Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters 22 LR ammo - supply issue, or hoarding ??

Exactly.

Aside from the re-sellers, what's been happening with .22 ammo is people who used to buy a box or two now and then are now buying a brick whenever they can. And people who used to buy a brick are buying multiple bricks.

Which is why there isn't much .22 ammo on many store shelves--at least for very long.

Butch,

I don't have to deal with any of it, since I've long kept a sufficient stock of all sorts of rimfire ammo, partly due to magazine editors sometimes wanting me to test rifles and even handguns.

But I do have to answer some of the inquiries from people who want to know the "real inside scoop." And then when I do, some don't believe it....