What bothers me is that we’ve gone since the 2012 election without being able to buy 22 ammo easily while shotshells have been easy to find. 22LR Is the ordinary simple stuff which people use to put food on the table in hard times and somebody in our government is bothered by that possibility for some reason. By the same token, shotgun sports are a pastime of the well-off and Bork obunga has to know that the fat cats who back him would come down on his hiney like a ton of bricks were he to mess with shotshell availability. That’s despite shotshells using far more lead and powder than 22 ammo.
I am not convinced that we are close to a crash.
http://ammoseek.com/ammo/22lr?from=resultspage
22 LR (other than the the quiet, powderless Aguila) is still over $0.10 a round unless you have a quantity limit (in which case shipping make it very expensive) or a huge membership fee. 22 LR doesn’t stay on the WalMart shelves for very long because there’s a line before they even stock the stuff, and they have a 3 box limit. We may have somewhat caught up with the demand, but there are a whole lot of shooters who suddenly decided they want a lifetime supply of 22 LR, for themselves and for their kids. We have a whole lot of shooters who have decided they want to be proficient just in case there is a need, and not just have a gun in the corner or in the safe. There are a whole lot of new shooters who are joining the older ones and shooting regularly (I know - my last three trips to a range with well over 100 shooting stations have included waiting for my turn, or shooting 200 yards when my plan was to shoot 100 yards).
I have used this guy ever since I was in Blackwater USA/Worldwide - most of the guys get their ammo from patriot!
.223 - 500 rd case = $185 / .37 ea
Some guys bought pallets of ammo...reliable and trustworthy.
$10 for 500 rounds of .22LR sounds great. Sign me up. Last time I went to a gun show the best price I found was $32 for 50 rounds of CCI Mini Mag .22LR. I haven’t seen it at Wal-Mart in over 2 years.
Couldn’t find brass-cartridge 9mm for my SIL’s birthday present to save my life, but did find steel-jacket for $12 at Wally World. A significant price drop from a year ago.
Yep, my fav 5.56 Federal Lake City M193 is already back down to 35 cents/rd.
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Waiting for the Win 30-30 to drop before buying again.
The Walmart closest to me has no rifle or pistol ammo, only shotgun shells. And it has been that way for two years.
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It can crash all it wants I still can’t even find a mention of Remington 35.
One critical piece that seems to be ignored is simple economics. People need money to buy ammunition, or even reloading components. Contrary to the Mis-information being put out there, the economy has not improved.
Food prices have risen and are still on an upward swing. Healthcare costs have gone up. Fuel costs are still at levels higher than they were when Obama took office. Yet the income levels of families and individuals has declined.
Just at look at information from the retail sector. Store closings are being announced, earnings by the giants such as Wal-Mart have even declined.
It isn’t that people don’t want to buy more ammo, they simply can’t.
Bookmark.
I'm still waiting for the day I see .22 LR for sale at all.
why is it that whenever people figure out what's going on and talk about it, they're called conspiracy theorists? / rhetorical
A current logical alternative to the shortage of .22 cartridges is a high quality .22 pellet rifle where a tin of 500 will only cost you between $5 and $10 depending on your brand preference......