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I was in cabelas this morning to look for a 200*-1000* thermometer for casting.
I was supprized to see the rimfire shelves.

Top right, blaser bricks, top left 22wm, lower left, blaser 50 round box's, under tat some cci mini mags and standard velocity, bottom right are Winchester bicks

Encouraging!

That was a couple of hours after opening today and there was still that much

No 22 at all at the Edmonton Cabelas on the weekend.

The Lacey Cabelas has been putting 22 on the shelf about every other day.
If this keeps up long the local scalpers won't be getting $50. A brick at next months gun show

Great...thanks james

ahhhhhh blazer ... how i miss it. great sh**-kickin ammo for a .22 wheelgun.

The last couple of months I've been seeing blaser on cabelas shelf and once in awhile in stock on line. Before that though it had been well over a year sense I had seen blazers.

Sure would like to see a shelf like that down here!

Prices?

My cabelas and cabelas online has been selling the Blazer bricks for $27.99. 50 round boxes were $3/ea I think.

That's what I paid in East Hartford last week. Talked to a buddy who works there and it seems that rim-fire ammo has been showing up more frequently. My local gun shop seems to have more on the shelf as well. No bricks for sale, he limits it by the box.

I haven't seen any .22 LR online at Cabelas - it must be bad timing on my part.

Seems like Cabelas must allocate 90% of their 22lr to their local retail stores, and the rest they portion out online. They used to be a nearly 100% mail order business, but I guess their priorities have changed.

Talked to a major online seller and they said they have seen more 22lr in the last month than the prior 6 months things look to be getting a little better!

After reading this thread, I checked out Bass Pro on line and they flat out state on all their rimfire ammo that it can only be purchased in their stores.

I was in the Hamburg, PA Cabelas last night and must confess that I didn't even look at the rimfire shelf. I did pick up some primers and ML stuff. The guy behind the counter did say that they were no limits on anything except RF ammo- 2 boxes or a brick.

The biggest shock was the lack of powder. There were cans of a few varieties on display as if they were on sale, but actually, it was all they had. I don't think there was a single can of pistol powder. Plenty of primers though.

Two weeks ago, I was at our local Cabelas in Post Falls. I bought a brick of Federal .22's for $24.00. I don't know how many they had but they were all gone before I left the store that day. They went quick, but it does look like things are loosening up a little.

At some point, a bunch of people are gonna have a "DERP" moment when they realize that .22's are just that ... .22's. it aint pixie dust.

there's gonna be a lot of estate inventories with 50,000 ... 500,000 ... rounds of .22's that are 10-20 yrs old. "why did he stockpile all of this .22 ammo, he never shot any of it."

We had an older member of our hunting club pass away recently, and he had a whole garage full of ammo. His sister sold it all for $12K and it was worth at least $40K, despite offers from members of our club to take it to a gun show and sell it for them as a service to him. Same deal - he bought it and stockpiled it but never shot any of it as he could no longer drive or make it down the stairs to our underground range. He had at least 100 bricks of .22 ammo.