When the last man dies of famine and starvation, there will still be enough 22LR left in the world to kill all the squirrels and rabbits 10X over.
I'm not really the ammo hoarder that some folks are, and even I probably have better than 10,000 rounds of .22 lr ammo around here. It's just the classic impulse buy for me: "since I'm here buying ammo for XYZ gun, I may as well pick up a brick of that .22lr ammo while it's $1 off!!".
I did the same thing at the Big R in Fallon a few years back when they were closing out CCI Minimags for 2 bucks a hundred for the solids and HP's 1.50 for the standard velocity and 1.00 a box for Stingers. I bought every round they had in the store and it filled up a shopping cart pretty well.Funny story but true. Just ask my wife, she was a little upset at the time.
The local harware store decided to stop selling guns and ammo (reversed their decision later and now stock again) and everything was on clearance, including .22 ammo. I took one look at the price and asked "Is that really the price?" They assured me it was and asked how much I wanted. I asked "How much you got?". They took it out to my pickup truck on a pallet jack.
That was ten years ago and I have only recently begun buying .22 ammo again.
Yup, cheap bulk outsells CCI ammo here all the time too. When you go into a store here there are lots of empty spaces where .22lr used to be but there is usually some of the CCI still there because people have trouble paying for premium ammo.That CCI video was really informative.
As a handloader of centerfire pistol rounds, I always wondered how they could pump out .22LR rounds so economically.
Four million per day...times 365 days...equals 1,460,000.000. That is nearly 1.5 Billion a year. And that is just CCI. Where I shop, Federal outsells CCI two or more to one. Add Remington, and the others, by my SWAG they are producing 5 billion rounds of .22LR per year.
And at the end of the year, we are buying every bit of it.
That reminds me... this year, National Buy Ammo Day is 05 Nov. (my b'day ) Guess I need to buy myself a b-day present...some more .22LR., because I handload everything else.