What does .22LR cost in YOUR area?

BLU said:

Paladin7 has the right idea! My brother's ex works at the Federal ammunition plant. She says they're working 24/7 on all ammo types. The hoarders have got to be keeping the demand, therefore the prices, high. We will never get them to stop hoarding. When we don't buy because of the price, they just smile and think "Good! More for me!". Someday the prices will drop to a reasonable price and the hoarders will be sitting on hundreds of dollars worth of .22LR they paid thousands for!

Last week I bought a 100 pack of Remington for $9 + Illinois tax. That's flat out too much for a Remington .22.

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You need to direct your anger at the shooters. They are the ones destroying the .22lr ammo and, I'm pretty sure, at a much higher rate than these supposed "hoarders".

Maybe some of the anger should be directed at firearms manufacturers making popular semi auto .22lr products like the M&P 15-22, 10/22 ,etc...lots of ammo burned up in those things.

I've bought some 50 round boxes at Bass Pro and at Academy Sports in the last few months. IIRC, they were in the $2.19 - $2.39 range. 5 box limit.

Of course they often have the more expensive match ammo as well and it stays around a little longer. I'm gonna have to try some someday and see if it really is that much better.

I found a 1400 round bucket of the Remington "Bucket O' Bullets" Golden Bullets at Bass Pro for $75 around Christmas time. And I found another bucket of them at my LGS for about $89 a couple of months ago. My Ruger Mk II feeds and cycles that stuff just fine, so I buy it when I can.

Plus, I found a couple of 325 round bricks of Federal Auto-Match at my LGS for $20 each recently.

And Bass Pro seems to have 50 and 100 round boxes of CCI in stock from time to time, but it's usually priced at about $.10 per round.

I can buy bulk .22 for 6 cents a round in my area. And it's regularly available in stores.

325 packs of Federal were on sale at Dicks and Academy last week for ~$22.

I'm envious of some of those prices. Here in CA locally its about 10 cents/round. Our Walmart doesn't carry 22LR. I guess I'll have to buy more online in the future. Darn CA political idiots, they can surely ruin a State.

Maybe some of the anger should be directed at firearms manufacturers making popular semi auto .22lr products like the M&P 15-22, 10/22 ,etc...lots of ammo burned up in those things.

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I've been preaching this for a while (since it applies to me), but folks seem to ignore the explosion in semi-auto 22 firearm options over the last 3 to 4 years.

It finally seems to be sinking in with some folks, but I still see folks talking about buying a 50-rd. box (or maybe even TWO) of 22.

Iff'n I was the type of fellow to turn my nose up, I'd do so if the only offerings on the shelf were 50-rd. boxes (specialty ammo aside).

If it ain't got at least 200 rounds / box, I ain't interested.

If the planets align just right and you happen to be in wal mart when that week's 2 333 round boxes show up, you can get one for $18 where I live.

I think the prices that have been posted here are the new normal. Those are pretty much the same we're paying here.

Local is same as OP, I get all mine from Wichita KS, when my buddy comes up to shoot on our 1000yd range he brings me a few bricks, 4-5 cents a shell. Maybe 5.5.

When I see .22LR for at or below .07/rd, I buy.
Doesn't happen often, but just often enough that I can still shoot some .22.

Above that price, I pass. That's just my personal "line in the sand". And the logic of that is based upon the fact that I load .38 Spl, .45acp, 9mm and .380 for about .12/rd.

I posted these prices from my local gun shop about 2 months ago in a different thread...

Wrote down part of what he had - his suppliers have standing orders to send whatever 22 is available, but I think he's just about to change that standing request and specify only certain types / brands of 22 as he's about to be swamped.

Remington Thunderbolt $29.99 / brick
Winchester M*22 $29.99 / brick
Federal AutoMatch $19.99 / 325 rds.
American Eagle $29.99 / brick
Blazer $29.99 / brick
CCI Standard Velocity Price / brick unknown, as his invoice will probably arrive tomorrow in another box of the order from the same vendor - probably either $39.99, $34.99, or $29.99 based on past history.
CCI Stinger $9.99 / 100
CCI MiniMag $9.99 / 100
Winchester SuperX $9.99 / 100

He had a few other flavors, but I didn't write those down.

