Paul 39,

I saw far more rimfire ammo, mostly .22 LR, in ONE store in Kentucky a month ago than I've seen all the local stores in Montana.

Of course, probably not many Kentucky shooters are "gopher hunters." Any sort of hollow-point LR ammo goes quickly here, especially from March through the summer, because a lot of people shoot a lot of it.

On a more general note, I always laugh when somebody claims this extended "shortage" has to be due to a conspiracy, because of its duration. And yet how many posters on this thread used to pick up a few 100-round boxes of .22 LR when they wanted to go shoot, instead of picking up the maximum number of bricks allowed every time they find any?


“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck