22LR just keeps showing up on shelves

[The Norseman]

Purchased within the last two months.

Price was .05 to .057 (just under 6 cents per round).

Been getting them at Cabela's and WalMart.

One of my 617s that stays dirty from shooting 22LR.

I just keep throwing them in the the closet with the rest
of my stash. Thanks Cabela's and WalMart!

 

[stmry]

Its still pretty dry around my neck of the woods.

 

[Triathloncoach]

I sold a friend two bricks of CCI Quiet today for 7 cents a round. What I paid. 22LR is still MIA in Atlanta. But I have a stash+.

 

[MyDads38]

Still pretty dry here in East Central Indiana. Good news is, the scalpers at the last gun show didn't sell any of their over-priced 22's all weekend! I still work M-F 7-3:30, so I can't be at Walmart every day to buy any of what comes in. Once in a while I get lucky and find a few boxes (50), would really like to find a few full bricks, but not at $60-$120 each! One of these days, maybe...

 

[hoc9sw]

Not long ago I walked into a WM at noon for toothpaste. Went by the ammo counter, and the lady was putting out 4 1000 round boxes of M-22. There was another guy almost running to the counter. She pushed 3 at me and whispered "buy these, he resells on the internet, help me (expletive deleted) him". So I did. Pity my pistol does not like them. I carried them around in the car a few weeks. One day she asked if I had used them, told her no. She said my town PD was looking for some for training, but there hadn't been any. She made a call, and I horse-traded for some .45 range ammo (at real cost) a little later in the day.

I'm real sure it won't help me a bit for a traffic ticket, but at least the officer who gives it to me will be better trained.

Between Boy Scouts, Wounded Warriors, and the Police, I've resettled more .22 (at real cost) than I've fired the last couple of years. But there is a certain joy in my heart to leave a flipper in the dust.

 

[shortbil]

Norseman. boy do I miss the black hills!!!! was there from 86 till 88. Hainesway appts. Enjoy!

 

[rz625-8]

Ammo cost at Wal-Mart hasn't gone down since 2013 gun control bill that got filed in the trash. I have quit selling to Walmart because they do not put it on the shelves when they are suppose to. Looks like if we all banned ourselves from walmart sporting goods they would get the message. I did send a email to walmart corporate office and told them that the .22s I sold to them were still in the back locked up and the shipping rap not taken off here in Omaha, So,each time they call,I go to their store and the say they don't have any. BULL. I go in the back room show them 13 pallets dated from 1-27-14 still wrapped and not opened.

 

[rjtmac]

22LR has become a regular shelf item at my local Academy.

Always some of some kind. From Aguila (50 ct), Federal (325 and 500 ct), Remington (50 ct), Bucket of Bullets (1400 ct), CCI (50 and 100 ct) and assorted others. All of this varies from 5.5¢ to 9¢ per round.

Also local GEBOS is having it more often. But they are stuck on 1 box (no matter the count).

One local Gun Shop has high end target ammo all the time but I can't pay target ammo prices.

Is nice to have it around though.

Still working toward my 30,000 rounds on hand ammo dump. Maybe in another month I will achieve my goal.

 

[hoc9sw]

rjtmac,

The (I guess) red makes your post unreadable for me.

 

[rjtmac]

Thanks ... Changed it ...

 

[Ranger17]

i've actually been able to pick up Fed auto-match lately at my local Gander (it works well in my Buckmark) and have passed on Remington that's been on the shelf at local WM (that ammo doesnt work well so i dont bother buying it). Still dont see much for CCI, lucked out finding mini mags once but that seems to be the one style I like that's still hard to "stumble" upon.

Been shooting for just 2 years but i can say while still somewhat difficult, it's dang sure better now then it was when i got my first .22 handgun end of '13. Was handed down a nice old colt challenger thru family, and for a couple months was only able to look at it on the shelf lol. Like being given a car, but with no license to drive it.

 

[shil]

Still not much around here. Got a notification at 2:03pm from Smiling Larry's that Winchester .22LR Power Point was in. As of 3:58pm........... sold out. Less than 2 hours??

 

[The Norseman]

more 22lr

I have been pretty fortunate. Got these last week,
in Pierre SD. Clerk said I could have two boxes, told
one is good enough, someone else might need a box.

Just under 6 cents/round.

Threw them in the back of closet with the rest.

Have been passing on Remington Thunder Bolts at Cabela's
those were 5 cents/round. I just don't care for TBs.
Cabela's seems to always have something lately.

 

[ken158]

I thought they were going to stop making this stuff... at least what the hoarders around kept saying! Decent availability now and the hoarders aren't making enough to pay for their tables at the gun shows!!

 

[redlevel]

Decent availability now and the hoarders aren't making enough to pay for their tables at the gun shows!!

'scuse me, but I believe you are confusing hoarders and flippers.
I'm a hoarder myself, and none of my hoard is for sale.

 

[Warren Sear]

Ammo cost at Wal-Mart hasn't gone down since 2013 gun control bill that got filed in the trash. I have quit selling to Walmart because they do not put it on the shelves when they are suppose to. Looks like if we all banned ourselves from walmart sporting goods they would get the message. I did send a email to walmart corporate office and told them that the .22s I sold to them were still in the back locked up and the shipping rap not taken off here in Omaha, So,each time they call,I go to their store and the say they don't have any. BULL. I go in the back room show them 13 pallets dated from 1-27-14 still wrapped and not opened.

I have a very difficult time believing this post (putting it as politely as I can). It is not in the best interest of any high-volume, low-price store to long-term warehouse high-demand product in the back room. They stay in business by turning around inventory as quickly as possible, not by acting as a warehouse. Sorry.

 

[raylan007]

I have been pretty fortunate. Got these last week,
in Pierre SD. Clerk said I could have two boxes, told
one is good enough, someone else might need a box.

Just under 6 cents/round.

Threw them in the back of closet with the rest.

Have been passing on Remington Thunder Bolts at Cabela's
those were 5 cents/round. I just don't care for TBs.
Cabela's seems to always have something lately.

Well now that you have made the majority of us feel bad I can only tell you in the NW things have gotten worse and I would feel OK about paying .10 per round if it were only available. I did see some of the 525 pack Federal selling for just under .10 per round delivered on GB and would have bought some but it is for a 10 brick lot. I am actually still considering it as it would be easy enough to take half of it and resell it for cost if you wanted to reduce your investment. The days of the .05 per round .22 have disappeared in our region.

 

[*chris*]

It is starting to show up more and more here in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Luckily the larger stores that seem to have a steady supply also limit to 500 rounds a day or week which I think is really fair.

I have enough, but still can't help myself from buying it when I see it at a reasonable price.

Chris

 

[chief38]

Well, send YOUR shelves here! I have not been able to buy a brick of 22's since Thanksgiving Black Friday. Personally, I think the situation has actually worsened in these parts. I no longer believe the "Hoarder and Scalper" theory is the only valid reason we are not seeing more of it.

 

[H Richard]

Only the high dollar stuff is showing up around here. Aguila Match for $60 a brick, nor reasonable priced RF ammo.