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rimfire ammo
gknives
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Why is it so hard and expensive to find 22 rimfire ammo makes it hard on old grampas with gran kids , surly the manufactures have had ample time to catch up...
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I'll help a gramps out - grafs has SK Magazine in stock. Good quality target ammo in a bulk pack, 1k rounds for just under 100 with shipping.
Plenty of 22 ammo out there if you want to take your grandkids shooting. Likely it's going to set you back between $7.00 & $10.00 for a 50 round box though, unfortunately.
Cast bullets in my Jet or 222 make for cheap shooting.
Rimfires? Not on shleves here since December.
http://www.GunBroker.com/All/BI.aspx?IncludeSellers=1074776
There has also been a huge influx of new gun owners this year. Many who probably bought a .22 and a few bricks of ammo, and many will never fire a shot out of them.
This place also sells a lot of ammo. http://www.selwayarmory.com/
they started out in a garage and now have a nice shop in Missoula, MT
bricks in the wood boxes...got my one brick limit(29.99). They also
had CCI standard velocity 100 rd packs for 8.69. Those were still on
shelf when i left. Went a block down to Gander, they had 10 box limit
of CCI standard velocity, and no takers($5 for 50 rds).....and not
many customers there.
-Obama's early 2nd term push for gun control started a second "panic", depleting supplies of both guns AND ammo. Note that the exact same thing happened four years ago the first time Obama got elected, its just been worse this time around.
-More shooters now than ever before, and new shooters usually like .22LR. In general, .22LR is by FAR the most popular type of ammo, and therefore the hardest to keep supplied.
Also, sport, or recreational shooters who can't get other calibers of ammo will gravitate towards cheaper .22LR to get some practice in, increasing demand of it relative to normal.
-Bad economy and general unrest means more people stocking up on ammo for defense and survival purposes.
-Panic feeds on itself. When the shelves are empty or nearly so, people who don't necessarily "need" the ammo will buy up anything they see, worsening the problem.
But eventually the problem will let up. It did last time, it will this time, and we're already seeing the earliest signs of it.
Semi-auto *GUNS* that were sold off the shelves and completely unavailable six months ago, are now readily available. I actually saw three Colt AR-15s on the rack in a Walmart a few weeks ago.
7.62x39 and other ammo types that were completely unavailable six months ago are available now.
Even .22LR is starting to let up a *LITTLE* bit, as earlier posts in this thread show.
In six more months, I think the supply/demand curves will normalize with supply and prices returning close to pre-panic levels.