What would you do with 55,000 rounds of 22LR??

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I probably have half that amount myself. Why? Because it was available from CMP when I bought my M1 Garand and M1 Carbine ... so I bought a bunch.

Sure glad I did!
 
I would guess it depends on how much you shoot and how much you value having a sizeable cache available to you.

55,000 rounds (5.5 cases, oops, that's 11 cases) is not that much to me.
 
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Well now you're making me feel bad...

I glanced at the ad - I laughed at the price (then got to thinking 'bout selling my stash at that price!), but then when I clicked on the pix and saw it was Remington Thunderbolt...well, it was then ROTFLMAO! :D

Is there a zombie squirrel apocalypse that I should be worried about?
I know nothing about you, but if you're one of those folks that still thinks 22 / squirrels, the 22 game has really changed over the last few years.
It got so expensive to shoot the big boyz, and I waited a while for 'em to debug the AR style 22s (and the 15-22 shortage when I did decide to buy), that I only got into the 22 game around 8 months ago.

Don't ask me how much I've got stashed away...:eek:

Takes a lot of 22 to fee ye olde 15-22s, ARX-160, Colt M4 Carbine, not to mention the 4 or 5 22 pistols I now have (or, to watch all the kids shoot 'em).

Only a few months left to go to break my silencers outta NFA jail!
Now if I could only find some sub-sonic 22 in bulk...
 
By dumb luck I had ~70,000 on hand just before Sandy Hook. Less than 15K left, it'd all be gone months ago if we were still shooting .22lr like we used to.
 
I wouldn't touch it! My older Thunderbolt ammo ignites reliably, and fires accurately. My newer Thunderbolt ammo has on average 10 or so rounds in each box of 50 that just plain do nothing...dud! All I get out if those rounds is the unpleasant "click" sound of the firing pin.
 
I have been keeping it in a closet for the last decade or so and have never worried about running out. Cost $7 for 500 rounds back then. Or less than $0.10 on the dollar for his buy it now price.
 
I would have no interest in $0.14/round pricing as mentioned earlier. I didn't look at the link. If it were $0.05/round, that might be a different story even for Thunderbolts.
 
Maybe he wants to do alot of malfunction drills.
Hey, I'm with you.

I've got 'bout all the 22 I and friends need, but decided not to walk away should I run across 22 not in the particular flavor I'm looking for - I decided to never leave any on the shelf, as I always have folks looking for it.

Unless it's Thundrebolt - I can't tell you how many rounds I've bypassed over the last 8 months or so.

Some folks seem to like it, but I have yet to find anyone in my little world that has had any luck with it.

'Course, it now says on the box that it's "NEW AND IMPROVED"! :D
 
Sell it. It's a seller's market right now, though at $0.14 a round there's not much chance I'd find ready buyers enough to turn a profit over that.

I'd sell it, sock half the profits away, and replace it next year when the price is fallen.

Heck...at $0.14 a round? You can replace it NOW for half that price if you shop around.
 
Buy them and then resell for $1 a round just like the same 10 people who show up in line at Walmart do everyday...........................

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I don't believe Thunderbolts are "new and improved". Remington is adding production capacity in 22. I hope that people's attitudes change a little concerning Remington Golden Bullets as they really do fire more consistantly now.
 
I hope that people's attitudes change a little concerning Remington Golden Bullets as they really do fire more consistantly now.
But then we have reports from folks like Geno:
I wouldn't touch it! My older Thunderbolt ammo ignites reliably, and fires accurately. My newer Thunderbolt ammo has on average 10 or so rounds in each box of 50 that just plain do nothing...dud! All I get out if those rounds is the unpleasant "click" sound of the firing pin.

I guess the truth is out there somewhere, but when it comes to Thunderbolts, I'm not investing the time, money, or effort to find out.

My choices are usually Federal or Winchester - 'course, CCI is always good, but to me they're in another category (a step up in price).
 
I happen to like Remington Thunderbolts. They feed reliable in my 22 autos. It's just that I can't justify owning so many. My wife would go nuts if I had ordered that much.
 
I don't believe Thunderbolts are "new and improved".

I just double-checked the picture - must be older Thunderbolts as they don't have NEW AND IMPROVED on the box as recent stuff I've seen.

I'm going to haff to add this to my oxymoron list:
1. Military Intelligence.
2. Jumbo Shrimp.
3. Classy bowling shirt.
4. Creative destruction.
5. Friendly takeover.
6. Virtual reality.
7. NEW AND IMPROVED Thunderbolt. :D
 
Free shipping!! and it's only going for 3X what it was probably purchased for. He's was probably laughing when he put up that "Buy it now" price.
Trying to retire off this one sale maybe? Funny how there is always somebody in here agreeing with this foolishness. Nobody is that dumb to
get it at the BIN price, nobody.
Another goof trying the same thing: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=414982256 but with 80k rounds.
At least this other seller is throwing in a Miniature Dachshund with his lot. The dog is worth about $500 so there is that.
 
14 cent per shell.... ROOOOOIIIIIGGGHHHHTTTTT!!!!

Lemme get back to you on that!

I haven't bough any .22s in about 2 years. I'm not paying centerfire prices for what should be the cheapest and most readily available round on the market. Whodduh thunk in 2014 .22 LR would be more rare than hen's teeth.
 
If the Thunderbolts are pre-2000 production, they might be pretty reliable. But I highly doubt it is that old. Never could get a good feel for when Thunderbolts or Golden Bullets for that matter went down hill. It was probably around 2000. Dang that was 14 years ago.

The new and improved Golden Bullets really are more reliable. I would expect that Thunderbolts as well as Peters are loaded on the same lines/machines, but with a lower QA/QC requirement. The problem is that Remington 22 ammo went down hill and it will be very hard for them to gain the reputation back that they had in the 70's and 80's even if it is very reliable.

I still shoot Thunderbolts and yes, I deal with the mis-fires/duds. I tend to shoot them only in manual action firearms versus semi-autos. Clearing duds gets to be a real pain with a semi-auto.
 
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