Tytan01
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Anyone charging more than $19.99 for 500 22lr of ANY kind needs to be shunned.
Price gouging cannot be rewarded.
Price gouging cannot be rewarded.
Brick of .22 ammo
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germansheperd
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Why? No one is forcing anyone to buy anything.
FYI the $20 brick has gone by the way of the dodo bird sorry. Going rate on a brick is $90+ and once again you don't have to buy it and nobody is asking/forcing you.
I couldn't ask that kind of price for it.
Now if someone wants to offer me something of value for some, like a gun, I have to admit to being pretty tempted...
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FWIW, today I paid $3.99 per box of CCI regular velocity.22lr, which comes to about $40 per brick. Thats about my limit for run-of-the-mill 22 ammo.
I am thinking that my ammo stock pile may soon be worth more than my 2018 Toyota. No plans to sell but when my son gets up from AZ I will give most of it to him. Been passing along a gun or two every year now that I don't shoot much any more.
I can remember paying a buck fifty for CCI Mini Mags.
But then again I can remember when the young ladies used to smile at me and not because I was just a harmless old man.
I have somehow managed to get over both changes without complaining about it.
But then again I can remember when the young ladies used to smile at me and not because I was just a harmless old man.
I have somehow managed to get over both changes without complaining about it.
From waaay back in the safe
. The good OLD days
. The good OLD days
Tim Stapp
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My LGS had a two box limit. I visit every Tuesday, always asking for primers. My high school friend saw me walk in and shook his head. I asked what DID he have and he showed me two 100 round boxes of CCI subsonic ath $12.95. I cleaned him out.
My brother lives near a rather large sporting goods store. They get shipments in daily, he said all ammo related items are gone by 10:00 am. They open at 8:00. Last week he scored 150 rounds for his AR and picked up for me 200 rounds of .22 LR and a box of hunting ammo for my beloved .308.
My brother lives near a rather large sporting goods store. They get shipments in daily, he said all ammo related items are gone by 10:00 am. They open at 8:00. Last week he scored 150 rounds for his AR and picked up for me 200 rounds of .22 LR and a box of hunting ammo for my beloved .308.
I'll bet that these old boxes of .22 that I have were a bit less than a dollar apiece back in the day.
A year ago, those vintage boxes were worth more than what was inside them.
It is only rewarded and will only continue as long as someone pays more for it.
People that are paying $30-$50 for a $10 box of 9mm are bringing this on themselves. The 2 boxes and good for life new buyers would have been set by now if everyone else didn't panic with now or never buying. The shelf cleaners would be dumping at cost or below if they were buying what they can't use or have more $$$ tied up than they can afford to spend.
Most of us, those that looked ahead anyway, don't NEED more ammo even if we WANT more ammo.
Sit back for a while, don't feed the panic and it might not get back to where it was, but it will be better than what it is.
They are all full with their original ammo. Does that increase their value?
Ivan the Butcher
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I graduated HS in 1974. The discounter behind where I worked treated ammo as a seasonal item. Starting Labor Day weekend ammo was on sale, it had to be gone by Thanksgiving for the Christmas inventory, So I started buying when the 79 cent a box 22's hit 50% off! I still have several thousand of 1970's Thunderbolt and Wildcat, I bought at 75% off the 79 cent list price. Several years ago a Target shooter approached me for Thunderbolts. He had an Old Anschutz 2000 and that was the ammo it loved. I sold him one brick for $80, and he was very grateful! My Anschutz prefers Eley Club Plus or Team, I have several pre shortage 2008 bricks that cost $100-120, in that time frame, the top of the line Eley and Lapua 22's were $21-25/50 rounds! There is gouging and then there is the fact "Quality Costs!"
When you don't know what you are looking at it all looks like gouging.
Ivan
When you don't know what you are looking at it all looks like gouging.
Ivan
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TennTony
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Like many here my supply of .22 LR exceeds 5,000 rounds. Not feeling to bad about passing up chances to buy ammo in 2017 to 2019. Wish I had bought more in the 1980's but money was much tighter back then.
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I'm thinking Rudi saw Golden Bullet 525 packs.
The Yellowjacket was a premium, hyper velocity varmint round and was quite accurate for a 1500+ fps round.
They would blow the bejeezus out of ground squirrels.
Like you said, they never sold them in bulk packs.
I have really liked the Golden Bullet ammo I've shot the last couple years. They all go off, no damaged rounds, are decently accurate, and no golden "pixie dust" on your fingers or in the bottom of the box.
The Golden Bullets are much improved from their low point of 5 -10 years ago, most guys that hate on them haven't tried any of the recent production GBs.
They aren't as accurate as the Mini-mags I buy, but they are half the price, fine for plinking or shorter range hunting.
Walmart hasn't jacked up their prices, I've been buying 525 GB packs for $24.97, and 100 round packs of Mini-mags are still $7.97.
The local ranch store has been getting in the 1500 round buckets of Goldens, price is $95.
It sounded high at first because Walmart sells the buckets for $64 when they get them in, but even at $95 that's just $32 a brick, not bad in today's market.
Don't hate me but when bricks of 500 were cheap ($10 or less at gunshows), I bought a bunch and dumped them into large plastic coffee cans for convenience.
I still have several full cans.
Good for you!!! Can't be ashamed to be ahead of the game. I bought a number of bricks of .22 years back when a state lawmaker proposed a nickle per round tax on every caliber. Luckily it failed to pass. The odds of similar proposals failing has dropped significantly in the last couple of months.
sadly there are people who shamelessly whine about "ammo hoarders". While they slept, others paid attention and bought.
About a year ago Target Sports had 5,250 rd cases of Federal 36 gr plated hp's for $199 with a $4/box rebate. I bought 2. They had truckloads they were trying to move due to the "***** slump." Nobody called me a "hoarder" then, different now that they are out. I'll probably be a couple years past dead by the time I use those cases. I'm still shooting $9.87 550 rd "Wallyboxes" I bought maybe 15-20 years ago. Joe
scattershot
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$179.00 for a BRICK? Not even premium ammo. I remember not too long ago those went for $10.00. Strange times.
Not so strange, just reading posts here there are guys proud of themselves for picking up a brick of low end rimfire for $50. Besides paying the heavy price they brag they didn't really need them. Then they all puzzle over why prices are so high. Maybe, just maybe they are part of the problem. If they are worried guns are going to be outlawed their ammo won't be worth Jack anyway. The black market stuff from overseas will leave them holding the bag. Of course you need the appropriate number of rounds to correspond with how many rolls of wiping paper you are "sitting" on.
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