.22 Shell Availability

I got 2 100 round boxes (the limit) of CCI's, ad $7 each and change, from Wal-Mart in one of the 'not so good' parts of town the other week. I guess I caught them just as a shipment came in because they had at least 12 boxes. Either that, or the local residents were more fond of calibers other than .22's. Unfortunately it was several days before I could make it back and by that time they were out. Not surprising given that there was another guy wanting his share of them at the same time I bought mine.
 
I was in walmart last week and got three boxes Remington hollow points 225 rounds per box for $11.00.
 
Well you can find a few 50 and 100 round boxes here and there. The large "bricks" are hard to find. The price is lower than the peak a few years ago but still about 2 or 3 times more than they were just 4-5 years ago.
 
I have seen a big improvement in online availability of target and match 22 lr (standard velocity) at a reasonable price. 22 "hunting type" hollow point (hi-velocity; the type that will reliably cycle a semi-auto) seems to still be more difficult to come by unless you are willing to pay 2 to 3 times the normal price.
 
When my boy was at wal-mart when they wheeled a cart of amo to sporting goods. The amo was sold off the cart. Workers didn't have to unload cart. The price wasn't that bad. Just have to be in the right place at the right time.

I think a lot of people who horded the amo must have enough. Hope they eat a loss.
 
Local gun shop gets it in, but it don't last long.
More profitable to make larger calibers, I suppose....
 
I have been able to buy 22 ammo most any time I want to for the last few months. There is a gun shop about 4 miles from my place that almost always has some on hand. Cost is around $5 per box of 50 which is a tad high but not as high as I see it some places. I can still remember buying it for 50 cent per 50
 
It is slowly improving here, a local sporting goods store has a standing order to be delivered every Friday. Sometimes they get it, sometimes they don't. $2.49 for a box of 50 when it is avail. and they will let you buy 4 boxes. It is slowly getting better, the Manager said he expects about another year for it to be in free supply.
 
The .22s seem to be easier to find than, say a year ago. Now the hard one to find, at least in my area, is the .22 WMR. (.22 magnum) I bought 200 rounds of CCI .22 short hollow points Tues. They work good in my old single shot, and the neighbors don't even know I'm shooting.
 
It's OK, we all know you're going to hold off the entire US army with tanks and planes and armored vehicles and howitzers and missiles with your trusty old Henry.
 
Maybe not where you live. Here in CT more than half of my guns were "criminalized" with the stroke of a pen. One needs special credentials to buy any kind of ammunition. All it would take is some kind of "incident" for the bureaucrats to outlaw (criminalize) anything they want as they have done before.
 
I've found quite a bit of .22 LR at online sites in recent months (Remington, some Winchester and other brands). Actually, you can find all you want online if you're willing to pay 10 cents a round plus high shipping. I haven't paid more than 7 cents a round including shipping and now have several thousand rounds on hand. (Not a hoarder, just shoot a lot in summer with grandkids, so I buy it when I can.) I do see an easing in the supply crunch.
 
But what does a person do when civil unrest results in looting, shooting, burning and the army and cops are told to stand down? Let people vent their anger. Then I count on my friends, Smith, Wesson, Remington.
 
(quoted from post at 09:32:55 12/25/14) It's OK, we all know you're going to hold off the entire US army with tanks and planes and armored vehicles and howitzers and missiles with your trusty old Henry.

I really don't think the civilian population of this country has to worry about the US military attacking us.There is not a general in the US armed forces who would follow that UNLAWFUL ORDER!
 
I bought a box of 525 from a guy that goes to wal mart and hoards them every week. I asked him one day to sell me a box and he sold them to me for what he paid for them. Said he had a ton and doesn't even know why. The retailers should just put a ridiculous price on them for about a year and get everybody to settle down a little bit and let a surplus build up and then gradually bring the price back down to reality again. I like the days of $1.99 for a box of 100. I paid around $24 bucks for the 525.
 
Gave 8.8 cents a round yesterday and carted out 3200 rounds . From Fin Feather and Fur . CCI mini mags copper plated solids . That is the preferred round of the Cow assen and he goes thru around a 150 rounds a week and sometimes more depending on the contract hits.
 
Just a euphemism. It's really in the safe with the thousands of rounds ready for the zombie apocalypse.
 
Also, the legal, law abiding firearm owners in the US outnumber the entire US Armed Forces by a factor of 36 to 1.
 
I haven't bought 22 shells in years. I used to buy a box when Federal had those bulk boxes. They were about 9.00 for 550 bought some everytime I went in.
 
In '97 they were $9.86/550rds locally, just looked at a box in the drawer. The display was in the aisle and was about a full pallet, everyday, and that was the time to walk out with as much as you could carry. Local hoarder/resellers want $75 for em now. Lesson learned, never believe supplies like these will always be there, like it was for as long as I can recall. I found some .22 short earlier in '14 and was able to stock up on .22WMR as some of that was flowing, but .22 LR, going on 3 years, not a round to be had and if there is, someone is waiting there before the truck arrives.
 
I bought a bucket of 1400 rounds,Remington LR Hollow points at Dicks for 69.95.Last Sunday. Thats 5 Cents a round. Not bad, considering that is the first, I have been able to find in over a year.
 
Still out most of the time, but see some once in a while now, so better than it was over the past 2 years. Just a local observation, donno what that means other places.

Paul
 
I think you're not using your imagination. If a law were passed that was so despicable that it made ordinary citizens take to the streets, do you think the crowd would be composed entirely of people who looked like they had just come from a church service? Rest assured that there would be more than enough crazies committing acts of violence to give the government all the justification they would need to have the National Guard suppress the "revolt". Whoever controls the news controls where the cameras are pointed and what appears on television. Alternative sources of information (i.e. YouTube, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) are easily dismissed by those who hold the actual power, and by the well meaning but frightened and misinformed middle class. Of course, a government sponsored investigation during the next administration would reveal that the suppression was unjustified, and a lot of good that would do.

Stan
 

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