New norm for 22 bricks?

[Smitty357]

The shortage seems to have ended for the majority down here. Not saying the shelves dont go bare from time to time. BUt the ammo sits on the shelves for around a week or more before it finally starts getting low. But they seem to be restocking them before they go completely empty.

.22lr bricks are now around $23 a brick (wal-mart). I've seen it around the $28 mark at the LGS.

Nowhere near what the prices use to be. But still affordable for the average .22lr shooter. $28 shouldnt stop any grandfather from spending time with his grand kids and teaching them how to shoot, IMO.

 

[Smokin' Iron]

I am still sitting on quite a few rounds of .22 and will shoot it conservatively.

Federal 525 bulk pack was going for $19.97 around here before the last panic. Now it is starting to show up at WM for $24.97.

A 25% increase? Really????? Not from me. It will take time but demand will drop and when WM and other outlets start choking on .22's then I will start buying again.

 

[Kanewpadle]

REMEMBER those companies that are gouging us and don't buy from them later.

The ammo manufacturers have NOT raised their prices. But in the name of supply and demand some companies have used this excuse to rape us.

 

[murphydog]

REMEMBER those companies that are gouging us and don't buy from them later.

The ammo manufacturers have NOT raised their prices. But in the name of supply and demand some companies have used this excuse to rape us.

Full disclosure - haven't bought any .22 LR since the hoarding/gouging started due to lack of need, not to mention supply. But with the ammo makers running at full capacity, with the attendant increases in labor, maintenance and material costs, I don't see how they could not have raised their prices. If WM used to charge $20 for a 525/550 pack and now charges $24 buying in their quantities, I imagine they're passing along those increased charges from Federal/W-W/Remington. Those who are buying at $24 and selling at $40 are a whole different story.

I'm just waiting to find any .22 bulk packs at WW, to pick up one or two...may be soon.

 

[Rule3]

The demand was so high long before all the tragedies and media coverage.

Folks use to shoot a lot of centerfire ammo, say 9mm. The price of that and other cf ammo got so high that they switched to rimfire 22lr.

At my range all you would see is guys shooting 22lr,

As long as cf ammo is $25 or more per box, that is an expensive trip to the range. Say just one person shoots 2 boxes of 9mm and it costs almost $50 plus gas, range fees etc. That's an expensive 30 minutes of fun!

So they buy 22 lr which will be is such demand that the price is going to stay high.

Glad I got into reloading when I did. I can probably shoot 223 for less than 22lr. It's sad The ammo companies are running 24/7. But brass . lead and everything is gone up. I do not blame them.

 

[Smitty357]

Glad I got into reloading when I did. I can probably shoot 223 for less than 22lr. It's sad The ammo companies are running 24/7. But brass . lead and everything is gone up. I do not blame them.

Bingo!!!!!!

Just keep a good supply of powder and primers. Only buy new brass when u absolutely have to. And even when u do, u can use it several times over (worth the cost in that case).

Just dont do what i recently did. I started trimming down my 5.56 for .300 AAC. Little did i forget that once the 5.56 is trimmed down for .300 AAC. THERE IS NO GOING BACK!!!!!!!!! DUH.........Boy did i feel like a w00kie doing that.

 

[Rangerpat]

Remington .22LR Gold Bullets, 525 rounds / brick for $23.95 at Bass Pro Outpost in Tallahassee at their grand opening last week, limit one per customer.
One of the managers told me they sold 550,000 rounds of .22LR in the first six hours the store opened.

 

[jadek669]

As they say. We have met the enemy and he is US..... I blame a lot of the problem on the folks that feel THEY are the only ones to be able to buy. Sadley I bet its over 50% of the folks on here. My local guy went out and sold me all his stock ammo. I and my son are set for a while. The only ammo I NEED as this point is one lousy box of 30-30. I refuse to pay the price.. I had even offered up a local trade ( not on here) for 100 rnds of Rem 125gr jsp 357 mag for 20 rounds of 30-30. Not one taker. Lots of offers to BUY the 357 though. Oh well.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

The prices on centerfire have come back down to a low Earth orbit around here. I was at Benton shooters the other day -- 45ACP $34/100, 9mm $15/50, .380 $18/50, 38spcl $19/50. And all the 25rd boxes of Hornady and Federal were $17-19. However, the .22lr was still whacky. Bulkpack box of 375 Federal garbage was priced at $50. I guess Benton is still trying to fill the void for the out of stock large retailers around here.

