Okay, pardon the way this is going to sound - apologies in advance - but it's been a while since I bought bulk .22LR. Is $30/500 a good price or just average now?
The last time I bought that same Aguila HP - which I consider one of the better .22LR rounds out there - was probably about three years ago, maybe four, and I bought two bricks for $24, on sale. IIRC, $20/500 was full retail? After the O'Panics of 2009/10 and 2015/16, prices for .22LR went into the ditch, briefly and I stocked up so I really don't recall what "normal" prices are supposed to be.
The last two bricks of .22LR I bought were 2018 (pre-plandemic, obviously) Fiocchi standard-velocity 40gr. premium target for $15/500 and Eley-Tenex Semi-Auto 42gr. subsonic for $40/500, both on the clearance table at Beckwith's (Micanopy, FL). I paid up for the Eley-Tenex - which was a smokin' deal at $40/500! - because it cycles my 1930's Colt Woodsman and Hi-Standard Duramatic M-101 reliably and hits POA out of both. Great ammo but P-R-I-¢-Y, even in good times.
I'm out of the Eley-Tenex and haven't seen it in about two years - since 2018 in fact. I still have plenty of CCI and Federal subsonic, quite a lot of the CCI .22Long and Short for my pump and bolt action Remingtons, Am almost out of CCI CB's, still have a brick of Aguila, two partial bricks of CCI SV/RN, and a brick of the Fiocchi SV/RN "Performance Olympic" - which I also have not seen since 2018.
