How much 22lr do you have now?

[fyimo]

Everyone's ammo stash is his or her own level that they fell comfortable with and what they can afford. More is better if the need arises because when you need it and don't have any it may be impossible to get.

When the riots broke out in Detroit in 1967 they froze liquor, gun, and ammo sales in a 90 mile radius of Detroit. You guessed it as I didn't have any ammo for the one rifle I owned because I had just bought it. So I went to my Dad's and he loaned me a Remington 552 22LR rifle and a brick of ammo. I vowed to never be short of ammo again for any gun I own.

 

[KalamazooKid]

Since the recent shortages, I swore I'd never have to worry about my ammo inventory. Nuff said.

 

[Wee Hooker]

I keep 3 years of ammo /reloading components on hand for every caliber I shoot. For some, that's just a few hundred rounds. For others, that's 5K rounds. That said, years ago I stocked up on match grade .22 ammo for competitive shooting. I still have about 8K rounds of that but had to dip into it a bit at the tail end of the last shortage. ( I hated plinking with match grade ammo but I got low on every day .22 .)
Bulk Winchester and Federal .22 seems to be plentiful again in my area so I have have restocked several thousand rounds of it to rebuild my reserves. I will continue to do so as long as I can find it for 6 or 7 cents/round.

 

[hanno]

I have a lot. if I said how much, it would sound like bragging.

All I can say is having seen the assorted panics and shortages during Clinton's bogus "assault weapons ban" and the past couple elections, I have learned that there is no such thing as too much ammo.

Properly stored, ammo doesn't go bad (I have shot WWI dated .303).

I have looked at the prices of ammo I bought years back and wish I had bought a lot more back then.

Ammo, especially .22 is like money in the bank.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

I usually kept a couple cases on hand before the panic, still do

 

[TX-Dennis]

Have about 18K rounds of .22lr, 300-400 of .38 spc., 3000 9mm, 1500 .380, 2000 .223. I try to stay in that neighborhood, buying whenever the price is decent, and shooting regularly. Quality .22 seems to hover at about .07-.10/ round. I usually can find .380 somewhere at .25/round or less, 9mm has recently been available at under .20/round, .223 is mostly steel cased or commercial reloads bought at .23-.30/round, .38 spc is running about the same as .223.

I am buying .22 only locally now that it is more available. The others online since local is quite a bit more money even after taking shipping cost into account.

 

[freescopesdad]

about 13,500 rounds 22lr, mostly CCI Minimags. Also have squirreled away about 7,000 rounds of .223/5.56, and another 5k of 9mm. Oh and 2,000 12g, half 00 buck and half slugs. Bring on the zombies...

 

[NJM15]

I don't know if the "crisis" is over yet because prices are still high. I got back into shooting during the summer of 2014. I was down to owning only 1 gun. I kept it under my mattress. It was a Taurus 38sp. I took it from my mattress and looked at it for awhile, deciding it was too big to conceal. I went online and searched for "small revolvers". I was intrigued by the NAA mini 22lr revolver.
I ordered one and had it shipped to the lgs. When I picked it up, I asked the guy for some ammo so I could try it out and he told me he didn't have any. I was like, seriously? How can a gun shop be out of the most common caliber of ammo. I didn't ask him that because I didn't want to be rude, so I went home and made some calls to other places. Everybody was out! Luckily I still had about 100 rounds in a drawer somewhere so I didn't panick.
Fast forward to present day, I now have 12 guns, 4 of them are rifles. I have about 6,000 rnds of 22lr,
400 rnds of 38sp. 1600 rnds of 9mm. 1100 rnds of 45acp. 1400 223. Of course, this changes all the time.
What stocking levels do you guys typically have on hand?

Haven't counted them but I have about 10,000 rds Two Rem golden buckets alone 28 hundred rds. No I don't hoard just buy when they are available, just picked up 3 325 round boxes of Federal auto match at Bass Pro reasonable @21.00 ea. I usualy only shoot about 150 rds at each range visit

 

[NJM15]

Never enough.

