i haven't seen Winchester 22lr in about 8yrs. i liked wildcat ammo a lot.
Winchester/Olin was a Union House and experienced slowdowns, shutdowns and strikes before the move came.
Then they pretty well shutdown .22 production all together when they began to move machines down south.
Then the shutdown continued as the machines and newer production equipment was installed in Mississippi.
Then it continued as they retrained new employees,
Then production slowly came online but was fraught with the usual start up issues, quality control, all that happy stuff.
Then the big Obummer scare happened, .22s being grabbed up like trading stock in an end of the world scenario,
then came the HUGE increase in consumer demand as the number of active shooters continues to grow in this country.
Slowly Winchester has increased production capability but simply cannot yet reach the level of supply and demand.
This coupled with the concerns Obummer has made clear about his desire to eliminate lead bullet ammunition from all of planet earth because it is the root cause of all that is evil and the unwillingness all ammunition manufacturers have expressed on increasing production capability until they KNOW how all that will pan out has turned .22 availability into a catch as catch can probability.
There have been imports coming in at premium prices and CCI & Federal have managed to do a bang up job of keeping SOME types of their product lines regularly available but I think it may be some time, if ever again, that we will see the choices available that we once enjoyed.
Obummer may be a great gun salesman but he is also a master of manipulating a situation.
Guns are only useful when ammunition is readily available and affordable.
