I have to stop...

I usually purchased .22 by the case, particularly CCI Standard Velocity from SGAmmo. Prior to the panic I think I was paying $250 a case. Now I pay close to double that from Palmetto. I've always had plenty on hand for shooting about 2k/mo. No shortage for this Tennessee plinker. :)

If someone wants to have .22s to take their kids out shooting just keep an eye on this thread. http://smith-wessonforum.com/smith-...stock-22lr-ammo-thread-172.html#post138754382
 
Kinda the same idea, I have plenty but I feel guilty when I shoot it. :(

Didn't have that problem when the stuff was regularly on the shelves...,
 
Gee, this winter I shot up a box that had $.73 price tag from Grand Central.
Am I behind the times or what?
 
I decided to count mine last week. Was surprised to find over 24,000 rounds on hand. I do need to slow down a bit.

BUT . . . my son and I go through an average of about 300 rounds/week. So that's only about a year and 8 months worth. Considering that fact it's enough, but not crazy.
 
I built my supply up to about 6000 rounds once I realized that I could go through a brick in an afternoon with my Mark III. Now I shoot my Single Six more than the mark III, and can usually buy enough to replace what I shoot.
 
Sounds like some of you guys aren't shooting much .22.

Here's a cure for that. :D

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I haven't bought any in six months or so, but that ain't saying I won't add to the 20K or so stash I have on hand.

I have given a bunch away, shot some, and even traded some for a gun.

I don't have any marked as cheap as Caje, but I do find a brick marked $9.99 occasionally. I don't feel the slightest twinge of guilt about continuing to buy .22lr. At the shop where I work, we will get in 8-10 bricks. We will mark a good profit on the 50 round boxes and sell a few along. Finally, someone will come in and buy the last few bricks, gladly paying the per 50 round price.

I think there is probably a pretty good supply of .22 out there. I think people just don't want to pay for it. People come in the store and pick up a box, complain about the price, and put it down. They make some kind of remark about remembering when it was .75 cents a box. "Yeah, and I remember when gas was .29 cents a gallon," I say. I also tell them that I can better afford it at $4.00 per 50 than I could when it was .50 cents a box.

Yeah, if I happen to see a fairly good deal, or just happen to "feel flush," I'll keep buying. Won't feel guilty, either.;)
 
redlevel said:
I think there is probably a pretty good supply of .22 out there. I think people just don't want to pay for it.
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I agree. Palmetto has had a steady supply of CCI Standard Velocity at $45/brick for many months. Only recently have they put a limit on orders and that's 10 bricks (case of 5,000) per order.

Sure, it used to be about $250 a case and now it's $450. But it's all relative. When I take the wife out to dinner and a movie it costs me $100. I usually get indigestion and fall asleep during the movie. A couple bricks of CCI for the same price is a bargain. ;)
 
ChattanoogaPhil said:
...Sure, it used to be about $250 a case and now it's $450. But it's all relative. When I take the wife out to dinner and a movie it costs me $100. I usually get indigestion and fall asleep during the movie. A couple bricks of CCI for the same price is a bargain. ;)
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Living dangerously. I hope she doesn't see that! :D
 
My local gun shop has all the .22 LR you want to buy, no limit. It is made by Eley in England. Of course the price is high but it is available.

I don't shoot .22s all that much. I bought some bricks from various makers between the last two panics, so I think I'm fine. I believe the price would come down if people who already have 20,000 rounds weren't buying out the store whenever it gets a meager shipment.
 
Not sure that it was the guys with 20k who panicked, but rather those who didn't keep a large supply that ran around like chickens with their heads cut off in panic mode trying to buy rimfire at any price.

I say buy buy buy and buy some more. Stockpile and hoard. That's the only thing that will prevent or otherwise soften another panic.
 
SaxonPig said:
As everyone knows for the past 3 years 22 LR ammo has been in very short supply. When this started I had about 2,000 rounds on the shelf. That's enough for several years at the rate I use them.

But i worried as the shortage continued. So I started dropping in at my local Walmart a couple times each week to see if they had any on the shelf. About 95% of the time they did not. When they did, there was a 3 box limit. I bought what they had when they had it.
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Recently I started feeling like I had accumulated too much. Even with very hit and miss acquisitions I had built up my stores dramatically. I started sharing with friends who were low. I gave away 4 or 5 bricks. I gave some away to stranger I met at the store as he was desperately seeking ammo so his granddaughter could shoot the rifle she got for Christmas. But even as I unloaded some boxes I obtained more here and there over the months and the stack grew.

Today I stopped for some groceries and they had 525 bricks of Remington and 100 box Winchesters. I bagged the bricks (last 3 they had gotten in). By a quick estimate I now have about 20,000 rounds stored up. Far more than a lifetime supply. I shouldn't buy any more but I'm afraid that if I see it I will bag it out of paranoia.

I wish this situation would correct itself. If I saw a plethora of 22 ammo on the dealers' shelves I could stop buying in comfort.
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If you have an Academy near you? they, or at least here, stopped the limit. Now its all you can buy.
 
I have several guns chambered for it- and two teenaged boys to help shoot it.

I've got a good stash of mostly bulk that I've bought over the last 2 years - at an average of less than a nickel a round - so I won't buy any unless it is 6 cents a round or less.

I have a good supply, so I don't feel exactly guilty shooting any of it - more like slightly apprehensive. I mean, what if we shoot it all up and there's still none to be had at reasonable prices?
 
" ... I started sharing with friends who were low. "

I'm with SP on this, when you have plenty it's never wrong to play a good deed forward.
Most of us have a "buy" price in our heads for a deal on rimfire, mine's 6 to 8 cents a round for the common stuff.

It don't spoil and there will always be another shortage.
Buy it when it's cheap & stack it deep.

GF
 
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