Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires Once .22LR becomes available again, how much will you buy?

Before things dried up I was buying CCI and bricks of Blazer LR every time I went to my gun shop or Fleet Farm, along with 100s of CCI CB longs and shorts. As that started drying up I even bought a few bricks of Thunderbolts and Remington GBs. Even they are better than nothing and our boys don't seem to notice any problems with shooting them for their plinking.

During the time when things seemed to be turning prior to the big "dry up" I also bought 4 bricks of the Aquila 60 grain SS rounds to play around with, and 10 bricks of Aquila Super Colibri which I shoot more than anything else for pest control, quiet yard plinking at the cabin, and backyard fall squirrel and rabbit shooting for my canned garden brunswick stew. I have been giving some to my uncle and a few good friends when they need a box of 50. At this rate I anticipate needing more Super Colibri a lot sooner then any standard velocity rounds.

I have not seen .22 of any type on the shelves at FF in over 2 years now. I will get a lot more of the Aquila stuff when I find it again.

I wish I bought more of those 60 grain aquilas too. Shoot great and nice anti-pest round.

100K rds sounds about right. Just need a place to store it

I had to take my wife to the Dr.'s this AM so I stopped in the Cabelas on the south side of Denver. They had abut 6 bricks out for $27 each. Limit one, but several guys grabbed two and then got on their phone. I got the next to the last brick. Didn't really need it, but these guys were obviously going to take up all they could and I just wanted to pi$$ them off. I bet they are there every morning.

I have maybe 5 bricks total. 3 left from 4-5 years ago .

Love it!

Wow, you really do a lot of .22LR shooting.

I ran Basic Handgun classes for several years and went thru not bricks by cases of rim fire. Not so much now, hands and elbows have given out , probably from shooting too many magnum loads. Don't discount someone just because of what they are doing at present.

That works both ways, bud.

The 22RF shortage moved me to focus on light loading for all of the guns, and then casting my own. Just picked up a 22 cal mould. The kids will start with CF 22 cals. Plinking is a state of mind.

I can buy 22 shorts now, at 40 cents a shot.
I can buy .223 now, for half that.

And I can reload a .25-20 for about 6 cents a pop with cast bullets. Or less. That is with a full charge load and 85 grain bullet.

With buckshot and a wee pinch of power it is slightly more than the cost of a primer. It shoots surprisingly well.

Then there's the answer to all component shortages to include #10 & #11 caps. It's called a flintlock. It's cheaper still.

And if your a bullet caster you can reload those range PU 223 brass as quiet as the rimfire short for less than a nickle a round. More accurate and hits harder also.

Where can you buy .223 for 20 cents a round??

I'm planning on a case of match ammo and 5-10k of bulk.

I'm more pizzed about the powder situation Can't find a friggen pound of any handgun powder, just ran out of Bullseye and am low on Unique, 2400 and H-110. When that situation reverses I'll be getting at least one 8# jug of Bullseye, Unique, H-110 and probably 2400. At least primers and brass are obtainable again.

Then only upside of the shortage is it's easier to control the urge to buy more guns. Can't see plunking down money on a gun I can't feed.

Going rate in Michigan at Gander Mt is $22 for a 325 pack of Federal. Expensive to what I paid two years ago.

Remington ammo degrades dramatically in my opinion. The primer seems to get hard and become unreliable after 4 years.

Just stopped in a mom and pop LGS that i hit while traveling to relatives for Turkey day each year.

Last year, $29/ 500 rnd brick, as many as you'd want.
One year later, $39 for the same brick.

33% increase since last year? Nice gesture. I passed.

I won't buy any and I don't even buy it when I see it available.

I'm going to keep on doing what I'm doing now; buying the stuff that shoots well in my guns when I can. I'm not going to buy a bunch of crappy bulk just because I can. Bulk serves a purpose, just not my purpose.

Thus ensuring this thing goes on and on and on.