Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I Think the 22LR Shortage is Really Over

Is Bi-Mart still only allowing you two boxs of ammo a day? Have not been in one since Sept. and they did not have any 22 then. Will have to check again this weekend.

I was in Academy yesterday and they had rimfire ammo from about every manufacturer available. I bought 325 Federal's for $18 and Aguila Pistol Match's for $4 a box. They still had a limit of 500 rounds per sale.

Nice. I had a $.05 per round limit and it was a bit difficult for a minute there! 325 for $18 is close enough.

I don't know where you live, but more rural areas seemed to be the worst with ridiculous prices. Mom and pop were scalpin' the schit outta folks.

I just hope hollow points get cheap for high volume gopher blasting

It's a VERY small market. The 17s have driven it's sales down drastically.

Also, it isn't a particularly accurate round.

And here I thought rural folks were good people.

We moved here 2 1/2 years ago. Since then, every time I go to the local Walmart I cruise by the sporting goods department and window shop ammo. There has been no rimfire stuff and very little .223/5.56 in 2 1/2 years. Immediately after the election the shelves were filled. There is now all kinds of .22 LR including stingers, etc, .22 WRM in several flavors, 17 HMR and even CCI .22 Shorts. The only thing missing is .17 M2. Looks like all the hoarders will end up eating the stuff.

Capital Sports in Helena had some last week. They had CCI 30gr VMax, and Win 40 gr JHP.

I picked up a couple boxes of the Win, at 12.99/50 rounds.

At least it's getting to the point when one asks if they have any 22 rim, we don't get laughed at.

Yep,none around here yet. Cabelas had that special one day sale of those 350 rd boxes,but other bricks on their shelves were in the $65 range.

Every once in awhile Walmart gets some in, but the same guys are there and know exactly when they hit the shelves and buy them all

This past Friday evening local Walmart had a few Winchester '333' round bulk packs of .22lr hp @ $17.37 plus the same in 100 round plastic box for about $6.00 per.
Also had some CCI .22 magnum at about $13.00 per 50.

Same day local farm supply store had Armscor and Winchester .22 magnum @ $16.00 and $15.00 per 50.

When I started seeing relatively fair priced name brand .22 lr still on the store shelves in the evenings I figured the early morning hoarders/gougers had pretty well hit their limits.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes,lttppowell

Neither is the 17HMR if there is more than a slight breeze!

I haven't seen .22 LR on the shelves of the two "local" Walmarts in years. I saw some .17 and 22 Mag. in one of them the other night though, but I don't really look for those two rounds that much, so maybe they're there often. I started out with 10k rounds and have bought it whenever I could, usually at other Walmart's and so probably still have about that much on hand. I guess I was hoarding it before hoarding was cool, but hoarders aren't the problem. The problem is those guys who are buying it for resale. I have no problem with that either, but place the blame where it really lies.

It's safe to say the reselling days are over. Supply will return to normal in a year or two I'm sure.




Dave

not sure the shortage is 'over', not by a long shot. Local Wally World has not had any to speak of since 2012. Most LGS around here are short stocked, and at ridiculous prices.
Our new Bass Pro had Winchester boxes of 100, a small stack on a counter, for $9.99 each.

400 rds for $30? I'd pass..

Last 4 bricks I bought (500 rds ea.) were $18 - and that was only a rather short time ago..

Local Fleet Farm had 22 mag two weeks ago and I cannot recall the exact price, but it wasn't bad at all. Dang near normal...

That's all Fleet Farm ever has! But it's not a bad price when they do. I only have a 22mag revolver so I don't buy much.

I really should get a rifle in .22 mag.

I have a more than fifty-year-old Anschutz that would change your mind about that. It currently wears a Leupold 3-9 EFR rimfire scope and is very dangerous to any reasonable .22 mag prey at any reasonable .22 mag range which, to me, is about 175 yards or so.