Done stockpiling 22 ammo

[jcwit]

Just bought an air pistol off Amazon.

Ammo? Penney a round.

 

[Cee Zee]

i even bought my own ammo 25 cents for a box of shorts

I didn't buy any shorts until they were 40 cents a box. Longs were 45 cents and LR's were 55 or 60 cents. We bought almost all shorts in those days but it didn't stop us from killing squirrels. Of course I was buying them in a store that resembled Ike Godsey's store on Walton's Mountain. It's long gone now replaced by a market. It had 2 floors with the owners living upstairs. It had a big balcony over a big porch downstairs. I spent a lot of time there. In the summer it was fly paper hanging everywhere and fly dope in the window sills and in the winter a red hot pot belly stove made you avoid the central area of the store. It only took one burn to teach every kid to stay away from that thing I tell you what. Pop was a nickel and so were candy bars. If I had a dime I felt like a king until the sugar buzz wore off. I bought hot dogs by the pound and the regular shotgun shells when we needed them. Mostly we bought .22 ammo one box at a time. We felt like we were stocked up if we had a whole box. Sometimes I miss those days but there were some bad things too. Just think Little House and Nellie Olsen and you get the idea. Only the spoiled kid was a boy in our case.

 

[Delford]

Since I practice with my two.45s most the .22 shortage is an annoyance because .45 is readily available at anywhere from $.32 - $.39 a round. Not as good as $.29 that used to be but available. In the last year I found Federal 325s from Academy on line twice at $.075 a round., 3 boxes of CCI 100s from Walmart for the same price, and 4 boxes of Golden Bullet 525s from Dick's for $.057 a round. That's just under 3000 rounds and I'm finishing up two bricks I bought the previous year. Like I said, it's annoying. When I do shoot my Neos it's easy to go through 100 rounds in a half hour, but that's a good warm up for an hour of .45.

 

[Onmilo]

I bought three boxes of Federal Gold Medal for my S&W Model 41 and two boxes of CCI Standard velocity for my Walther PP .22 this weekend.
Also bought a 200 round brick os CCI .22 Magnum hollowpoints for the obscene price of $60 but I wanted these more for the artwork packaging.

 

[Thermactor]

yoUU can use ammoseek and wikiarms to locate in-stock ammo.

 

[hammerklavier]

Did a recount and found that I've got 2700 boxed rounds in the 50 call box, plus an additional 300 shorts and quiets.

Only shoot about 100/month so it's not a problem.

 

[rooter]

I've got all I need, but I still find it amusing when the unscrupulous gougers at the show find the bottoms of some of their overpriced 550 round wally scavenged packs sliced and rounds spilling out or solvent spilled on the boxes.

 

[Ky Larry]

I had about 13k .22lr rounds before the latest Obamanation. In the last 2 years I've found 3 boxes of Fed Lighning and 3 boxes of CCI Quiets. LGSs and the local Sportsmans Warehouse don't have any .22lr ammo. When they do get ammo it is very over priced. I did find a good use for Remington Thundertrash. I gave 3k rounds to the Boy Scouts.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

I've got all I need, but I still find it amusing when the unscrupulous gougers at the show find the bottoms of some of their overpriced 550 round wally scavenged packs sliced and rounds spilling out or solvent spilled on the boxes.

Call me crazy, but I don't find anyone's property being vandalized amusing.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

I've got all I need, but I still find it amusing when the unscrupulous gougers at the show find the bottoms of some of their overpriced 550 round wally scavenged packs sliced and rounds spilling out or solvent spilled on the boxes.

Call me crazy, but I don't find anyone's property being vandalized amusing.

I don't find it funny, either. And how is this stuff happening? I've never seen it happen at any of the gun shows I've been at. People are usually pretty attentive to others handling or otherwise messing with their wares.

If these people want to try to make a buck by re-selling ammo, more power to them. It's not as if they're making a killing and buying houses or Veyron's with all the money they're getting.

 

[kimberkid]

That is amazing. I have yet to see any .22lr at any Walmart in my neck of the woods, especially the last three years.

