All that .22 ammo is gone by now.
My Wife and I just got home from the range after shooting 150 rounds of .22 from the Ruger 22/45. She’s working on her trigger discipline.
.22 ammo is coming back slowly, but prices are still jacked up. Local store had a few boxes at $4/per 50. The ridiculously high target ammo never ran out, but it was always like $12 per box.
I am leaving the Peoples Republic of Washington to move to North Phoenix in 2 months, can’t wait!
I was at the local Wal-Mart a few weeks ago, sort of just looking at the guns in stock. While I was there an old man walked up and asked for .22LR ammo.
The lady asked him how many? He said one box. She reached under the counter and handed him a 100 round box. I later found out they had a 3 box limit but still that is the first time in a couple of years they have had any.
Oh, I'm sure they are working on it. Just wait until Tuesday.
I saw a few boxes of .22LR at the Walmart in Lucas, TX last week. First in a long time!
I notice all these “ammo shortage” stories revolve around WalMart. Gun shops near me haven’t been short on anything during this “situation”. Maybe people need to go to better stores.
Did you happen to note if any .22MAGNUM available?
I’ll be there on the 3:10
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/cci-rimfire-22-short-27-grain-hp-1000-rounds?a=1592304
1000 rounds $78.99. ~0.08 cents per round.
We occasionally have boxes of 50’s here in Tyler, Texas. According to the man behind the counter at the local Walmart, “someone” is building the first new rimfire factory in America in a long while. He said something about the EPA shutting down a lead mine. Not sure how true that is.
I’m waiting for CCI Mini-Mags to become available.
It’s out there. I saw ONE box at a local Walmart a few months back ($24.99 - last time I bought was $8.99, maybe five years ago) but I was/had been looking for .22 Mag and they had three boxes. 3 Box limit. Didn’t occur to me to go out to my car and come back for the lone box of Federal .22 LR I didn’t really “need.”
I’m down to about 10,000 rds right now, maybe 5k of subsonics... you never know when the SHTF or you’ll need a thousand rounds to entertain family shooting steel critters at the local range. So you buy it when you see it, right? Only thing is, I never see it.
I travel from Maryland to Nashville once or twice a year and between local stores, stores in VA, TN and even up in PA/NY State, I have seen JUST that ONE lone box of .22 LR in over three years. Probably in excess of 100 different stops. Empty shelves. My backorder with MidwayUSA went on so long they just up and canceled it “shipment overdue.”
But SOMEone has .22 LR. Go to gunbroker, look at the ads. $50 to $75 a box. Gunshows. It’s there. You’ll find it. Just as pricey. But who’s buying it? I know boys scout troops that can’t train their scouts, my own club asks for donations.
I train several new shooters every year, it’s cheaper for me to use low-power .38 Special handloads than .22LR like I used to. Hell, I even use airsoft for the basics.
You know, every Maomart I go into the clerks tell me the same thing. They get shipments all the time. Old farts with loads of time on their hands come in every day at opening, line right up and buy their 3 boxes. First come first served, until they run out. Usually in minutes. Same guys every week. Week after week. Month after year after...
There’s a free market economy working here. What better investment can you make that can double, literally, in the time it takes for you to go from the cash register to the parking lot? All cash up front, no IRS reporting.
Who would have thought there’d be a black market operating under President Obeyme’s great depression? Oh, not EBT cards. That’s old school, but ammo?
Ammunition. Currency for the next generation. We’ll take payment in .308 or .223, discount for .22 LR. You want your change in 12 gauge or 9mm Para Bellum?
That represents the entire supply in Arizona, correct?
I have about 17,000 rounds.....I will wait until prices are reasonable.
Right now I am stocking up on PMAGs cheap because you know at some point there will be another false flag. And they just came out with 40 rounders!
Buy em cheap and stack em deep.
Picked up an FN five seven last week and the shelves were full of 5.7 x 28 yet out of .22LR.
Strange times.
WINCHESTER! I have a pistol that gobbles WINCHESTER .22LR. It chokes on every thing else.