Our gun show went very well.

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Had two tables,( $15 each ), at a gun show this weekend and did very well. All was pretty much status quoe. With exception of a few knuckleheads with .22 priced at $35, (one at $55 ) a brick,( didn't see any being bought ). Maybe that means the local shelves are seeing more inventory. I'll hafta go take a look. There was no hysteria evident on prices of all other items. Nice calm relaxed atmosphere. Happy and polite folks and vendors. No overcrowding. Profits were very good for us and heck, the folks from the gun club we were at even gave us vendors a free breakfast.
All adds up to a pretty good 'normal' atmosphere to me.
 
If they priced .22 for $35 a brick here, they wouldn't last an hour. I wouldn't buy them, mind you, but I was buying some at Wally World last week (they lasted less than an hour), and a guy said his dad had paid $75 for a brick. I just shook my head. People are crazy, that's why this mess is going on.
 
My LGS has always been around $30 a brick... maybe $26-28 on a good day. Talking about Blazer or AE

But then again here in the land of the free and prosperous it's always more expensive because they don't have jack in the way of competition.

Dicks sports is usually sound $20 a box or a smidge more but thats a 45 minute ride and then some and I would not do business with those jerkoffs if they were my neghibor.
 
I keep reading these posts talking about .22 "bricks". What are you calling a brick? I've seen it packaged in bulk boxes anywhere from 325 rounds to 555 rounds to 1000 rounds. Price would obviously vary based on round count. So exactly what are you calling a brick?
 
I keep reading these posts talking about .22 "bricks". What are you calling a brick? I've seen it packaged in bulk boxes anywhere from 325 rounds to 555 rounds to 1000 rounds. Price would obviously vary based on round count. So exactly what are you calling a brick?
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Until recently, I associated a "brick" with boxes packed 500-550 each. If anyone is calling a box of 325 a "brick," then they are debasing our "currency." I've never seen a box of 1000 called a brick, nor have I seen 22LR marketed in a bulk loose format of 1000. I have, if I recall correctly, bought a box of 1000, but this was a bulk pack of 20 boxes of 50 each. Maybe other opinions will differ, but when I see "brick," I think of the bulk loose boxes of 500-550.
 
To me, a large box containing 10 smaller boxes of 50 rounds each has always been a brick, and small cardboard or plastic containers holding 50 or 100 rounds were boxes. Any container with a bunch of loose rounds floating around was called a bulk pack. Didn't matter the round count.

Anymore, it seems like people want to use the word "brick" for any package holding more than 100 rounds.
 
ngnrd is correct, large box containing 10 smaller boxes of 50 rounds each has always been a brick
 
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To me, a large box containing 10 smaller boxes of 50 rounds each has always been a brick, and small cardboard or plastic containers holding 50 or 100 rounds were boxes. Any container with a bunch of loose rounds floating around was called a bulk pack. Didn't matter the round count.

Anymore, it seems like people want to use the word "brick" for any package holding more than 100 rounds.
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Plus one here.
 
How much at your WW Paul ?
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Well, they were the Winchester 100 packs, not the bulk loose stuff. They were $6.97/100.
I bought 3, as that was the limit.
The silly thing is, I don't even need them. Does that make me part of the problem? :eek: In my defense, I wouldn't have bought more than 3 even if that hadn't been the limit. :)
 
A brick is a carton containing ten 50 round individual boxes, a total of 500 rounds. A case is a carton containing ten bricks.

A bulk carton may contain up to 550 loose-packed rounds. A bulk case can contain up to 5500 rounds.

That is the customary usage down our way.

Ron in Texas
 
Thanx Paul.
Last time i bot any .22 at WW i was paying around $17 for the Federal 550 boxes.
That was early last summer. Now, they are $22 for the same 550 boxes. IF, they have any.
 
Lucky you found some .22 Paul. I stopped at Wal-Marts in Hot Springs, Dardenelle, Clarksville and Russellville this weekend and none had .22. I did buy one box of .308 at the Russellville WM. Wanted to buy two boxes but now they have a ONE box limit on all ammo.

Glad to see things are beginning to settle down, even if it's not here in The Natural State.
 
We just had a gun show this past weekend too. ($50/table here). When it comes in, bricks of .22 are still about $25 and .223 is about $8/box of 20. At the show I saw bricks of .22 SELL for $60/ea and 100rnd value packs of .223 SELL for $80. That was of course after the regular priced stuff sold out in 20 minutes.
 
A brick is a carton containing ten 50 round individual boxes, a total of 500 rounds. A case is a carton containing ten bricks.

A bulk carton may contain up to 550 loose-packed rounds. A bulk case can contain up to 5500 rounds.
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Does Federal still market AE in 10 boxes of 40 each?

Winchester sells their Tactical in 1000 rnd boxes.
 
.223 is about $8/box of 20
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That reminds me Ryanxia. I saw a lot of .223 at the same price.

I also saw something i haven't seen in a long time. WWII era German military issue bandoliers of 8mm ammo. These were in new condition. 120 rnds per bandolier. He was asking $25 per, but said..." make me an offer ".
I regret not buying some. He ended up selling it all at $20 per bandolier for 'new' ammo.
I should add that it was all steel jacketed and here in Pa good for nothing but paper slaying.
Would have still been fun to have been able to dig that ole '98 out and git 'er hot.;)
 
Lucky you found some .22 Paul. I stopped at Wal-Marts in Hot Springs, Dardenelle, Clarksville and Russellville this weekend and none had .22.
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Yeah, it was a right place right time kind of deal. Anytime I'm in WW now, I stop by the gun counter and see what they have. They had one case of the .22s. They lasted about an hour. The guy at the counter told me they had some 9mm but hadn't unboxed them yet. I returned first thing the next morning and they were already gone.

BTW, this was at the Hot Springs Village WW.
 
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