The .22 drought is over (at least here)
 

A friend of mine that runs a local pawn/gun shop just got in a big shipment of .22 LR ammo. By big shipment, I mean 30 - 40,000 rounds. A 500 round brick is selling for about $40. He said that there are another 100k rounds on the way! By the way, he ordered this ammo over a year ago and it is just now getting here!

I hope that's the case here. .22LR is the only round that's really hard to find.

When you can find it here it is going for eight bucks a box. I just can't pay that for what I used to buy for $0.89 for

Not here.

Here if you are willing to pay inflated prices - 2x retail pre-panic.

What flavors are showing up?

$40 for 500? That is crazy! It is about 3 times what it should be.

I agree
 

You are correct. However, that is better than $80 - $100 per brick or not being able to buy any at all! While I have a pretty good stash of .22LR and .22 Magnum, I did buy some CCI to use as break in ammo for a Sig Mosquito.

Flavors
 

I think he said CCI, Federal and an offbrand that I had not heard of. He has both the 40 grain solids and the 36 grain hp ammo. Don't know what will be in the big shipment that he is still waiting on.

22 LR and 9 mm still hard to find in Metro Detroit area.

I just put in a "long term" back order. I hope I don't run out before it arrives!

ugh - I need to pick some 22LR rounds up for a shooting event this weekend. I didn't realize it might still be difficult to find.

I typically pay $75 per brick after shipping for the good match ammo I shoot (SK Std+). Almost a year ago I got a bit of SK Magazine (same as the other, just overruns or seconds) but I'm part way thru my last 500 round can of that.

Need to scrape together some nickles and buy more SK Std+ and CCI SV. Also need to get a few bricks of bulk high velocity stuff (my FAL conversion kit is almost done)

Jeeeez, I bought 22LR bricks for $15 a box back before the first Obama election at the Walmart stores in and around San Diego. I still probably have 15 boxes left.....

Rub it in! :)

Like most I kick myself for not loading up. Not sure we'll ever see 22 for $15 again.

I haven't see any in over a year at the local Walmart.

I am fortunate to have a Bass Pro and Cabelas near my office. A dozen Walmarts as well are close by.

Near impossible to find 22lr's.

The stores get a very small amount a couple times a week and supplies are gone within15 minutes of opening.

The only way to score a box is to wait by the door for the store to open and hope your trip is not a waste of time.

I've wasted many trips over the last couple weeks. No joy yet.

Impossible to get around here.

costing 3X what it should does not mean an end to the problem.

I haven't shopped for ammo since the big run a year ago. I have really tapered our recreational shooting - losing a really nice & local outdoor spot with new commitments are to blame. I noticed that the local Turners seems to have full shelves.

Cheaper than dirt has the super quiet bricks of 500 rounds for under $50 (actually $49.59.)

I picked up some subsonic stuff before Christmas for around $5 for a box of 50. That is rougly the same price.

One of my local chain sporting goods stores is always out. I ask the guy if they have any 22 and he says they just sold the last box. I ask when is the next shipment and he says sometime next week. I must be the most unlucky guy in the whole store to just miss the last box every time I stop in...

Last time I went to DFW I bought three bricks, but I did have to call around to 7-8 shops before I found any.

This is a positive sign methinks, and surely the prices will follow (supply & demand). All calibers have been on the shelves for many months around here except .22lr (I'm just looking at Wallyworld...dunno about Gander, etc.) Haven't looked in several weeks, but I'll check again soon!

My nearest Cabela is a 90 minute drive and I've given up on .22lr for now. But this damned winter will eventually end and I'll be back at the range so I may need to camp out in their parking lot.

Will they do a pre paid order?

For those of you competitors in need of match ammo, I may be able to loan you some until the drought is over. Let's talk.

i saw some brass cased .223 for about 0.35/round, so things may be getting sorted. the local shops still don't have any smokeless powder, though. i was at the local shop last week and they had about 4 flavors, two of which were shotgun powders...

