Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Today's press release from Federal/CCI on .22 ammo

There's always one in every crowd.

Speaks volumes when doing something nice for the youth of our sport "doesn't seem like a big deal". miles

What I meant was it doesn't sound like it would be putting that much extra strain on the factories producing the ammo. Sheesh


<<<<< I fully support CCI, notice the box. <<<<<

I think perhaps you missed the point, Justin. They've been working at maximum output for years. They CAN'T make any more than they are - and they are selling every last round of it. They COULD ask premium prices of all those stockpilers and profiteers and thereby boost their own profit.

But they aren't. They're setting aside a healthy chunk of ammo at special DISCOUNT prices to support youth programs.

Not a thing wrong with that.

I never understood the whole .22 LR hoarding thing. What are you going to do with 5,000 rounds of .22 LR if the SHTF anyway? Pass the time plinking cans during the collapse of western civilization?

Actually never...Kudos to ATK

I was asked by the local Scout Council to help them locate .22 LR ammo for their summer camp. They go through about 30,000 rounds. (They also have a shotgun shooting program using 12 and 20 GA shotguns, but that is not included in the 30K rounds.) CCI referred me to the National Boy Scouts' Council. There's politics involved in that....

We average about 50 rounds per boy per week. Not that much really, but the shooting programs are just about the most popular at Camp. (When I was a youth staff member there, I ran the Mo-Skeet-O range every summer from 14 until 18.) It really is rewarding to see kids that have never held a firearm take their first shots.

JB
I appreciate the insight you have given us into both the reality of the manufacturing efforts that have been underway and the integrity of those organizations.

Since our children are all girls, we are familiar with the 4H program and it is great. Granddaughter anxiously awaits turning eleven so she can participate. I'm sure the BSA program is good as well.

A big thanks to CCI/Federal for their participation. Makes me want to try harder to find their stuff. I have had great experiences with their products for the last many years.

Thank you MD for passing this info on to us. Jack

Wished we had similar program's here in Australia. Well done Federal.

Good for them. Thanks for posting this.

Enjoyed the thread, good on Federal/CCI for what they are doing. Back in 08 when Obama got the nomination with the help of the liberal media turds I saw the handwriting on the wall. I knew the panics and shortages would happen. I stocked up way before he got in the Whitehouse and has proceeded to turn ours lives into sheeit. I work with a lot of different guys who buy a box of shells when they need them but not until then.Most of them know better than that now. Paying scalper prices for the things you need is just tuition in learning about what is coming down the road to us. Those lessons never come inexpensive but they should only need to be learned once. Most will learn from it and some never will. The scalper is an opportunist and an educator, if you are prepared you can avoid them. If not, you pay for an education you should have allready had in common sense. Magnum Man

Or maintain order in your sector of the Apocalypse? Pretty sure .22 holes been neatly and quietly making invisible souls for more than 150 years.

I never kept more than a few hundred rounds at a time; now the drought has set in, I've cut back on plinking and practice and add rounds to the larder when they are (rarely) in stock.

I salute any company that supports youth shooting sports! Do wish they'd increase workforce and production capacity. The supply ain't keeping pace wif demand...

I love the priorities and political incorrectness of this whole thing. ;-{>8

My loyalties have been well invested.

5000 rounds aint much.My one Grandson goes through a brick every time he comes up for the weekend and I have five more that like to shoot also.I have 20 bricks on hand and I doubt they last the Summer.

There ya go! If a Nation of Rifleman is denied the best training round ever, how long can the Republic survive?

My 3 kids could burn thru a 550 pack in less than an hour using a Single-Six, Crickett and 10/22 w one 10- round mag, when they were little.

Bless you for keeping those kids shooting! The next gen shooters spring from Dads & Grandpas.

I couldn't agree more with you.

Dale

They've been running 24/7 for years according to that release.

Where does it all go?

Time for some new production lines. Once hoarding and gouging is over, even the regular guys are gonna stock up.