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bought 2 boxes of CCI 100rd. shorts for 9.97 each yesterday.For my Bearcat.
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bought 2 boxes of CCI 100rd. shorts for 9.97 each yesterday.For my Bearcat. My Bearcat hates shorts, Colibris, and even the CCI Quiet22s, which are quite accurate in other guns. Go figure.
What fresh Hell is this?
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Academy had LOTS of .22LR today - no limit. So, I bought 18 boxes of CCI Standard Velocity (50ct boxes), $3.99/box. They had lots of various Federal and Aguila; also 100ct boxes of Winchester and Browning.
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
We are all Rhodesians now.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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I bought a few bricks a few years ago for $38 and change each. I've been pretty frugal with them. I have seen plenty of empty shelves since too. A few months ago I was building a fireplace for a guy who was knockin squirrels out of his trees with a fancy top shelf .22 air rifle. I can't remember the brand but it was .22, rifled, scoped, very accurate, very quiet, and IIRC shot something like 1350 fps.
I've been thinking of looking into getting one of these, not to replace a .22lr but to supplement one. I haven't messed with air rifles since I was a kid, but this one I saw was nothing like the old Crossman .177 pump ups I had back then. Have any of you tried these out, or have recommendations, advice etc. on them?
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No. .00
Small cap cases, lead and a pinch of powder is cheaper and played right, more accurate. My current supply of RF ammo will outlive me.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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I used to occasionally shoot my twenty-twos, but since the shortages of recent years I got out of the habit. Not because I didn't have any stockpiled. I have thousands of rounds stockpiled, and did before the shortages too. I guess I'm conditioned now to be in the conservation mode rather than shooting mode, when it comes to rimfire.
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Picked up some more Auto Match yesterday at Sportsman's Warehouse for $22 per 325 round box. All of my .22s shoot it pretty well and it's consistently reliable. They also had some Remington crap, and misc. match ammo in 50 rd boxes.
Mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice. -Brent Weeks
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I find some now and then, but won't pay more than .05 a round. At Wally World the other day, found a box of Winchester, 1000 rounds, for $49.95
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This past "shortage" and current prices, is proof that all along, the shortage was brought on by the manufacturers themselves. The good stuff is still priced where it needs to be and the junk is still junk; just costs more.
The manufacturers won. Nothing but a contrived shortage.....
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The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first.
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Me & two buddies just split another case of 5K rds... Target Sports USA....$385 shipped......not bulk packed either 10 50 rd pks per brick...just less than 8 cents a rd shipped.... http://www.targetsportsusa.com/22-long-rifle-ammo-c-202.aspx![[Linked Image]](http://www.ammomenllc.com/images/22%20Aguila%20Super%20Extra%20New%20Box%20Final.jpg)
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T R U M P W O N !
U L T R A M A G A !
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LGS had CCI Mini-Mags for $7 per 100.
Dicks has Fed Auto Match $18 per 325.
CCI std vel for $4 per 50
Plenty in stock around here for now.
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I have a few thousand rounds now so I have not been buying on sight. Good stuff (CCI MiniMag, Win Super X, etc) is $10 / 100 - bulk Rem TBolts are $35/500. Some of that is showing up as well as lots of the Aguila stuff. That ammo stinks when you shoot it so I try to stay with the domestic stuff.
A true sportsman counts his achievements in proportion to the effort involved and fairness of the sport. - S. Pope
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Every place I've been to that has 22lr it's .10 a round so I don't buy it.
Sportsmans Warehouse
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Stupidity is expensive
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!
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Yep, 50 round boxes of odd brand ammo for $.10/rd. I literally don't remember when I last saw a brick of 22s on a store shelf.....at least four years ago. I am still loading Hornet ammo for around $.07-08/rd with cast bullets so I have no plans to sell the mould any time soon. 
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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In the last couple of years, I've shot more 22 bird shot than I have solids. ![[Linked Image]](http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c121/1snake2river3marksman/Loudentboomers/polishing014.jpg)
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I have purchased 2250 rounds in the last couple weeks from a new Academy Sports store that just opened.
I went in last Sunday afternoon, the last day of their 3 day grand opening sale and they still had an end cap mostly full of 22LR ammo.
I purchased four 325 count Federal AutoMatch @ the sale price of $16.99 each.
The $10 coupon covered the 9% sales tax.
"There's no schadenfreude like Hillary Clinton schadenfreude."
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I bought 10X my previous purchases during the shortage.
It is like pulling on a dog's tail.
Now I have 20 years left to shoot, and 2 million years worth of ammo.
The shortage was brought on by expensive tooling running 3 shifts a day to feed bricks into closets that previously held boxes of 50.
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Have seen .22 on the shelf twice in three years here in Montana that wasn't gouge prices like $95 a brick.
Would love to have the option that the rest of you have.
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I bought a few bricks a few years ago for $38 and change each. I've been pretty frugal with them. I have seen plenty of empty shelves since too. A few months ago I was building a fireplace for a guy who was knockin squirrels out of his trees with a fancy top shelf .22 air rifle. I can't remember the brand but it was .22, rifled, scoped, very accurate, very quiet, and IIRC shot something like 1350 fps.
I've been thinking of looking into getting one of these, not to replace a .22lr but to supplement one. I haven't messed with air rifles since I was a kid, but this one I saw was nothing like the old Crossman .177 pump ups I had back then. Have any of you tried these out, or have recommendations, advice etc. on them? There's a whole boatload of high end airguns...IMHO PCP powered is the way to go...most now have factory "lead dust collectors" or "shrouds" that also act as suppressors and the good news is that they aren't subject to the gun control act. The largest I've tried is a .25 caliber (my current)... If I had to suggest one to get started with I'd recommend this one. http://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Benjamin_Marauder_PCP_Air_Rifle_Synthetic_Stock/3139/6069 and with a couple of very inexpensive modifications, they are virtually silent. Go with the .25 caliber...the knockdown power over a .22 caliber is significant. If I could afford it, I'd be trying the .357/9mm's
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