MichiganScott
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At these prices, I'm having a hard time not selling my stash. Even though I handload, I've picked up a ton of .22 LR and mil-surp over the years. If I kept the rimfire, I could probably still pay off the house.
22Lr and other ammo shortages
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O-boy!!!!!
I just found a guy offering 6K rounds of .22 ammo for sale. He also has a picture of 7 (SEVEN!) BX-25 mags shown...
I texted him how much? He replied make an offer...
I offered $300...
Waiting for a reply....
What is this package worth right now? It's hard to say. Realistically if you get the BX-25 mags they are going for $85 a pop!!
And even .22 ammo is crazy.
If I make a deal on this I'm going to sell some of the mags.... I don't need 7!
I just found a guy offering 6K rounds of .22 ammo for sale. He also has a picture of 7 (SEVEN!) BX-25 mags shown...
I texted him how much? He replied make an offer...
I offered $300...
Waiting for a reply....
What is this package worth right now? It's hard to say. Realistically if you get the BX-25 mags they are going for $85 a pop!!
And even .22 ammo is crazy.
If I make a deal on this I'm going to sell some of the mags.... I don't need 7!
thardgrave
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I think all of the hysteria and concern is fueling this....kind of like some of the gas shortages several years ago, where people re-fueled their tanks constantly...a lot of the gas was sitting, stored in cars! People are so worried about it that many are just buying all they get their hands on...guaranteeing a shortage in the short term, and the more talk and worry about, the worse it will become...........
The guy wants $700...
If I figure 4 cents a round x 6K that's $240
The seven mags used to sell for under $30 a pop, will they get back to that eventually? Who knows? But even at $50 that's $350 for 7 of them, so even $600 is too much...
I asked how much for the mags and he said $300... So that's $43 each....
What to do.... What to do.....
Update: I offered they guy $250 for the mags and he said he'd think about it. No response back yet. In the mean time I ordered 5 from Ruger at $32 each, plus $3 each shipping, so $35 total. We'll see when they come in....
If I figure 4 cents a round x 6K that's $240
The seven mags used to sell for under $30 a pop, will they get back to that eventually? Who knows? But even at $50 that's $350 for 7 of them, so even $600 is too much...
I asked how much for the mags and he said $300... So that's $43 each....
What to do.... What to do.....
Update: I offered they guy $250 for the mags and he said he'd think about it. No response back yet. In the mean time I ordered 5 from Ruger at $32 each, plus $3 each shipping, so $35 total. We'll see when they come in....
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I suspect everyone is stocking up and hoarding ammo because they fear the government is going to try and over tax, control, or ban guns and ammo. It's not just preppers', but gun owners in general who are fearful and stocking up on ammo. A well armed civilian populace may be the only defence we have against an increasingly socialist government. A ban on civilians owning guns is exactly what happened in Russia during the 1800's. And you see how that went down. We may be in trouble if we don't ban together and resist and protest the loss of our rights.
You are exactly right. We think it can't happen here, but it is done one step at a time. Check the newly proposed law for Maryland. New descriptions of guns, all kinds of new bans, can't even own ammo for banned firearms, and an estimated $335 cost every 5 years to be checked, fingerprinted, and licenses just to RENT or purchase your favorite Glock! Feinstein wants to ban everything. We have to stand our ground, and not only fight this but take back ground lost - like Illinois!
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CCI High vel is $8 a box of 100. So 6000 rounds should be $480. Even at $10 a box which is way to much it would be $600. I would tell this guy to pound salt. I would wait for Ruger on the mags too. They just filled a guys back order from 12/27 yesterday on BX25'sThe guy wants $700...
If I figure 4 cents a round x 6K that's $240
The seven mags used to sell for under $30 a pop, will they get back to that eventually? Who knows? But even at $50 that's $350 for 7 of them, so even $600 is too much...
I asked how much for the mags and he said $300... So that's $43 each....
What to do.... What to do.....
Update: I offered they guy $250 for the mags and he said he'd think about it. No response back yet. In the mean time I ordered 5 from Ruger at $32 each, plus $3 each shipping, so $35 total. We'll see when they come in....