I've been telling folks that reloading ammo today costs about what 'store bought' used to cost :D
Jim

Doing a pre-paid order is a possibility, but I think I have enough now for the near future. If I have a lot of 22 I just spend all day at the range anyway.

There is a small family run sporting goods store about an hour away that always seems to have some 22lr. I got around 300 rounds there in the last few months and that should be enough for this year and slightly beyond. I took some people target shooting last year and only went through a box of 325 rounds, so with 300 on my own, I should be good for a while.

They kind of giggle at me at Cabela's when I ask for 22lr.

Hope the drought and price gouging ends soon as I am running low. :D

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I really feel sorry for the Boy Scouts, I literally lived at the rifle range back like 800 years ago when I think it was 50 cents for a box of 50.

I still have bricks of 500 with $12.95 store stickers on it, that was only 400 years ago.

what that's brand of the yellow boxes lower right corner?

those are subsonic?

one of the few subsonics that would cycle my semi-auto 10-22
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I need more.

You ever hear of the TV show...

Hoarders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

it's only hoarding if you don't shoot it.

Tim I think you may be part of the problem with the shortage


Really Im just jealous I didnt do the same as well. Actually I had no idea there was a shortage untill recently. I had a habit of buying a rew misc boxes of ammunition when I go to walmart. They used to always have CCI .22 in stock. I hadnt been shooting for a while so I hadnt noticed that this had chaged. I was burning through alot of .22 at the range recently and I was informed that it is semiprecious.

I'm going to tip my hand here... I use this website to find 22lr.

22lr ammo rimfire

Lots of insane prices, but I just keep checking and spring when I see a decent price and shipping isn't too bad. Went to my local Cabelas today (To pick up some Norma that I found via ammoseek and ordered online) and they also had match grade German ammo for 92 bucks for 500 rnds. Spendy, and I don't need that kind of consistency.

Eley Prime/ Aguila standard velocity 40 grain. My wife's old boss gave it to us to try when my wife and I were on an indoor winter .22 league. I don't like it as it did not function all the time in my target slab side SS Ruger MarkII.

Believe it or not the red Walmart Federal 550 value packs is what we ended up running the most in my Ruger and my wife's/daughter's Buckmark. A good friend who always places at the top in the local bullseye .22 pistol league even switched to it once I made him compare it with the CCI Select or Green tag that he had always used for years. (he consistently groups dime size at 25')

When we first started, I built an indoor bullet trap and my wife would nearly go through a 550 pack a night practicing if I let her. :eek:

The Winchester .22 crap was gifted to me and it is crap in regard to cycling reliably in nearly all my pistols and rifles. The Remington bulk packs are what I use in my Glock .22 conversion for cheap IDPA practice. For some crazy reason it is what the conversion kit recommended for best reliability (and they were right) in their kit.

For rifle plinking and bullseye I am sold on the Federal from Walmart. Our local Walmart has not had any in a long time, but when they do I will buy another 5000 or so. I can go through a lot of .22 when I need a break out in the shop during the summer.

I do not have such quantities of .223, 12 ga, .44 mag, .380, 30-06 etc as I don't shoot them all that much. That said, I like to keep 9mm and .22 stocked up in the thousands for when I get on a competition kick or for when friends/family visit and they want to shoot. I don't consider myself a "hoarder".

Please excuse the Fram products.......can't them away......

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No 22 at Walmart yesterday, but there was plenty of all other ammo. A rarity.

I am done searching for 22lr's. Spent the last month hitting up Bass Pro, Cabelas, Dick's and Walmart.
Checked websites continually, been there at opening a few times, etc.

What a waste of time, energy and gas.

Broke down and paid $60 inc shipping for a 500 brick just to keep some for the kids (me) to blast.

Bought a nice pellet gun and airsoft pistol for plinking around my property (suburbs).

Honestly, its just about as much fun shooting 6mm plastic BB's as 22's.