.22 Ammo Lasting on the Shelf All Week!

[Dlister70]

When I'm not looking, I don't tend to stop by anywhere that sells ammo.. But when I'm in "buying mode", I stop by Dick's, Gander Mountain, Rural King, or anywhere else that I happen to be near when I'm heading home from wherever I've been.

I have been in buying mode for the past couple weeks. I usually let myself get a small stock pile (5,000 or so rounds), and then shoot it down to 1,500-2,000 and then stock pile again. I shoot about a brick a week, so that keeps me in a few weeks worth of ammo while I'm looking, and if it's getting harder to find, I can just slow down the output.

For the past week there has been .22 on the shelf at one place or another when I've gone looking, and it's still there when I come back another day!

Rural King has had Eley Club for $8.99/box and no one wants to pay for match ammo around here, so it sits. They've actually had it for over a month now. They also got some Armscor last week at $3.99/50. That was a little pricey, but it's shot pretty well for me, so I got a couple boxes. It looked like they had about five bricks worth but they were only selling them as 50 packs. It lasted a couple days.

Dick's has had CCI Mini Mags in stock for the past five days at $9.99 for 100. Also slightly higher than Walmart, but hey, it's in stock. They also had some Winchester Super X for the same price. I bought three Mini Mags when they came in, and three more a couple days later. I stopped by today and there was still some left and the Winchester was still there too, and they had in bricks of Thunderbolt for $24.99 (no thanks, but hey, it's on the shelf!). I didn't buy any today.. I've got enough mini mags now, I'm looking for some cheap plinking stuff (that isn't Thunderbolt).

My local gun range had CCI Standard Velocity for $8.95 for the 100 pack. I picked up three and left two for someone else to get. Three days later those two were still there, so I bought them too. They also got in the Winchester Super X 100 packs for $8.95 and they've been there for 5 days now. And they had 10 bricks of Thunderbolt for $29.95 that went out the same day as the Winchester and are only down to four now.

Last week I was in Gurnee, IL to go to Six Flags and stopped by Bass Pro Shop before heading to the park. They had Federal 525 out in the morning and I bought one. After the day at Six Flags, I stopped by Bass Pro again to see if they had any left.. They were putting out Remington Golden 525 packs and American Eagle 50 packs. I bought a Golden 525, and thanked the ammo gods.

Gander Mountain didn't have any .22lr today, but they had tons 22 Magnum including like 50 boxes of CCI Maxi Mags in the Choot 'Em boxes for $59.99

After the past 10 days or so of purchases, I'm back up to 5,000 rounds, so I'm about to lay off the purchasing. However, the guy at Dick's mentioned that they may be getting buckets of golden bullets this weekend when I told him I didn't want any of the Thunderbolt because they lead up my barrel. A bucket may be enough to tempt me out to buy over my usual limit, I sure do like those golden bullets.

At any rate, it's an encouraging sign to see ammo on the shelf every day for the past week (the past month if you count match ammo). It may soon be that I only need to keep 1,000 on hand at any given time in order to keep shooting when I want to without running out. Maybe someday soon after that, I could reliably just pick up ammo on the way to the range, or at the range itself for a fair price.

Maybe soon..

 

[biggbiker]

We have had 22lr ammo on the shelves for 3 months now in N. IN. It was 10 cents a round for all flavors, which there has been plenty to choose from. People would only buy what they needed, prices are falling some now. I have enough that I am not buying any until I burn 3-5k. Maybe late fall or early spring I will start buying again. I am leaving it all for whoever needs it. BiggB

 

[Badquaker]

I have not found 22lr ammo for a very long time... until today. I was looking for reloading supplies and found cci mini mags for $8 a box/100. I bought 5 boxes. I went to another store and they had federal 325 packs for $20, bought 2. I am actually going to break out the 22s this weekend.

 

[brucev]

Here is west Georgia, there is not any .22 LR ammunition to be found in any of the stores in the major cities. There is one single LGS that has some .22 LR ammunition in stock. He has RWS-50 for $13/50 rds. He has another brand, the name of which I simply don't remember, for $8.99/50 rds.

