.22lr MEGATHREAD

If a person wants to take his grandson out shooting and he has zero 22 shells then what difference does it make how much he pays for a box of ammo.

If a person pays $20 a round for Thunderbolts and buys 2,500 rounds because he was too lazy to look around that is his problem.

I understand overpaying for something that you are out of or need desperately but overpaying to stock up is just plain crazy. It is available online for $40 a brick. Buy two bricks at this high price and shoot one of them. That way you still have ammo available but you aren't desperate and can wait until a better deal pops up then load in a little extra. I get alerts nearly every day from online companies at less than $.06 per round.

Only speculation here: but if anyone bought a stockpile at the elevated prices and the market shifts back to $20-25 a brick would you kick yourself for paying the higher prices?

My thoughts are that I enjoy hunting/shooting and the outdoors so I will pay (if I have to) up to $6 a box to enjoy myself, granted I will probably shoot less but shooting is still way cheaper than therapy...

On another note, my local shop had 50ct "boxes" of ammo in ziploc baggies. Apparently they were breaking open bulk packs and repackaging. Anyone ever seen this before?

spazzy said:

Only speculation here: but if anyone bought a stockpile at the elevated prices and the market shifts back to $20-25 a brick would you kick yourself for paying the higher prices?

My thoughts are that I enjoy hunting/shooting and the outdoors so I will pay (if I have to) up to $6 a box to enjoy myself, granted I will probably shoot less but shooting is still way cheaper than therapy...

On another note, my local shop had 50ct "boxes" of ammo in ziploc baggies. Apparently they were breaking open bulk packs and repackaging. Anyone ever seen this before?

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I doubt (and hope) that nobody is buying a "stockpile" at elevated prices. When they get their hands on well priced ammo, sure, buy it up, but the high prices...most people seem to only buy what they intend to shoot in the short term.

I haven't personally seen breaking the bulk up into bags but I have read about it. It seems a lot of shooters only need/want a small amount at a time when pricing is higher plus the store can service more of it's clientele with any given amount of ammo this way.

My Cabela's Win brick showed up today.........ammo is in fine shape, the wood box is completely splintered.........ugg.....Cabela's gave me $7 credit. Not happy.

thirty-ought-six said:

Cabela's won't ship to IL on a online order, it must be called in.

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Well that sucks! There is some quirky stuff with Illinois.

Ron

This scares me...

The Sportsman's Guide has gone from having 13 types of expensive 22 LR bullets in stock to...SIX in a matter of 2 weeks.

This means they ran out of stock on more expensive ammo.

no need to don the tin foil just yet.

plenty of pricey 22lr left on the market- and some sorta decently priced

http://www.gunbot.net/ammo/rimfire/22lr/

Pretty sure even CCI doesn't ship direct to the Walmart in Monroe, Lake Stevens, Bellevue, etc....

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I work for a company that sells toiletry items to Wal-Mart, Target, etc. Nobody ships direct to Wal-Mart stores with the exception of products that are sold regionally.

thirty-ought-six said:

The Sportsman's Guide has gone from having 13 types of expensive 22 LR bullets in stock to...SIX in a matter of 2 weeks.

This means they ran out of stock on more expensive ammo.

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This was definitely worth making a thread about.

T06, It seems like every .22 shortage post I see has your name on it! Nut up and spend the extra 10 bucks to get some .22 shipped or from an individual! It is just money and your gun is useless without it. You have spent well more than ten bucks worth of time posting about how you can't find ammo at pre-SH prices. Chances are you won't. Pay a 10-20 buck premium and shoot now, or store that gun away until you find a reasonably priced brick in the stores a month or year or two from now. Seems like a no brainer.

FYI, I see quite a few 22 lots on IL armslist for 8-10 cents a round.

Warp said:

Not everybody is internet/WWW savvy enough to know all of the ins and outs and where to look and when. And sometimes people overlook the shipping price when they hit the bid button and then cannot take it back. Believe it or not sometimes a person makes a small mistake like that

But you linked Remington subsonic, 500 round brick, from a top-25 seller with an FFL. Can you link where is it available from a known-good, reputable seller, in stock, for less than the Gunbroker price of $46 + $20 shipping.

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I have some links to cabelas that lets me search 10 skus at a Time. I have about 25 22lr skus. By the time the ammo sites get it it is too late. I got 3000 rounds from cabelas 2 weeks ago and about 600 from gander mountain shipped for $5 at around the same time. About 7 cents avg because a lot were minimags

thirty-ought-six said:

Got a wikiarms alert. Cabela's has remmy for 26.99 a brick.

Shows: IN STOCK.

I call to place an order "oh thats out of stock". Really? It shows in stock on your web page?

So I ask if I could back order it, nope.

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txblackout said:

I have some links to cabelas that lets me search 10 skus at a Time. I have about 25 22lr skus. By the time the ammo sites get it it is too late. I got 3000 rounds from cabelas 2 weeks ago and about 600 from gander mountain shipped for $5 at around the same time. About 7 cents avg because a lot were minimags

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Mini Mags are worth more (IMO), 7-8 cents each was the old price when buying boxes of 100 or whatever.

