Posted on 07/14/2016 12:07:39 PM PDT by marktwain
By Dean Weingarten
I chanced to be at the local WalMart in Yuma today. This is the store on the frontage road off of old Highway 8, East of town. Until Friday, June 24, 2016, I had not seen any .22 Long Rifle in the store for three years.
On that date, there were 2,300 rounds of CCI Mini-Mags and 1,000 rounds of CCI Standard Velocity. The Mini-Mags were in plastic 100 round boxes at $7.47 a box. The Standard Velocity were in paper, 50 round boxes at $3.47 a box. I was told by the clerk, Yittzel, that they would be gone in a few days. I am sure that she was correct.
Just 10 days later, on the 3rd of July, I was in the same store, and there were 1900 rounds of CCI Stinger, in 50 round boxes. It is premium .22 Long Rifle ammunition, and has always been pricey. The price was $6.47 for a box of 50, or a little under 13 cents a round. They also had CCI .22 Maxi-Mag, .22 magnum rimfire cartridges, for $13.47 a box of 50, or nearly 27 cents a cartridge. It has been scarce, but not as bad as the .22 Long Rifle.
The clerk, Britanny, was very helpful. She expected the .22 to be gone by late that afternoon. Both clerks said that many people stopped in to buy .22, purchased the maximum three boxes allowed, and were suspected of reselling it for a profit at local gun shows or through the internet.
Two sightings in 10 days after three years was remarkable.
Today, the 8th of July, there were two cases of bulk pack Federal .22 Auto Match.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
San Diego Walmart no .22 in Years.
9mm.,308,.45 ,.38 and most others but no .22
It was three years before I saw it in the Yuma WalMart.
It’s just strange, I’ve got other things to hone my skills.
Take care of Yuma, love it!
I plan to “retire “ in AZ,,,soon.
Odd ... my S&W MP15 likes all the above
Though I love my Ruger .22WMR ... ammo is hard to find and a bit pricy.
Ruger 10-22. Accept no substitute.
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I’m seventy. When I was in the fourth grade, my older brother would bring his Remington bolt .22lr rife to school for the rifle team, on the school bus! I carried his ammo: 50 rounds of LR for $.25. I learned to shoot with the peep sight on that rifle. Sadly, my old eyes could not even start to use it now.
Yeah, they've done a lot of work on them since they first came out. I have one of the first models, (before they put the flash hider on them) and they had a lot of problems with them. Mine literally blew up in my face when I tried to run CCI Stingers through it.
I sent it back and they reconfigured it, and now it works great. But I'm sticking with mini mags, because they work every shot.
Correction, the rifle was a .22 long shooter ... and we shot shorts in it also. It was not an LR shooter.
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