Yeah! Bob and DHS bought up all the .22 LR! Thats it! Thats why I can’t find any .22! I can find .223 5.56 .45 and 9mm but its that darn high powered sniper tactical .22 LR!
I haven’t been able to locate a brick of .22’s in Texas in eighteen months. Only a few scattered 50 packs.
I was in Cabelas in Louisville a couple of months ago. Man in the ammo dept told me he got 100,000 rounds of 22LR in and sold all of them in a half a Saturday. No purchasing agents there from DHS.
Until the Great Ammo Shortage I did 80% of my range practice with the 22. Primarily for economics because the marksmanship techniques are the same regardless of caliber. Right now, because of availability and cost, 80% has been the AK. Now that AR is down to almost normal levels (online anyway) it’s finally going to get some range time.
I had a pretty good inventory of 22LR before the shortage & what I purchased since has been only at the right price, rare but it has happened. But I’m sitting on them until a (relatively) normal market in 22LR returns. Only shooting what can be replaced at decent price and only buying what I shoot. IOW, not using much.
Point is, even though I’m in good shape, if Walmart had bricks tomorrow at $30 or less, I’d buy 4 of them and then spend some real time at the range, use them all. I’m guessing there are a lot like me. From here on in, my standard *minimum* inventory is greater than it was 2 years ago when I could stroll in Wally World and get CCI mini mags for $7.95 a hundred.