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there's been something very strange or un-determined going on with the mfg, distribution, and sales of .22 ammo.

i can't explain it, but doubtful it's been kosher.

oh well, life goes on.

.22 rimfire really have a price perception in this shortage. In sales we are taught to break the cost of an item down into smaller amounts to make it seem cheaper, daily cost versus monthly cost.

With .45 ACP you are looking at $25.00-$30.00 for a box of fifty, painful for some people. With .22's alot less, so the buyers were looking at the lower cost and just kept buying even though in the long run it would/could exceed the investment of the .45 after you get multiple bricks/cases. Air gun pellets never had this problem because it takes work to load, and pump up an air gun, not as convenient as 22's.

thats a good point ... my .22 ammo lasts a LOT longer when I'm shooting it out of a bolt gun or a thumb-buster single six instead of an auto. I think the people shooting .22's out of non-autos are in the minority, though.

You gotta have skillz to run a plate rack with a bolt gun at a good pace. But, I am learning, but only as a gimmick.

Anyway, I have noticed that the mail order houses seem to be having more in stock, and sitting longer before running out, than in the past few months.

So, I go into the Lacey Cabela's early this morning and they have a few boxes of several brands of 22LR and some 22 shorts. The limit was one box, so of course I picked up the 500 round Winchester instead of the 50 round CCI. What I had never seen before was the push and shove mentality of shoppers to get to the ammo. One 'gentleman' grabbed three 500 round boxes and was walking around the store asking others to purchase one of the boxes for him. I guess one might chalk it up to the months of shortages accompanied by the rumors surrounding ammunition but it still made me rethink how I viewed the average shooter. Maybe I am making too much of it but it reminded me of the Christmas Wal-Mart store buster stories on the news. Anyway, I am off to the range later this week with the rimfires; something I haven't been able to do recently.

yep, gotta buy em up by the thousands now to store up in your tornado shelter.

Damn that is great news, hopefully that is a sign that things are letting up and .22 will start showing up on the shelves everywhere.

I was in the local Cabela's tonight. Just wandered by the rimfire ammo shelf, lo and behold, an employee was stocking the shelf with 500 round bricks of Blazer. $27.99, got me one and my buddy got a brick. The first we have seen in a while.

There was plenty of 22 ammo at the Cabela's in Waco yesterday. I bought a brick of 525 and there were quite a few left. And mucho 22 in the small boxes. And they had full shelves of bullets (except the two that I wanted) and plenty of powder and primers. I got some 4064. Plenty of H335 and others. Didn't see any Varget. I don't use much Varget, but seems like everyone else does.

We just got the first Cabela's in all of the Southeast. No rimfire at the grand opening. Least not by the time I got there.

I haven't been back to cabelas looking for ammo sense the day I took that picture. If I keep stockpiling it, I'd be another horder. With the exception of cci mini mags I've got enough ratholed to last a couple of years and enough mini mags to last 8 or 10 months.