Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires So how's the rimfire ammo supply in your local stores?

In the past couple weeks I've been in three sporting goods stores in my part of Montana when looking for other stuff, and found pretty good supplies of rimfire ammo on their shelves, right out in the open, without crowds of people pushing and shoving to buy any. in fact two of the stores had several FEET of stack boxes of rimfire ammo, including .17 HMR, .22 Long Rifle (both hollow-point and solid), and .22 Magnum.

Now, some of the prices weren't exactly low. Hundred-round boxes of one desirable brand of Long Rifle hollow-points were $9.99, but none of the bricks of solid-point Long Rifle was over $30. .17 and .22 Magnum were $12 to $15 per 50.

I didn't need any of it, and apparently nobody else did either while I was in any of the shops. Was just wondering if this was happening elsewhere.

Not around here yet... Prices, when the stuff is even available, is +/- $40/brick of regular stuff and Eley's still about $18/box of 50..

It's really irritating..

In the past years it has been very tough to find. Then, this week became 22lr lotto.

I picked up 2 bricks of 22lr in the campfire classifieds here this week - $30 ea (shipped). Gone in about 8 minutes

1 brick of 22lr at my local ma & pa gun shop this week at $32, last box in stock.

5 bricks of 22lr at Gander Mountain yesterday for $20 ea, but they were only selling it to guys buying new 22lr rifles from them, which obviously I did.

All 8 bricks Rem thunderbolt

Still bad up here.



Travis

plenty of norma tac and norma match-22 to be had
plenty of agulia at academy
academy has bulk pack delights of various brands for the spry and pray crew /hoarder types at times but it is funny as heck to see their little broken heart faces when they cant find none to hoard or scalp in the peddler newspaper or the flea market
plenty of cci stuff (except for the cci small game bullet)
seen a bunch of Winchester at midsouth shooters supply yesterday for local purchase when I was up their pickin up my norma match-22
see some rem tb at acadmy
bought a box as a joke


.22 can be found easy around clarksville tn


all except th friggin cci small game bullet

if I ever see any around

I having the wife and kids and friends buy their 2 box limit at academy or 5 box limit at midsouth shooters supply ASAP.....

I have not seen anything other than a couple boxes of target stuff on the shelves in this region for over two years. Fortunately, with the Big O's first comment about middle America clinging to religion and arms I stocked up. Now the guns are out and the ammo lives in the safe.

SUX

For the most part, still nothing here except for a few boxes if 17 from time to time.

Every now and then, Academy will have a few boxes with a 1-box/customer limit. I did get a 100rd box of MiniMags from Cabela's for $10, but those only lasted a day.

If you aren't picky there is ammo to be had. Still waiting for CCI SV to show up....

Local shop got a shipment of CCI mini mag and SV recently. Moderately priced as well.


About 40 cases of mini mags and 10 cases of SV

Other local shop has some federal auto match, CCI quiet, SV, mini mags, and some RWS match.

Seems like it's getting better.

Funny, that's exactly what I've seen mostly consistently in these parts! Haven't seen any Remington in a year though.

No .22 LR on any shelf locally...

The actual gun stores seem to usually have a couple or few kinds. The chains and big box stores never have any when I'm there...

Little .22 ammo here.. Some shorts, but none of the really good stuff.. Haven't seen any for several years since all this started really.. Two or three years ago, I was deer hunting in Pa. I went to a big gunshop in central Pa. and they had unlimited Remington 22 LR hollow points.. I bought about a case.. BUT that didn't last long.. Before i left, the ammo was gone.. And on a return trip last year there was only shorts, and some expensive match stuff as I remember..

In central Wy. they seem to have .17 HMR and .22 mag., but no 22 ammo other than maybe shorts.. Powder seems tough to get also. Although there are some numbers that seem plentiful.. IMR4831 is tough to find..

22LR a rare commodity but enough 17 HMR to arm a small army.

Still spotty here in the Deep South. Seems that the big box stores never have any, but the smaller gun shops/pawn shops have some every now and then. Prices are decent.

Even 270, 308, 7RM, and 300WM are somewhat scarce in some places (Wally World), so go figure......

Cabela's has it regularly, but it is almost always sold out by 10AM.

Wal-Mart claims to have it, but I haven't seen any at WM for several months. Have been told that WM empolyees are holding it for sale to their friends who, in turn, sell it at gouging prices at local gun shows.

None elsewhere that I've seen, unless you were will to pay $8 to $10 for 50 count box of basic 40 grain lead HV, the same stuff that was less than $2 per box of 50 before the school shooting in Connecticut.

I still have a few thousand rounds around, but that was more due to being out of action for most of 2014 than finding it in any quantity and at a fair price.

One of our local Walmarts had some for a few days about a month ago and one of our LGS's has a reasonable supply. I haven't really paid attention to prices since I have what I need.

Supply is picking up around here. Store a few miles north of me had about 100K rounds of various RF ammo in all iterations from CCI, Remington and a few others. Shorts too...