Posted on 04/20/2016 6:54:22 AM PDT by marktwain
The presence of .22 rimfire at Wal-Mart has been uncommon for three years now. When President Obama pushed for more infringements on the Second Amendment, starting in 2013, the demand for .22 rimfire skyrocketed. Instead of raising prices on the ammunition sufficiently to bring demand down to reasonable levels, manufacturers tried to keep prices stable to earn customer good will. It failed as a strategy. With the demand so high, less public entrepreneurs purchased all the .22 they could obtain, then offered it over the Internet, at gun shows, and other venues, at three to four times the price purchased. The producers stayed with their artificially low price policy, and the middlemen made money.
If the producers had raised prices, the money would have gone to them, and there would have been no reason not to increase production, which would have satisfied demand, and lead to lower prices again.
Gradually, producers did raise prices, though far below what the market would bear. In 2016, producers have purchased and put into production the expensive machinery needed to increase the output of .22 rimfire.
At the Shot Show, I was told by a reliable source, that CCI and Federal production would be increased by 20% in 2016. That would be close to 900 million rounds a year. Aquila said that they would be increasing their production by 30%. They were a little vague about the total numbers, but the increase should be about 250 million rounds a year.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Good price for the Standard Velocity ... I would hold out for the Mini Mags.
I bought a few boxes recently. What’s with the crappy packaging of the CCI. Cardboard boxes with the plastic top?
Wake me up when they get back down to 4 cents a round.
7c a round for .22? What a rip off. A 500 round brink should be about $8.
Glad I stocked up when it was cheap and I don’t have to deal with these thieves.
With *this* election looming ahead, you might be sleeping for a long damned time.
I accumulated a bunch of those neat little 100 round orange CCI mini-mag boxes. Dump out the bullet holder and it made cool storage boxes for shell holders or whatever in your pistol box.
my problem is, I like to shoot, a lot. When I stock up, it doesn't stay stocked up. Then I have to go see the thieves.
Someone get this guy a jobber price sheet. Prices skyrocketed, you can see it on your local gun store shelves, and Walmart, after the three big distributors they were using closed down, have finally started picking up lots at the manufacturers and acting as their own distributors.
Prices on jobber sheets have dropped for the last three quarters, prices are back to about where they were 4 years ago after the wild ride of lead going well over a buck a pound and the incredibly high distribution costs have settled back down with the rock bottom diesel prices. Expect dealers to have the lower prices in another 6 months as distributors sell out of the more expensive inventory.
But man, honestly, does anyone at ammoland do more than talk to merchandise reps? Pick up the dang phone and call some account managers at the various manufacturers and get some real information.
Maybe they finally got tired of keeping most of the stock in the back. This whole thing has been artificial. No gun store I go to has a lack of ammo. It only seems to be WalMart.
Where have you been?
I’ve always bought the little full plastic units. I guess I’ll have to save them now to re-use instead of shooting them up.
The 5,000 rnd box should keep you stocked-up for a few weekends:
Why do you feel that it should be sold at less than their manufacturing cost?
Please detail their raw material costs, parts fabrication cost, assembly cost, packaging cost, shipping cost, marketing and sales costs, employee benefits cost, utilities cost, other overhead costs and a small profit margin.
If you don't know the facts, please do not post erroneous misinformation.
You and like minded hoarders are the very cause of the current shortage and marketplace disruption.
We have met the enemy - it is the hoarders.
Those "thieves" to which you allude are simply applying the basic economics of supply and demand. They have provided a service to those that don't have the time or opportunity to drive around town and wait in line to buy their daily ration. Free enterprise at its best.
Yes, the rimfire ammo market will eventually stabilize and those hoarders that paid far too much for their stashes will rationalize endlessly about their unwise purchasing decisions, all meant to satisfy irrational thoughts about foiling "thieves".
I prefer CCI Stingers.
Stingers kill 30% deader!
I found years ago that CCI Mini-Mags will not operate the action of several semi auto pistols and rifles I had.
Federal works good on all of them except the Iver Johnson Walther look alike TP-22. Only regular Winchester makes that pistol work.
Needless to say, I have not fired them in years as no replacement ammo was on the market.
The Gun Nut (Old 1500 German Poem)
I am an upright citizen.
I cannot stand the smell of powder even.
Yet I own all kinds of weapons,
Bringing me but few laudations,
Since I know not how to use them,
Just to see that rust,
Does not suffuse them.
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