The warning on the Shooters ridge mags. Not for use with truncated cone bullet ammunition.
CCI , Federal and American ammunition recommended
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.
www.aimsurplus.com currently has .38 S&W PPU 145 grain LRN
$17.95 per box
I haven’t personally verified this but I have heard that Academy stores in the Dallas area are restricting sales to one box per caliber. I only have a couple of. 45 1911s and I try to keep about 500 rounds in my ammo can. I only buy more to replace what I use at the range.
My Ruger BX-25’s work fine.
All right, no one else has taken the plunge, so to speak, I will.
I once had several thousand rounds of .22LR. One day I loaded it into my canoe and was paddling across the deepest part of Lake Pend O’Reille when the canoe capsized. Lost it all. I was fortunate to survive.
Just dang!
Cabela’s was cleaned out last weekend. Midwayusa is not even taking back orders for it. Kind of scary.
I found 500 45 Colt tonight and 250 of 45 ACP and bought them tonight for reloading. Gotta pick up when you can get it.
Nice of you to tell big siss what you have.
500 CCI “Mini mag” .22LR 10/22 Rimfire for almost $100:
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=327708380
Lots of boating accidents of late. The way Nat Geo or Discovery is going, this summer will feature a competition of teams trying to “recover” the most lost ammunition in dangerous waterways across the USA.
I've said it before, I'll say it again.
I'll not sneak around and live like a coward.
Sure. They can kill me. Once.
But I'm not going to live like a mouse at a cat show. That's cowardice.
/johnny
Yeah I thought it was pretty nice of me too.
I am not particularly worried about them coming to take it, at least for a few years and by that time I will probably be too old to even care.
Mine works perfectly.....with Federal Premium ammo. Every time I used Winchester ammo it jammed.
My local shop is also rationing one box of ammo per caliber per day. And the .22 bricks have been broken into 50 ct boxes so only one of those. They say they would rather have a lot of folks with a little ammo than one person buying most of it up and I agree.
On January 1, I ordered 2000 rounds of American Eagle 22LR from Palmetto State Armory for about 100 bucks including shipping. It arrived yesterday.
The warning on the Shooters ridge mags. Not for use with truncated cone bullet ammunition.
CCI , Federal and American ammunition recommended
I have had a couple of .22s which did not like the Viper type of bullet. They would either shave off a little of the ledge or just not feed.
All the .22s I have now will feed it easily. Even my old Unique Model L feeds it smoothly.
Ding, ding, ding...
We have a winner, you have just explained the shortage. The same thing happened the first time zero was elected. In a few months, it will be available again.
There’s probably less profit in .22, so the manufacturers are focusing their efforts on things like 9mm and 5.56. The only thing I’ve found plentiful locally is .40SW. Oddly, it’s also still cheap.
This thread reminds me to get another .22 with my tax refund.
Saw a youtube vid where the guy wrapped a 5 pound roast in 4 layers of denim and filled it full of 22LR at 300 yards. Food for thought....pun intended.
A good 22 semi-auto rifle is just a great thing to have.
I have a Remington Nylon 66 I bought 35 years ago, tube loader limits it somewhat, but damn it is a fun gun to shoot. Lighter than my Crossman pellet gun.
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