.22lr MEGATHREAD

[tark]

availability of 22 rimfire

Just bagged three thousand rounds of brand new Remington 37 gr hollow point Long rifle ammo at a small local gunshow. The price was too high at $47 a brick, but what surprised me was the fact that IT WAS THERE. As a matter of fact the whole show was lousy with 22 ammo, not all of it foreign. The guy that had it said that the five thousand rounds he had had backordered from Remington just showed up one day!

Shure hope this is a sign that things are easing up.

 

[Warp]

Just bagged three thousand rounds of brand new Remington 37 gr hollow point Long rifle ammo at a small local gunshow. The price was too high at $47 a brick, but what surprised me was the fact that IT WAS THERE. As a matter of fact the whole show was lousy with 22 ammo, not all of it foreign. The guy that had it said that the five thousand rounds he had had backordered from Remington just showed up one day!

Shure hope this is a sign that things are easing up.

How long since he established the backorder?

 

[nathan]

I fired more of the CCI .22 Quiet at 15 yrds . It is very accurate in my Ruger 10/22 Lvt. The crack is not as loud. Thumbs up to CCI for a great product.

 

[nathan]

Today was the first time i was able to buy 600 rds of .22 LR in one day!! But this involved going to three Academy Sports Stores in Spring, The Woodlands and Humble . I was lucky to get 100 pieces on the first store, 250 on the second and another 250 on the third . The guys over the counters on the last two were generous on the 50 rimfire /box x 2 limit----probably bec it was halloween. ANd i m sure they know well who were the hoarders that frequent their counters for ammo. But me an unfamiliar face im sure they can sense it right away.


In summary , i had the ff: 500 rimfire cartridges of Remington thunderbolt. 100 rimfire CCI Quiet. The CCI Quiet has been really addicting as it doesnt have a crack sound . Very accurate at short range.

 

[wally]

Finally decent price and quantity of .22lr ammo

At todays High Caliber gun show at the GRB Convention Center I found Remington Golden Bullet 525 bulk pack for $25 each. Its not my favorite .2lr ammo, but since we are below our last 15,000 rounds it was worth bringing home 2K rounds. He had plenty more, if it was Federal or CCI bulk pack I'd have brought home 10K or more. This is the first sign I've seen of some semblance of normalcy return to the .22lr ammo situation since Sandy Hook. I've passed up some nice deals on .22lr guns as there is no point since we can barely feed what we have already, maybe I'll rethink this at the next show.


Of course there was tons of over priced .22lr from the Wal-Mart speculators. Mostly collecting dust, but there was one fool about to fork over $150 for a 1400 round "bucket" of Golden Bullet bulk.

Didn't see a lot of sales activity, but I was there early and the crowd was just starting to pick up as I left. Amazingly few used guns for sale.

Saw a fair number of Yugo AKs for $500, half a dozen Kel-Tec KSG for $800, Beretta Pico fpr $350, same guy had the Nano for $340 HK VP9 for $599, and of course more ARs than you could shake a stick at.

Of course like any gun show its trivial to find worse prices.

 

[moxie]

15K isn't enough to barely feed your .22s? Interesting perspective.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

15K isn't enough to barely feed your .22s? Interesting perspective.

A different perspective than yours perhaps.
It depends on what kind of shooting and how much of it an individual usually engages in. To me or you it may seem like a lot. For him, it may be less than a year's supply.

 

[wally]

Before Sandy hook my wife and I were shooting 2K+ rounds of .22lr per month. By dumb luck I'd just received a substantial order so we had ~60K rounds on hand. Shot normally for the first year during the craziness, but then started cutting back, and for the past six months I've shot very little .22lr saving the rest of it for my wife, I've been shooting mostly 9mm reloads which I can do for less than the $0.10+/round .22 ammo I can find on-line.

Academy has had $0.05/round .22 but with their two box or one bulk pack limit its not worth a trip for a measly 100-500 rounds.

I'd quit buying the Golden Bullet in frustration years ago from duds, blown rims, and bullets that fold instead of climbing the feed ramp, so as I said, I'd have got more if it was ammo that worked better for us. I really am looking forward to getting back to shooting a more normal amount of .22lr for at least the next month or so.

 

[itsa pain]

It is really unbelievable the amount of 22 ammo people believe they need or even "have" to shoot. That style of that you must have 60k rounds at hand is what led to the shortage and will continue to. I have noticed that firing more then 100 rounds actually leads to worse shooting being how long can you totally concentrate on a shot before you wear down. Diminishing returns I guess

 

[someleft]

I live in the northeast and i also am seeing 22lr ammo in spurts.thankfully though.I'm down to a few thousand rounds and am glad to grab some.