Ditto that ... the only place I've actually seen any 22LR is at shows and that's only been in the last 9-10 months but then our Walmarts' don't stock the ammo shelves until 8-9am ... I'm at work long before that so my only option has been to pay the $50+ per brick ... $90-$120 for good stuff.

 

[P5 Guy]

WallMarts around here got closed down because of plumbing issues. But, before that there wasn't much 22, and when there was it sold out in minutes.

 

[nipprdog]

Heads up if you have a Gander Mountain store. At some stores in IN, they have been selling the Winchester M-22 800 round packs for 59.99. Their on line price is 49.99. (still high) If you see some at the 59.99 price, google "m-22 winchester 800 gander" to pull up there web page and they will honor that price.

 

[Jackal]

I have 8500 rds of .22lr and I rarely ever shoot any. I'm still buying it. I'm going to hoard it. I'm going to hoard as much as I can afford.

 

[M1key]

Hello. My name is_____. I am a shameless, compulsive ammo hoarder. I just purchased 2 more bricks of CCI Std Vel 22 from PSA. Someone help me please....



M

 

[xxjumbojimboxx]

No mikey, you keep buying. You hear me? KEEP BUYING!

 

[Cee Zee]

I'll help you M1key. Just send that ammo to me and I'll "dispose" of it for you. Cold turkey is the only way for you now. Give it up. Me, I like it.

 

[Hammer059]

"I've filled a 50 call ammo can, about 2200 rounds in boxes and will now only buy to replenish what I shoot (or odd loadings I want to try)."

Hmm, that's funny, because I've filled a 50 cal ammo can and I have 4,000 rounds in boxes and could probably squeeze in a little more… Do they make different sized 50 cal surplus ammo cans?

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

"I've filled a 50 call ammo can, about 2200 rounds in boxes and will now only buy to replenish what I shoot (or odd loadings I want to try)."

Hmm, that's funny, because I've filled a 50 cal ammo can and I have 4,000 rounds in boxes and could probably squeeze in a little more… Do they make different sized 50 cal surplus ammo cans?

I would imagine it would depend on the packaging.

I could easily imagine trying to pack 100 round plastic boxes of CCI into a 50 cal ammo can would mean significantly less than 4,000 rounds. On the other hand, I could pack a truck load in the form of Remington Golden Bullets or Federal bulk packs.


And for the record...I know for a fact that 70 boxes of Winchester Super-X .22 WMR will fit extremely neatly in a 50 cal ammo can, neatly packed side-to-side, front-to-back, and right up to the lip of the can. Just for reference, in case anybody has a desire to do so.

 

[Mad Dawg]

I stopped buying in February; I picked up, in a period of 2 weeks, enough to last me this year and probably next. Figured since it was in stock at a decent price, and I had the cash, it was a done deal.

I don't go looking for small quantities like 50 or 100 round boxes; and with a larger stash, you can choose to buy what you consider better ammo. The crap .22LR's, I leave for others to buy ! In a number of certain stores where the prices are outrageous, I don't even bother looking anymore; I don't want the 50 round box of premium .22LR at $15 .. Walmart is so sporadic about when they get ammo in, and the "app" is never right for here, so I no longer even go looking there anymore.

 

[USAF_Vet]

I think the idea of stockpiling does not include shooting until you have another commitment to attend to. JPJ, great keyboardist.

Loved him in Led Zeppelin on the bass.

I may be one of the weird ones, but I never really enjoyed shooting .22

I have two .22 rifles, and neither one excites me.

I'd much rather shoot .223, 9mm or 12 gauge.

As such, I have less than 50 .22 shorts, and less than 250 .22lr. I don't see it on the shelves locally. Don't ever ask for it if its in the back. I'm just not interested in buying it since I rarely bother to shoot it.

 

[coloradokevin]

Surprised there are still shortages.I have an Academy Sporting goods a mile from my house and bought several thousand rounds of .22 LR over the last couple of years. I actually passed on some recently. Academy didn't jack the price up either. I won't even set foot in a Wallyworld anymore.

