Posted on 05/09/2013 4:43:47 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
I've been on Midway's notification list for 22LR. Got an email time stamped 7:07, caught it by 7:30 and they were already sold out again.
I don't know how much they sold in 23 minutes but it was all they had.
Now they aren't even keeping the list.
I can't have. All of this week's socks are right here near the desk where I dropped them.
I think I'll go take a nap now.
/johnny
bb’s and pellets are a lot cheaper and the airguns are better now.
While we were sorting through the boxes we found a couple bricks of .22LR and a couple boxes of 30-06, .357 Magnum, and .45 ACP down inside a box of tools. My friend gave them to me for safekeeping. My house is the rendezvous point for our group, should anything happen, and by pre-positioning the ammo there he is saving about twenty pounds worth of weight that he'd have to carry fifteen miles.
I wish we could find more hidden treasures like that.
One of the tools the Chechens used against the Russians in the first battle of Grozny was 22LR using a improvised silencer. Being as engagement distances in built up areas average about 55 yds the 22LR performed more than adequately.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htweap/20120830.aspx
http://www.hickokfamilygenealogy.com/Lethality_of_the_22_LR.html
I think Poterfield’s people are pulling a scam on customers. I got an email notification on American Eagle 147gr 9mm stamped 2:20AM. I happened to be on the computer at 2:30 and it was supposedly out of stock in that ten minute interval. I don’t believe them, so I’ve blocked their darned email crap as spam now.
With a good scope a decent .22 will reach out pretty good.
basically, they should raise their prices for the time being
However, I live in town, and wanted something that made little noise but would take down small animals. I got a Walther PPQ pellet/BB handgun. It doesn't have the blowback feature which means it is quiet and doesn't kick. I didn't want noise in the city telling people I was firing any kind of gun. Blowback capability costs more ($40 more maybe) but that was not the reason for getting the non-blowback. I didn't want noise.
The cheapest price I found was Walmart so I ordered it from them. Imagine that, buy a gun on the internet plus “bullets” and no one cares. As soon as Senator Schumer finds out pellets kill animals, these guns and pellets will be outlawed.
I have numerous tins of hollow point pellets for it and extra magazines (if you can call those little round things magazines).
Those pellets are lead - your hands will be totally black from that stuff, so I wear one-use medical gloves to work with the pellets loading them into the magazines. I load a bunch at one time so I don't have to keep messing with that black lead.
I also got a pellet “pouch” to put the pellets in rather than keeping them in a tin where they fall out easily on the floor, etc.. I don't want my Yorkie to eat lead pellets as the lead would kill her.
The rounds are starting to show back up. AK ammo is everywhere, even Wolf 308 NATO is showing up, yet still quite hard to find reasonably in brass, 9mm is coming down as well as 45 ACP. But 22lr is still hard to find at reasonable prices. In a pinch, you can still find pretty good deals on gunbroker, no matter how many here want to bash it.
Last week I stopped at my local gunshop, a place that has been open and thriving for more than 40 years. I asked about .22LR and was told that they hadn’t seen any for 12 weeks. They have had orders standing with three suppliers for more time than that. So I asked how odd was this in their experience. The guy that had been at this store since it’s opening told me he had never seen anything like this. No 9mm, no .40 cal., no .223, nothing in .30cal. and next to nothing in 12 ga. We talked about how the DHS was buying up everything and was that the cause? He had no opinion, but the stories of people buying up hand truck loads of ammo wasn’t happening where he could see it. The conversation went on to .22 LR and he said his sources told him that the FBI had been issued .22 automatics and he opined that that was where all the .22 was going.
This is a guy I have dealt with since ‘76 and I have never seen him as a tinfoil type fellow. His parting words were to be very, very careful with this government.
YMMV
As did I and so am I. The wife thought I was crazy when she saw me loading up on 22LR rounds. Now, she sees the OldPossum as not quite so dumb. Dumb still, though, alas.
I haven’t spoken to my wife in over three months. We’re not fighting, I just don’t like to interrupt.
32 years is the answer to your next question.
Our small gun shop had some .22 long lifle, but it is $6/ box of 50.
Yep.
Er, that should have gone to gorush. Maybe the wife has a point.
I’m paying 44.00 per 100 rnd boxes of American Eagle .223 brass, just thankful I can get it anytime and believe me I have plenty. Bought 1000 rnds .22 LR a month ago from Walmart for 55.00.
Just looked at my receipt from wally world and it was 1250 rnds of .22 LF FOR 55.00.
I recently came across two misplaced and differently designed, 100 round boxes of CCI mini mag long rifle in my house, clearly from different purchases in the past, the one with a price tag still on it read $4.20, so I guess it must not be very old.
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