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rimfire ammo

gknivesgknives Member Posts: 49 ✭✭
edited July 2013 in Ask the Experts
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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  • llamallama Member Posts: 2,637 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Because millions of folks are still buying whatever they can afford.

    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.
  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    All kinds of it around, unfortunately the scalpers are pedalling it for big bucks. I use to buy the crappy Remington Thunderbolts from Wally World, for $21.00 a brick including tax. Recently a dealer told me he sells it in case lots for $50.00 a brick. You do the math.

    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.
  • charliemeyer007charliemeyer007 Member Posts: 6,572 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The local Sportsman's Warehouse recently had 525 round bricks of Remington Golden bullets for $28 out the door (1 brick a day limit). I tried some in my High Standard Military. 100% functional as opposed to my old American Eagle that were $8 per 400 from years ago. CCI are my first choice but haven't seen any lately.

    Cast bullets in my Jet or 222 make for cheap shooting.
  • Riomouse911Riomouse911 Member Posts: 3,492 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I went by Wal Mart and a local gun store today...Wal Mart bare, and they only allowed me 3 boxes of 20 gauge shotshells. The other place had a few .223 and 7.62x39 20 round boxes, however plenty of shotshells. I filled my future trap shooting needs on 16 and 28 gauge.

    Rimfires? Not on shleves here since December.
  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
  • ruger41ruger41 Member Posts: 14,665 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    www.wikiarms.com has up to the minute ammo quantity and price of many places. Just going to Wallyworld to buy ammo or even the local gunshop isn't going to work in every locale anymore. And I REFUSE to pay some of the ridiculous prices out there.

    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
  • JimmyJackJimmyJack Member Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When you pay the gougers prices you just make the problem worse. It gives them incentive to buy up all they can get to resell at high prices. Wait them out! I got a brick of 525 from Fleet Farm last week for $19.95. More is coming.
  • gartmangartman Member Posts: 660 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Think this has become a "bubble market". The investors and scalpers have to keep buying all the ammo they can in order to maintain the artificial shortage. Has to collapse in a complete meltdown eventually.
  • thorhammerthorhammer Member Posts: 977 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was at Cabela's Saturday morning.......they had a dozen Winchester

    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.
  • beantownshootahbeantownshootah Member Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The answer is complicated, but in a nutshell:

    -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.
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