"Got .22 Long Rifle Ammo ?"

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You know, I've gotten tired of asking this at my local retailer (Wal-Mart, Bass Pro, Academy, etc.). I could order .22LR online for $.25 per pop, but I'm not going to pay outrageous prices. Also, I can't back order, paying large sums of moula, like scalpers and hoarders do.

I think I'll do just fine without it, until the manufacturers and retailers get it straight.

It's supply and demand. Let them work it out.:cool:
 
Take up benchrest shooting. Quality target ammo at pre-panic pricey is not as difficult to find as plinking ammo.
 
IMHO the lack of supply tells me something very wrong is going on. I do not believe the new AR 22 style rifles have driven up the use as the 10-22 has had the same capacity for years. The machinery used to make 22 ammo is unique to 22 only. Something else is going on and the consumers are not being told the entire story.
 
I also never believed the AR theory. I go to the range 2-3 time a week and rarely ever see someone with one.
 
.22 LR ammo

I contacted a manufacturer, who repeated some of the same as I've been hearing, like: "We're working 24/7....making and shipping 3,000,000 of rim fire daily.....added a few cents increase, per box, since April...".

If I'm in the store, and I see some on the shelves, I might ask the price, but don't intend to buy until "The Price Is Right".
 
It's hoarding pure and simple. The same people are buying it up as soon as it gets stocked. Fine by me. It's a free society. I'll just get a 17hmr since there's plenty of that available.
 
There's just a WHOLE LOT more people buying (22) ammo than just a few years ago.
And the people that only bought a box or two on the way to the range in years past, are now are buying all they can find.

Being retired I spend a lot of time at the local gun store drinking coffee and shooting the breeze.
A lot of new people are buying guns.

People keep coming in looking for 22 ammo.
The store doesn't have any but if they did, I'd guess that every one of those people would buy everything the store would sell them.

Two weeks ago, during a visit, my Doctor told me he can't find any 22LR locally to teach his boy to shoot.
I gave him 2,100 rounds.

I think this shortage is going to go on for a while. People have wised up and are going to stock up every time they find decent priced ammo.


It's hoarding pure and simple
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Where are these "hoarders" buying the ammo? Surely they aren't buying thousands of dollars of $50/brick 22LR to hoard it, so maybe they can sell it for $30/brick next year.

If there was any $20/brick 22LR around I'd be "hoarding" about a hundred thousand rounds.

No one I know, except people like me that stocked up pre obama has any ammo.
Since this shortage started I've given away over 16,000 rounds of handgun, rifle and shotgun ammo to friends that can't find the stuff. When this shortage is over they better start "hoarding" their own ammo.



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M2: It's the same people I see waiting in line at Walmart and Gander Mountain. One fella even boasted that he was up to 60,000 rounds in storage. Well good for him and good for you for stocking up too. I'll just shoot something else. Maybe I'll get an air rifle instead of a .17 HMR. You also can make a sure bet that any time I come across .22 lr at a decent price I'm going to buy all of it or at least my store imposed limit.
 
M2: It's the same people I see waiting in line at Walmart and Gander Mountain. One fella even boasted that he was up to 60,000 rounds in storage
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I seldom buy factory ammo, except 22LR but I swing by the ammo counter when I'm in Wal Mart. I never see any 22. I guess those guys buy it up right away when it comes in.

Maybe I'll get an air rifle instead of a .17 HMR.
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I wonder what .17 HMR is selling for? I gave a lady friend some boxes a few months ago.

I'll tell you what I got last week and there is plenty of ammo at $23 a box/50 (1,000 rounds) delivered to your house, a Rock Island 22 TCM 1911.
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plenty of ammo at $23 a box/50 (1,000 rounds) delivered to your house
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That's close to a half a buck a round. For 1000, make that $460.

Most people can buy .308 for that price. Or some decent SD 9mm/.40/.45acp ammo for .50/rd.

Paying that much for a fun round, target use only...and buying 1000 of them? Not happening in my world.

Of course, I can hand-load .45acp for about .12 per round, $6/box of 50, etc. And .45 LC for not much more.

And no, I haven't been shooting much .22LR lately. :)
 
I was talking to gun counter manager at walmart a few days ago. He told me they have sold more ammo, .22lr included, in the past year then they normally do. Didn't have the exact numbers but 2013 might be as high as double the sales of 2012.
 
I have seen very little if any real hoarding here. At any given time 22 ammo is easily found on a shelf, granted at a price some are unwilling to to pay, I say oh well, find a cheaper hobby, just makes it easier for others to enjoy.
 
Maybe I am lucky but

I live in central MN and I have been buying 22lr off the shelf at Walmart, Gander Mt. and my local LGS all thru 2013. Was it spotty? yes. Were there restrictions? yes. Did I rely on
www.ammo-can.net

you bet.

Last Friday I bought a Ruger American Rimfire compact from a local LGS, and on the way out of the store I asked if they had any 22. They had Blazer 50 ct. and 325 tins of Federal. Prices seem to be about 5-1/2¢/rd.
 
It wouldn't surprise me that we are still talking about the 22LR shortage a year from now. That is sad actually.

Shoot less and ration your use if you have a fair supply of 22LR. I still have a good supply that I bought much before the Nov. 2012 elections. But I am not shooting it up very quickly. I just don't go to the range much in the last year or so. Not selling my stash. If I die with it still intact, my wife can give it away.
 
I got about 6K rounds of .22lr, as of a couple months ago I was down to one box. I've gotten lucky and found a few boxes. I shoot it, I'm not hoarding.
 
Minus the Spitfires, that's what my cabinet looks like, on the rimfire side. Same stuff.

I, too, am considering a quality air rifle and pistol combo. I'm eying the Gamo PT80 or 85 for pistols; they're the only ones I can put hands on locally that have rifled barrels and replicate a cartridge arm.
 
Of course, I can hand-load .45acp for about .12 per round, $6/box of 50, etc. And .45 LC for not much more.
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Yeah, I load everything and I'm loading 22 TCM also, as I build up a stock of brass.

I still have a good stock of most rifle and pistol bullets that I bought pre obama, so my reloads still average $4.00 a box of 50 handgun or box of 20 rifle rounds.

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M2: It's the same people I see waiting in line at Walmart and Gander Mountain. One fella even boasted that he was up to 60,000 rounds in storage. Well good for him and good for you for stocking up too. I'll just shoot something else. Maybe I'll get an air rifle instead of a .17 HMR. You also can make a sure bet that any time I come across .22 lr at a decent price I'm going to buy all of it or at least my store imposed limit.
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I have bought a few air rifles being there is no 22 ammo and I love it. I have found that my $40 Chinese gun shoots into one hole at 40 ft as good as the $450 dollar German guns I have. What I see is I feel some companies are making a tremendous profit on certain guns making people think they are endowed with supernatural skills. With CNC equipment it almost eliminates a person touching the gun mainly putting them in boxes to ship out. The Chinese 40 dollar air rifle the B3 has opened my eyes and not my groups lol showing a chinamen from a rice field after the gun comes off the line can screw the stock on it and put it in a shipping box
 
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