CCI ammo question

[little_airwolf]

Just wondering if anyone knows if CCI really is making 4 million rounds a day?
I know there is ammo hoarxing going on ut something doesnt add up!

 

[dullh]

I thought this latest installment of ammo hoarders was over for now since 22 ammo is readily available in most areas.

As far as what CCI is cranking out, I haven't the foggiest...

 

[little_airwolf]

Up here in canada there is only 50 round boxes for $8-10 each and that is bulk ammo.
Elay and sks are 50 cents a round or more

 

[GhostMutt]

They are shipping it all to the UK for us to shoot with

 

[hoc9sw]

There is no supply of .22 on the shelf at all at my local WM (several stores), GM, Cabela's, Bass Pro, or 3 LGS. There is a little of the Aquila colibri at Academy. Maybe they started stocking on the east coast.

 

[oledoc2u]

None here in central Indiana either....

 

[mkess]

Where is readily available? I haven't seen a single box of 22 in over 4 years. Thankfully I was able to stock up before the hoarders. I'm in south georgia

 

[RedNeck Jim]

Where is readily available? I haven't seen a single box of 22 in over 4 years. Thankfully I was able to stock up before the hoarders.

Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black?

I guess if you do it, it is called stocking up... if others do it it is called hoarding.

Me, I take pride in being a hoarder... or stocker.

 

[LittleCooner]

I had plenty before all this crazy shortage started, so I have not looked much for ammo. I do see some around at various places, but not often. I do not have any clue to answer the OP on production per day but do remember seeing articles of these guys and federal producing in the millions every day. It amazes me where all this ammo is going. I understand you still have these same guys going to wal mart and buying so they can go to flea markets and gun shows and triple their money. One day the shelves will be full again, but I don't know when

 

[oledoc2u]

I had plenty before all this crazy shortage started, so I have not looked much for ammo. I do see some around at various places, but not often. I do not have any clue to answer the OP on production per day but do remember seeing articles of these guys and federal producing in the millions every day. It amazes me where all this ammo is going. I understand you still have these same guys going to wal mart and buying so they can go to flea markets and gun shows and triple their money. One day the shelves will be full again, but I don't know when

I think you are correct about the buying and re-selling at gun shows. I rarely go, but did venture into one with my son looking for .22's and there were some available, but not quality loads, just the cheaper CCI's...

 

[NeoBuckeye]

I was at a sporting good store in Middleburg hts ohio, and they had about 30 sleeves of the 100 round .22LR CCI mini-mags on the shelf for $8.49. This was the first time in 14 months I have seen .22LR on a store shelf.
I still have some .22LR left from the ammo can 1400 round box of CCI .22LR I bought 2 years ago. I have slowed down with the .22LR shooting.

 

[poolie]

Around the Atlanta area there's still none to be found unless I want to pay thru the nose, and I don't want to shoot a 22 that bad.

Where is readily available? I haven't seen a single box of 22 in over 4 years. Thankfully I was able to stock up before the hoarders. I'm in south georgia

 

[ericlw]

You can find plenty here in houston at the gun shows for stupid prices. Stores will have like 50 round boxes but i haven't seen the 300-500 round boxes in years for a reasonable price. I refuse to buy any 22 over 7 cents a bullet. I have just switched to shooting my 223 and 308 rifles since then.

all the people buying up the green tip 5.56 are idiots.

 

[raylan007]

For the time, gas , and aggravation I think it makes more sense to concede that the .05 per round days are a thing of the past and now the goal is to get it shipped for .10 per round or less. The alternative is to perpetuate the myth which quite frankly is really growing stale. Carry on you nickle per round seekers, your in good company.

 

[hoc9sw]

...they had about 30 sleeves of the 100 round .22LR CCI mini-mags on the shelf for $8.49.

That would be a gold mine.

oledoc2u said:
there were some available, but not quality loads, just the cheaper CCI's...
Except for a few high-end target (and $$$) loads from Eley, the CCI in any variety is the best thing available right now. The "Federal" label boxes have fallen down below Thunderbolt and Golden Bullet.

I'm not sure what "quality load" could be associated with these days.

 

[BC38]

FWIW I have amassed several thousand rounds of 22 over the last 2 years at an average price of 4.4 cents per round - and almost none of it was purchased off the shelf. In fact I've only seen it on the shelf at Walmart about 3 times and at Cabelas once in that 2 year period. I just buy what I can when I can find it and I refuse to pay more than 6 cents a round for it.

Most of it was bought on line - primarily through Cabelas, with the remainder being bought from individuals. A couple of times I even bought a couple of thousand rounds in a package deal with a gun - then turned around and sold the gun without the ammo.

I live less than 150 miles from the CCI factory in Lewiston Idaho, and you'd think that if anyplace had a retail supply of their products it would be this area. No such luck. The scalpers continue to clear the shelves just as quick as it gets put out, and continue to sell it for 2-3 times the retail price.

 

[hoc9sw]

I know folks who work in the Remington factory. They are working extra shifts and overtime.

One explained things pretty simply. If no one anywhere bought a single round of .22lr, it would take TWO YEARS of full bore production to fill the pipeline to the stocking levels of ten years ago. They blame the .22 AR, and I can agree. Days I shoot my Ruger Single Six, it takes all afternoon to go through 100 rounds. In the same time the guy in the next lane burns 1000 or more.

 

[Kibbleking]

I thought this latest installment of ammo hoarders was over for now since 22 ammo is readily available in most areas.

As far as what CCI is cranking out, I haven't the foggiest...

Not even close to over in Oregon. .For Example.. Our local Wal-mart will sell .22 lr at 7:00 A.M. if they get any that day. Its all gone by 7:20

The only place you can find it on a store shelf is where the price is marked up to 10 cents/round or higher. And even that is hard to find.

KK

 

[wantmoresmiths]

None "Readily Available" in my neck of the woods. I have to work to find .22 on the shelf, it doesn't last long, and is usually sold in such small quantities (50 or 100 round boxes) that the cost of the gas makes it an expensive proposition. Even the $50 a brick stuff is hard to find.

 

[rwsmith]

I've thought that something very screwy.....

I've thought that something very screwy was going on in some of these shortage. Supply and demand, combined with hoarders and flippers, account for a great deal of it. But ALL of it??? It seems that rather than people buying stuff up, the manufacturers are only producing a trickle that goes to some locals.