Long time lurker here, first time poster.
I just thought I would give a heads up on my experience with getting 22 lr ammo.
Since January I have been hovering around 500 rounds of 22 lr. So I have been slowly trying to up my stash size.
Back in mid January, someone posted on these forums that Bass Pro shops was taking backorders on the phone with an estimated ship date of 2/14. So I placed an order for 10 boxes of 500 rds of Federal Champion at around .04 cents a round.
2/14 came and went and I received no order shipment detail, so I called Bass Pro. Of course it was too good to be true, they said my backorder had pushed out and based on updates from Federal, they gave me a new estimated ship date of late June.
I told them to hold my backorder but essentially abandoned hope. Today, I was blown away when out of the blue I got a shipment notice of the ammo. I even called them to confirm because I thought it was a mistake.
So there was several reason I made this new thread (none of them involving gloating or bragging):
1) If you backordered from Bass Pro, hang in there because your order could be coming soon.
2) Ammo panic could be dying down or people could be getting their fill of ammo, because Bass Pro customer service person told me a lot of customers who ordered 20+ boxes of 500 rds of LR had been cancelling their orders (which might have pushed my order up sooner).
3) Ammo suppliers are hopefully catching up somewhat with demand.
I just thought I would give a heads up on my experience with getting 22 lr ammo.
Since January I have been hovering around 500 rounds of 22 lr. So I have been slowly trying to up my stash size.
Back in mid January, someone posted on these forums that Bass Pro shops was taking backorders on the phone with an estimated ship date of 2/14. So I placed an order for 10 boxes of 500 rds of Federal Champion at around .04 cents a round.
2/14 came and went and I received no order shipment detail, so I called Bass Pro. Of course it was too good to be true, they said my backorder had pushed out and based on updates from Federal, they gave me a new estimated ship date of late June.
I told them to hold my backorder but essentially abandoned hope. Today, I was blown away when out of the blue I got a shipment notice of the ammo. I even called them to confirm because I thought it was a mistake.
So there was several reason I made this new thread (none of them involving gloating or bragging):
1) If you backordered from Bass Pro, hang in there because your order could be coming soon.
2) Ammo panic could be dying down or people could be getting their fill of ammo, because Bass Pro customer service person told me a lot of customers who ordered 20+ boxes of 500 rds of LR had been cancelling their orders (which might have pushed my order up sooner).
3) Ammo suppliers are hopefully catching up somewhat with demand.