Cabela's had a nice 'back door' a little while back for the 'Swamp People' mini mags and CCI AR Tactical or whatever they are called at about that price...good deals.

From reading many of these posts, I need to ask a question.
I have "XX" boxes of Winchester Wildcat .22LR (500) LRN that has been in an airtight box in my garage for several years (I don't shoot as much anymore) and wonder what they are worth.
Got any suggestions on their value?

Depending on if the amount would make it worthwhile, I'd put it up for auction and let the market decide what it was worth..... or find a kid who can't find .22 ammo at all, and sell it to him at a fair price, and in such a case, I "personally" would consider "fair" a bit cheaper than what its going for retail.

Actually, you can find a deal like that. Chip in with your shooting buddies and buy a case from one of the major distributors. I've done that 4 times (SK & Fed 711b in the past few months and quite a few over the years. Everyone's afraid of putting $400-$600 on their credit card, but...I've never been stuck with an unpaid-for surplus. Buying SK or Wolf for less than the only marginally accurate .22 ammo at your local store is the way to go. It just takes teamwork.
-dozo46

JTHunter said:

From reading many of these posts, I need to ask a question.
I have "XX" boxes of Winchester Wildcat .22LR (500) LRN that has been in an airtight box in my garage for several years (I don't shoot as much anymore) and wonder what they are worth.
Got any suggestions on their value?

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I figure it this way, they are worth what someone is willing to pay for them, no more and no less. You can always look at the auction boards and see what people are paying. Figure what you have in them and what you would like to get for them and see what happens.

To someone sitting on 20,000 or 30,000 rounds they likely are worth a little over what you paid for them, to someone having little to none they are likely worth more.

Ron

I figure it this way, they are worth what someone is willing to pay for them, no more and no less. You can always look at the auction boards and see what people are paying. Figure what you have in them and what you would like to get for them and see what happens.

To someone sitting on 20,000 or 30,000 rounds they likely are worth a little over what you paid for them, to someone having little to none they are likely worth more.

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Aren't you glad your local grocery doesn't work this way?

Furthermore Walmart doesn't work this way.

jcwit said:

Aren't you glad your local grocery doesn't work this way?

Furthermore Walmart doesn't work this way.

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Yeah, but my local grocery and Walmart are retail stores selling new and fresh products.

So what is a brick of Winchester Super X (500 rounds) worth in Southwestern IL?

Just for the heck of it let's have a mock test.

What would you pay for a brick of Winchester .22 LR Super X 500 Rounds, anyone?

Ron

Reloadron said:

Yeah, but my local grocery and Walmart are retail stores selling new and fresh products.

So what is a brick of Winchester Super X (500 rounds) worth in Southwestern IL?

Just for the heck of it let's have a mock test.

What would you pay for a brick of Winchester .22 LR Super X 500 Rounds, anyone?

Ron

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For me, $35 shipped. If my grandson needed it and there were no alternatives, $75 - maybe more.

jcwit said:

Aren't you glad your local grocery doesn't work this way?

Furthermore Walmart doesn't work this way.

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If we lived in times where groceries were scarce as hen's teeth, then they, too, would be valued exactly the same way.

Which means if you grew your own vegetables and raised your own farm animals in a time of famine and such, YOUR vegetables and livestock would have IMMENSE value...and people would crave and covet them very much indeed. And it wouldn't matter what Walmart and other stores would sell such for...people would go through great expense to obtain what you had...whether by fair or foul means.

Federal AutoMatch $18.99 plus $5.95 shipping at Cabelas

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Shooting/Ammunition/Rimfire-Ammunition|/pc/104792580/c/104691780/sc/104536080/Federal-Auto-Match-22-LR-Ammunition/753211.uts?WTz_l=SBC;BRcms482;cat104536080&avad=48247_b7ee2f81&WT.mc_id=al35987&rid=12&WT.tsrc=AFF

^^^These are still in stock as of 10:00 AM. I have purchased quite a bit of this ammo over the past two months and it runs fine. Cabela's limits you to one box so shipping is a bit high. Midway has been allowing 3 boxes per order.

I almost bought a box. Then I stopped.

I have plenty of .22LR.

Others CAN do the same, leave it for the folks who actually need .22LR.

Federal Automatch

I see this ammo in every gun shop in my area.

Price ranges from $22 -$25 per box. No limit.

Pick one up every once in awhile.

duded said:

Almost nobody "needs" .22lr

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People who can't afford sufficient practice or training using centerfire 'need' rimfire. New shooters, particularly women and children (men too, put the manliness thing aside, new shooter is new shooter), can greatly benefit to starting with rimfire as well.

duded said:

it's just for fun, and you can have tons of fun with airsoft and lead pellet airguns. So just stop with the .22 shooting. Set up to cast bullets at 500+ slugs per hour (sized and lubed) and a similar rate to reload your brass. You will never regret having done so. You can easily make that gear pay for itself in a month, if you'll contact your local IPSC and IDPA guys, and if you 'mine" the dirt berms at your local outdoor ranges for the scrap lead. Yes, the setup cost is nearly 1k, but you can always make it pay you $20 per hour, if you try.

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Not everybody wants to (or has time to) reload, let alone go the whole nine yards with mining lead to cast bullets.