.22 LR -- Lack of Availability -- Maybe I'll Just Sell ALL of Mine!!

[Mike1234567]

I REALLY did NOT intend to make this an "IT'S OKAY TO SCALP" thread... FAR TO THE CONTRARY!!

Those of you who think it's okay to take advantage... PLEASE LEAVE!!

 

[22-rimfire]

Mike, the answer to your mind numbing question is do whatever you want to. Find a good home for them with someone who needs them.

CZ223, the 40K before or after selling?

 

[WinThePennant]

Like I've said in other threads, we gun owners are to blame.

Why?

Because we get all hot and bothered when a retailer raises prices to meet demand. Cheaper Than Dirt, any one?

This "shortage" would end tomorrow if the free market price mechanism wasn't corrupted. Retailers are so terrified to raise prices because they fear a CTD type repercussion.

As it is, prices are not rising on the shelf. When price can't fluctuate, the feed back loop that goes all the way back to the manufacturer gets screwed up.

Raise the price on the shelf, and let the scalpers choke on it. They won't buy if the price is roughly the same that they could resell it for. With the higher prices, the supply backlog will fill. And, in relatively short time, the price will then DROP back to regular prices. None of this can happen as long as the shelf price remains stupidly low.

Given that prices won't rise, the best thing everyone can do right now is STOP BUYING .22 LR AMMO RTFN!!!

 

[CZ223]

I accumulated the 40K bullets and other reloading components over 15 or twenty years of reloading. I used to shoot a lot of silhouette matches and do a lot of target shooting. I bought whenever I found a good deal that I could afford. When I got into Cowboy action shooting all that stuff got left in the weeds. As a cowboy action shooter I was shooting as much as 600 rounds in a practice session and doing that up to 3 times a week. I bought lead bullets by the bushel it seems. Heck, at one point I was shooting 30 thousand rounds a year. I wonder what I would be called if I were do that now?

 

[ngnrd]

Mike - Your posts read like they were written by a petulant child. If you want out of the .22 game, fine. No announcement is necessary. Quit talking about it and just do it. Seriously, I don't see the point of this thread except to get attention.

 

[M2 Carbine]

Heck, at one point I was shooting 30 thousand rounds a year. I wonder what I would be called if I were do that now?

A good shot?

 

[SFreed]

Seriously, I don't see the point of this thread except to get attention

This. And now it's deteriorated into the ever popular "I'm not a scalper, it's called Free Enterprise", "It's because no manufacturers are shipping any" and "You should have been more prepared" thread. Soon to share in the same fate as the previous locked discussions.

 

[Jman53705]

Or you could....

Sell it to the father of a kid that is actually learning to shoot so he can go squirrel hunting with his dad. Sell it to him for what you paid for it plus the CPI increase over that period of time. Instant Karma! Looks like it cost around $.04 a round in mid 2011.

I think the guys that recommend holding out on buying more until prices return to normal have the right idea. If we don't actually need the ammo now, we can focus on other guns or other activities until the scalpers and gougers figure out that people won't pay and the business reverts to normal.

I would say that things are starting to ease just a little. Around here you can get 100 rounds for $10 to $12 at a retail gun shop if you are lucky enough to wander in while they still have a few boxes left. They go pretty fast. The online sites I checked recently were closer to $.13 a round and you had to pay shipping on top of that.

For an example of something even more insane than this, read about what happened to the price of tulip bulbs in Holland way back in the old days.

 

[SFreed]

Entirely too well thought out Jman.....Not the type of post that belongs in a 22 ammo thread!!

 

[SFreed]

And Welcome to THR!!

 

[raa-7]

I can understand why everyone is upset over the shortage but, I also know that many people "will" learn from this, and I know that this has been said over n over but Ya just gotta save some ammo for the bad times that's all. When I first started shooting back in the early seventies I used to just put away about 200 rounds of .22 LR and sometimes I would shoot that without re-stocking my stash but I quickly learned. These days it's a little different. What happens is that when Walmart and other places keep putting out plenty of ammo time after time, everyone gets comfortable thinking that it will always be there to buy and then you walk in one day and theres one box of .22 shot shell left and no hp's or RN or anything else left and then you keep checking back and then you start hearing about how there's no ammo of any kind to be bought ! So when the .22 LR starts to circulate well enough and the prices go back to normal,,,think about putting some emergency ammo away for when it happens again ! I won't post pictures of my .22 LR to shove in the faces of those who don't have any because I've been there ! Hang in there ! It will be back ! It's supply and demand ! We want it, they'll make it ! We'll buy it,but not for CraZy pRiCeS !

 

[frankenstein406]

Seems like people just don't want to change their shooting habits.

 

[Ringer]

So... should I sell my few thousand rounds of .22LR and get out completely for awhile? I can buy .223 Rem and shoot it for not that much more and... I can actually FIND it.

No way I'd sell it. For your few thousand rounds you get a few hundred dollars. You said you wanted to get another .22LR rifle. Spend a couple/few hundred on a rifle and start shooting up that ammo. If you run out sell the rifle or (preferably) wait out the ammo situation.

This seems like way too much stress over a few hundred dollars worth of ammo.

 

[splithoof]

This .22LR shortage has been a great tool to teach my teenagers about helping those who have less….When at our club, we sometimes see new members teaching young children to shoot, often with .22 caliber rifles/pistols. Most often they may only have a partial box, or even a very few rounds; at that point if they are friendly, we offer a new box and a suitable steel plinking target to use for the day. For this we only ask that they follow the four rules of gun safety, and to have fun and perhaps learn a few things about shooting. The reaction we have experienced has been 100% positive, and as a result we have come to know many new shooters, and feel that this is an opportunity to better the shooting community.

 

[Sam1911]

Jeez, scalpers, gougers, and fed up folks... again? :banghead:

Sell, don't sell. Shoot it, save it, or roll it up and smoke it.

WHO the FLIP CARES?

Need ammo? If you can find it for a price that does not exceed the value you'll get out of shooting it, buy some. If you can't find it for a price that's lower than the value to you of money just sitting in your account (or spent on other things) - don't buy it.

And the market will adjust to you and to everything everyone else is doing, eventually, and life will go on.

Truly, the ".22 shortage" (notice how we've stopped talking about a national ammo shortage? Yeah...) is far less bothersome than the endless wailing and gnashing of teeth it has promulgated here and elsewhere.