22lr price up $1 in 12 years!

[AlHunt]

Trolling around at 3am, I ran across this post from 2013:
https://smith-wessonforum.com/threads/official-in-stock-22lr-ammo-thread.292430/post-137585638

Screenshots below show 500 rounds of Remington Thunderbolt for $34.99 in 2013 and the same exact link today, in 2025, shows the exact same ammo for ... $35.99!

The price increase is staggering.

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

That 2013 price was during the great .22 ammo scarcity of the Obama years, Just a few years before that, a 500 ct box of Thunderbolt ammo was well under $20. Now, that was staggering jump in price.

John

 

[Valmet]

Considering how high lots of other things have gotten, I can live with it.

 

[max]

I recently opened a 550 ct box of Federal .22's that I paid $9.00 for.

 

[bigggbbruce]

I look at cost per round. We all remember $.02, now less than $.06 is a deal.
And as a reloader primers have also tripled in price.

I also paid $.47 a gallon of gas when I started driving.

All relative I guess.

 

[Skeet 028]

I just bought a 500 box of 22LR at te local farm store...22.99 +4% tax...They were Hecho in Mexico...but the cheapest I've gotten this year. They shoot better than many...and are almost match grade in one of my DCM 513T rufles

 

[Eddie Southgate]

I bought Thunderbolts when they were $6 a brick and the last I bought were $16 , haven't bought any since. Still have several bricks at both prices and several Winchester Wildcat bricks that were $12 . I don't shoot much rimfire now days . My problem with the new stuff is lack of quality more than price so much . The more expensive it gets the sorrier it is , way too many duds in a box and the last CCI Standard I bought was horrible . I tried shooting it in my 4" kit gun and 6 rounds made six different sounds and shot shotgun patterns rather than groups.

 

[pharmer]

During the “Obama shortage”(around be 2012) I was scorched for selling 500 rd cases of 9mm WWB for $200. The buyers absolutely begged me for it. Ammo is as cheap today as it’s ever going to be. If you have extra$$$, get it. This advice has no expiration date. Joe