[popeye]

I was going to buy some bulk packed .22's yesterday. Sir prize sir prize sir prize. They are Obamaficated also. I found some cb's to shoot out of my H&R sportsman. Also some expensive target stuff. That's about it. When's everbody gonna relax?

[SharpsDressedMan]

Popeye, had you made it to the store earlier, you'd be as relaxed as us early birds! I stocked up in October when McCain killed his own campaign. He was perhaps the most boring candidate we have had in a long while. Too many people voted for the "more interesting" candidate. We got "change", alright. Ammo shopping changed into a nightmare.

[Hostile Amish]

I've got enough .22 to last me a lifetime. When you can, buy any and all bulk.

You'll thank yourself later.

[Magichelmt]

Saturday I was in Wally world and they had 5 boxes of 550 round bulk .22 ammo. I bought 2 boxes. .22 is all I have been shooting here as of late.

[pps]

Wally world had 6 boxes (or so I thought) of 22lr left on the shelf last week. I bought them all. Came back a half hour later and 6 more appeared...Bought them all too.

Our local wally world, when they do get ammo in, they only put out enough boxes for the "one daily purchase" allowed. That was the first time since Dec that I saw 22lr in any of my local stores. 22lr is the bulk of what I shoot these days, though I just got 5k more primers in exchange for some cast bullets I made for my buddy who had bought primers in bulk during the Klinton regime.

[SaxonPig]

Like all ammo and components, 22 rim fire ammo is in short supply and prices are sky high. The best thing for all of us to do is conserve and wait for supply to overtake demand. If we keep buying Hell bent for leather, supplies will remain short and prices will remain high.

[popeye]

I've been aware of the center fire ammo problem for months. It seemed like the Cabela's down the street from me had gillions of .22 bulk packs. Only reason I had any concern was the other day when I bought my $630 model 15 (from another shop) I heard two of the guys there talking about their .22 shortage. So I go Cabelas and the mountain of bulk pack .22 is gone. Buy your BB's now. What's next?

[popeye]

SaxonPig: "Like all ammo and components, 22 rim fire ammo is in short supply and prices are sky high. The best thing for all of us to do is conserve and wait for supply to overtake demand. If we keep buying Hell bent for leather, supplies will remain short and prices will remain high.ig:"

Exactly right. With more 1st gun purchasers out there (because of a similar panic) it's gonna get worse unless we establish a game plan.

[bflobill_69]

Geesh finding ammo for anything here in Northcentral Arizona has been hit or miss... leaning heavily toward the miss as of late!

Bflobill69

[moewadle]

at least for .22. I live near a major mall in Eastern Iowa that has a Scheels Sporting Goods store (22 store chain from Montana to Wiscsonsin.) Today, Monday of a three day weekend, near the end of a 3 day weekend that should have brought a lot people to the mall Scheels still had quite a few 500 rd bricks of Federal .22 LR in copper clad hollow point 38 grain and in regular lead 40 grain. I figured that with people hunting ammo and hoarding nothing would be available today but it was. I am guessing no deliveries were made today because it is Memorial Day. I passed on the ammo because I have 3000 rounds of .22 LR and that is probably way more than I need in this caliber.

[searcher451]

I haven't seen any bulk packs of .22lr in my neck of the woods for weeks and weeks now. I was able to pick up Stingers and Mini-mags without much of a problem until about three weeks ago; then those, too, dried up. I spent the weekend searching for ammo of any stripe and scored one box of .32 Winchester WB (a guy behind me in line at WallyWorld was none too pleased about it, either). The only .22 I could find was .22 short.

It's nuts out there. As Pogo Possum so eloquently stated so many years ago, "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

[Deltaboy]

It has been in short supply in my neck of Texas

[popeye]

It may be time to mount a bayonet on my K22. If I have to go " over the top with no ammo".

[Colton White]

Academy usually has some of the Winchester bulk and it shoots perty good most of my guns like it. unlike federal!!!

[popeye]

I found some bulk Remington for 22.50 tax included. 6 mos. ago I paid 12.50.

[GUNKWAZY]

My local shop has 22's but only because the are now $32 & $35 a brick :cuss:


Jeff (GUNKWAZY)

[Frag Daddy]

i cleaned out a cliset the other day and found a box of 400 Fed. 22LR HP. the price tag was $10.00. ohhhh memories. i haven't found any bulk 22 round here (east TN) in a while

[moewadle]

right now. There seems to be plenty of bricks of 22LR in Iowa and South Michigan. I stopped at Wal-Mart in Kalamazoo and Wal-Mart has Remington Gold Plate .22 LR for $16.97 for a bulk pack of 550. The Wal-Mart in Battle Creek had Federal for under $14. I was in Guns Galore in Fenton Michigan and they have Winchester Wildcat .22 LR for $30 a brick but you should not have to pay that price to get .22 LR in this area of Michigan. Iowa various locations has .22 LR for like $20 a brick.

[krs]

And my wife thought that I'd gone crazy when big wooden boxes full of cases of .22 ammo from CMP arrived over a span of weeks in early 2008 for no particular reason except I thought that their price was pretty good for match ammo.

65,000 rounds of .22 lr - if I could figure the stock market so well I'd be drinking with Warren Buffett these days.

[Tiomoid]

Seems .22LR is all that can be found on the shelves around here. I've been plinking with the two-two for the past few months. Can't find the "fun" calibers.