Thread: Why the shortage of 22LR ammo?
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Old 05-04-2013, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by steamloco76 View Post
I never bought much .22 LR ammo at Walmart, as several gun shops and the net beat their prices. In 2010 I noticed the supply of .22 starting to dry-up and began purchasing several bricks of my favorite rounds-Federal 510 and CCI Standard whenever I found it on sale. So glad I did, as any .22 ammo is unobtainable right now in W. PA.

The other caliber you can't get- .30-30 Win. Guys are trading-in many .30-30 rifles for .270's, 7MM's and other calibers because there is no ammo for the venerable lever guns.
That has been the shocker for me. There isn't a box of 30-30 ammo for sale on the planet it seems. 30-30 went out of vogue here years ago. For 20 years now, you were laughed at if you showed up with a rifle that didn't have "magnum" stamped on the barrel.
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