.22 Pistol Depression

[tuj]

Learn to shoot more expensive ammo and appreciate the quality. The high-end ammo's in 22lr didn't really change that much in price, just the low-end stuff. Even during the scare we were getting 22lr Eley Match and Fed. Gold Medal for fair prices.

Check out SK Pistol Match Special. Very accurate, very consistent velocities.

 

[Vodoun da Vinci]

Anybody else feel the same way?

Yup. I have a few .22's and have not shot them despite the fact that I have a few thousand rounds of .22 in a box. Thought about buying a .22 MP5 clone to shoot up some of the .22 and then priced it and what it would cost me to wait for MP5 clones in 9mm built under license by MKE and decided it was cheaper to wait for the 9mm and shoot reloads.

But then again I can't get pistol powder either so the .22 and those pistols will come in handy here this Summer when I'm out of powder and it's shoot .22 or stop shooting.

I have the depression as well. It just takes the fun out of plinking with .22 when I can reload center fire for the same price and I hope I'm wrong/proven wrong when I say I doubt we'll ever see cheap .22 again.

VooDoo

 

[mboylan]

The manufacturers haven't raised the price of 22 much more than inflation. If you are paying significantly more for 22, it is due to high demand and unavailability. That is not a permanent situation. All price bubbles eventually end.

 

[mboylan]

Learn to shoot more expensive ammo and appreciate the quality. The high-end ammo's in 22lr didn't really change that much in price, just the low-end stuff. Even during the scare we were getting 22lr Eley Match and Fed. Gold Medal for fair prices.

Check out SK Pistol Match Special. Very accurate, very consistent velocities.

Emphasis on the learn to shoot part. If you can't shoot under 3/4 inch at 150 feet, higher end ammo is a total waste.

 

[MCgunner]

Ammo is available here. Sometimes, twice actually, I've ordered it shipping free for decent prices. Price goes up and down from the places listed. I don't mind paying 8 cents a round for CCI or Aguila Super Extra, but not for Thunderbolt. I have enough ammo stash now that I can be picky what I order. I can wait when there's no bargains or free shipping. It delivers right to my door. I can get 2 boxes limit at Academy, they have ammo of various brands, but it's 60 miles from me. As soon pay shipping as gas for my truck. There is nothing at the Walmarts around me.

http://www.wikiarms.com/

 

[Zeke/PA]

I have a Ruger MK1 .22 that I bought over 50 years ago.
I also have a S&W .22-32 kit gun that I bought on consigment about 5 years ago.
My regreat is the parting of me and my K-frame .22 caliber. as I carried it on my trapline for several years.
I shot a nice big Doe one year with the pistol because I desperatly needed the meat.

 

[g.willikers]

Due to the ammo issues, even though they haven't been shot in a couple of years, my two .22s would be the last to go.
Modern airguns have replaced them for practice and fun, but .22s are just too downright useful to ever get rid of.

 

[Tanshanomi]

I don't shoot my .22s any less because of cost issues, and availability doesn't seem to be a problem right now. My LGS seems to be able to keep plenty in stock, and I just bought 1400 rounds for $95+tax. That's 7¢/round—still higher than pre-Sandy Hook, but not expensive enough for me to curtail my shooting.

In comparison with other possible activities/hobbies/vices, shooting is still pretty cheap fun.

 

[mdauben]

I just don't think we'll ever see the low price of .22 ammo again. Anybody else feel the same way?

No. I've been able to pick up .22 ammo at fairly reasonable prices all along. Not as easily or as frequently as I might wish. It seems to be getting better, too. I just picked up some CCI Standard Velocity (my preferred .22 target ammo) for a bit less than $.08 a round, which I consider pretty reasonable. I've found other .22 ammo from Federal and Remington for even less.

 

[WestKentucky]

It's ALL relative. 22 ammo that I paid 8 bucks for as a kid are now 24 bucks, so prices have tripled. A can of Pepsi that I used to pay 35 cents for is now a dollar, basically triple. Gas that I bought for 99.9 when I got my license in 2001 has been $4 but is back to 2 bucks. My brand new maverick shotgun in 2000 was $125, now they are $200. My 32" flats creek cost me 400 bucks around Christmas of 2007 and I bought my grandpa one this year for $129. It's all in what you compare the price to as to how high it really is. If you compare it to other ammo your probably not too far off of being normal. Bulk WWB 9mm were 9.99 when I got my first 9mm, now that same box is about 25 bucks. Shotgun shells were sold in 100 packs at Walmart for 12 bucks then, now they are 25. 30-30 shells my first year deer hunting with it cost me 12 bucks a box and now that same ammo is 27.99 now.
SO 22 ammo is 3 times as high as when I was a kid, other ammo is about 2.5 times as high. I always wondered how they made it so cheap anyways so now I feel like the price is about in line with where it should be...but I would love to pay less for it. So at 24 bucks by my math I'm overpaying by about 4 bucks. It usually takes me several range trips to burn up that 500 rd brick , so I'm guessing it's 4 hours on the guns (I shoot single action a lot) so the enjoyment of shooting is well worth that extra dollar an hour I'm paying to shoot. Keep the lead flowing through those 22s.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

I don't shoot my .22s any less because of cost issues, and availability doesn't seem to be a problem right now. My LGS seems to be able to keep plenty in stock, and I just bought 1400 rounds for $95+tax. That's 7¢/round—still higher than pre-Sandy Hook, but not expensive enough for me to curtail my shooting.

In comparison with other possible activities/hobbies/vices, shooting is still pretty cheap fun.

There's an option which has somehow completely slipped by me. Never seen it before.

I dig the "New And Improved" statement. Are there an Ginsu knives inside?
Looks like a great packaging for re-dumping into GI ammo cans. Is it just a bulk dump inside the "Bucket O' Bullets"?

$95.00 for - at my pace - many, many hours of fun.

Todd.

 

[surveyor]

Nope..
Like the other posters said, I believe it is cyclial...
While I enjoy shooting rimfire, I haven't lately..
It is the same cost and easier to replace to shoot 38 and 9 mm reloads.

I'll break the rimfires out every once in a while..
And I learned during the 2008-2009 rimfire shortage what mine likes...

So it is either sk/wolf, cci standard, or federal automatch that I'll buy..
But not over 55-60 a brick for sk/wolf less for the others..

I have no plans of getting rid of my rimfires.

 

[MCgunner]

They were opening a new Bass Pro or some such in Waco and had those Remington bucket-o-bullets for 69 bucks. He calls me to see if I wanted him to pick me up one. "HELL YES YOU IDIOT!" ROFL, I mean really, he had to call and ask? By the time he got back over to the store, they were sold out. :banghead: My SR22 loves those things.

 

[Furncliff]

I don't visit the bars , I don't play golf or go on vacations. My .22 shooting is cheap.

 

[Rnelson01]

I was a huge .22 pistol finatic for many years. I never had more than a brick and some change stored because I would quickly shoot it all. A month or two after the craziness was the last time I shot a .22 except my surpressed camp gun. Depressing but I have shot more 9mm. I am a better shot because of the lack of available 22 ammo. At least it feels that way.