22lr prices

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Hoyte said:
When you’re able to find it, how much is 22 lr going for these days? Seems like around where I’m at theyre bumping it up to 20-25 cents a round. I was pretty surprised, I hadn’t been paying attention to prices lately.
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Bought 333 round brick for $24 about 2 weeks ago..Cabelas.
 
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1KPerDay said:
The supply ISN’T there. Factories are putting out more than ever but demand has quadrupled and everyone who didn’t stock up when it WAS cheap and available a year ago has now shot up their last .22LR (or is a new shooter who bought a new gun and has nothing to feed it) and will pay whatever price they have to to get more. I haven’t bought any .22 in 6 months, and I paid “normal” prices for the three bricks I got then, but I also haven’t seen any on local shelves since then. And I check frequently. There is ZERO .22 locally and hasn’t been for many weeks. There is zero ammunition of any popular caliber. If you get lucky and don’t have a job and can be there early when the truck comes in you might get your pittance/allotment. 28 gauge shotgun and a box of .38 Super was all that was available last time I checked.
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Where's 'there'??

Yup, nothing local, some here and there but..

https://www.wikiarms.com/group/22LR

But I'd like to know how these places seem to get the preference from ammo manufacturers and distributors compared to even BIG buyers like Cableas/BassPro, etc.
 
reloaded_in_pa said:
A LGS I seldom stop at had Remington Thunderbolts, $95.00 a brick. Now I remember why I don't stop there often.
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We hate to see these crazy prices, but if the price was significantly less, you likely would never have seen the ammo. At some point, it will become a Dutch auction, where prices are high and will gradually come down to move product, which is the only way a retailer can survive.
 
Last month I bought a Federal Range Ammo 22LR 40 grain LRN, 800 rounds for $48.00 & tax. That was at the local Academy Sports.
 
My Academy hasn't had any ammo for 5-6 months now; the word is the same group shows up and waits for hours on ammo delivery day and gets what they're allowed to flip it.
 
Last time I bought 22lr I paid $23 brick. That was about a month ago. I'm not going to pay anymore than that. It's not a supply issue. They are putting out more than ever. It's the people that hoard it up and sell at rediculous prices and the idiot's that buy. Don't do it. Let them sit on it. Same with all the other ammo.
 
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One of the local shops tells me that the same group of people are there everyday an hour before the store opens waiting to buy every primer that they can. The clerk told me that there are as many as 20 vehicles with multiple people in each vehicle in the parking lot an hour before the store opens.
Shop has a limit of 200 primers per day per person and they still sell out within an hour most days.
 
375supermag said:
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One of the local shops tells me that the same group of people are there everyday an hour before the store opens waiting to buy every primer that they can. The clerk told me that there are as many as 20 vehicles with multiple people in each vehicle in the parking lot an hour before the store opens.
Shop has a limit of 200 primers per day per person and they still sell out within an hour most days.
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This is the real goings on. The Cabela's here has started putting ammo out at odd times. I just bought a bulk pack of 9mm, a few days earlier a bulk pack of .45ACP and then Friday five packs of CCI MMs and all at normal retail. And these "same old guys" are the ones I see sitting behind the tables at the gun show Saturday with $$$$$ on the ammo they got at Academy et al. STOP feeding the monster, do not buy from resellers.

These "gun shows" have turned into a venue for resellers to gouge people. Please stop paying these old "f--ts" to hang out in retail brick and mortar parking lots buying everything up. Gun shows used to be a good thing, lot's of show specials and great diversity of guns, new and old and collectable. Now they have become outlets for junk firearms nobody would want and a place for gougers to sell off their store bought ammunition and supplies. STOP.
 
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Yep, those folks are gouging, when YOU do not want to pay the high price; but then we always hear about how someone made a great profit selling his XYZ gun he bought cheap. Go ahead and spend a few days sitting at a gun show starting several hundred in debt for table rent, motel and meals and them competing against everyone else there trying to make a buck. When you calculate the cost and attach a value to your time, most wind up losing money
 
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Mars5l said:
Local store with a small range has 525rd boxes of Golden Bullets for $130. Yea I'll pass. Only one small store in my area doesn't have over inflated pricing. I bought a 1400rd Bucket O Bullets for $80. Im well stocked but always looking to replenish what I shoot. I was nice enough to give a few small boxes to cowokers that just bought .22 guns.
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I bought 15 of those bucket o bullets awhile back. Thought about selling some. $.10 a round without a box. $.25 a round with a box.
George P said:
My Academy hasn't had any ammo for 5-6 months now; the word is the same group shows up and waits for hours on ammo delivery day and gets what they're allowed to flip it.
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My store have to be in line around 815. They open at 9. And most do turn around and try to make money. Retirees doing most. Some unemployment folks.
 
Guy at mine said the lines start 3-4 hours before opening time. Academy and Walmart could ease this issue by simply restricting quantities and raising prices to market pricing; the scalpers would stop immediately.
 
Last week, one of my LGS got 1000 50ct. boxes of Blazer 40 gr. priced at $4.99/bx/50. Put them on the shelf 2/bx per person limit per sale and yes you could go to your car and return for more (within reason). No internet sales walk-in only.
Today, nearly one week later I just checked their website at 1:55PM and they still have 595 boxes left.
 
My .22 LR emergency stash is a .30 cal GI ammo can with five 100 round boxes Winchester Super-X hollowpoints, five 100 round boxes repacked Federal high velocity hollowpoints, three 100 round boxes CCI Standard Velocity target and three 100 round boxes CCI Mini Mag round nose solids.

I'll part with them for [pinkie finger to corner of mouth ala Dr. Evil] one million dollars. Mini-Me (my cat Turbo) is holding out for two million ... kitty treats.

(I will only buy ammo between election year panicks. And only at prices I consider reasonable.)
 
Carl N. Brown said:
My .22 LR emergency stash is a .30 cal GI ammo can with five 100 round boxes Winchester Super-X hollowpoints, five 100 round boxes repacked Federal high velocity hollowpoints, three 100 round boxes CCI Standard Velocity target and three 100 round boxes CCI Mini Mag round nose solids.

I'll part with them for [pinkie finger to corner of mouth ala Dr. Evil] one million dollars. Mini-Me (my cat Turbo) is holding out for two million ... kitty treats.

(I will only buy ammo between election year panicks. And only at prices I consider reasonable.)
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I want to know how you fit all those 100 packs in a 30 cal can............no way I can fit 16 in mine
 
George P said:
Yep, those folks are gouging, when YOU do not want to pay the high price; but then we always hear about how someone made a great profit selling his XYZ gun he bought cheap. Go ahead and spend a few days sitting at a gun show starting several hundred in debt for table rent, motel and meals and them competing against everyone else there trying to make a buck. When you calculate the cost and attach a value to your time, most wind up losing money
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Okay, I will play. First, nobody is forcing anyone to buy a table at a gun show, if it is not profitable, do not do it. Second, purchasing a rifle and getting a good deal, deciding it is not a keeper and then selling it at a profit is not the same as hanging out in the various retail parking lots with numerous minions scattered to every brick and mortar store for the express purpose of grabbing up the supplies with the intention of gouging people at a gun show. If that makes one feel good then go ahead but I will not be standing in line to buy primers for $500 per box or .22LR ammo at $50 or a brick of A17HMR for $250 that I just bought at Gander for $39.
 
want 16 for 50 yet I just yesterday bought 250 round boxes of aguila copper coated hollow points locally for the exact same price.[/QUOTE]
 
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