Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires Price and availability of .22 ammo in your area?

Curious as to what you guys are seeing for prices of "run of the mill" .22 bricks where you live? Or can you find any ammo at all? Did see a completed auction on Gunbrokers were someone bought 4, 100 packs of CCI for about $85 but that really seems excessive.
In the stores I shop you can find the occassional box of Remingtons but that is about it.

Snowwolfe: There is NO 22 L.R. ammunition available in SW Montana - dittoes for the many shops and stores I have checked in the last month in Idaho and Washington states.
My friend needed some money last week and he took 12 bulk packs (525 rounds each) of Remington hollow-point ammo into our local pawn/sport shop put a price of $40.00 on each pack and it sold out in less than 8 hours of shop time (last 4 hours of one day and the first four hours of the next day!).
My friend admits to $24.00 profit on each pack and wishes he had asked for more money on each pack.
I have no trust in the Remington 525 bulk pack ammo anymore or I would have bought a carton or two from him for myself!
Other than that "short" appearance of the 22 Remington bulk packs I have seen NO 22 ammo in at least 20 stores I have been to, in three states, recently.
I think it is going to get a bit worse before it gets better!
And that is a shame.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

There is none to be had around here either. Only had 22 shotshells was it. Too much hoarding going on. And GOUGING is running rampid. Good shooting

No .22 LR ammo in my area. What little I saw at a gun show was way over priced.


maddog

One store has Eley ... not much else. But in all fairness, I'm not looking. Except for serious target ammo, my plinking needs are covered this year and most of next I'm hoping normalcy returns by then. As the Blazers start rolling in at less than $20, I'll buy a couple bricks a week until my stock is upto 2 years worth again. I have some fed bulk that is alright. But have like 3k of Win Xpert that doesn't shoot well in anything ... I'm going to start pistol shooting with it ...

No 22LR in my area. Last time I was in Basspro, asked the sales guy when they would get more.
He said the ammo is still coming in but as soon as they put it out, 2 or 3 hours later it is gone.
If price is of no matter to you, gun shows have 22LR but the cost is too high for me.

I've seen some Remington Golden Crap bulk for $23 just once in the past 4 months in any stores around here. I passed on them.

I love shooting .22lr and had been buying a bulk box at just about every trip to the stores and it builds up to a nice cushion.

At a gun show this weekend one guy was selling 500 rounds bulk Dynapoints for $30.00. Another dealer bought everything he had and then priced them for $50 at the same show!

At the gunshow Saturday, one vendor had 8 bricks of Remington Thunderbolt for $80 per brick. Another had the CCI Mini Mag 375 ct bulk paks for $40. CCI 100 ct was $12. I didn't see anybody buying any 22rf stuff or the overpriced 223 stuff. And there were alot of people there.

Snagged 10 cartons of Federal 325 count 36gr .22lr HP's last week from Cabela's for $14.99 per carton + $5.00 shipping.

Local hardware store has a pretty fair supply. Of course all they carry is Remington 36gr, I think they are getting $6ish for 100 packs...haven't needed any .22 ammo for a while so I'm not sure on the price.

I lucked into 3-375 boxes of CCI mini mags at my local Dick's for 26$ per. Limit was 3 but they only had 3 left.

The real reason why we are having this shortage...greed !

From my other post here under it's own "Affordable ammo" heading:

It's nice living in the country, and dealing with local independent gunshops that the Walmart crowd ignores.

Stopped by one of my favorites last night, and found 500 round bulk packs sitting there for $21.99.

I picked up one, and left the rest for others.

I'm half tempted to go show it to the guys standing at the big-box counter and crying that they can't score any of the same stuff at $50 cause all their buddies snagged it up and stashed it in the corner of their garage, with thoughts of it being their retirement fund some day!

I live in NW IA.
Sioux City Scheel's, Dunham's, nothing but birdshot and shrts.
Walmart (2 of them) get some .22LR about once a week. Mainly CCI 100 packs.

I travel to Chicago frequently.
Stopped at 5 Walmarts from Arlington Heights, Rockford, Delavan WI, Dubuque, IA.- No .22 LR except birdshot and .22 Shorts.

Was in Omaha NE yesterday, stopped in the 2nd or 3rd largest Scheel's in the country suposedly, no .22 LR.

The most disturbing thing also, I would say that all three Scheel's I have been in in the last 2 weeks had about 10% of the handguns they would normally have. No Glocks, no SIG's, a few Kimber's, a few .22LR pistols. Wiped out.

Small gunshow in Sioux City last weekend.

One vendor had Federal cheapy 550 packs @ $50 each.

I did not see any takers while I was there.

Local gunshop about 20 miles down the road from me has CCI 50rd boxes for $4.95 , 100rds for $9.95.

Local hardware here in town had six or seven boxes left for $7.95 per 50rds.

I know another source that has plenty of german manufactured target ammo but it's $15.00 per 50rds. I just refuse to pay that price for .22lr ammo.

Other than those three places everywhere else is dried up for rimfire ammo. No magnum or shorts to be had either. I'm sitting on a decent supply but I hate to shoot it not knowing when I might be able to restock.

WHAT 22 caliber bullets or ammo?

I just picked up a brick (525rd) of Remington for $24 at the local box store.

LGS just got in a 6 month old backorder yesterday. I didn't ask the price simply because I have several cases from before the panic.