Most of the ammo that is in short supply in my WalMart is 22LR and the harder to find 22WMR. Other rounds like 9mm and 40 S&W are usually found. 38, 38+P and 357 Mag are scarcer and infrequent on the shelves. 45 ACP is a little better. You see Winchester Super X 45 LC sometimes, too.
Rifle calibers, 7.62X39, 223 and 5.65 are pretty well stocked along with many other calibers primarily used for hunting.
Crap and dang! I hadn’t even thought about how 0 would turn this Ukraine thing into scheme to drive up ammo prices. Just when they started going down too. I’ve been getting some here and there, but nowhere near how much I should have.
I saw on FR last night that Putin has cut us off.
Can’t be true because he is smarter than that.
He is committed to supporting many rogue nations and other groups around the world, most of whom run AK-47’s.
So some slick operator in one of those Russian puppet countries will order 7.62 x 39 by the container load and re-ship it to the US, for a price of course.
As well as ammo for the AK-74 and other weapons.
Russia is so infected with corruption that it will be almost impossible to prevent it.
So no need to panic.
My two local Wal-Marts have ample supplies of shotgun shells and odd ball rifle cartridges, just the opposite of what is normal.
No rimfire ammo at all. No 9mm, no other pistol ammo that I have noticed.
A very good stock of AR style rifles. More than I ever recall.
One of my best friends works at the Remington Arms plant in Lonoke, AR. He affirms that they are running 24/7 as much ammo as they can put out the door in every line. Some extremely staggering numbers - and the plant is also undergoing a major expansion to add several new production lines.
And for those curious - .22 LR ammo is being produced at well over 6 million rounds per day... at just this one plant.
I plan on buying a 10/22 from a friend this summer and concernd about ammo avaialbility (still ?)...
I hope I can procure some . . .
In s.w. Virginia you cannot find .22 ammo at Walmart. Had to go to the local gun and pawn shop and paid out $49 for 500 rounds. OUCH! We used to love and shoot our .22 rifles for fun/target practice every weekend. Now we are simply trying to hoard some up.
Right now is the time to stock up on 5.56 and 7.62x39. Both are readily available. I have a few thousand rounds of .22, so I’m good there, but I never shoot it, because I’m afraid that it wont be easily replaced. I also have around 15k of good 5.56(for long term storage) that I never touch. Also have a thousand or two of this, and a thousand or two of that.
Never thought I’d see the day when 5.56 could be fired without giving it a 2nd thought, with .22LR being the one to conserve. It’s tough to find cheap .308(7.62 NATO)for ‘plinking’. If there IS a such thing as plinking with a .308. My shoulder tends to REALLY not like much more than a 20rnd mag of it in a short amount of time. Unless you own an M60, or shoot alot, a couple thousand rounds of .308 will keep you set for a LONG time.
After trying to do my part the last few months by NOT buying any ammo, I stopped by the local Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna, Ga. this morning.
Found 2 boxes of CCI Mini Mag 22, one at $.17 and the other at $.10/round. Trying to figure which outlandish price is the correct one.
Plenty of handgun ammo available.
The author is correct with respect to his assessment that air rifles will become the default .22. Much quieter and yet effective as a protein getter. I am looking for a good air rifle under $200 for small game, squirrels, doves, and rabbits. I would like to get Freeper’s views on models, caliber preference, power sources, etc.
” I predict a rising popularity of air guns for target practice, pest control, and small game hunting ( I have a couple, and thousands of pellets). Integral suppressors included on air rifles are common, legal, and cheap, making a mild report even quieter.”
That has been happening for a while here in Californicator land. Big 5’s ads each week offer deals on .177 caliber high end one pump pellet guns.
One of our younger neighbors has set up a minnie firing range for pellet rifles and pistols.
He let me use his blue Beretta style pellet pistol that is a repeater. It feels like a real Beretta and is a cheap way to practice to keep up your skills. It uses a CO2 cartridge and a cylinder to put the pellets in.
I’ve more or less given up on just walking into Walmart and picking up .22LR any time I want. I’m now just hoarding what I’ve got and hoping to get lucky when I look for .22LR rounds.
For range time, I bought a high end .22 cal. gas piston air rifle. It’s nearly as good as my .22LR rifle, and although it cost more than my 10/22, the muzzle velocity is actually higher and I can get 500 .22 pellets for about $10. It’s loud too; as loud as my 10/22.
At our local Friends of NRA banquet they raffled off among other things a S&W 22 plastic target pistol & a brick of ammo. The announcer joked that the ammo was worth more than the pistol.
Benjamin Trail NP Nitro Piston® All Weather Air Rifle With Scope- .22 Cal $209.95
Lewis and Clark had an air rifle on their trip north west. I think it was a 46 caliber that had an air pump with it that took something 1300 pumps to fill the tank but could shoot many times after that.
Ammo shortage is not much of a pain when you reload.
You can kiss Tula, Wolf and Bear ammo goodbye thanks to the Ukraine thing.
I saw an ad for .22lr online yesterday. $17.95 for 50 rounds.
That is insane.
Excellent Ammunition buys at AIM Surplus while they Last
Russian manufactured calibers in stock now, and at AIM Surplus's
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Anti-gun article against 2nd Amendment and firearm makers. March 8, 2014 By Catey Hill, MarketWatch
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-things-the-gun-industry-wont-tell-you-2014-03-07?siteid=YAHOOB