 

[Cee Zee]

15K isn't enough to barely feed your .22s? Interesting perspective.

I totally understand his thinking. I saw him say him and his wife shot 2000 rounds a month. Heck I shot almost double that much myself for a long time but that was only in the warm months. I only shot about a brick a month in the colder months. For a while it looked like I had golden grass growing in my yard. Brass makes a pretty good replacement for gravel on a driveway BTW.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

I also was a high volume .22 shooter prior to the big scare. 500-1000 rounds per week was not abnormal.

 

[22-rimfire]

2000 rounds is only 4 bulk packs more or less.... It's nothing unless you seldom shoot.

Glad to see some 22LR available. I have yet to see much since a few months after the Nov. 2008 election (Gosh, this is 2014...), but I don't look real hard anymore. I just got tired of looking.

 

[nathan]

Surprisingly the Golden Bullet was most accurate with less jams in my Ruger Mk2 bull barrel and back in the mid 1990s. I preferred it to the Federal bulk pack even if it s dirtier . It sure is dirty but much tighter groups. Yep, they were on sale like $5 -6 for a 525 rd box, those were the good ole days.

One thing i hate after shooting the golden bullets was i always have a slight headache. Its that gunpowder they used . If i can help it i used latex gloves to load several mags so as not to get that pesky and notorious gun powder coating on my hands

 

[Sock Puppet]

I've seen it pop up in small quantities over the past few months, and I always grab a bit when it does. Basically just trying to maintain at this point.

 

[nathan]

With the senate and congress in GOP hands , we hope the .22 hoarders will slow down. Hopefully by the coming months the .22 bulk packs can be seen in shelves at big box gun stores anytime of the day. NO more early bird grabbers the cause of this shortage.

 

[il.bill]

My buddy bought a 1,400 round bucket of .22LR Remington Golden Bullets this week from a local Rural King farm supply store for less than $60 tax included. They had six remaining after he picked his up early in the morning, and less than ten minutes later there was a guy at the counter buying one of the two buckets left.

It is not his favorite .22LR ammunition by a long shot, but at less than 4.3 cents per round it is certainly a reasonable deal these days.

 

[Deaf Smith]

Well for my Glock AACK .22 unit. the Remington 'Golden' IS my bullet! The AACK loves it.

And Federal HPs are what my J frame snub .22 works best with.

Glad the prices are going down.

Now I don't shoot a gazillion rounds of .22 but taking new shooters out we can go through a 550 pack in one outing.

Deaf

 

[22-rimfire]

Folks like to complain about Remington Golden Bullets. But I have always had pretty good luck with them in terms of accuracy. Sure you have fail to fires and the occasional squib round, but it still does pretty well. I usually shoot Federal and CCI in semi-autos and anything else in manual actions due to the fail to fire issue. But Remington has been doing better overall. I read both sides to that argument but my question is always are these the newly loaded rounds or something from a five years ago that you just had in your ammo cache?

 

[Stevie-Ray]

I've had nothing but good luck with Rem GBs. Wish I could find that deal around here. Latest sign was at an ACE hdwe, "WE HAVE .22LR" Go inside and they were 9 bucks a box of 50.

 

[wally]

I've had nothing but good luck with Rem GBs.

I quit buying them well before Sandy Hook, I'd hope Remington has improved their QA/QC. The duds happen (especially in pistols) with .22lr unless you buy premium brands which approach the cheapest 9mm in price, but the blown rims and bullets that fold instead of climbing the feed ramp are what really put me off it. If these two issues are now "rare" I'd have no qualms about Golden Bullet bulk pack when the price is right.

I'll know if a few days if I made a mistake or not in giving GB another chance.

 

[Candyman87]

Wow, I thought my last order of ~4,000 rounds was a bit extreme. I'll buy when I can find my brand (CCI Standard Velocity) for a good price and quantity. If not I'll buy a brick or two of whatever I can find to tide me over.

 

[MedWheeler]

Now that word is getting out that .22LR ammo is available, it's become harder and harder for me to find..

 

[Plan2Live]

The local outdoor range run by the Forestry Department requires you pick up your spent brass. That is a huge deterrent to ripping through hundreds of rounds of 22.

 

[Warp]

With the senate and congress in GOP hands , we hope the .22 hoarders will slow down. Hopefully by the coming months the .22 bulk packs can be seen in shelves at big box gun stores anytime of the day. NO more early bird grabbers the cause of this shortage.

Or with cold weather coming the real troublemakers (the ones using the ammo up by shooting it) will slow down