Ammo Availability thread

Bump. Anyone seen .22 for a reasonable price online anywhere?

 

Cabelas has mini mags in stock

Limit 2

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Shoo..._a85ecf82&WT.mc_id=al56335&rid=12&WT.tsrc=AFF

 

Mainly cabelas and gander mountain.

 

Those are MaxiMag; .22 magnum, not 22LR.

 

All depends on what you consider reasonable. Most people are asking .10+ per round, occasionally a little less. I won't pay it, but many do.

 

They each have one offering available. Cabelas- Remington subsonic for .12/rnd. Gander, .60/rnd for standard velocity Elly/Remington. I'm guessing at .60/rnd they'll have it available for a long time. I assume neither will cycle most semi autos designed for the common high velocity loadings.

Gone are the days of the 2 cent solution .22LR used to be, but if you hunt around you can still get it for well under 10 cents.

 

find the small 50rd boxes occasionally for about .06/rd at walmart..but with the damn 2 box rule I can't get enough

 

There were CCI SV and Mini Mags today at midway and gander mountain online....missed them both. ~.08/rd. Gander has free shipping for $25 or more. They were probably available for all of 30 minutes. My best score of late was 1k blazers for $53 shipped. Used to be able to drum up some decent deals...tougher lately.

 

Gunbot.net

 

Phillips Wholesale in Covina sells bricks for $40 when he gets them. He offers them along with reloading powder every Saturday, if he gets it. Doors open at 9, line starts before 6. I was able to get pistol powder, still had enough .22 so I didn't bother. He lists everything he has available on his site Thurs or Fri.

 

The difference is that people used to buy it when they needed it.

Now every swinging dick under the son buys any and all .22LR they see on the shelves. It's an artificial demand created by panic hoarding.

 

I had nothing but trouble with that M22 stuff and gave/sold it all off. It appears to be just a hair fatter than normal and was sticking in every gun I tried it in. The bolt gun was noticeably harder to cycle, the revolver I had to smack the ejector really hard on a hard surface, my autos were hit & miss to cycle it. My guns were clean, one basic cleaned and the others full detailed clean which is what I usually do. I gave some to a friend who lives in NY who couldn't get any .22 at all and it worked in his rifle so I guess it depends on the gun and/or conditions. It shoots well and seems possibly a hair hotter than some average bulk ammo, hard to tell for sure since it was giving me grief.

I have Winchester, Remington, and Federal bulk if someone's in need. It's all fresh, purchased within the last year, maybe year and a half at most. I don't have hoarder quantities but more than I need on hand for occasional plinking since I've mostly moved on to shooting other calibers much more than I used to. A friend of mine was working at Big5 and would put aside a box or two for me whenever he could, I was shooting a lot of .22 at the time burning at least a brick every outing. $.07/rnd, PM me. This is within less than a penny of what I paid for it; not a great price, but it was better than anything I could generally find.

If you can find the schedule at your local Walmart, and the store employees aren't taking it all, you can score better deals since they still sell it pretty cheap. Talk to the sporting goods counterperson, girls may stand a better chance since most of the sporting department help are guys and many of them are taking the ammo. At one Walmart I went to in Arizona the counterman was actually taking the bricks and hiding them behind the counter and only offering them to people he felt were worthy. He only allowed one per customer and only after assessing it was a shooter and not a hoarder or a guy trying to re-sell it. He had at least 10 bricks that I saw, got my one and shot it up. Another guy walked up as I was paying and asked for some, counterguy said "sorry, he got the last one. After he walked away the counterguy said he'd heard this guy trying to sell .22 to another customer at $.10/round right after buying the last on the shelf at about $.05/round so he was cut off. My friend in NY got to the Walmart sporting department as an employee finished ringing up a bunch of .22 for himself, every single box that had come in. Damn near got in a fistfight and probably got the guy fired. Apparently it's against company policy for them to buy anything that hasn't been on the shelf for a certain amount of time, that's what my friend heard from another employee during the argument.

 

I just sent my dad a brick for Fathers Day from Sportsmanship Guide.
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/prod...a-white-box-22lr-36-grain-hpcp-ammo?a=1107985

He thought mail order bullets was great, and much better than his (normally empty) local Wally World.

 

Decent price, already out of stock.

 

22 mag has been much easier to find than LR, I don't shoot it, but see it often.

 

I'm a little surprised that the russians or someone else like that hasn't started importing 22LR. We've been in a full blown 'shortage' for about 3 years. At SOME point the supply side of the market should respond. I mean, are we going to not see 22LR on the shelf again for 5 years? 10? When does it end? What other market has demand this incredible and manufacturers absolutely refuse to increase supply to the point of economy equilibrium? I understand the whole "adding capacity is expensive and we don't want to expose ourselves financially" thing, but that excuse is wearing thin with each passing year. 2 or 3 years ago a guy less than a mile from my house got a loan to open up a video store. Yes, a video store...places that no one goes anymore. If people are taking risks like that, SOMEONE has to be willing to fullfill the demand of a guaranteed seller like 22LR.

 

I do wonder what happened to some of the overseas ammo. I used to get Wolf 22 match ammo and was very pleased with it. Made in Germany and of very good quality. I haven't seen any in over 2 yrs.

 

There's plenty of imported .22 as well as our facilities running double and triple shifts. Importing ammo is expensive, if we lived next to the tula factory I'm guessing the stuff would be under 2 cents/rnd. As far as a new manufacturer coming in, the cost is ludicrous and the delays for permits and licensing are long. Buyers would be leery of a new manufacturer so they'd have to sell it cheap and hope to recoup. .22 is still being hoarded as well as pimped by people marking it up. Many chain stores have employees that take it before it hits the shelves to resell it making it even harder for the average guy to get a deal. If you really want .22 it's vastly available on gunbroker and other gun sites so it is out there in mass quantity, it's just not on the shelves of walmart for $20. As long as people are buying it for ludicrous money the resellers will continue to snatch it up before it hits shelves. If you try you can still get it cheap. Get to Walmart first thing in the morning, or whatever time your Walmart stocks the shelves, and you'll get some. Talk to the people at your local shops and make friends. Check craigslist too, I just sold a bunch a couple days ago because I didn't need it. I posted it here and got no takers so it went to CL. Between reloading and shooting black powder I'm just not using .22 that much any more. Many gun powders are still a bitch to get so I have to hunt for it, often even harder than getting .22 at a decent price.

 

I'm sure it's expensive to start new manufacturing lines, but there are LOTS of consumer products where you could say the same.. and they are adding production all the time. Imagine if the cell phone industry, for example, never added production after iPhone 1 came out. To expensive. To risky.

I understand why manufacturers are wary of adding production lines, but at SOME point there has to be a realization that demand is not going to go down... possibly ever... and that adding production makes sense. It's been 3 years. What will it take? 5? 10? It's already the slowest responding market I can think of, but it's rapidly approaching ridiculous.