Here ya go...22lr ammo!

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Hey Rondog, I fondly remember going into the Western Auto store at age 9 back in 1961 and paying $0.29 for a box of 22 shorts. We plinked and hunted squirrels with them. Funny they never asked me why a 9 year old needed ammo. I can assure you guys, life was indeed much better back then. I would go back in a heartbeat, but this time I will find the money to buy Garands for $79.95 and new M1-carbines for $59.95.
 
LGS in Houma La had a special 50 rd boxes of aquila mexican 22LR for only $7.99. i'll use a freaking sling shot before I pay that much for 22 ammo.

hell i bought 100rd paccks of ccI mini mags for 9.99 earlier this year at the same store!!

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wgaynor - those are nice prices considering. Up here in Illinois near St. Louis, a regional discournt store called Rural King is selling Winchester 555 bulk for $53/box! :what::cuss:
Two Walmarts in this area never have any that I've seen in 11 months.
 
That's why I rarely by ammo at Rural King. Since this mess started, they've been very high on prices. Only thing I've bought there recently was buckshot.

The .22lr ammo that is available here is usually advertised on Fridays andgone by mid day Monday. Still not bad for those that don't have time to camp out in front of Walmart every morning.
 
Just who in the supply chain is ripping us off? Has the raw material that these .22RF are made of gone up in cost that much? Is this just a reaction to the anti-gun rhetoric of Obama and the media. Someone or group is making a real killing and I hope they choke on it before this is over.
 
Just like popcorn at the movie theatre or beer at the major league stadiums....as long as fools are willing to pay, the price will stay inflated. The problem is in the supply chain alright; it is the consumer at the end of the chain.
 
I'll start buying .22LR again when I don't have to be notified of its stock status by flash web announcement. That may mean I end up never getting .22 again due to the 'new normal', but so be it. I'm not paying $0.20/round for it in today's environment. I've been priced out of the market.
 
Why pay .20/rd. for .22LR when you can buy 7.62x54R for the same price, provided that .22LR is not your only type of gun?

One can always go find a decent MN 91/30 for approx. $200 or less.
 
I got an email from some online company that they had some .22lr ammo for $29.99 for a 325 count box. I'm not going to pay that but I went to the website just to check it out and they had a limit of 2 boxes and shipping was about $13 for my area so I could get 650 rounds for $73 or so. That comes to over $.11 per round.
The really funny thing to me was that they had it listed on sale with a "regular price" of $49.99!!! I understand that regular can be whatever they say it is, their house their rules, and I exercised my right to not buy the stuff, my money my choice.

They will probably be sold out within an hour.
 
Today I bought a 1,000 round black box of Winchester for $49. Big R in Warsaw, IN. They had about 20 boxes, though four sold just while I was there.

Keep checking. It's starting to get a lot better. This is the third place I've seen .22's in the past week or so, but this was by far the best price
 
anyone, with 1/2 of a brain, would let the "cheap" plinking ammo sit and rot. and pay the high dollar for competition target ammo. I mean if you HAVE to pay the long dollar to shoot, you might as well shoot the good stuff!
 
Jeez, it's been so long since I've even seen a box of Mini-Mags I was tempted for a moment.... But just for a moment.

Like I've posted before, I have a Sig Mosquito that runs perfectly on Mini-Mags but not so well on other stuff, so yes it was tempting.
 
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