to shoot.

An Optimus Prime C/B can transform into a spoonbill.

Yeah I used the rate for 1913 so it could be significantly higher for 1900

It depends on your the inflation rate assumption. If you used 2.5%. $1 at a constant growth rate of 2.5% annually would be $16.29 after 113 years. So it's not the type of money that would make you rich...you'd need to bag a few birds just to cover expenses but then again back then we are talking no limits and incredible numbers so I'm sure 50 to 100 bird days were not impossible so that could be some real money.

A prime bird I suppose would be one that sat in one place for a while and was fat, not a skinny one that had just flown 500 miles on a front.

Ducks for sale on side of a house in Crissfield Maryland

By the way this is what financial planners call a time value of money calculation. You can switch up any of the assumptions to solve for whatever you are trying to solve for.

I think the $70.00 is about right from a book I read

Very cool! Nice post!

Yep that's what I found as well $1.00 in 1900 equals $29.00 today.

His Aisan GF

Cody you made a funny!!


Nice

Pintail worth $.50 in 1900, average rate of inflation last 100 years has been 3.34%, the rest is bump and grind:

* Future Value = P*(1 + r)^n

* Pintail Value 2013 = Pintail Value (1+ Avg Inflation rate)^ 113 years

* Pintail Value 2013 = $.50*(1+.034)^113 = $21.87

Sprig was kind of a middle class bird

My guess would be the prime would be an aged bird. Many of European countries hang their birds by the head and the age them till either the guts fallout or the bird head falls off. Yummy!

Yes we do that with peasants but never wirh ducks, we never hang ducks. We take their guts out and age them 3 days in the fridge wrapped in newspapers

How come it dont work on my 401k?

When I was in the army in 1992, I was in Great Britain and saw first hand how they hung pheasants and ducks in the cellar. Everyone had their own version of aging, but the majority hung them for 10 to 14 days by the bill. I also saw other birds hanging. This is fact and not a second hand story.