Now it is $70 IF you can find it.
Posted on 01/29/2013 4:44:13 PM PST by hadaclueonce
.22 LR ammo is on back order at all wholesellers. Who is buying it up?
Oil speculators?
Late to come to the party preppers?
The Feds?
Price on the secondary market has gone up 5 times here in Texas.
I was in Academy Friday. No .22 LRs to be seen.
Isn’t the slower velocity better for more internal damage?
Don’t have to worry about an angry parole in the future.
Some Found out that the 22 LR could be really dangerous?
I have a few bricks of the stuff. Who knew it would outperform my IRAs?
/johnny
Easily suppressed.
Proper placement is of paramount importance with the .22 It can be VERY deadly. High speed solids would get my vote.
Late to come to the party preppers.
From what I’ve seen, people are buying anything and everything anticipating a ban or shortage; even if they don’t own a firearm for it.
I was considering buying a 45-70 revolver from a friend a short while back and when I checked the store for ammo, no one had any. They said they usually do but the boxes that sat there for years and years all flew off the shelf along with everything else.
You know there is panic buying when even odd sizes like that are gone.
Buy the new Ruger 10/22 takedown. Put your name on a list since they go out the minute they come in. Buy .22 when you can find it.
I’ve got 5250 rounds on order. I don’t expect to see it until March, hopefully.
This is what I’m sayin’!
Im thinking about cashing out a 401k and doing some much more sound investing myself.
Gold Standard?
Have you tried to buy some rifle brass?
You can find .243, .270 and a few others. But try to find .223, 30-30, .308, 30-06 and most common calibers and you draw a blank.
Surely, the idiots in DC can see the effect. Shelves are bare of cartridges for those calibers too.
This has been going on since November and is getting worse.
Caution is in order, I feel Obozo would love to provoke a reason to do even worse than he is.
FUBO!
Maybe reloaders are hoarding all the brass /sarc>
I've had no problem finding 7.5 Swiss and 9x18. I don't have much that shoots it, but I can shoot what I do have until the barrels melt.
I sadly only have one .22LR, and it's a breakdown survival rifle. I want to buy a 10/22 or something of the like, but they're hard to come by.
Agreed, and the best, smoothest, best performing handgun I ever shot was a ‘tuned’ .45, it was awesome.
I do think that ammo prices have kept the .22 LR as one of the most popular for those on tight $$ that want to practice.
People are going to .22 for cheapest target practice. Only now it’s not so cheap.
I'm even having trouble finding .38 S&W (not .38 Special) for my 1890s revolver.
I’ve owned some pretty “outside the mainstream” calibers over the years, but in the last 5-10, I’ve tried to pare things down for some degree of standardization. Right now, about the most “exotic” chambering I need to feed is 10mm, which has always leaned toward the expensive side, but thus far, where I’m at, can still be found on some store shelves.
I saw the crunch coming. Bought 15,000 rounds.
Crazy isn’t it ?
Anyone come across a high-cap mag for a 10/22 that actually works?
I was just delivered 30 lbs. of .357, .40, and .45. It even included Gold Dot.
I was stunned that the order went through.
During these months, I've managed to get a Hot Lips 25 cartridge magazine for it and now those are gone. I found I could order a Ruger made one from the company website and I have done that and waiting for it to get here. Those are going for $100-150 now from individuals on auction, but the Ruger company price was in the $30s.
I just today found where I could get CCI hollow points for it, coming to that company next week and I'm not telling where that is until I get mine ordered and I hope I'm fast enough to get them before they're gone and they are not expensive for a package of 375.
If any of you have done more to find them and their accessories and ammo than I have, I'll give my expert title to you.
That's probably very true.
Agreed, and the best, smoothest, best performing handgun I ever shot was a ‘tuned’ .45, it was awesome.
I believe it.
Here's a vid of the De Lisle silent carbine being fired off.
Part of the “plan”? Gun control through ammo shortage? High price IS a form of rationing. Is the Obama (mis)administration buying up ammo in LARGE quanities? Dry up the “fuel” (ammo), and you get defacto “gun control”.
I have 1180 rounds of .223 reloadable brass case 55 gr FMJ
that I need to sell. FOB Bothell WA.
Now it is $70 IF you can find it.
Craziest thing I have ever seen.