I have been able to find Aguila, Norma, Federal Champion and Federal Auto-Match at various internet sites. If I am careful I can generally get it for about $ .11/rd. delivered. This is just about as high as I can justify spending for .22 LR ammunition. I will pay it because I positively adore my 18-3 and I don't intend to simply let it be a paper weight!

 

[catach22]

Here is west Georgia, there is not any .22 LR ammunition to be found in any of the stores in the major cities. There is one single LGS that has some .22 LR ammunition in stock. He has RWS-50 for $13/50 rds. He has another brand, the name of which I simply don't remember, for $8.99/50 rds.

I have been able to find Aguila, Norma, Federal Champion and Federal Auto-Match at various internet sites. If I am careful I can generally get it for about $ .11/rd. delivered. This is just about as high as I can justify spending for .22 LR ammunition. I will pay it because I positively adore my 18-3 and I don't intend to simply let it be a paper weight!

I live in georgia also and i have no problem finding 22lr .... they academy sports in athens had winchester, agulia, federal amd cci on last friday and aslo when i went back today. i also find it often at the academy sports in snellville all the time....

Academy gets ammo deliveries every Monday Wednesday and Friday mornings. Get there by 8:30 and your sure to find some.. have have been able to buy it pretty regular from trigger time also. There located in flowery branch. Trigger time is a little high but not outrageous on the price. Academy well there very reasonable. i bought federal bricks there for 22.99

 

[1coyote]

$0.02

..may be getting buckets of golden bullets this weekend...

Congrats on your 22 scores, around here, most people aren't having that much luck.

I recently had a few buckets of the Remington Golden bullets.
It was the dirtiest ammo I have ever seen. By the time you loaded 50 rounds into your magazines, your fingers were sooty black.

I can't imagine why Remington would have such poor quality control.
The Aquila 22LR that is made in Mexico doesn't have this problem.

Remington is the last brand I'd buy right now.
This is especially annoying to me because I named my dog Remington.

 

[rz625-8]

These prices are still roo high for what they give you. I don't buy any .22s until the factory calls us at the shop and tells us what the prices are. Ifit's to high,WE DO NOT BUY THEM. Each month in the past, we REFUSED to PAY FOR THEIR HIGH PRICED AMMO. Even .45 and .357 100 or 250 round boxes of ammo. I know that we have had enough of the high priced ammo ****. IT NEEDS TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

Congrats on your 22 scores, around here, most people aren't having that much luck.

I recently had a few buckets of the Remington Golden bullets.
It was the dirtiest ammo I have ever seen. By the time you loaded 50 rounds into your magazines, your fingers were sooty black.

I can't imagine why Remington would have such poor quality control.
The Aquila 22LR that is made in Mexico doesn't have this problem.

Remington is the last brand I'd buy right now.
This is especially annoying to me because I named my dog Remington.

At least you didn't name him Remington Golden. Remington stands proud with a lot of their products.

 

[Jim1392]

Congrats on your 22 scores, around here, most people aren't having that much luck.

I recently had a few buckets of the Remington Golden bullets.
It was the dirtiest ammo I have ever seen. By the time you loaded 50 rounds into your magazines, your fingers were sooty black.

I can't imagine why Remington would have such poor quality control.
The Aquila 22LR that is made in Mexico doesn't have this problem.

Remington is the last brand I'd buy right now.
This is especially annoying to me because I named my dog Remington.

I wonder if they vary batch to batch. I had picked up two boxes of the 525 box of Goldens. One week at the range I ran 300 M-22's through my Model 63. The following week I ran 300 Goldens and I found them much cleaner then the M-22's. I also did notice the gritty black on my hands. But it took me half the time to clean the lead build up on my revolver with the Goldens.

 

[dw1911]

managed to snag some 22lr from cabelas the past couple days as well as centerfire munition from freedom. good week!

 

[Art Doc]

I don't see any steady supply in Central Arkansas.

