Things are turning around. I received two 15-22 mags from S&W earlier this week. Today two 15-22 mags arrived from Cabela's. I walked into a LGS today, and they had a rack full of 15-22 mags ($30), and a rack full of 20 and 30 round pmags.
A few days ago, I finished off the last couple hundred rounds of a brick of federal 22lr. I did not have a single failure in the last two brinks of federal.
I then pulled out the white box winchester 525. While putting about 150 rounds down range, I had about 10 failures. Most of them were...
Woke up to the same Cabelas backorder update this AM. I also have two that have been on backorder at Midway. I hope I have better luck with that order.