If you read this thread carefully you wouldn't be surprised. Lets assume that any given region has 10,000 shooters looking for .22 ammo. Now consider these scenarios:

1) Pre-Sandy Hook people would go out and buy a brick or two of ammo whenever they ran really low. 500-1,000 rounds, which will average to 750 rounds per shooter, multiplied by 10,000 shooters. That's 7.5 Million rounds to support the shooting needs of that region.

2) Post-Sandy Hook people try to buy everything they can. The same shooters who needed 750 rounds before are now trying to stock 20,000 each. The store shelves were cleaned out within a week or two of Sandy Hook, which only drove people to buy more frantically. Now everyone wants to have 20,000 rounds, starting from a supply of zero. 20,000rds x 10,000 shooters is 200,000,000 rounds to support a local market that had nothing on the shelves, and was probably accustomed to stocking 26.6 times less ammo of this type.

Until everyone stops buying this stuff like it's ballast this panic is just going to go on, and on, and on. I know of people who are buying this stuff by the thousands even when they don't have any guns of this type. And, more people are getting into shooting these days. So, from that perspective the situation is even worse than the hypothetical I presented above.

 

[Cee Zee]

When people stop paying the gougers their prices the fun will go out of their little games of showing up at Walmart and likely giving a kickback to the minimum wage guy selling the stuff to know when to be there exactly. They sell ammo on the net for 5 times what they paid for it. Then there's the companies I won't mention but everyone knows who they are that buy ammo for what they always paid for it or maybe a little more and sell it for a huge markup.

How else it is that I can pick up ammo for 7 cents a round in the right places but some are selling the very same ammo for for three times what I paid for it?

There's more to this than too many hoarders. That's the driving issue of course but it's a snowball effect. The more people think it's going to keep going up the more they keep paying the high prices they see. And when companies are OBVIOUSLY gouging it makes people think it will always be that way.

So if you're one of those people paying the big prices just because you can just keep in mind what you're doing to the sport of shooting. Think about those people who actually need ammo but can't get it. And yes some of us NEED ammo. Or maybe you think we should let giant rats with little masks over their eyes and ringed tails move in and live in our garbage cans and threatening anyone who comes near even if they're bringing them more dinner. Or maybe those rats that have invaded our barns should be left alone to eat all the corn stored for cattle feed. After all the snakes will move in to catch the rats eventually. It's not all about target shooting or plinking for some of us. I'll admit I don't need ammo like I once did but I still need it. Roving packs of feral dogs does it for me. I see a pack of feral dogs and I reach for the Marlin 60 and pop as many of them as I can. Oh I forgot. I'm not supposed to say.. errr... do that. So what if those dogs kill someone. After all we're in their territory. Wait. That's not true. I'm thinking of coyotes. Oh yeah. I need to shoot them sometimes too. And rabid critters. Those are especially fun to have around the house.

Not everyone lives in town. Not everyone lives within miles of a town. Some of us live in the middle of a giant forest that covers a quarter of a fairly large state. Think I'm kidding? Check out this view of SE Ohio where my house is. That dark green stuff is trees. Sure there are some open areas but mostly it's forest. Wayne National Forest to be exact. If you think this land isn't wild you just haven't been there. It ain't NYC.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1287332,-81.9682358,9z/data=!3m1!1e3

This is my house. You can see I live in the woods. It was old growth forest until oak wilt started killing all the oak trees. It still is old growth forest in some places.

 

[frank c]

The REAL challenge is to find 22 mag. ammo. Very scarce around my neck of the woods

 

[4v50 Gary]

I buy the stuff and then I use the stuff. It's fun. I also trained my nephews how to shoot with 22 LR before transitioning them to centerfire. One nephew was taken to the range by his buddies. They offered to let him shoot. He outshot them. They were in awe with his ability to shoot rapidly and place his shots into a good group on the target. Of course he didn't tell them that he was trained. That's the beauty of 22 LR.