Will .22LR ever make a comeback?
IK got an e-mail this afternoon about Classic having got in some .22 Long Rifle Match Grade and guest what? They are already sold out.
Its the go to round. Millions of .22LR rifles out there. Look at a nickle..Its worth a nickle...whats a .22 round worth?? Hmmnn ...More than a nickle. Buy when you can on the cheap. Or just buy.
The government is buying it and destroying it. They have to be. It is (was) cheap and easy to amass large stockpiles quickly. There’s no other logical explanation for its sudden and prolonged disappearance from the market.
> Will .22LR ever make a comeback?
After a year of unsuccessfully trying to buy .22LR ammo, I purchased a nice high end gas-piston pellet rifle that shoots .22 pellets at the same muzzle velocity as a rimfire.
It’s also just as loud, so I can’t just plink in the back yard; I have to go to a range.
I used to use .22LR to excess because it was convenient and inexpensive, even when not the best tool for the job. I should have been using other arms all along, but it took the rimfire ammunition speculators to drive prices up to get me off my cheap, lazy butt and do some things right. I now use a .177 "springer" air rifle or a centerfire handgun for so much of what I used to use a .22LR for that I have sold all but one of my rimfire rifles. In that respect, the .22LR shortage may have been a blessing in disguise on a personal level. ("Lemons into lemonade" and all that.)
I suppose .22LR ammo will return to availability and cost levels that are closer to the "old days" than currently, but I won't be needing as much in the future.
Mr. niteowl77