ammo shortage

[M4rk]

its been 8 months since i shot my colt 22, and its still hard to find ammo here in southern CA. im lookin for CCI blazers round nose 40 grain or the winchester max .42 grain. ill buy em off u. LOL

[Microgunner]

Same here. Rimfire ammo is sporadic at best.

[M4rk]

big 5, turners, walmart, and local gunshops  got nothin.

[techmike]

Was at WalMart the other day, the ammo locker was full, except for rimfire....

Check this out

Lot's of .22 is available, expensive, but in stock.

[M4rk]

80-90$ for a 500 round brick?? wow!!

[Jrod77]

cabelas

[Longitude Zero]

I was at the Wanenmacher Gun Show this past weekend.  I saw NO 22LR ammo for sale at all.  Many venders were selling used guns for more than I can purchase the same gun at retail.  I bet most vendors had a less than stellar show sales wise.  I saw very few folks actually buying.

[Tal]

My nephew just brought me 550 round brick from Cabela's in Austing for 11.99. Said he walked in, saw it, thought of me, and bought it.

[techmike]

Great price, and a great nephew! :thumb:

[Jrod77]

wow sound like he got really lucky 500 plus round box at wall mart are over 25 bucks a box here

[Longitude Zero]

My area Wally Worlds have not had 22LR in longer than I can remember.

[Jerry D]

My lucky day! I stopped by my parents house yesterday to borrow my Fathers 30-30 and found 11 bricks of CCI 22lr boxed up as pretty as can be, sitting in the bottom of the safe. I was told that I bought them back around 1985 and they have been there since. I didn't argue and brought them home with me. BTW the price tags from Farm & Fleet read 6.95 per brick.

[techmike]

Wow, what a find!!!!! :thumb:

[Microgunner]

That's like hitting the lotto these days.

[eeyore]

Here in the Denver, the 22 ammo has been hit and miss, have yet to walk into a Walmart and find it in over a year. Every now and then I get lucky at one LGS, stopped going to another because he was nasty to me pretty much any time I came in and asked for ammo, bought a bunch of cleaning supplies there, a few accessories. But he always seemed to be pretty short because I was not buying a gun when I came in. Pretty much a self full-filing prophecy. I will not purchase a gun there because he is short with me and will not sell me ammo... He's not going to sell me any ammo because I have never bought a gun from him, of well.

  The hits here are usually a couple of boxes at Cabela's if your there early enough right after they stock, got a couple of 100 rounds at one stop at Sportsman Warehouse, My other LGS every now and then.  On Thanksgiving was able to score two bulk packs of Golden bullets as a door buster at Dick's and then after purchasing a new toy at Sportsman over the weekend, they produced a 500 round bulk pack of Thunderbolts to be available with the new toy!  (pictures coming soon)...Basically I make the rounds, If I see 22..I buy it

[Kilibreaux]

You know, "back in the day" we didn't blow off ammo like it had no value.  When we shot, we made each shot COUNT...which is to say that ammunition has an intrinsic value that should be taken into account.  I know people who think nothing of going to an indoor range and blowing through 500 rounds of ammo punching holes in paper...to what value?  So they can say they've put so many rounds through their gun?

EACH round of ANY caliber should be respected and conserved...don't just blow the shit off like it means nothing, because if the shit hit the fan tomorrow, that .40 .22LR round would be worth 100x more!

[techmike]

Back in the day, my .22 rifle was a Sears bolt action with a 7 round detachable magazine. a 50 round box of long rifles (.25 to .30 per box) would last me several days. Now I have a Colt semi-auto with 30 round mags.

[Microgunner]

Conspicuous consumption, a side effect of affluence.

[Rimfire]

I am at the point with .22 ammo, that I am ready to cut loose with one of my higher dollar .22LR long guns to get a Rossi .357 rifle. I can reload my .38/.357s a whole lot cheaper than CCI Mini-mags are running around here (if I could even find them.)

I predicted that the hoarders and re-salers where going to hurt the shooting sport, and it regrettably looks like I'm going to be right.  :confused: