If you're looking for .22LR...

[OldBrownDog]

Try a Shipton's Big R, if there's one around. Hadn't been in there in a while. Went in this morning and I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Bricks of CCI SV, boxes of Mini-Mags by the dozens, Winchester bulk .22LR on sale, and all at reasonable prices. I got my allotted 5 100-rd boxes of Mini-Mags ($8.99 each, ~$1/box above what I remember) and left, but if you need it....

 

[Magnuumpwr]

Not one that I know of around where I live but thank you for sharing.

 

[Iron Sight]

Note sent to bud in MT.

Thanks

 

[wacki]

why the .22 LR shortage? Newton was almost a year ago.

 

[mljdeckard]

Because:

A: It's cheap
B: Everyone has a .22
C: When we shoot .22, we shoot a lot of it. A lot of guys, like myself, like it specifically because we shoot it as much as we WISH we could with bigger cartridges. (I have a conversion kit for my 1911 and a .22 upper for my M-4.)

 

[wacki]

Ya but the shortage thing is new right? Ive never had problems getting it before.

 

[medalguy]

Seriously?

 

[wacki]

Not in normal times anyway. Maybe right after an election or school shooting but other than that I've been pretty lucky it seems.

 

[OldBrownDog]

Wacki,

The .22LR shortage is new since Newtown. I've never known of any shortage of .22LR before the current one. Almost everything else has come back (to my knowlege), and Evil Black Rifles are even on sale, but .22LR is still tough to find.

 

[Warp]

Because:

A: It's cheap
B: Everyone has a .22
C: When we shoot .22, we shoot a lot of it. A lot of guys, like myself, like it specifically because we shoot it as much as we WISH we could with bigger cartridges. (I have a conversion kit for my 1911 and a .22 upper for my M-4.)

Exactly. It is much less expensive than centerfire, it's the most popular and common cartridge in the country (world?), it's a great trainer for new shooters (we are picking those up nicely these days),and it's lack of recoil and noise means you can shoot a ton without fatigue.

 

[Midwest]

I've never known of any shortage of .22LR before the current one.

Neither have I. And .22LR caliber ammo and .22LR firearms was not demonized by the media or by the politicians, or implicated in anything whatsoever. In 2008 during that 'panic' .22LR was found everywhere with no issues.

 

[Warp]

Neither have I. And .22LR caliber ammo and .22LR firearms was not demonized by the media or by the politicians, or implicated in anything whatsoever. In 2008 during that 'panic' .22LR was found everywhere with no issues.

Tons of .22lr chambered weapons have been threatened if not banned outright by the politicians.

None of the proposed legislation, none of the magazine laws, none of the "assault weapons" legislation, makes an exception for something in .22lr.

That S&W M&P 15-22 everybody wants now...to save money on some of the practice and training...is effected exactly the same as every other "AR15". And chews through .22lr like crazy.



*Except for .22lr tube fed.

 

[clutch]

why the .22 LR shortage? Newton was almost a year ago.

The shelves were bare by the end of Dec 2012. What I've purchased since I've had too look wide and hard for to avoid paying a premium. Basically, after Sandy Hook, the Romulan's uncloaked and left gun owners no doubt about their true intentions.

Ammo has been in short supply ever since.

 

[Cee Zee]

There was a "shortage" of .22 ammo in late 2008 all the way through most of 2009. It wasn't completely gone like it is now (or was). But it was hard to find in many areas. I had to call around to find places that had it and many places had limits on how much you could buy. That's when that trend got started. That shortage was due to nothing except the election of Obama. People thought he would immediately go after guns. He didn't. He waited a while.

 

[KCAce]

I have heard recently that CCI does not have their tooling set up to make .22 cases so their production is down. Don't know if this is true or not, but if so it would possibly make a difference. The source I heard this from works in retail firearm sales but it still could have been rumor. Anyone know what's happening at CCI?

KCace

 

[Warp]

I have heard recently that CCI does not have their tooling set up to make .22 cases so their production is down. Don't know if this is true or not, but if so it would possibly make a difference. The source I heard this from works in retail firearm sales but it still could have been rumor. Anyone know what's happening at CCI?

KCace

CCI .22lr has come in stock at major retailers from time to time.

I highly doubt this is true.

 

[rcmodel]

One Wal-Mart store here got 4 cases of CCI Mini-Mag in Sunday morning at 8:00 AM.

It was all gone at 9:45 AM when I got there!!

rc

 

[Warp]

Just a few weeks ago I got 1k rounds of CCI Mini Mag and 500 rounds of CCI Standard Velocity when it came in stock at Gander Mountain

 

[kevin davis]

sorry folks, a friend moving out of state just GAVE me 883 rounds of .22lr, 50 rounds of .22 mag, and 40 rounds of .38 special. sooo, no shortage here.

 

[wally]

883 rounds of .22lr, sooo, no shortage here.

Pfft, when you and the wife had been shooting 2-3000 per month, this is nothing!

 

[Stophel]

It's pretty ridiculous. I find it hard to believe that ammo companies, which have been churning out bazillions of .22 LR shells every day for a hundred years, now only seem to put out a few boxes at a time (if at all) simply because demand is supposedly higher than normal (everyone's demanding it now because no one can get it!). Even ammo for the dreaded black rifles is readily available (though granted, not at $4 a box like it was several years ago! )

I'm certainly not camping out in the Wal Mart sporting goods section, nor do I care to buy one little box of 50 shells at a time (and pay probably two or three times as much for shipping), so my .22's will have to remain sitting until (or if) ammunition becomes readily available again.

 

[Deaf Smith]

Local pawn shop here has Federal 'lighting' .22s for $2.49 a box of 50.

And Academy Sports had CCI .22 mini-mags and others, decent prices to.

So things are looking up.

Deaf

 

[Ignition Override]

My wife is making a fairly short detour to the brand-new Academy after the hairdresser, just to buy two small boxes of .22LR.
With four small boxes of Tula 7.62x39 on the list, she doesn't know that a case of this same ammo is enroute on a brown truck to the front porch.

As for .22LR in those evil black rifles, I remember a guy at the private club range showing me his .22LR chamber insert for his competition (lead-filled) AR-15, in order to reduce shooting costs. And that was about two years ago.

 

[ChaoSS]

None of the proposed legislation, none of the magazine laws, none of the "assault weapons" legislation, makes an exception for something in .22lr.

Interestingly enough, here in California, the bastion of anti gun wackjobs, the place that "leads the way" in terms of gun control, we do have exceptions made for rimfire guns. Not for magazine limits (except for tube fed) but the rest of the assault weapons laws dependent on features (including the new one waiting to be signed into law in which a detachable magazine is the only "evil feature" needed to be banned) the .22s get a pass.