Just walked thru my walmart at 33525 and the entire shelf of all flavors of .22 was empty. No 25 or 32. There was 380 and .38 etc
My local Wal-Mart has a fair selection of calibers but no .22 on display.
On the other hand while I was there just looking things over, an old man walked up and asked for a box of .22LR. The clerk reached under the counter and asked how many he wanted.
He just wanted one box so not sure how many he could have gotten. I have forgotten the price but it was reasonable but more than 5 cents a round.
I certainly hope that the bubble is bursting. The spike in .22 has forced me to refrain from using my Marlin 60’s as much as I would like. My favorite rifle. Wouldn’t be unusual for me to go through a 500 round bulk box in a day.
When I first started buying them they were $9.88 at Walmart. By the time the shelves cleared they had gotten up to $15.47.
The only place I’ve seen the bulk boxes is on auction sites at $60 or more. I expect when they show up at Walmart again they will be $25-27. I doubt we will ever see $0.03 .22 ammo again.
I was at Cabela’s yesterday. They had lots of Winchester .22 rimfire for $9.99 a box of 50.
Before the “shortage” (7-8 years ago) I could get a 550 round “carton” of Remington 22 LR for about $8.50.
I’ll believe the “bubble” has burst when I can get 500 rounds for less than $15.
Local Walmart hasn’t had .22 in stock for more than two hours for years. I don’t know about price, because I haven’t seen it.
Cabelas yesterday had a 1qt tub of 1400 RDS for $89.99 and lots of them. That’s more than $.05/rd but the quantity is impressive
Nope. Lucky Gunner prices are up by about 5 cents a round over six months ago.
Look for things to tighten up again with this latest “gun control” (really gun registration as a prelude to confiscation) talk. That’s what started the shortage, and we’re about to get hit again.
Over the past few months, both Academy and Dicks have had .22 LR. I picked up several 325 round boxes of Federal for $18 and a couple 550 boxes of Remington for $25. Academy has also had some of the bulk Winchester, but I don’t remember their price.
Even though I’m finding reasonably priced bulk boxes locally, I have noticed gun show prices are still insane. Two weekends back, one guy was getting $75/box for the bulk Remington and I have seen them going for as much as $100.
Local Walmart is sold out every time I’m in there I haven’t seen .22lr rounds in a long time. Btw Im in Saint Charles Ill.
Two weeks ago at Waldo-world (53590)-
Winchester “M-22” double box of 1000 40g .22 was 46.99.
I purchased 2 of the six that were just pulled from the shipping box via a WM associate.
.22 cci rat shot in lr and mag were available as well.
The other 4 double boxes as well as the rat shot were gone 20 minutes later when I swung by before check out.
They still had the 3 box max restriction
We had a great weekend at the range working out the Rugers and Remington’s.