.22lr MEGATHREAD

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As I said, you can do the same sort of 'training' that you do with the .22, by using airsoft
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If you get the same satisfaction from airsoft that you get with 22 then more power to you.
For myself I will just stick to the 22 and pay $.06 per round. I will use my conversion kits to shoot my 1911 with 22 as well as my AR. I will continue to shoot the M&P 22 with sub-sonic ammo using a suppressor and ring the steel at 50 yards.
22 is just as "needed" as are all the other calibers I shoot. I carry a 9mm so I guess that is the most "needed". I hunt deer with a 6.5x55 so maybe that is the most "needed". I reload 9mm, 38, 357 and 45. I shoot more 22 than all of these combined and it's not even close.
 
OilyPablo said:
I almost bought a box. Then I stopped.

I have plenty of .22LR.

Others CAN do the same, leave it for the folks who actually need .22LR.
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Same here. I stopped on the CC screen and thought, "I don't really need this...let someone else have at it."

duded said:
Almost nobody "needs" .22lr,
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As far as not "needing" .22, any and every .22 rifle needs .22 ammo to be useful, so anyone owning a .22 needs .22 ammo.

You probably didn't mean it this way, but besides that, the argument is downright insulting and dismissive. "Need" as a verb is used by antis much in the same capacity as it has been used in this thread, and that word has no place in the discussion of what gun any person should be free to shoot or what calibers they should be able to choose from.
 
duded said:
you only have to "mine" the berms for a day, for a year's worth of bullet casting and shooting, guaranteed. You'll have many hundreds of lbs of lead. At 250 rds, finished ammo per hour, just how much shooting do you do, pard? Paying 20c per rd for .22's is what is causing this problem. Stop doing it and the price will fall to 8c per rd, with 100k rds for sale any time that you want to order them. If you've got time to mess around with the .22, you aint that busy.

As I said, you can do the same sort of 'training' that you do with the .22, by using airsoft or .177 airguns. And you wont have the expense or wasted time of commuting to the range, either.
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There's a lot of assumptions here.

First of all, .22LR isn't going for 20 cents a round.

Second, mining a berm is all well and good...except not everybody is set up to cast their own bullets and reload. That's a rather large up front set-up expense, for one. For another, reloading components, especially powder, hasn't been readily available for a while, either.

Third, while there is a definite cost savings out of pocket, the old adage "time is money" fits into this as well. As a friend of mine once said "how much is your time worth?" That's relative to each individual based on their needs and responsibilities. If a person judges their time to be more valuable than the effort required for what you suggest, then what you suggest is a moot point.

Fourth, while your suggestion to use pellet guns and air soft guns for training has a great deal of merit, they are not suitable for a 100% replacement of the .22LR for training or hunting.


Again...you are correct that there are substitutes available for some uses of the .22LR. But the venerable .22LR is NOT as "just for fun" round.

;)
 
duded said:
you only have to "mine" the berms for a day, for a year's worth of bullet casting and shooting, guaranteed. You'll have many hundreds of lbs of lead. At 250 rds, finished ammo per hour, just how much shooting do you do, pard? Paying 20c per rd for .22's is what is causing this problem. Stop doing it and the price will fall to 8c per rd, with 100k rds for sale any time that you want to order them. If you've got time to mess around with the .22, you aint that busy.

As I said, you can do the same sort of 'training' that you do with the .22, by using airsoft or .177 airguns. And you wont have the expense or wasted time of commuting to the range, either.
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You are paying 20 cents a round for .22lr? lol what are you buying, Lapua Center-X?

No, I can NOT do the same sort of training I do with .22lr by using .177 air guns.

No, I can NOT do the same sort of training I do with .22lr by using airsoft.
 
And now it's gone.

Interesting. It works just fine in my Ruger 22/45 and Win 9422, but neither of those guns has ever been finicky. I was always told that my 22/45 would need hot ammo, ffft, it doesn't seem to care.

But yeah near $50 is too rich for me too.
 
spazzy said:
I also saw that but with shipping its close to $50 for me, that's a bit too spendy for the worst performing ammo I've tried in my Marlin Model 60, jams and misfires galore. If I was in need I might have jumped on it.
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They have CCI std velocity for $5 more per brick
 
It was there so long for a reason, it is bottom shelf ammo. I got 2 bricks of Thunderbolt for 24.99 each + tax at Field & stream. No way would I ever pay much more than that. The only reason I bought it is for my bolt action, never had luck with it in semis. $40 plus shipping is robbery. If that was Federal, maybe I'd jump, but I have enough for now.
 
"Wow, that's over .10 cents per round before shipping and taxes."

You might want to recheck your math. ;)
 
I just went on WikiArms and it took me to Natchezz where I can buy 1,000 rounds of 22 LR, CCI SV and Federal, for $79 delivered. The ammo is in stock and ready to ship as of two minutes ago. That comes in at just under $.08 per round which is higher than I want to pay but certainly affordable for anyone needing 22 LR ammo.
IF you could find it at Walmart it would be $.05 or so and you have to deal with the Walmart experience.
 
No surprise. Those deals (if you consider that a deal) are generally gone PDQ. They both showed in stock when I looked and I took it all the way to the "Pay" portion.
 
I sat out on the back patio Sunday before the game and shot about 150 rounds of MiniMags through four .22 rifles. Whatever it cost, it was worth it. :D
 
I don't work 9-5 but I think that people who are hoping to get good deals on 22 ammo online have to be able to buy it right now. If you have to wait until you get home from work or over the weekend then your chances are slim. That's not your fault, just the way it is in the current situation. Many of my purchases have happened at 2 AM when I got a notification on my phone and made the purchase from the bed.
 
Around here (Gulf Coast deep south) .22 is never available at the local Wal-Marts. I check whenever I happen to be there. In the past 2+ years I've seen 4 boxes of Winchester 50ct. Thunderbolt on the shelves.

Clerks say the same few people always show up when it's due to arrive and buy all they are allowed, exhausting the supply. Gun shows are clogged with bulk boxes of .22 ammo that looks like it's from Wal-Mart, at double the price or more.

Eventually the supply will match demand and normal markets will return. When that happens the hoarders and pawn-shops may choke on their piles of .22 ammo, a consummation devoutly to be wished.
 
When that happens the hoarders and pawn-shops may choke on their piles of .22 ammo
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Hoarders don't look at things in terms of dollar value, at least not ammunition "hoarders". I have some 22 ammo I paid $.07 per round for but I won't choke on it if it drops to $.05 per round. I will just buy more at the better price and be prepared for the next panic. If I have 100k rounds by the end of this year THEN I will feel good about my supply. I am from the deep south as well. I own a condo in PCB as well as a farm outside Eufaula and you have seen four more boxes of 22 lr on the shelf in the past two years than I have seen
 
gbw said:
Around here (Gulf Coast deep south) .22 is never available at the local Wal-Marts. I check whenever I happen to be there. In the past 2+ years I've seen 4 boxes of Winchester 50ct. Thunderbolt on the shelves.

Clerks say the same few people always show up when it's due to arrive and buy all they are allowed, exhausting the supply. Gun shows are clogged with bulk boxes of .22 ammo that looks like it's from Wal-Mart, at double the price or more.

Eventually the supply will match demand and normal markets will return. When that happens the hoarders and pawn-shops may choke on their piles of .22 ammo, a consummation devoutly to be wished.
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If you are going to result to the low-road of insulting your fellow shooters for choosing differently than you, at least pick the correct name to call them.

So called "hoarders" don't care what the FRN market value of it is because they don't sell it
 
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