Posted on 03/06/2014 7:37:42 PM PST by Kartographer
Agree, there is no way that market forces can produce a shortage of 22LR lasting over a year.
22LR is the ordinary simple stuff which people use to put food on the table in hard times. Somebody does not want the American people to be able to do that.
If you have a weapon that DOESN’T shoot Russian, well, good luck.
I cornered Cabbelas when my CCI .22LR went over a year. They said bulk packaging was the problem. They delivered my order
in 375rd boxes @ 20.00 per. It was either that or just keep waiting.
The only thing I can figure out is (in my conspiratorial mind)... if the folks who want to buy the ammo know they have to come in early they will be semi-massed together and be easier to photograph/get license plates/track all at once. Otherwise, with plentiful supplies, THEY would have to hang around the Walmart all day long and ammo buyers would get all mixed up with the casual shoppers.
The idea of panic/paranoia buying doesn’t hold up logically. There have been no reports of the fed buying .22LR. They don’t use it. Why would there be an 18 month run on the one round we all know the gov’t has no use for? It doesn’t make any sense.
The manufacturers are still making it, yet only scraps are showing up in the retail stores. It’s going somewhere. If anyone has a better, less sinister, guess as to where, I’m all ears.
I’m going to pick up a couple of ‘range packs’ of 9 x 18 for my CZs
That’s ok time is coming soon where you will have a good chance of being shot with a good old American made weapon.
My grandson wanted to compete in some shooting sport that takes .22LR so I pulled out some of the ammo that no one knew I had. Phew, it was hollow point and he couldn’t use it.
Ammo is incredibly expensive, if you can even get it.
Reloading supplies are incredibly expensive, if you can get them.
You can still get pellets and pellet guns. Lots of options too. Very accurate.
Great for practice. Great for teaching new shooters to shoot. Great for small game, especially in .22 or .25 caliber.
Not great for self defense, but better than nothing.
Not sure how long until the run starts on pellets...
Recall also that the .22 is a good urban warfare round. Chechens allegedly used it to good effect in the second war with Russia. It’s advantage was sniping effectiveness at 50-150 yards with nearly no noise fired from cover in a heavy conflict environment.
Check in at Widener’s, they have good prices on combloc stuff right now. 115 gr 9mm IMI is 40 per 150 round range pack.
It is fundamentally a problem of allocating brass. Fedzilla has placed such huge orders for asap delivery that the brass is allocated to 9mm and 40 cal production lines, not 22lr. When the price stabilizes at around $40 to $50 per 333 rounds the supply of 22lr will magically appear again.
I’ll have to check that out. I have been buying ammo at Gander Mountain and Cabelas and they have tons of it. The only thing I can’t find is fresh brass for 300 win mag. Looks like the military is buying it all up. I can find plenty of 300 WM ammo however so I’m just buying it up for the brass.
Strike that, the IMI 9mm is about 15/50. The 9 x 18 is 40/150.
Good thing you did. There isn’t a big supply of domestically produced 5.45. However, there’s quite a lot of domestically produced 7.62x39, albeit at 3x the price of Russian ammo. It is one of the reasons I have only bought AK47 pattern rifles not AK74. I have several spam cans of the stuff, so I am not too concerned about a disruption in the Russian supply. The only ammo I have a little difficulty getting right now is cheap Federal or Winchester White Box fmj target 9mm.
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I didn't put two and two together, but it struck me that the cheapie Russian stuff was simply not there.
I just read the posted article here, so I jumped over to J&G and ordered a 750-round case of 9x18 Makarov, since I have 7 pistols that eat the stuff.
Here in Indy .357 is very difficult to come by.
Havent seen 22 in months... but its all over GunBroker... at 10 cents a round plus.
I have had luck getting .45 acp at WM and other places.. seen several boxes of 9, and 40s.
I figured it was just as easy to start reloading, comes out to about 16 a round for .45 acp. got most of what I needed in powder and primers, bought a Dillon 550b.
will buy 22s when they appear again.
and just reload for the 7mm RM, and .45
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