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What are you guys seeing for pricing in your area? And is it going up or down?

Seems like primers on gunbroker are still available, but they want something close to 10c each, roughly $80-100 per K plus shipping (often illegal shipping it would seem).

.22LR looks like 14-15 cents per for run of the mill stuff. Midway has some really expensive RWS stuff, but I'm not paying $188 for 500 (yet). There's a guy near me asking $300 for 2100 cheapo Federals in the quadruple ammo can, but I even though that's going rate, I can't bring myself to spend $300 on .22 yet.

So what are you seeing and what are you paying?

By the way, I thought I was well stocked(had lots of leftovers from 2008-2009), but now I'm just not willing to use any of it until I have more in hand.

Nothing in 22LR available in the Springs unless you wait in line on truck day at Sportsmans or get lucky the minute it hits a shelf. I was able to buy 22 Long at Shootin Den today For $13/100, which is more expensive than I like.

I can't tell you what 22's are going for because nobody got any at the places I usually go to. Every Thursday the truck shows up at Dicks in waterford. The manager told me and the ammo is sold before they can get it off the truck. I bought some 7mm Remington Magnums 150 gr Fusion loads, my rifle really likes it and its a very good deer load. I paid 102 and some change for three boxes. About 33 a box plus tax. A fried of mine said that Cabelas in East Hartford had a lot of 17HMR on the self, 22's are in real short to non existent supply at the moment here. And Ct just pass a whole lot of crap too. Its a mess here.

22's are in short supply in Eastern, SD and Western, MN (I get around a little bit) but can still be had at an inflated price and there's some trickling in here and there (getting snatched up pretty quick)

Primers this past week I was starting to see some of, actually could have bought quite a few 3 outta 4 stores had them. One of our bigger dealers has always had them in stock. He's up to 40.00 per thousand though.

Starting to see a little powder coming in as well

I have an ample supply for my own use but I am not going to just engage in recreational shooting sprees until I see how this present situation plays out. I'm halfway expecting .22 rimfire ammo to be a valid form of currency in the meltdown.

About $40 / K , when available, for primers.
Love nor money will get you 22's around here.

Mark

yeah no 22lr down here, unless you want to pay 80.00 a brick

I've bought 5,000 small rifle and pistol primers for $45/ 1,000, Different shops, different days... all CCI.
I paid $15 for a box of 50 .22wmr yesterday, and $60 at Dicks for a bucket of 1300 Rem yellowjackets, $30 for a box of 300 Fed target ammo, and $4 a box for CCI std velocity. All stores are limiting ammo to boxes of 3. The WMR was limited to the 1 box. It's slim pickins.

Not a box of 22 in sight around these parts.

.22 is very hard to find in the Twin Cities area. If you do find it, you're lucky, or have an inside contact. I work at Wal-Mart and can't get any.

I saw several boxes of remington bulk thunderbolt on sale last friday for $50...

I picked up a thou small rifle primer for ~$35... but he'd been holding it for me since new years... said he was offered all kinds of money for them, and I don't doubt it...

We don't shoot right now. About as simple as that. Even though I have supplies.

When it gets back to normal, and that could be an if, we'll buy some more supplies as time and money allows and then start shooting some again.

There was a guy who started a thread about 22s being the new currency should some crisis happen. I think it was about a year ago on here. He was roundly scorned as being an idiot (by myself included if IIRC. I'd sure like to re-read that thread today if I could find it.

BTW -- I was in a gun shop in Denver today and they had plenty of 22 LR bricks -- $159. OD Green's can kiss my fish-belly white butt.
Gouging muthhafuggers ...

At a quick glance, dealer costs shows between 25=35 bucks per 1000 on average ( not counting specialty ones etc....)

Of course stock shows call your sales rep... IE we don't have any.

I didn't check the 22 price. But last I heard when local WalMart gets it in, its about the same or a hair more than it was prior to the demo dream shooting.

Unfortunately I want stuff NOW, so I'm paying for it

I watched some guy pay $118 for a brick of Remington Thunderbolts at an auction Sunday.

.22 are about the only hot commodity around here, as primers are quite easy to find. Between 40-45 a thousand for federal rifle.

I went for a ride outside of the Twin Cities metro this past weekend and stopped at a sporting goods store in a small town. While the selection and quantities weren't huge, they had 22LR, .380, 9mm, 44spl, 44mag 45acp and 45 Colt all sitting on the self.

My advice is to look for ammunition in less likely locations. You might be surprised at what you find.

I bartered two bricks of Federal .22LR for a 10k gold ring the gentleman was asking $125 for.

So my only data point is a brick of .22LR trades for $65 in the Eaton Rapids, Charlotte Michigan area.