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Saw a post awhile back that said that .22 ammo availability was back, so I thought I would post my findings.

I ordered 500 rounds of CCI .22LR Mini-Mag 40Gr. ammo on 3/31/14 from Cabelas (cost $37 delievered). It was backordered. I received it yesterday! I have seen the same stuff for $25/100 at gun shows.

I have had 2 orders with Midway on backorder since 12/2013!! Hart for me to believe that Midway has not gotten what I ordered in since December, of course they may have had a billion backorders.:rolleyes:
 
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hpfenning said:
I've been waiting since Oct, 2013 for 500 40gr Mini-Mags from Cabelas. Still shows processing. :(:eek:
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I think CCI are hard to find anywhere, I know my local shops haven't had any in over a year, they have had plenty of Win, Fed and Rem, but no CCI.
 
Strange that they don't necessarily fill back orders first. I ordered 2 bricks of CCI Mini Mags from Cabela's just last March and received them within a week or so. The 40gr solids were $37.95 and the 36gr HP's were $39.95 + S&H.
 
boykinlp said:
I have had 2 orders with Midway on backorder since 12/2013!! Hart for me to believe that Midway has not gotten what I ordered in since December, of course they may have had a billion backorders.:rolleyes:
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Count me as one of those "billion." I too placed a backorder with Midway in December 2013 for CCI Mini-Mags. I've received two emails from Midway since then advising that they are still on backorder, with no expected ship date listed. I'm still waiting. Any bets on whether we'll see a shipment before December of THIS year?
 
I just walked into Sportman's Warehouse today and they had 8 bricks on the shelf and many boxes of 100 and 50, all CCI. They only would allow one brick per customer per day, but I at least got a brick or 3 boxes of the others. I have not seen any for now 6 years on the shelves. Most stores laugh at me for asking!
 
All of the LGS have large quantities of .22. Worse case scenario is CCI mini mags for 9.99 per 100. The drought is over
 
I see your thread is about CCI 22. I had federal and Remington ordered through Midway on backorders. Is anyone receiving their orders from last year on anything 22LR? If so, how far out were they? Hopefully Curious!
 
Locally, I have found a lot of bricks of ammo and I am not buying any more.
We have the federal 325 round packs for 18.00. Federal 500 round boxes for 24.99.
I think the panic buying is going away. The profit is getting slimmer for the local resellers who have bought most of the ammo around here.
But still, you go to Cabelas or any of the big box stores, and the ammo goes pretty fast, and it is still not cheap.
The CCI is another story, not much around here.
 
Walmart tested the water is early October with an advertised sale of .22 ammo, limit 3 boxes per customer.

On Black Friday, Walmart will release a large quantity of .22 ammo as a lead in item. Pace yourself, and prepare for unprecedented event. When you see it in the flyers...remember you read it here first
 
Vee Kay said:
I see your thread is about CCI 22. I had federal and Remington ordered through Midway on backorders. Is anyone receiving their orders from last year on anything 22LR? If so, how far out were they? Hopefully Curious!
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I actually canceled 2 orders with Midway earlier this month that had been placed LAST YEAR!!

RussellD said:
Walmart tested the water is early October with an advertised sale of .22 ammo, limit 3 boxes per customer.

On Black Friday, Walmart will release a large quantity of .22 ammo as a lead in item. Pace yourself, and prepare for unprecedented event. When you see it in the flyers...remember you read it here first
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I was able to go to a few Walmarts each day, for the two day sale that RussellD was talking about, and get enough rounds of CCI Mini Mag and Standard velocity to allow me to cancel my Midway orders.
 
Put yourself on Product Notification on Midway. But when you get the email notification that the ammo is in stock, buy it right away. It sells out fast. What does irk me is that many of their notifications are sent at 3am. What's that about? But I have lots of CCI. I own much of it at 10 cents a round, but it is what it is.

I rarely see it in stores, and even then there are always limits. Today I bought 100 rounds of CCI Quiet at Academy Sports. 2 box limit. $2.99 per 50 plus tax .
 
walked into cabellas yesterday and could buy 100 rounds of stingers or stndard velocity. Went back today with my son. They had standard velocity and 22 longs. We each got 100 standard velocity.

Winter is coming, sporter rifle starts next month.

David
 
Triathloncoach said:
Put yourself on Product Notification on Midway. But when you get the email notification that the ammo is in stock, buy it right away. It sells out fast. What does irk me is that many of their notifications are sent at 3am. What's that about? But I have lots of CCI. I own much of it at 10 cents a round, but it is what it is.