.22's are like toilet paper you can never have too much on hand (no pun intended)

 

[Arthur Kill]

Everyone's ammo stash is his or her own level that they fell comfortable with and what they can afford. More is better if the need arises because when you need it and don't have any it may be impossible to get.

When the riots broke out in Detroit in 1967 they froze liquor, gun, and ammo sales in a 90 mile radius of Detroit. You guessed it as I didn't have any ammo for the one rifle I owned because I had just bought it. So I went to my Dad's and he loaned me a Remington 552 22LR rifle and a brick of ammo. I vowed to never be short of ammo again for any gun I own.

How many rounds did you actually fire during the riots?

 

[JJEH]

How many rounds did you actually fire during the riots?

That doesn't matter in my book. Rather have it and don't need it than the other way around.

 

[LittleCooner]

For the last 20 + years, always kept 15K-20K of 22LR around. Still do. Shoot some and always on the lookout to keep the 22LR no less than 15K on hand. If the SHTF ever happens, this stuff will be better than gold or silver on trading for food.

 

[Raystown]

I always stop when I have a few bucks in my wallet and grab a brick or 2 ... At this time I have 10K ... Funny this conversation is had by many people. I figure grab it while it's there. God only knows when the next so called shortage will be.

 

[Warren Sear]

I do not understand the desire to stockpile 22 LR, and never have. I don't think I have shot any in the past five years. I just gave my nephew a few thousand rounds I acquired in a package-deal trade.

If you are planning (or hoping) for a riot, why stock up on the least effective ammo out there?

I don't get it.

 

[kaveman]

I haven't bought a round of .22 in almost 10yrs, but I saw this coming so I haven't needed to. Somewhere back in the early 2000's I was stocking up on primers after the second primer panic had ended and the thought struck me that if anything really zany like a dollar/rd ammo tax was to happen it would affect the .22LR worse than any other caliber and at the time I could buy loaded .22LR for the same two cents per round as I was paying for primers,.......so I started putting away LR at a pretty good clip. I searched around for the best deals(Natchez Shooters was the place back then)and ordered in about a dozen cases at roughly $100/case. Then for the next couple of years I just picked up ten bricks any time I entered a Walmart regardless of what I actually went in there for. That worked fine until the first ammo panic hit.

I remember driving from Indiana to California that summer and stopping at every Walmart along the I-80 corridor and managing to pick up three lonely 550 Value Paks of Federal. Three paks total from about twenty stores. That's probably the last time I bought rimfire ammo,........I'm guessing that was 2008 or so. I probably have between twenty and thirty cases worth stored away,........100,000 to 150,000rds. Sounds like a lot,....and it is,....until I bring the American 180 out. That thing will dump a full 275rd drum in 13 seconds so you only get two dumps per Value Pak. Couldn't afford to shoot the gun at current prices.

 

[hanno]

I do not understand the desire to stockpile 22 LR, and never have. I don't think I have shot any in the past five years. I just gave my nephew a few thousand rounds I acquired in a package-deal trade.

If you are planning (or hoping) for a riot, why stock up on the least effective ammo out there?

I don't get it.

I'm not worried about riots, zombies, the end of the world as we know it, etc.

What I used to worry about was price increases and nonavailability.

Since I have "stockpiled" I no longer worry. I can continue to shoot until they put me in the box.

If there is any ammo left after that, my son can shoot it or sell it for a profit.

Like I said, as good as money in the bank.

 

[storyman]

Money, Sex, and Ammunition! Too much is not enough!

 

[JeffM]

and BEER

 

[JeffM]

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[JeffM]

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picture I hope
these where bought around 1990 I think
actually after looking again close with a magnifier it was sept of 1992 the codes on the sales sticker.
cannot believe I remembered that ****