.22 LR Ammunition - any updates on availability?

[RobertBrown]

I just get my son and wife go by and get their limit....I also buy from the local gun shop, or Cabelas...

I have about 7-8 K rounds now, so That's enough for me for a while...

I purchaced 15000 rounds of standard velocity for my new suppressed rifle.

Hey, I'll be purchasing 5000 round bricks when availability increases and will return to a higher level of consumption.

Here's your problem. When you guys quit this nonsense......22lr will be where it should be

 

[4570Man]

22lr isn't hard to find anymore, but 22 magnum is almost impossible to find. I was at the World shooting complex in Sparta Illinois a few weeks ago. The Walmart up there has tons of 22lr and 22 magnum.

 

[drizler]

Here's your problem. When you guys quit this nonsense......22lr will be where it should be

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Well said. This hoarding was ridiculous 5 years ago. What's it gonn be next you guys are saving up for The Rapture or Zombie Apocalypse. You do realize don't you that you are your own worst enemies?:confused2: I can't wait till Obama is out of office to see what the next event is gonna be:confused3:

 

[rtimgray]

Here's your problem. When you guys quit this nonsense......22lr will be where it should be

You're absolutely right, Robert. But no one raindrop thinks he causes the flood.

As mentioned, I'm as guilty as anyone because when I find it at "regular" price - at Wal-Mart, usually, I will buy what I can. My reasons, like everyone else's, are my my own, but I have greatly curtailed how much shooting I've been doing because I can't find a steady, reliable supply of what I consider to be "regular" priced .22 ammunition.

It would be a fascinating social experiment to see what would happen if everyone - and I mean everyone - quit buying .22 ammo for a month. Pre-panic, I probably shot about 5,000 to 10,000 rounds a year of .22 (not by myself, of course, but I provided that much ammo). That was when prices were somewhere in the range of $10-$14 for a bulk pack of 500 or so. I don't think that I've shot 5,000 rounds in the last three years, and that's strictly from a lack of availability.

Again, it seems as though availability is much better, although the price point has settled at a significantly higher level than we were once used to.

Good luck and take care.

 

[sixdogs]

The price hasn't settled anywhere and after a lifetime working with popular delusions and the madness of crowd behavior like this, I will strongly suggest that prices eventually will be headed back to where they were and probably lower. People can stop buying for a day or two and it won't matter till the madness has run it's course.

Everyone that hoards today is taking future buying demand off the table. Demand in not infinite. All the production that has gone into a hoard is that much that will not be needed for future production. When demand is satisfied, those buyers are gone but the level of production will likely continue. A natural result would be a decline in prices back to where buyers are willing to ante up again.

We have seen this many times in our lives. Most recently gold and silver. Everyone wanted to buy at silver $50 and now is not interested at $15. When gas was $4.25 lots of people hoped to get the price at $3.75 so they could load up. Today I bought at a huge station for $2.29 and I was the only vehicle there. 9MM went from $11 to $20 a box and now is back to $12. The lines of people at $20 have given way to the yawns at $12.

A lot of hoarding is the nature that people follow crowd behavior and want what the crowd does and avoids things out of fashion. That's why you buy straw hats in September. Crowd behavior and this too shall pass.

 

[k0ua]

The price hasn't settled anywhere and after a lifetime working with popular delusions and the madness of crowd behavior like this, I will strongly suggest that prices eventually will be headed back to where they were and probably lower. People can stop buying for a day or two and it won't matter till the madness has run it's course.

Everyone that hoards today is taking future buying demand off the table. Demand in not infinite. All the production that has gone into a hoard is that much that will not be needed for future production. When demand is satisfied, those buyers are gone but the level of production will likely continue. A natural result would be a decline in prices back to where buyers are willing to ante up again.

We have seen this many times in our lives. Most recently gold and silver. Everyone wanted to buy at silver $50 and now is not interested at $15. When gas was $4.25 lots of people hoped to get the price at $3.75 so they could load up. Today I bought at a huge station for $2.29 and I was the only vehicle there. 9MM went from $11 to $20 a box and now is back to $12. The lines of people at $20 have given way to the yawns at $12.

A lot of hoarding is the nature that people follow crowd behavior and want what the crowd does and avoids things out of fashion. That's why you buy straw hats in September. Crowd behavior and this too shall pass.

You do know he is right. Stop buying this high priced ammo and the price will fall. But people keep buying it at inflated prices. I have not bought a round since 2010. As long as people keep buying it, manufacturing will keep making it and selling it at these higher prices. And we all sit around and P &moan about these prices.

 

[murphy1244]

You do know he is right. Stop buying this high priced ammo and the price will fall. But people keep buying it at inflated prices. I have not bought a round since 2010. As long as people keep buying it, manufacturing will keep making it and selling it at these higher prices. And we all sit around and P &moan about these prices.

Last time I bought was at wally mart last year. Aint seen it since. I should of bought 2 boxes?

 

[C4Ranch]

Used up 50 yesterday trying out my new dueling tree.

http://youtu.be/_muTXKFFHOY

 

[k0ua]

Used up 50 yesterday trying out my new dueling tree.

http://youtu.be/_muTXKFFHOY

Cool. I remember "in the day" when the wife and I practiced all the time. We would take our .22 pistols with 5 or 6 mags for each and never took less than 500 rounds with us for each session, never came back with any, and sometimes took a "brick" EACH! while one was shooting, the other was stuffing mags for their turn. we used those plastic "thumbs" loaders to save our real thumbs.

We sure had a lot of fun, but those days seem to be gone by. Back then we were paying about $10 a brick. Cheaper than a movie for two even then.

 

[MoKelly]

Was in Bass Pro yesterday looking at kayaks.

Went to the ammo area. No 22's anywhere. Asked the clerk and he laughed.

Amazing to me how long this has lasted.

MoKelly