I rarely see it in stores, and even then there are always limits. Today I bought 100 rounds of CCI Quiet at Academy Sports. 2 box limit. $2.99 per 50 plus tax .
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You must have better luck with Midway then I do. Once I was on the computer on their site looking at other things, and the notiification came through. I clicked on it and it's was sold out.:rolleyes: But I can sure get bombarded with emails all day and everyday hawking everything else. I have given up with Midway. Their notifications for me are worthless. Everything is always sold out when I click on them. I signed into the site the other day and removed the remaining notifications I had listed the other day rather then keep get aggravated when I get them. :)
 
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Eeeerrrr what is 22lr, haven't seen any of them critters for 2 years on the store shelves. Hurrrump next thing ya know they will be saying they have seen the elusive pistol powder for a fair deal. Lol lol
 
Jim1392 said:
You must have better luck with Midway then I do. Once I was on the computer on their site looking at other things, and the notiification came through. I clicked on it and it's was sold out.:rolleyes: But I can sure get bombarded with emails all day and everyday hawking everything else. I have given up with Midway. Their notifications for me are worthless. Everything is always sold out when I click on them. I signed into the site the other day and removed the remaining notifications I had listed the other day rather then keep get aggravated when I get them. :)
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UPS man just dropped off 900 rds. from Midway. I had signed up for notifications. Missed one last week by maybe a half hour. This time I just happened to look at my email a few minutes after the "back in stock" notice was sent and managed to get a few boxes. It was all gone not long after that. You just have to be in the right place at the right time.
 
I found Gander Mtn. in the 3-day free shipping promo supposedly with CCI Mini Mags in the 300 box. I ordered 2, it was accepted, but just a few days ago got a "backordered with no ship date estimate" email.

My two closest WalMarts have not seen a single box of CCI since the big promo. And little of anything else.
 
RussellD said:
All of the LGS have large quantities of .22. Worse case scenario is CCI mini mags for 9.99 per 100. The drought is over
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The only draught over here in my area--is the one concerning getting rain--but .22 ammo--nope. Last saturdays gun show--one of the local scalpers was showing off his "collections" of farious sized amounts of .22 he had for sale.I saw on top of his table--10---1,500 rd buckets of Remington .22--and the entire underside of his table--many more buckets and large bricks and such of .22. His pries were still over double the amount of what it paid for from getting them from Academy.

Whether or not he sold any?? I cant say. I looked, laughed,shook my head-smiled and walked away.
 
cobra44 said:
Locally, I have found a lot of bricks of ammo and I am not buying any more.
We have the federal 325 round packs for 18.00. Federal 500 round boxes for 24.99.
I think the panic buying is going away. The profit is getting slimmer for the local resellers who have bought most of the ammo around here.
But still, you go to Cabelas or any of the big box stores, and the ammo goes pretty fast, and it is still not cheap.
The CCI is another story, not much around here.
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You must not be in Texas then. Wanna get scalped? come spend your money here.:-))
 
I'm still sitting on a decent cache of 22LR.

Other than a brick of CCI Blazer I picked up from Midway a month or so ago, I haven't chased or purchased 22LR in well over a year and a half now.

I'm starting to see small quantities at the local Wally World's, Bass Bro, LGS, etc...

It seems to be lasting a while too, so the crush must be easing a bit.

That said, when things do settle down, I've set aside some money and plan to add 20,000 additional rounds of 22LR to the cache.

I figure it will either increase in value and I can sell it later. I can shoot it with my son. Or he will inherit it some day and share it with my future grandchildren.

That's a win, win, win, situation.

Like I told my wife, it doesn't go bad and it doesn't lose it's value.

That makes it a good investment in my book.
 
Dick's

My local Dick's here in Arkansas has been advertizing CCI for $9.99 per 100 in stock.
 
Update: My Midway 12/18/2013 order--- on 2/08/2015- email stated that it was still intact, on 2/10/2015 they cancelled the order. Just FYI Be Safe,
 
Midway just sent me an email canceling a bucket of 22LR ammo that has been on back order for about 18 months. These buckets are showing up in other places for around $125 for 1400 rounds. The back order price was $65 and when advertised encouraged to put the order in.
 
I've been just picking up ammo at the local Fleet Farm, its been coming in regular for the last month. Usually limit of one brick purchase though.

good luck
 
All I will say is that it's REAL HARD to believe all the explanations as to why there is STILL a .22 shortage. After all the time that has passed, you would have thought even Hoarders would have enough or would have run out of money! I don't see any more .22 ammo on the shelves here than a year ago and when I actually do stumble on to a few boxes they are priced ridiculously high. :(
 
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