How many 22 LR cartridges are sold here in America every year?
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492.5 million rounds... plus the couple 525 packs I just picked up yesterday
well... fuzzy math.. 197 million in revenue, rimfire is ~13%, call 22lr 10%, 20$ for a brick... 492,500,000 rounds. I think the answer is that there is no answer, everything I find points to "no one keeps track of it."
I'm probably way off no estimate for worldwide use
well... fuzzy math.. 197 million in revenue, rimfire is ~13%, call 22lr 10%, 20$ for a brick... 492,500,000 rounds. I think the answer is that there is no answer, everything I find points to "no one keeps track of it."
I'm probably way off
no estimate for worldwide use
Centurian22
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Twice as much as half of it?
Esoxchaser
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Lots and lots.
ConstitutionCowboy
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Ours is not to ask or reason why; ours is just to shoot and buy.
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wgaynor
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Personally, just bought 500 today. I try to buy 500 a month (shoot less than that) so that I can build up a healthy supply. Haven't decided how much is a healthy supply, but they fill a few ammo cans.
Ignition Override
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wgaynor:
That's a very good habit and I will follow your example.
That's a very good habit and I will follow your example.
coloradokevin
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I'm not really the ammo hoarder that some folks are, and even I probably have better than 10,000 rounds of .22 lr ammo around here. It's just the classic impulse buy for me: "since I'm here buying ammo for XYZ gun, I may as well pick up a brick of that .22lr ammo while it's $1 off!!".
As such, I imagine that there is quite a bit of .22lr ammo sold per year. I wouldn't be surprised if it is in the billions of rounds.
As such, I imagine that there is quite a bit of .22lr ammo sold per year. I wouldn't be surprised if it is in the billions of rounds.
berettaprofessor
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When the last man dies of famine and starvation, there will still be enough 22LR left in the world to kill all the squirrels and rabbits 10X over.
ConstitutionCowboy
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Ergo, that's my reason for owning enough ammo to outlive me.
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Fishslayer
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Pretty much the same. I have no real idea how much .22 is around here but I always go by the ammo section at Walmart when I'm there. Surprisingly, .22 rimfire is the only ammo my local Wally's is consistently short on.
Recently a guy was selling 6 bricks at $15 apiece so I bought 'em. Really though, what choice did I have?
1911 guy
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Funny story but true. Just ask my wife, she was a little upset at the time.
The local harware store decided to stop selling guns and ammo (reversed their decision later and now stock again) and everything was on clearance, including .22 ammo. I took one look at the price and asked "Is that really the price?" They assured me it was and asked how much I wanted. I asked "How much you got?". They took it out to my pickup truck on a pallet jack.
That was ten years ago and I have only recently begun buying .22 ammo again.
The local harware store decided to stop selling guns and ammo (reversed their decision later and now stock again) and everything was on clearance, including .22 ammo. I took one look at the price and asked "Is that really the price?" They assured me it was and asked how much I wanted. I asked "How much you got?". They took it out to my pickup truck on a pallet jack.
That was ten years ago and I have only recently begun buying .22 ammo again.
vito
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Without a doubt I shoot my two 22lr guns the best (a Bronwing BuckMark and a S&W 617), and obviously this ammo is the cheapest of any that I shoot. For me, 22lr is just for the range, but I wonder how many people use 22lr as a self defense round? Over and over on this and other forums you will see the statement "carry what you shoot best", but personally I would not feel confident carrying a 22lr gun as a home or self defense weapon. I wonder sometimes, however, if my accuracy and control with a 22 would trump my using a larger round such as the 38+p, 40 S&W, or 45acp that I own, in real-world effectiveness.
ForumSurfer
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I have no clue, but I found these CCI Factory tour vids interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvK9QlQtrKI
That's 4 million per day. I'm a self admitted 22LR junkie and I profess to drooling during the videos. It was a slow weekend, I only killed one box of 325.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvK9QlQtrKI
That's 4 million per day. I'm a self admitted 22LR junkie and I profess to drooling during the videos. It was a slow weekend, I only killed one box of 325.
Jeff F
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I did the same thing at the Big R in Fallon a few years back when they were closing out CCI Minimags for 2 bucks a hundred for the solids and HP's 1.50 for the standard velocity and 1.00 a box for Stingers. I bought every round they had in the store and it filled up a shopping cart pretty well.
medalguy
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I just ordered 20,000 rounds from CMP. At their price of $125 per 5,000 it was too good to pass up. Just adding it to my stash of .22 ammo.
No idea how much is made or sold in a year, but it's a big number. Think in terms of the national deficit in pennies.
No idea how much is made or sold in a year, but it's a big number. Think in terms of the national deficit in pennies.
ConstitutionCowboy
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With CCI putting out about 4 million a day, that comes to over 1.4 billion per year. I would venture a guess that total US production has to be at least triple that.
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That CCI video was really informative.
As a handloader of centerfire pistol rounds, I always wondered how they could pump out .22LR rounds so economically.
Four million per day...times 365 days...equals 1,460,000.000. That is nearly 1.5 Billion a year. And that is just CCI. Where I shop, Federal outsells CCI two or more to one. Add Remington, and the others, by my SWAG they are producing 5 billion rounds of .22LR per year.
And at the end of the year, we are buying every bit of it.
That reminds me... this year, National Buy Ammo Day is 05 Nov. (my b'day) Guess I need to buy myself a b-day present...some more .22LR., because I handload everything else.
As a handloader of centerfire pistol rounds, I always wondered how they could pump out .22LR rounds so economically.
Four million per day...times 365 days...equals 1,460,000.000. That is nearly 1.5 Billion a year. And that is just CCI. Where I shop, Federal outsells CCI two or more to one. Add Remington, and the others, by my SWAG they are producing 5 billion rounds of .22LR per year.
And at the end of the year, we are buying every bit of it.
That reminds me... this year, National Buy Ammo Day is 05 Nov. (my b'day
) Guess I need to buy myself a b-day present...some more .22LR., because I handload everything else. Yup, cheap bulk outsells CCI ammo here all the time too. When you go into a store here there are lots of empty spaces where .22lr used to be but there is usually some of the CCI still there because people have trouble paying for premium ammo.That CCI video was really informative.
As a handloader of centerfire pistol rounds, I always wondered how they could pump out .22LR rounds so economically.
Four million per day...times 365 days...equals 1,460,000.000. That is nearly 1.5 Billion a year. And that is just CCI. Where I shop, Federal outsells CCI two or more to one. Add Remington, and the others, by my SWAG they are producing 5 billion rounds of .22LR per year.
And at the end of the year, we are buying every bit of it.
That reminds me... this year, National Buy Ammo Day is 05 Nov. (my b'day
For plinkers I use cheap bulk ammo myself, if I was using .22lr for a defensive gun then I'd definately opt for the higher dollar CCI ammo.
ambidextrous1
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About 15 years ago I read that annual production of .22 rimfire cartridges was 16 Billion. I'm guessing that current production is about 20 Billion.
You will give us the correct number before this is over, won't you?
You will give us the correct number before this is over, won't you?
rduchateau2954
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My NRA magazine says 2-3 billion sold in the last year. In America
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