That thing sounds like a pellet gun!
Great question. I was told it’s the ammo that causes the jamming.
yup, i’ve got 2 25 rd. butler. work great.
I think there may be something to that. All of the reported orders lately have been overblown in their size, it isn't that much more than what was ordered for these departments during the Bush administration. What is different is ordering five year contracts at one time versus year by year like under President Bush. There was already a primer component shortage as recently as 2009 so a sudden five year government order can really strain an already strained system.
Like I told Marcella awhile back... IF you can get them now, Rugers own made in the USA BX-25 25 shot magazine is the only one I have found that works flawlessly. Good Luck finding one!
Butler Creek with metal lips.
It’s your governments creating an artificial shortage by fiat demands to end a public health hazard.
A good many Americans disagree with their dishonesty and are buying anything and everything in the event these toads achieve their Devil Worshipin, Satanic Inspired, Kommunistuh aims.
He’ll, I’ve got .22’s ot the yin yang and I don’t really shoot .22 much.
I don’t shoot .223 but it is the least available cartridge in Texas. It has all seemed to vanish and the price is high.
Should be easy to unload what you have.
When the TG&Y in Dodge City, Kansas closed, they cleared everything out starting at 10% off everything. I had seen these type closeouts before and didn’t expect any really good deals so didn’t stop in.
When it got down to 70% off, I decided to go in just to see if anything of any value was left. There wasn’t any except I was shocked to see a pile of .22 LR Remington High Speed in the case.
I have no idea what happened but suspect some employee had hid some in back and waited until the deal was too good to pass up and brought it out. It is also possible that some manager found it and brought it out. Anyway there it was.
I got out my credit card and bought 650 boxes for a little over $200. Back then the retail price on them was 99 cents.
That worked out to 32,500 rounds of .22 LR ammo. I have since added at least that much more so I must have around 60,000 rounds minus the few hundred I have fired since then.
I have a good supply of 9mm, 6.5 Swedish Mauser (most of it is Lapua Match), and 12 gauge. I have adequate supply of 20 gauge, .45 auto (right now I don’t even have a .45 gun).
I am under supplied in 8mm Mauser, 7.65 Tokarev, .380. and .40 S&W.
I have a good supply of several pistol and revolver rounds and no longer have a gun to fire it.
I will probably try to sell some of the .22 if demand keeps up.
“Anyone come across a high-cap mag for a 10/22 that actually works?”
Nope.
“Caution is in order, I feel Obozo would love to provoke a reason to do even worse than he is”.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/zieve/130129
Long article, but way too scary to ignore.
I have never seen prices like this.
“Caution is in order, I feel Obozo would love to provoke a reason to do even worse than he is”.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/zieve/130129
Long article, but way too scary to ignore.
“Caution is in order, I feel Obozo would love to provoke a reason to do even worse than he is”.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/zieve/130129
Long article, but way too scary to ignore.
“People are going to .22 for cheapest target practice. Only now it’s not so cheap.”
Not really. I find every day the cartridges for target shooting at reasonable prices, it’s the hollow points that are totally out until a company gets some and then it’s out faster than a lightning strike.
Yes, absolutely. Ruger finally came out with their own 25 round magazine, the BX-25 that works PERFECTLY. Outperforms Butler Creek or Promag by a mile.
The one great advantage the Ruger BX-25 has over any other high cap 10/22 magazine is that you can actually take it apart and clean it.
Before the recent craziness, they were selling for under $30. Sadly, like everything else these days, they're unobtainable.
Last week I just got my Swedish Mauser back from my brother who claimed it was his for the longest time. It is a family heirloom that I want to give to my son. He told me to come and get it because the cartridges cost $100 per box. I went to Fleet Farm and picked up two boxes for $36.00. It was my first deer hunting rifle.
Before all this started I had been buying a Box or two of the CCI Mini Mags at Academy for about $24 for a box of of 375. A week or so ago they were on the Cabelas site for $49 a box. I’m glad That I’m not empty handed, but I sure wish I had a few more boxes. Good luck.
OTOH, I went to a local gun shop that had lots of all kinds of ammo behind the counter. .45, 9mm, .380, .223, .308, and .22 lr. Then I noticed the signs: “Ammo sales ONLY with purchase of a firearm,” and “No bulk .22 lr sales.”
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