In talking to the three LGS they said the first wave was regular customers stocking up a little. The second wave was regular customers and non regular shooters buying things they thought MIGHT be banned but never wanted bad enough to buy previously. Next round was people with the attitude "I've never really owned a firearm but I don't like the idea of not being able to buy one in the future. What do you recommend?" The current wave is people saying "What type of firearm can you sell me that you also have ammo for?".
So far the shortages have not effected me but in 2009 when the local range opened it was impossible to get a lane because of all the new shooters.
So far the shortages have not effected me but in 2009 when the local range opened it was impossible to get a lane because of all the new shooters.
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There is no conspiracy...it's just that many gun owners in the country are panicky sheep who run whichever way the wind blows.
.22 ammo is cheap enough that even a poor man can hoard it.
Next you have to throw in the "speculators" who will spend a bunch of money thinking they'll be able to flip it all for a profit forever...these people are related to the same speculators who lost their collective butts in the real estate bubble recently.
Next you have new gun owners who just want something to shoot...sucks to be them.
You also have normal shooters who can't get the stuff they would have been shooting anyway without all this commotion.
It'll all blow over after a while.
Years from now when the hoarders start passing away their kids are going go be going through their belongings and wondering "what they heck were they doing with all this .22 ammo?"
I've been loading .44 and .41 mag all week...I'll keep shooting what I want...one of the benefits of being a reloader.
.22 ammo is cheap enough that even a poor man can hoard it.
Next you have to throw in the "speculators" who will spend a bunch of money thinking they'll be able to flip it all for a profit forever...these people are related to the same speculators who lost their collective butts in the real estate bubble recently.
Next you have new gun owners who just want something to shoot...sucks to be them.
You also have normal shooters who can't get the stuff they would have been shooting anyway without all this commotion.
It'll all blow over after a while.
Years from now when the hoarders start passing away their kids are going go be going through their belongings and wondering "what they heck were they doing with all this .22 ammo?"
I've been loading .44 and .41 mag all week...I'll keep shooting what I want...one of the benefits of being a reloader.
oldnavynukespook
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Yesterday at the Greensboro Gun Show, a box of 50 .22LR was around $4-$5/box depending on brand. Federal bulk box of 550 was $40-$50. s
Sure glad I bought a few weeks ago...could easily double my money. Trouble with me is I'm so old, I can remember when a box of 50 .22LR was 50 cents, not $5!
Sure glad I bought a few weeks ago...could easily double my money. Trouble with me is I'm so old, I can remember when a box of 50 .22LR was 50 cents, not $5!
shootin-blanks
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.22 ammo
And I remember it for .39 a box and we bought it at Monkey_wards, Sears and the local hardware store.. and NEVER had a FTF. I think shorts were not much more than a quarter. I wish I had bought more .22's., but I was having a hard time swallowing 23.95 for 550 rounds (bucket-o-bullets)... When the price tripled the last time this happened... The three year ago price of $7.99 was alot better,, I cant' believe it cost the manufacture three times that now... someone is making alot more $$.
And I remember it for .39 a box and we bought it at Monkey_wards, Sears and the local hardware store.. and NEVER had a FTF. I think shorts were not much more than a quarter. I wish I had bought more .22's., but I was having a hard time swallowing 23.95 for 550 rounds (bucket-o-bullets)... When the price tripled the last time this happened... The three year ago price of $7.99 was alot better,, I cant' believe it cost the manufacture three times that now... someone is making alot more $$.
Be careful of the ammo you buy
While in Fort Myers last week looking for 22LR ammo I came across 10 boxes of Remington Thunderbolt. No doubt many of you are familiar with this junk, but I was not. Bought all 10 boxes. It is the most fouling, nasty ammo I have ever seen. It was all I could do to get my brush down the barrel. I ended up pushing fouling pieces 1 1/4 inches long out the barrel. Stay away from this junk. If you are aware of other ammo this bad please let me know. I don't want to experience that problem ever again.
While in Fort Myers last week looking for 22LR ammo I came across 10 boxes of Remington Thunderbolt. No doubt many of you are familiar with this junk, but I was not. Bought all 10 boxes. It is the most fouling, nasty ammo I have ever seen. It was all I could do to get my brush down the barrel. I ended up pushing fouling pieces 1 1/4 inches long out the barrel. Stay away from this junk. If you are aware of other ammo this bad please let me know. I don't want to experience that problem ever again.
