How fun is .22lr?

[chopinbloc]

I know, you'll claim that it isn't fun now that you can't buy it, but stuff's getting better and if you're patient, you can find it. Just don't buy it at foolish prices and let the neck beards sweat.





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It's fairly well known, I think, that .22lr will go through a windshield, but I was curious how much energy it had left over after passing through the windshield. We shoot .22lr through a windshield into water jugs to find out. Also, some slow mo plinking.

 

[Vonderek]

Love the music...puts me in a "Play Misty for Me" state of mind. 22LR is a ton of fun and can do the job...just wish it was $8/bulk like it used to be.

 

[Candyman87]

I'll buy at $40 a brick of CCI and I'm a happy guy. $0.08 a round is enough for me to run through 150 rounds for $12. Cheaper than a movie and a lot more fun!

 

[MedWheeler]

It's my most-fun caliber, and would be even more so if I could shoot like I did in the old days, out in the field, instead of paper-punching in an indoor range.

 

[chopinbloc]

$0.08/rd is way too much and paying that much is part of the reason that prices continue to be inflated and availability is low. Be patient and buy online at $0.05-0.06/rd, max.

ETA: And yes, shooting .22lr from a silencer is even more awesomer.

 

[srtolly]

I take 3-4 to the range at a time. Keeps me happy. Even if I have to spend $40 on a brick of ammo I can't think of a way to have more fun, maybe I have too many .22s.

 

[monk d]

I only have a Henry Golden Boy now, but it is awesome fun to shoot. Yes ammo is too expensive but it will probably stay that way $9.00 bricks are long gone, so are $25 bricks where I live, and online is a crap shoot. Oh well, I still have some and get some when I can, love it, love it, love it

 

[oneounceload]

you'll claim that it isn't fun now that you can't buy it,

Plenty available, even at big box stores.......

$0.08/rd is way too much and paying that much is part of the reason that prices continue to be inflated and availability is low. Be patient and buy online at $0.05-0.06/rd, max.

Pay shipping and you're at the same price without the wait. Cheap stuff is .05; CCI Mini Mags are .08. The days of $8.bricks were gone long ago. I bought cases of Remington back when cases of 6250 rounds sold for $95, which was a little cheaper.

 

[chopinbloc]

If you're patient, you can get it for $0.05-0.06, shipping included. If you're not patient, you're part of the problem.

 

[Robert]

I love how gun owners all seem to support free market capitalism unless it involves ammo...

 

[Deltaboy1984]

The most fun can have with your pants on.

 

[Hardtarget]

I support free market as much as any citizen. I just will not pay $40.00 for a brick of .22's.
I have slowed my shooting in an effort to stretch my supply and have been watching, (and waiting), for the supply/price to drift toward some middle ground. Still waiting.
So, sell at the price you want. Go for it. I'll buy when I think its closer to a price I can handle.
I've been letting my grand children work on the last of my stores of .22lr. They're doing ok with it.Maybe we'll all get to shoot more soon.

Mark

 

[Steel Horse Rider]

You deciding what price is too high is an excellent example of free market capitalism. The market will determine both the price and the availability. Great example boys and girls....

 

[PJSprog]

Honestly, $40/brick isn't really that much more than it was around here before the shortage started. It was $30 for the cheap stuff, but I was getting it in quantity for $23 each. As noted above, those days may be gone, too. Being too persnickety about price will only get you an accumulation of dust on your .22s.

 

[chopinbloc]

I shoot my .22lr regularly and I don't pay neckbeard prices.

 

[Lord Teapot]

9 cents/bullet is still cheaper than anything else lol

 

[mnrivrat]

Unfortunatly a medical issue put me in a wheelchair a few years back. Prior to that I used to shoot a good amount of .22 RF ammo.

The very last brick I bought cost me $10 . Prior to that I picked up several bricks at Cabela's (Winchester white box) for $7.77 a brick.

Times change. As it stands today, I have enough .22 ammo left for the rest of my life. Wish I could change that .

One of my enjoyable things to do with the .22RF was shooting at dragoon flys going past overhead. This was in a remote gravel pit with nothing around it for at least three miles.

Getting together with a couple of my brothers on a weekend day we would go shooting at the pit and put some run time on a number of different guns and chamberings. The .22's usualy got about a bricks worth of attention from each of us.

We all reloaded the centerfire stuff with the exception of shotgun ammo.

I wonder what those sessions would cost today ?

 

[Ibmikey]

I rarely respond to these dumb polls that provide absolutely no quantifiable information however when it comes to .22's i can hardly resist. Like so many my first .22 was a Winchester 1890 that saw untold thousands of rounds run through it. Since then it is kept company by no less than thirty rifles and pistols in that caliber and they are shot on a regular basis because of the fun and satisfaction they provide. Ammo is no problem because i have always stored many thousands of rounds in cans so, unlike as a youth, i do not have to turn in pop bottles for the purchase of more ammo. Right now some of my happpiest times are shooting my S&W 15-22 rifles and M&P .22 & Browning 1911-22 pistols.

 

[Ignition Override]

Not as fun as it was, even though about 12 bricks are stored simply as long-term reserve for retirement or
in case the next White House boss is a Female queen (is this too subtle?).

My main plinking ammo is Ukrainian or Russian 7.62x39, for not much more than twice the average price of .22LR here.

I just turned down bricks of the typically green/yellow box Remington for approx. .07/rd. in a Cordova TN gun shop, two weeks ago.
In my old 1940's Savage (all-original) you have gas "blowbacks" every second or third round from that cheap junk.

 

[ku4hx]

So the higher the price the lower the fun? I guess I don't ascribe to that or I'd be driving a Yugo, eating dog food, wearing paper bags for shoes and so forth and so on. Those poor foolish guys that bought an Ed Brown 1911 must really be sad and having no fun at all. Sucks to be them.

 

[Ibmikey]

Ku4hx, In my case the higher prices of ammo have not reduced any of my .22 shooting fun because of the availability of .99 a box ammo in my own supply cache. It is also a bit fun to ask at any retail seller if they have rimfire, the responses are very entertaining. At the local Walmart a salesperson goes into a tirade about the Military and LE are buying all the .22 lr to keep it out of civilian hands. In all the years i was responsible for purchasing ammunition for a medium sized Police Dept. i never purchased a box of .22. City fathers, no matter how liberal, would never approve spending " their" money in such a fashion.

 

[csa77]

For me, I just don't see the point and shooting .22lr anymore. The price difference between 22 and reloaded 9mm are so slim it makes no sense to not shoot centerfire.

 

[bannockburn]

Shooting .22s will always be a lot of fun to me. The majority of my guns are accurate and I bought a great deal of ammo years ago once I found what worked best in them (namely CCI MiniMags and Wolf Match Target).

 

[GBExpat]

... and let the neck beards sweat.

 

[chopinbloc]

Neck beard is the term for people who wait at Walmart for .22lr stock to come out so they can flip it on back page or armslist. They often have an arrangement with an employee to purchase more than the limit for regular people. Purchasing admonition at inflated cost supports this grey market behavior and keeps prices inflated.