What is better made, or more useable, now than in the years past?

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
While many more hours are required to buy one, the basic transportation car is much better than the 1950's. No rusted out bodies in three years, no points or condensers, no rebuild carbs, or voltage regulators. No replacing bearings in starters, generators, water pumps and axels. When you grew up poor, everything had to sourced from a junkyard and it may not have been better than the one to took off. If you drove a hundred miles during the week, you spent four hours every weekend doing repairs.

So do you think anything is better today?
 

Ian

Notorious member
Medical science
Japanese exports
Consumer optics
Plastics
Safety standards
Carbide tool technology
Process automation
Aircraft
GPS
Telephones
The lightbulb (LED)
 

waco

Springfield, Oregon
I was being serious. Take most any big box store rifle and it will shoot moa groups at 100 yards with quality factory ammo or hand loads.
They are a little rough around the edges yes. But. They are shooters. You can't deny that.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Firearms are also quite reasonable in price compared to the days of old.

Nostalgia often interferes with hindsight
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
explosions in movies are a lot bigger than they used to be.
except the ones on the women's channel you can tell those are fake.
 

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
I was being serious. Take most any big box store rifle and it will shoot moa groups at 100 yards with quality factory ammo or hand loads.
They are a little rough around the edges yes. But. They are shooters. You can't deny that.
It think it is the bullets are that much better, not the rifles. IMHO.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Reloading equipment in general. The readily available dies are quite good and we have a variety of specialty dies.

The internet has made a huge change too. No longer are many of these companies hard to find with little ads in the back pages of a magazine. It also allows a group of people with a common interest to come together and share ideas and experiences. Even 20 years ago many of us were doing much of this in a relative vacuum.
 

Tom

Well-Known Member
Holsters have improved a lot. Besides being inexpensive, modern plastic holsters are thinner and easier to re holster than all but the best leather ones.
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Cell phones.

The 40 year old models really were not much good. :headscratch:

Seriously - a $1000 PC is more capable than some $500K supercomputers I bought in the
90s, and about as capable as a $5 million supercomputer I bought in about 2000.

Porsches - my 2014 Cayman is way ahead of my 1980 911 SC.

Color printers - the ones we had in the late 90s at work cost a fortune and were
far, far less capable than current $150 models.

TVs - the best possible model in 1990 is junk compared to a $250 flat screen cheapo
today.

Bill
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Optics. The optics we have today’s are affordable, well sealed, and reliable.