Except the gun show gougers have tables sagging under the weight of $60-$80 bricks.

 

[the ringo kid]

I have not found 22lr ammo for a very long time... until today. I was looking for reloading supplies and found cci mini mags for $8 a box/100. I bought 5 boxes. I went to another store and they had federal 325 packs for $20, bought 2. I am actually going to break out the 22s this weekend.

Still none here. Well, cept at Academy but, aint been there for three months.

 

[the ringo kid]

I don't see any steady supply in Central Arkansas.

Except the gun show gougers have tables sagging under the weight of $60-$80 bricks.

I saw a 1,000 rd brick at the local show last Sat--guy had it priced for: $380.00. The chapest I saw 22 ammo for--were being sold by Southland Arms. I picked up 100 rds and 50 rounds of Russian "blue box" Silver Bear .45.

The greedy here are still buying all of it.

 

[brucev]

Re: Remington, Aguila. Experience with Remington GB's is uneven. In my 15-22 they have been uniformly excellent in function, accuracy, etc. In my 18-3 they are difficult to chamber to the point that after maybe 50-100 rounds, the charge hole in the cylinder must be thoroughly brushed w/ a brass brush. In a Marvel 1911 .22 LR conversion the Remington GB's do not give reliable results, i.e., short-stroke, failure to eject and failures to feed. The various varieties of Aguila .22 LR have been uniformly excellent in all the 18-3, 15-22 and Marvel .22 LR Conversion. YMMV. Sincerely. brucev.

 

[Dlister70]

I recently had a few buckets of the Remington Golden bullets.
It was the dirtiest ammo I have ever seen. By the time you loaded 50 rounds into your magazines, your fingers were sooty black.

They've ran flawlessly through both my M&P 22 and my Ruger Mark III Hunter. Feed fire, and seem pretty accurate. I have sometimes heard a difference in the report when it fires, where a few sound off like they don't have enough powder. I'm firing at pistol ranges, and haven't noticed a big accuracy difference with these "softer" sounding shots, but I'd imagine if you were shooting rifles at 300 yards, it'd make a difference.

I've definitely gotten the black fingers from loading them in my mags. I guess the gold dust rubs off pretty easy and gets your fingers dirty.. I've also seen gold dust in my gun when I field strip it. But, the barrel doesn't seem to get all fouled up with the stuff, it actually is pretty easy to clean after shooting them.

So, if my only gripe has been black thumbs.. I'll buy them everytime over other ammos that give me feed issues or are prone to failure to fire in my guns.

But .22lr is a finicky round, so your gun may give you different results than my gun. Also, I've only ever shot the 225 boxes of golden bullets, although I would imagine it's the same stuff in the buckets and the 525 boxes. I guess I'll see if I still like them when I crack open my box of 525!

 

[Dlister70]

I did my rounds today when I went to the range.

Rural King: Still has plenty of Eley Club for $8.99, they got in more Armscor for $3.99, and had some Aguila SuperExtra for $3.99 also.

Dick's: Still had Mini Mags (down to the last four though) and plenty of the Winchester Super X.. Both were $9.99

Local Gun Range: They had sold out of the few remaining bricks of Thunderbolt since I was last there, but they still had Winchester Super X for $8.95, and they had just received about a hundred boxes of American Eagle (the 50 count solids, not the dreaded 40 count hollows) for $2.95 a box. Hopefully no one wipes them out of all of it at once like they did when they had Blazers for the same price. Their prices are pretty fair, but they have no limit.. However, I guess since it's a gun range instead of a retail store, at least the people buying there are generally shooting it!

I'm still seeing the same ammo as I did in the original post, plus more coming in! I hope this becomes the new "normal".

 

[Dlister70]

Went to Dick's this morning a couple minutes after they opened to see if they got any buckets of golden bullets. They didn't have any (though I thought I saw a man and his wife leaving with a bucket each, so maybe they got the only case) but they did have Federal Automatch 325 for $19.99. They had finally sold all the mini mags and Winchester Super X that had been there the last several trips, but the guy said he had plenty of the Automatch so I could come back and buy more later if I wanted. I could see into the stock room, and they did indeed have cases of the stuff.