Do NOT overpay, folks...

Last times ive I've purchased 22LR......

22LR thunderbolt 40gr 500 rnd $34.99 from Turner's Outdoorsman 9/20/15 ..06/round


22LR super x winchester 40gr. high velocity $10.99 at Turner's Outdoorsman on 9/20/15 .10/round

Before that , i tried ordering online through Brownells
$76/500 round brick .15/round -brownells(11-6-14) ci brand from Mexico. High velocity. It was good.

And I'm from L.A.

(Note: i dont shoot much 22 because its hard to get)

Lou_the_welder said:

Last times ive I've purchased 22LR......

22LR thunderbolt 40gr 500 rnd $34.99 from Turner's Outdoorsman 9/20/15 ..06/round


22LR super x winchester 40gr. high velocity $10.99 at Turner's Outdoorsman on 9/20/15 .10/round

Before that , i tried ordering online through Brownells
$76/500 round brick .15/round -brownells(11-6-14) ci brand from Mexico. High velocity. It was good.

And I'm from L.A.

(Note: i dont shoot much 22 because its hard to get)

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That's sounds about the same as the Turners in Corona too.

I was there 2 days ago and they had CCI Quite's and that it. Sometimes they have Ely Match at $10 per 50.

Sometime around Q3 last year I stumbled upon real minimags there at about .10 ea.


Welcome to THR, Lou.

danez71 said:

That's sounds about the same as the Turners in Corona too.

I was there 2 days ago and they had CCI Quite's and that it. Sometimes they have Ely Match at $10 per 50.

Sometime around Q3 last year I stumbled upon real minimags there at about .10 ea.


Welcome to THR, Lou.

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Ugh! That Ely Match. I used to buy 9mm boxes at those prices!

I feel ur pain. I only have a 10/22 that i use for them and i hardly shoot it now. Ive now conformed to this lack of availability. ....i used to own three .22 Semi-autos and have gotten rid of them. I dont have the want/need for another .22 again. !

......and thank you.

I had the .22 psychosis up to about a year ago; would buy a couple of boxes every time I saw them available. It was like a drug that I had to have; then I talked myself down from the disease when I finally realized that I would not shoot the supply I had for five lifetimes. Now I can walk by them without even the slightest urge to buy. In turn, I sighted my Kimber CC in about ten years ago - I get the urge to shoot it about once a year - first couple of clips always stack on top of each other at 50 yards - same old stuff - boring to shoot. So now I have "enough" .22 rounds and my addiction is gone - I feel better now. Good shooting.

1000 rounds of remington .22 im my area is 99.95+tax

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For love of God I do not understand why there was and still is shortage of .22 rimfire ammo. Is it because it can not be reloaded or people are massively turning to eating squirrel stew? I don't get it.

$0.9/round here for CCI standard velocity give or take. CCI Mini Mags (what my 1911 conversion eats) are about $0.11 when available. Same as online.

PabloJ said:

For love of God I do not understand why there was and still is shortage of .22 rimfire ammo. Is it because it can not be reloaded or people are massively turning to eating squirrel stew? I don't get it.

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For better or worse, people buy it for survival/collapse "prepping" in multi-thousand-round quantities. As more and more people have become convinced the US is coming apart at the seams, demand has gone and stayed through the roof even at elevated prices.

Then shortages make people who would normally just buy what they need like myself think about buying a few thousand rounds so I don't run out next panic.

Here in Stillwater, Okie-Land,,,

Here in Stillwater, Okie-Land,,,
All in the last 5 weeks:

$7.99/100 for CCI Mini Mag 40 grain RN.
$19.95/400 for Federal American Eagle 36 Grain HP.
$27.50/525 for Remington Golden Bullet.

These were all purchased at our Academy Sports,,,
Lately they are the only place to find .22 LR.

Aarond

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I really can't say, I never see any. Wal-Mart has a price tas on an empty shelves. Winchester 333 rounds for $19.95, 50 rounds CCI Stinger for $8.39, CCI Mini-Mags $9.95/100 and,a few more I don't remember exactly.

I bought 2 cases of cci sv when it was $20 per brick and use it for bullseye. I have pay $17-23 for fed auto match to avoid using the cci for other stuff. I won't pay over 6 cents a round.


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