The local Wally got 10 cases of assorted .22's this morning. It was gone by 8:30 am. My "garage sale guy" (retired) got some he was willing to part with but I don't need any for 4 or 5 years. Also got a Colt 6920 which his partner bought for $1200 and was willing to "give" it to me for an extra few $hundred. Nah. Orlando show on Sat, don't want to shoot that bullet in my pocket just yet. Joe
heeter3
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If I might paraphrase the poster in my lgs that says we can thank the greatest gun and ammunition salesman since the invention of the modern day firearm for the ammo shelves and gun cases being bare. His initials are bho small letters intended.
brokenprism
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The undertone here is that this shortage is caused or fueled by the G, which makes me think of something funny I read on a newspaper comment section. Somebody said it was time to bury guns, and the next guy said "If it's time to bury them, then it's time to dig them up." : )
Amen.
I wish the online sellers would find a way to say OUT OF STOCK on the serach results so I don't have to drill into their website only to learn I wasted my time.
I took the plunge a couple of times on GB and paid insane prices to have a couple of bricks. I hope the AHs that ran out and cleaned shelves to gouge the rest of us burn in hell, and I hope whoever says they're just capitalists and it's a fair matter of supply and demand blah blah burns too.
Amen.
I wish the online sellers would find a way to say OUT OF STOCK on the serach results so I don't have to drill into their website only to learn I wasted my time.
I took the plunge a couple of times on GB and paid insane prices to have a couple of bricks. I hope the AHs that ran out and cleaned shelves to gouge the rest of us burn in hell, and I hope whoever says they're just capitalists and it's a fair matter of supply and demand blah blah burns too.
In my area this is the worst ammo shortage I've ever seen in my lifetime. I've been a very active shooter since 1979. There has never been a time when I could not find the calibers I normally use in shootable quantities available for purchase. During the last panic, I could just about always find .22 LR at Wal-Mart as well as .40, .45 ACP and especially .38 Special. At the time I was not shooting 9mm. Nowadays there's practically nothing available.
I have talked with church members who remember the lack of ammunition during WWII. But one could still buy .22 LR ammunition.
I have talked with church members who remember the lack of ammunition during WWII. But one could still buy .22 LR ammunition.
slickracer
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I was just at my local Walmart and they actually had 9mm, .40, .45 and some .22LR. Things are looking up!
Look South
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Walmart Cop
Last night I was at Walmart and decided to check out the ammo for 9mm. Just as I walked up a clerk came out with a box with a bunch of bows of Federal 9mm to put out. Two guys came over and one said he was a LEO and said he needed all of it so his officers could quailfy at the range. He told them they were out of ammo and they should sell him all of it since he was LEO.
I told the manager that is was wrong and that they should share some of the ammo with us. Then I got to thinking these guys had to be scamming the clerk. Well the cleck sold them all the 9mm and the only box of 357 plus all the 40.
I am sure that these guys are reselling this stuff. I never saw any ID indicating that they were really LEO.
I went to the front desk and told the manager and said why would the cops be buying ammo at Walmart? I hope they check this out because this has gotten out of hand. I mean its bad.
Yes I have my stock pile but if I shoot at the range two more times I will be out of 9mm and 38 spl.
Has anyone run into the scam in other areas?
Last night I was at Walmart and decided to check out the ammo for 9mm. Just as I walked up a clerk came out with a box with a bunch of bows of Federal 9mm to put out. Two guys came over and one said he was a LEO and said he needed all of it so his officers could quailfy at the range. He told them they were out of ammo and they should sell him all of it since he was LEO.
I told the manager that is was wrong and that they should share some of the ammo with us. Then I got to thinking these guys had to be scamming the clerk. Well the cleck sold them all the 9mm and the only box of 357 plus all the 40.
I am sure that these guys are reselling this stuff. I never saw any ID indicating that they were really LEO.
I went to the front desk and told the manager and said why would the cops be buying ammo at Walmart? I hope they check this out because this has gotten out of hand. I mean its bad.
Yes I have my stock pile but if I shoot at the range two more times I will be out of 9mm and 38 spl.
Has anyone run into the scam in other areas?
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