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Thanks for posting this.
Does anyone know where you can get Aguila 60 grain sub-sonic sniper in a store? Academy no longer carries it, and I don’t believe that Walmart or Bass Pro ever did.
5 cents a round for .22?
Cripes no wonder there’s “no limit.” No limit to getting scr#wed.
Maybe when they run out of storage space they'll start pricing it more reasonable.
Screw this "new normal" stuff!
Academy Sports was keeping their .22 ammo behind the sales counter, but it was on the end cap in front of gun sales the last time I was there. I was able to buy a full brick of my favorite copper plated hollow point ammo for the first time in 6 or 7 years.
It’s a shame that today’s youth just starting out in shooting sports will never know the days of cheap ammo: 550 round boxes of Federal .22 for under $5, or all the military surplus ammo that used to cost less than what .22’s are selling for now.
This was a planned fake shortage to get the price up. I predicted that within a year of Trump’s election that the shortage would end.
I also warned the gun dealers and speculators around here that the prices of firearms would drop.
A DPMS AR15 for $400.00. Yep, I was right.
A lot of speculators around here have lost big.
I saw some Federal .22 lr, 40 gr, round nose for $17.46 for 325 last week. That’s 5.4 cents a round.
Not seeing much in the way of bricks, but there’s a lot of CCI in smaller quantities.
Near Madistan- Wally World has the same prices in the pic. 100rd boxes available only right now. Cabelas has them for slightly higher for the same units. They do have a greater selection with most priced in the 7-12 cents per round. I’ll wait.... Still working on my stash.
***I was surprised to see four buckets of Golden Bullet .22 Long Rifles at the local Wal-Mart, with 1,400 rounds each, available for $73.64 or 5.26 cents per round. ***
I still have several boxes bought years ago. 500 rounds for $5.00. I haven’t shot much in the last eight years. Saving it for that “rainy day”.
This .22 “shortage” remains a mystery to me. There is no seemingly logical reason for it. Sure, back when Imam Obama was threatening to go British on us, but it was pretty obvious all in his last year in office that Obama was nothing more than a bloviating lame duck.
So, beginning in mid-2105 the availability and price of .22 ammo should have begun to become abundantly available again with a return to normal pricing. So it has been nearly two years since the dynamics have been a near certainty for a market recalibration, and yet it apparently is still iffy.
I’m not going to go out and say that anyone is profiteering, but the market for most firearms are at normal standards, yet the price and availability of .22 ammo is not. Why not? And don’t tell me it’s happening. The point is it should have fully corrected long ago as this has been going on for the better part of 5-8 years now!
Somethin’ ain’t right.
When our new ammo law here in CA takes effect next year, I doubt Wal-Mart will continue to sell ammo.
I can still reload 9mm for about that price per round. 9mm is more fun. I’ll wait till prices come down before resuming .22 shooting.
So they finally go bored with their artificial scarcity. Really, outside of WM 22 ammo has been abundant. Even IN WM if you’re willing to wait for 10 minutes for them to reload the 3 boxes.