.22LR Ammo

[CCWKen]

I just bought five 100-round boxes of Winchester Super-X from Academy Sports online. (They had a 5-box limit.) I think it was $6.99/box on sale WITH FREE SHIPPING. They're copper plated 40gr. hollow points. It's hard to find .22 and even 9mm in-stock at any local outlet at any price. And the closest AS is about a 50-mile round trip for me. I've driven up to big city for a sale only to find out the shelves are bare. So when I see ammo I use on sale, I just order it. Sometimes whether I need it or not.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I just bought five 100-round boxes of Winchester Super-X from Academy Sports online. (They had a 5-box limit.) I think it was $6.99/box on sale WITH FREE SHIPPING. They're copper plated 40gr. hollow points. It's hard to find .22 and even 9mm in-stock at any local outlet at any price. And the closest AS is about a 50-mile round trip for me. I've driven up to big city for a sale only to find out the shelves are bare. So when I see ammo I use on sale, I just order it. Sometimes whether I need it or not.

That is so weird. Around here everybody is having sales on handgun ammo, from 9mm to .45 ACP. The rounds that seem to be in short supply are revolver rounds like .357, .44 special and .44 magnum. I assume the manufacturers are making hay off of the spray-and-pray crowd.

 

[vidio1]

Have you seen In stock ammo, guns, magazines, and reloading supplies

It's basically a search engine for ammo. If you pay attention to cost per round you might be surprised how much you're actually paying locally.

 

[Code54]

Not a lot of non lead .22's - the Winchester for $10 is fairly cheap for speciality. Never see it out here as it is not something people even talk about.

CCI Quiet is around $4 a box at Gander Mountain - nice and Quiet, decent amount of impact energy and decently accurate.

CCI Standard - $4 a box, very good round for the money - good accuracy out of most rifles.

Thunderbolts - cheap, mostly not too impressive in the accuracy dept.

Eley - expensive but good. Have some cheaper stuff roughly $6-7 a box that is decent. Match ammo runs around $20 a box but most high end rifles like it. Often considered one of the "best" match level ammo manufactures.

Best thing with .22's is buy 1 box of a lot of different types of ammo and see what your gun likes. .22's are generally pretty selective with the ammo they like and you may have a 2" group at 50 yards with one type and the next type you will have you a clover with 5 rounds. After you find what your gun likes, then buy in larger quantiles.

Today I was at a Cabelas, and a Dicks Sporting Goods and both had bunches of Ammo. Gander Mountains around us also had a decent selection. Finally seems we are past the "shortage."

 

[Weedy Fields]

It starts in California:

From:
Nonlead Ammunition in California

In October 2013, Assembly Bill 711 was signed into law requiring the use of nonlead ammunition when taking any wildlife with a firearm in California.

Bruce

Seeing as .22 ammo goes as fast as its put on the shelves if I was a manufacturer of the stuff I'd say screw manufacturing non lead .22.

 

[daugen]

Do animals really eat spent bullets???? Uh, no, not usually. Although there is some evidence (pretty weak evidence) that vultures can inadvertently eat a bullet from a carcass.
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Effective July 1, 2015, nonlead ammunition will be required when taking Nelson bighorn sheep and all wildlife on CDFW wildlife areas and ecological reserves.


Funny, what is it about Nelson bighorn sheep that California is so worried about; very first animal they wanted protected.


Phase 1 – Effective July 1, 2015, nonlead ammunition will be required when taking Nelson bighorn sheep and all wildlife on CDFW wildlife areas and ecological reserves.

Phase 2 – Effective July 1, 2016, nonlead shot will be required when taking upland game birds with a shotgun, except for dove, quail, snipe, and any game birds taken on licensed game bird clubs. In addition, nonlead shot will be required when using a shotgun to take resident small game mammals, furbearing mammals, nongame mammals, nongame birds, and any wildlife for depredation purposes.

Phase 3 – Effective July 1, 2019, nonlead ammunition will be required when taking any wildlife with a firearm anywhere in California.

 

[daugen]

btw the reviews on that Winchester lead free ammo were remarkably bad; here's an example of one poor California guy trying to use it:


September 15, 2015
Lead-Free. Also accuracy-free.
By12gaugeshotgun
Country: United States
State: California
Age: 36-45
Gender: Male
There is very little option for lead free .22lr on the market. The only reason to ever use this is for hunting in lead free zones, and even there you might be better off and more accurate throwing rocks at the squirrels. Groups are 10 times larger with this ammo than CCI minimags. I have no problems with it cycling the action on my 10/22. I just have problems with the bullets traveling same direction. No joke, there are tighter groupings out of my shotgun.

 

[bcp]

That's how it is safer for the animals.



Bruce

 

[dieselcrawler]

At cabelas today, 525 rounds of remington 22 hollow point was $35.

 

[bcp]

Funny, what is it about Nelson bighorn sheep that California is so worried about; very first animal they wanted protected.

Desert bighorn sheep - Wikipedia

Looks like the 2016 quota for hunters was 16, and 13 were killed. Think about how much lead that could have left lying around the state for something to eat.

Bighorn Sheep Hunting

Bruce