On a whim, I went to Gander Mountain, even though their "email club" said they weren't getting any .22lr this week. They had the buckets of golden bullets this morning! It was just dumb luck that they were still there as they'd already been open an hour when I got there, but it looked like they had 5 or 6 cases of them in. I picked up my bucket for $69.99 and again thanked the ammo gods.

I'm up to 7,000 rounds with today's purchase, so I'm done buying for awhile. That's a little over 3 months of shooting at my pace, so I'm going to let it get down to about 2,000 again before I get back into "buying mode".

So that makes nearly two weeks in a row that Dick's had some flavor of .22lr on the shelf, Rural King had some every time I went, and my local gun range had some every time I went. Either central Illinois is some kind of .22lr gold mine, or things are starting to get better out there.

There is hope out there! I will say that Walmart has been pretty dry lately. That's where I got most of my ammo earlier this year, and if that's the only place I was checking, I'd be saying that there's no ammo to be had out there. Luckily, there are other options in my area, and I've been checking them all pretty often!

 

[Smitty357]

It's been sitting on the shelves around here for a few months now. It lasts weeks at a time without disapperaing. And when it runs out, it's stocked up the next day or so. All is well down here. Most people around here probably have 10s of thousands of these sitting in their homes. So they probably ran out of room to store them lol.

 

[bananaman]

When I'm not looking, I don't tend to stop by anywhere that sells ammo.. But when I'm in "buying mode", I stop by Dick's, Gander Mountain, Rural King, or anywhere else that I happen to be near when I'm heading home from wherever I've been.

I have been in buying mode for the past couple weeks. I usually let myself get a small stock pile (5,000 or so rounds), and then shoot it down to 1,500-2,000 and then stock pile again. I shoot about a brick a week, so that keeps me in a few weeks worth of ammo while I'm looking, and if it's getting harder to find, I can just slow down the output.

For the past week there has been .22 on the shelf at one place or another when I've gone looking, and it's still there when I come back another day!

Rural King has had Eley Club for $8.99/box and no one wants to pay for match ammo around here, so it sits. They've actually had it for over a month now. They also got some Armscor last week at $3.99/50. That was a little pricey, but it's shot pretty well for me, so I got a couple boxes. It looked like they had about five bricks worth but they were only selling them as 50 packs. It lasted a couple days.

Dick's has had CCI Mini Mags in stock for the past five days at $9.99 for 100. Also slightly higher than Walmart, but hey, it's in stock. They also had some Winchester Super X for the same price. I bought three Mini Mags when they came in, and three more a couple days later. I stopped by today and there was still some left and the Winchester was still there too, and they had in bricks of Thunderbolt for $24.99 (no thanks, but hey, it's on the shelf!). I didn't buy any today.. I've got enough mini mags now, I'm looking for some cheap plinking stuff (that isn't Thunderbolt).

My local gun range had CCI Standard Velocity for $8.95 for the 100 pack. I picked up three and left two for someone else to get. Three days later those two were still there, so I bought them too. They also got in the Winchester Super X 100 packs for $8.95 and they've been there for 5 days now. And they had 10 bricks of Thunderbolt for $29.95 that went out the same day as the Winchester and are only down to four now.

Last week I was in Gurnee, IL to go to Six Flags and stopped by Bass Pro Shop before heading to the park. They had Federal 525 out in the morning and I bought one. After the day at Six Flags, I stopped by Bass Pro again to see if they had any left.. They were putting out Remington Golden 525 packs and American Eagle 50 packs. I bought a Golden 525, and thanked the ammo gods.

Gander Mountain didn't have any .22lr today, but they had tons 22 Magnum including like 50 boxes of CCI Maxi Mags in the Choot 'Em boxes for $59.99

After the past 10 days or so of purchases, I'm back up to 5,000 rounds, so I'm about to lay off the purchasing. However, the guy at Dick's mentioned that they may be getting buckets of golden bullets this weekend when I told him I didn't want any of the Thunderbolt because they lead up my barrel. A bucket may be enough to tempt me out to buy over my usual limit, I sure do like those golden bullets.

