What does .22LR cost in YOUR area?

[BLU]

Last week I shot up the last of my Coast to Coast ammo, (about 20 years old!) (I've been teaching Marksmanship to young people who'd never have a chance to shoot otherwise so I've expended a lot of ammo.) For years I've read about the shortage and I'm surprised to find it still with us in Central Illinois. I'm far from down on my stock but I should buy some more. At around $5 a box, when it's available, is just nuts. I can buy Perfecta 9mm for around $9. The bulk boxes of .22LR are less expensive but I'd rather have them shoot versus conduct malfunction drills on the 22/45!

Curiosity directed me to the web and I found this article interesting: http://www.ammoland.com/2016/04/dallas-wal-mart-22-lr-stock-7-cents-per-round/#axzz46EBmKHd8

I'm wondering if this is still a nation-wide situation or just one in the People's Socialist Republic of Illinois. So... what's it like in your neck of the woods?

 

[DeepSouth]

22lr is not for sale in my area, my prices include shipping.

 

[basicblur]

Our local "low cost" small gun shop (Southern central VA) has been increasingly awash in it over the last 3 or 4 months.

He started refusing the high priced target stuff quite a while back.

I asked him if he'd started refusing anything else, and he said only a certain 100-rd. box of a certain brand (don't know which) - his shelf behind the counter is about out of storage space for 22 ammo (I'm sure he has plenty in the back).

He tends to charge around $5 / box more than Walmart for bricks, but has run AutoMatch and a few others on sale at darn near Walmart prices.
His CCI stuff (in 100-rd. boxes) tends to run around $9.99 / box.

We've had a flipper working with Walmart insiders for a few years - I've finally started seeing some 22 in our local Walmart during the middle of the day, but it doesn't last long. I feel the flippers are still at work, but apparently their buddies have been moved out of the department and are not giving them a "heads up" on deliveries as they have been over the last few years.

 

[gotboostvr]

I find the Federal bulk and Remington golden bullets bulk packs for $32 a pop. Which is more than I'd like, but is agreeable.

I've been buying a box whenever I see it (pretty regularly) even though I don't have a 22.
I redistribute it to my shooting buddies who all live further out of town than me and haven't seen it for sale for a few years now. I leave the recipts in the bag and have them reimburse me so they know I'm not trying to gouge them. They do the same when they find my calibers on sale. Plus they save me their brass since I reload, I consider that payment enough.
We've got a good system.

 

[MAKster]

I have been buying the 325 round boxes of Federal Auto Match for $19.99 and the 525 round boxes of Remington Golden Bullet for $29.99.

 

[larryh1108]

I got this email alert today and thought it was a good deal. You have to order enough to cover the shipping, though.

http://palmettostatearmory.com/federal-auto-match-22lr-40gr-lead-round-nose-325rd-am22.html

 

[littlelefty]

Here in central FL I've not seen it on the local walmart shelf since Sandy Hook. I think they get it in, but there are guys who apparently don't have much else to do, and when they see it or know about it, they text their buddies, and it's gone in minutes.

I can get it at Academy for about the same price as Midway before shipping.

 

[basicblur]

I got this email alert today and thought it was a good deal

Not too bad, but shipping usually kills you (unless you need a lot, can get free shipping, or get up a group buy to split any shipping costs).

AutoMatch was $24.95 at our local dealer, but he put it on sale for $18.95 and said it would stay that price until he got rid of it all (he got a lot).

If any of your folks really like AutoMatch, might be time to start looking for some?

Federal must have cranked out a mess of the stuff lately, as I'm seeing it everywhere - local shop, local Walmart, and tons of folks online.

In our area, stuff seems to come in bunches, then disappears for quite a while.

Hopefully those gaps in shipments of particular lines will decrease as it seems 22 ammo makers are finally starting to catch up a bit.

 

[Taurus 617 CCW]

Locally I have paid $11.99 for CCI mini mags and $4.99 for 40 round boxes of American Eagle. I haven't seen bulk packs of Federal or any other brand for that matter in almost 4 years.

 

[sigarms228]

Boatloads of .22 LR ammo in these parts if you don't mind paying at least 8 cents a round.

 

[highlander 5]

Last 22 ammo I bought was Remington bucket of bullets, $89 for 1400 at Dick's IIRC.

 

[susieqz]

on the high plains, prices are still insane.
online, even adding shipping is cheaper by far.
to save on shipping i buy bulk.

 

[MedWheeler]

The only place I've been buying it locally is at Bass Pro, and they get it in every week or so. Lately, they've gotten enough in at a time that there were no purchase limits.

What I've paid the last few times, going back into February, has been about the following:

CCI MiniMag, 100-ct sleeves: $9.00

CCI MiniMag 300-ct "Choot 'em!" boxes: $22.00

Winchester whatever-their-HV-stuff-is 100-ct sleeves: $9.00

Federal Champion 325-ct boxes: $20.00

Remington Golden Bullets 1400-ct "bucket": $70.00

Remington Golden Bullets 500-ct box $25.00 (didn't buy these because the bucket was the better buy, but they had 'em.)

 

[340PD]

I am paying about 5¢-6¢ per round plus local sales tax. CCI is a bit more. Last walk through Walmarts and my LGS, all had some on the shelf.

 

[Tallball]

I can always get it now, but it is still 8 or 10 cents per round.

 

[sigarms228]

I stocked up way back and am still working off that stash.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Remington Golden Bullets 1400-ct "bucket": $70.00

Remington Golden Bullets 500-ct box $25.00 (didn't buy these because the bucket was the better buy, but they had 'em.)

Did they have a limit or something and that is why it was a better buy?

Because money wise, those both equal out to a nickel a round. At least that's what my calculations come up with. But I did go to high school and college in Arkansas, so I don't really trust it.

 

[Warp]

There isn't any. Not anywhere I ever go where ammo is well priced.

Some overpriced places have it and I don't ever want to know what it costs, it's usually way more than I would pay

 

[DeanV]

.09-.10 per round. CCI stuff, federal 0711, etc. Maybe 0.08 for the federal 325 auto stuff.

 

[ericuda]

Don't know, haven't found any local. With tax of 9% online is a good option for me. .07 or .08 and I could buy what i wanted.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

I bought a case of Automatch 325 boxes for 20 bucks cash and carry a couple of months ago.

 

[kozak6]

Many gunshops around here have a single brick they'll sell you, but that's it. And NEVER for less than $.10 a round.

 

[MedWheeler]

Arkansas Paul, my bad. My memory is off on the 500-ct boxes. What I do remember for certain was that buying the bucket amounted to about 300 extra rounds for the price compared to spending the same amount on boxes.

 

[Paladin7]

Prices where I am in the People's Republic of NY are way too high...$10 for a box of 100.

My recommendation is to stop buying 22 lr for a while and wait for the prices to drop. If we all do this, demand will drop and so will prices...simple economics.

What I've been doing is reloading 38 Special. I can handload a box of 100 38 Specials for about $6.

Bottom line...I'll wait until prices drop on 22 lr before I buy any more.

 

[MIL-DOT]

My LGS's have had bulk Federal and Remington in stock for a good while now, but last I checked, it all seems to still be running around $40-50 a brick.
My Wal-marts periodically get some CCI stuff in (I've seen mini-mags and SV's), in the 100-rd plastic cases, and they're usually around $8, IIRC. They tell me they haven't seen any of the old bulk bricks in a few years now.