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

He limits me to what his wife's car will carry and not overload it...

My LGS here in upstate NY is well stocked and has been for the past few months. I picked up two more 525 rd. bulk packs of Federal Champions and 200 rds. of Yellow Jackets just yesterday. The shelves were packed with Mini-Mags, CCI std. velocity, American eagle, Winchester subsonic HP's, Rem. Subsonic, Aguila super xtra and Both Rem. and Win. high velocity shorts.

I havent tabulated it, but it seems like posters from more coastal areas have better supply than the midwest.

I dont find 22 ammo in the twin cities metro or any out state reatilers including the small town hardware store.

Funny how that works. None to be found on the shelves here. The retired hoarders are still scarfing it up.

Still very little in stock here. Cabela's had some last week, only Norma at $8 per 50 in cartons for $80. Cabela's also had some Federal 40 grain HV for $3.50 per box, but only in boxes of 50 rounds, limit of two boxes per customer. None at any of the Wal-Marts, Bass Pro, or Scheel's. Pawn shops have some at $10 per box.

Last weekend I was in the Christiana Cabelas and the 22LR supply was low. Tried to get 10 boxes
of Federal but the check-out lady said Cabelas had a 2 box limit. Damn I hate this BS.

.22 ammo supply is still abysmal. Allegedly, it is not connected to Obama's Presidency. In spite of that, it started with his election, and continues through his Presidency - for YEARS. Somehow, some way - he is the catalyst for it. It is just ridiculous that you cannot just walk into a tore and pick the .22 ammo you want. Heck - I bet there are people shooting now, that do not remember that.

I was at Cabela's today and saw that they had some tubs of Remington, plus some 200 round boxes of 22LR and 22Mag CCI. The last time that I bought some Remington 22 LR, I paid $12+/- for 225 count boxes at Wal-Mart.

Haven't seen any at the local Walmart in years now.

Seems the buckets of Remington are all I see anywhere. And those bullets suck.

Haven't tried the tubs of Rem. HP, but just shot a 525 pack at gophers this spring with out a misfire.. Accuracy was decent for bulk ammo.. I have never had a problem with this ammo, but WW 333 packs are something else.. Last one I had I dumped most of it down a prairie dog hole..

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Only 22LR I've seen at our local Walmart in the past year or so, was some Rem. 225 packs several months ago. They lasted about a half hour, at one box per customer.

The clerk decided they were bulk packs, so the "three boxes per customer" rule didn't apply.

"New and Improved" Golden Bullet variety. Will say they aren't as gooey as I recall them being years ago? Haven't burned any of 'em up yet.

I was at the Syracuse Gun Show Saturday and I saw a few dealers with bricks/bulk packs of .22 LR. The going price was around $40 for Thunderbolts and $60 for CCI Standard Velocity. I bought 1 500 bulk pack of Thunderbolts for $40. I asked the dealer if he thought the supply was starting to loosen up any. He told me that if he wanted to buy .22's he had to order enough of other things to have enough "points" to get some .22's.

Yesterday Cabelas (in Buffalo) had boxes of 300 CCI mini Mag,
And 325's of Federals AutoMatch.

They had about 20 to 30 boxes of each on the shelf..

Still not seen anything from our traditional makers for about 4 years now. I'm 130 miles from the big box stores though and can/will not do the stand at the door on Thursday morning thing. Even then, I'd refuse to do the 30 or $40 a brick trick too. Thankfully, I have a couple cases left from my 2008 pre-election purchase. That middle America "guns and religion" campaign comment was more than enough for me to immediately stress the checkbook.

Anyone know how folks on other continents are doing? Europe, Africa, South America, Asia? How about the Canadians?

The Court street Dick's in Binghamton NY has had bricks of Thunderbolts for 25.00 frequently since Christmas. They've also had 325 packs of Federal auto match for 19.99 almost every week. I picked up two 525 rd. bulk packs of Federal Champions at Gifford's sport shop in Walton NY for 27.95 each last week. I was at the Syracuse show last weekend and the .22 prices were nothing but highway robbery.

I've given up on the LGS, save one, for rimfire ammo since the shortage began. Bought a case of CCI SV a couple months ago after convincing them I was not buying them to resell...They have been receiving good supplies of .17 HMR and .22 LR ammo for several months, more so recently. They also sell them on Internet auctions at crazy $....

I have been buying higher grade stuff in case lots at current wholesale prices from online dealers who specialize in supplying target shooters for the past several months...

Plinking ammo is still difficult to find in my area, selling out almost the day it hits the shelves...I've boycotted the dealers who limit quantities and/or jack prices and will continue to do so....Midway, Walmart and their ilk can stuff it....

I'm going to start my own vending business with a very desirable product. This is going to be huge!

My friends & suppliers in Germany tell me Europe has more rimfire ammo than it needs. They have sales on it. I asked what kind and they said plenty of European makers and even US, (CCI etc.) I checked with a couple suppliers on exporting some CCI to the US. They had all I wanted. The shipping would put my delivered cost @ $45 a brick. But I went ahead and got a permit for 300,000 rounds. That was when most anything that would shoot was bringing 75-100 bucks from the scalpers. But now things seem to be easing up, here, so I've held off. Don't want to be stuck with that much ammo at 15$ above the "normal" price.
To answer your question they don't have the hysterical hoarders and cannibals we have in the US and their supply of RF ammo is just fine.
I urge everyone to remember who stuck it to you during the shortage and never do business with them again, once the hysteria is over.

Nothing at Walmart here yet, but FOR THE FIRST TIME in years I entered Cabela's and found stacks and stacks of the good CCI High Velocity 100 packs in both solids and hollowpoints available.

Still one per customer, but the supply was huge, so that bodes well for the future.

They also had a lot of the standard velocity odds and ends they usually have and some bulk Remington ThunderDUDS.

Of course the demand may just continue to far exceed the supply and then we'll still have problems......but this does look better for now.