At any rate, it's an encouraging sign to see ammo on the shelf every day for the past week (the past month if you count match ammo). It may soon be that I only need to keep 1,000 on hand at any given time in order to keep shooting when I want to without running out. Maybe someday soon after that, I could reliably just pick up ammo on the way to the range, or at the range itself for a fair price.

Maybe soon..

I'm from Toledo. They MUST have diverted all of our.22's to where you are. Don't you feel ashamed? Bob

 

[NJM15]

When I'm not looking, I don't tend to stop by anywhere that sells ammo.. But when I'm in "buying mode", I stop by Dick's, Gander Mountain, Rural King, or anywhere else that I happen to be near when I'm heading home from wherever I've been.

I have been in buying mode for the past couple weeks. I usually let myself get a small stock pile (5,000 or so rounds), and then shoot it down to 1,500-2,000 and then stock pile again. I shoot about a brick a week, so that keeps me in a few weeks worth of ammo while I'm looking, and if it's getting harder to find, I can just slow down the output.

For the past week there has been .22 on the shelf at one place or another when I've gone looking, and it's still there when I come back another day!

Rural King has had Eley Club for $8.99/box and no one wants to pay for match ammo around here, so it sits. They've actually had it for over a month now. They also got some Armscor last week at $3.99/50. That was a little pricey, but it's shot pretty well for me, so I got a couple boxes. It looked like they had about five bricks worth but they were only selling them as 50 packs. It lasted a couple days.

Dick's has had CCI Mini Mags in stock for the past five days at $9.99 for 100. Also slightly higher than Walmart, but hey, it's in stock. They also had some Winchester Super X for the same price. I bought three Mini Mags when they came in, and three more a couple days later. I stopped by today and there was still some left and the Winchester was still there too, and they had in bricks of Thunderbolt for $24.99 (no thanks, but hey, it's on the shelf!). I didn't buy any today.. I've got enough mini mags now, I'm looking for some cheap plinking stuff (that isn't Thunderbolt).

My local gun range had CCI Standard Velocity for $8.95 for the 100 pack. I picked up three and left two for someone else to get. Three days later those two were still there, so I bought them too. They also got in the Winchester Super X 100 packs for $8.95 and they've been there for 5 days now. And they had 10 bricks of Thunderbolt for $29.95 that went out the same day as the Winchester and are only down to four now.

Last week I was in Gurnee, IL to go to Six Flags and stopped by Bass Pro Shop before heading to the park. They had Federal 525 out in the morning and I bought one. After the day at Six Flags, I stopped by Bass Pro again to see if they had any left.. They were putting out Remington Golden 525 packs and American Eagle 50 packs. I bought a Golden 525, and thanked the ammo gods.

Gander Mountain didn't have any .22lr today, but they had tons 22 Magnum including like 50 boxes of CCI Maxi Mags in the Choot 'Em boxes for $59.99

After the past 10 days or so of purchases, I'm back up to 5,000 rounds, so I'm about to lay off the purchasing. However, the guy at Dick's mentioned that they may be getting buckets of golden bullets this weekend when I told him I didn't want any of the Thunderbolt because they lead up my barrel. A bucket may be enough to tempt me out to buy over my usual limit, I sure do like those golden bullets.

At any rate, it's an encouraging sign to see ammo on the shelf every day for the past week (the past month if you count match ammo). It may soon be that I only need to keep 1,000 on hand at any given time in order to keep shooting when I want to without running out. Maybe someday soon after that, I could reliably just pick up ammo on the way to the range, or at the range itself for a fair price.

Maybe soon..

last week Dicks had a sale on 525 bricks of Federal 22lr for 24.99 The sale went on Sunday, and they still had some on the following Wednesday. I got 4 boxes they should last a long time, usually any 22s go in about an hour with lines waiting outside for them to open