Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires So why is there still not any .22lr ammo?

Magic 8 balls reads "Get used to it"



Travis

Nine out of ten Ouija boards concur. The tenth one needs sent in for a tweak.

I got 1550 rounds of Federal Champion and Federal Champion Target, plus 200 rounds of CCI Mini Mag from Gander Mountain - all 1750 rounds for $97 shipped to my door. 5.5 cents per round. Might be the cheapest .22 LR ammo I buy for the rest of my life...

four to five cents per round if things ever settle down.
That what cost is when/where it is available to me.

700lh I'll second that.
Last week a friend stopped by to shoot his new/used Beeman 177 cal pellet rifle. I asked about pellet cost and he said about $15/per 1k for the kind he was using. about 1.5 cts ea. After awhile he came into the house for a break (cold and windy outside) we shot the [bleep] for awhile. He spotted my SW M10-8 HB 38 Special sitting on the counter and asked about it. I told him it was my new 22 pistol and he gave me a BS look and said how's that? I told him I'd been collecting lead for 35 years and for the last 10 yrs 95% of it went into the same reclaimable backstop, was reclaimed then recast into 158 gr swc .358". He knew that but didn't really think about it as I do. It's one of my hobbies I enjoy, some of that lead has been down the barrel many times. Casting my own is the only way I can keep some of my guns shooting period, obviously you can buy 38 cast bullets damn near anywhere but I don't have to, I do my own. Still wanting an answer to my new 22 comment I asked him if he remembered the deal I got on CCI-550 small mag pistol primers 5 years back at $8.50/1000? Yeah he remembered, I said well you were happy with 1000 of them and I bought the other 17K he had,.85 cts each. Then I reminded him of the HP38 I snagged at the spring gun show 3 yrs ago where I got the whole case for $50 and he told me to sell half for $50(10 ea) so I wouldn't have any money in the other 5 lbs. I reminded him that I said no way and kept it all. At 3.7 grs a load with 158 gr bullets that was almost 1900 rds to the pound and 19000 to those 10 lbs. Well I told him that figured out to .26 cts per round powder cost + the .85 for the primer and the bullet at no cost as it had paid for itself many times ago. So I said 1.11 cts a round and MY time, how long has it been since you bought 22 ammo for that price? Well he laughed and said well maybe when I was 12-13yrs old in the mid 60's. I asked if he got it yet about the new 22 and said yeah I do. Leaves extra cash for better beer and the other necessities of life. Just something I got out of Boy Scouts the "Be Prepared" when I was one almost 50 yrs ago. The point is there are still ways to shoot inexpensively if You spend some of your time as well. Magnum Man

I was in a LGS yesterday and saw some bricks of Blazers in the display case. Asked the kid behind the counter about the price and when he checked, they weren't marked. Then he looked at the loose 50rd boxes and said "$10.99".

Must have been the new solid gold Blazers.

Remington Cyclone's on sale locally for $20 per brick. Still can't get myself to buy any of it. Picked up some more American Eagle yesterday, I think I'm set for a while.

Had a guy come in the gunshop yesterday and tell me with a straight face, he has an uncle that is an officer in the military, and that the new troups are now training with rifles converted to 22LR to save money, and THAT is where all the 22LR is going...

The "stories" continue...(grin!)

Virgil B.

I've been finding somewhat irregularly Remington thunderbolts and federals on the shelves as little as 2.49 box to as much as 5.95 which is too much !!!

Over the last 2 mos, I've found fed. bulk, cci sv, and cci blazers. Going rate has been $35/brick.


maddog

I just picked up 3 boxes of Remington golden bullets at Wally World, 225 round boxes, for $11.17/box. They had CCI stingers for $6.47/50 which I thought was ridiculous.

My local Dick's sporting goods had HP mini mags 300/27.99

GUN show prices today
550 federals $55
525 federal light blue box $79.99
various 330, 225 packs were $35
500 rem thunderbolts $60

Yea, I just picked up two 100 packs of cci and a pack of 100 subs for 5.99 ea at gander mountain last week, its getting better.,

Cabela's in Post Falls, Idaho had Federal 525 round value pack's for $23.99 yesterday. They didn't last long.

Probably the same 525 packs for sale in the classifieds for 65.00 yesterday?

Less than $23 a box (525 rds) at Wal-Mart yesterday. 3 box limit. Remington golden bullet. I got 3. They also had Winchester 333 rd boxes as well, but passed on those.

No doubt.

the retailers like Cabelas, Chinamart, etc. are starting to increase the prices. Which means the manufacturers are,since most of the retailers base their mark up on percentage of purchase price. Still can find the occasional box at 4 to 5 cents a round but now the cost is likely to be at 8.

Other rimfire rounds have all held their prices. No sales now, but the per 50 price is still there, availability sometimes spotty, but better then 22lr. But one can pretty much get 17hmr anytime to order and much of the time off the shelf when you walk in a store.

I buy every box of 22lr I can with a reasonable price. It ends up with people I know that can't get it, have kids and grandkids that can't shoot, and with the sportman's club for their youth programs and other youth organizations that I know will use it.
Is that hoarding? I am sure others do the same.