 

[redlevel]

I rember when the Federal 550 bricks were $8.97 at Wallyworld...

Yeah, and I remember when gasoline was 29.9 cents per gallon at the Bay Station in Butler, Georgia.

I can afford more 22 long rifle at $3.50 per 50 round box now than I could at $0.59 per fifty when I was 12 years old.

 

[CDROBERTS]

I recall just last year at my local Cabela's, you could go in any time and see tons of Federal 525 bricks for 14.99. I will not pay more than 19.99 for the same bricks. If I can not get it for that or under, than I will sell all my 22 guns and just concentrate on other calibers. 22's are not that important to me anyway.

Eric

Ditto. After about 5 minutes I am bored to death with 22. I had 10 cases when this hit and sold it all. Kept one brick, and that probably wont get shot. I might have shot 50 rounds of 22 in past 5 years. Boring caliber.
It bored me when I was 12 even. I have one model 17-4 left and a 1952 Marlin Lever in Mint shape. Booooooooooooooring!

 

[Smitty357]

Yeah, and I remember when gasoline was 29.9 cents per gallon at the Bay Station in Butler, Georgia.

I can afford more 22 long rifle at $3.50 per 50 round box now than I could at $0.59 per fifty when I was 12 years old.

BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rwsmith]

future things to get

I have in mind to get a .22 one day. I'll give it about a year and see where supply/prices are. I may change my mind.

 

[GM4spd]

That would happen when we see Unicorns grazing on Skittles.

You have it right! Not buying it isn't going to work -----except
you won't be shooting at all! Pete

 

[Smitty357]

I have in mind to get a .22 one day. I'll give it about a year and see where supply/prices are. I may change my mind.

U may want to think about buying the ammo now. Because all it takes it a few more idiots to be idiots. Then the norm prices of .22lr will go up again. If u buy now, u at least stand a chance at buying it cheaper.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Originally Posted by Aden67
I rember when the Federal 550 bricks were $8.97 at Wallyworld...

Yeah, and I remember when gasoline was 29.9 cents per gallon at the Bay Station in Butler, Georgia.

I can afford more 22 long rifle at $3.50 per 50 round box now than I could at $0.59 per fifty when I was 12 years old.

But that's a bad comparison because a brick of Federal 550 was still $8.97 in 2008 but gas prices were $3.05/gal in January, $3.50/gal in April, $4.00/gal in June and closed out the year @ under $2/gal...

You have to go back to the middle 1950's for 29 cents a gallon of gasoline but only to late 2008 for inexpensive 22 ammo.

 

[Rangerpat]

I went back to Bass Pro yesterday and purchased a brick (400 rounds)of Federal "American Eagle" .22 LR 38 grain copper-plated ammo. BPS gives 10% discount to veterans so they cost me $21.51+tax.

 

[GF]

People bought and shot a lot of 22rf because it was cheap. This inexpensive ammo fostered casual shooting. By drastically raising the price of 22rf, perhaps the government and antis can reduce the number of people, and particularly young people, that go out and enjoy casual shooting. The ideal is to make casual and spot shooting a thing of the past. To wean Americans away from their love affair with guns. Only when the populace at large is disarmed, can big government be truly safe.

This ^^^^^

The high price of ammo is one reason the kids & I fish more these days.

I think there's more to the "shortage" than meets the eye.

I know, take off the tinfoil hat - they ain't listen' anyway!

GF

 

[hanken]

It's all about supply and demand, and in our world today once prices go up they seem to never return to where they were.

 

[arjay]

I'm waiting to see if prices do go down.There's got to be an awful lot of 22 ammo sitting in people's closets by now.Hell there's 3-4k under my bed and I wasn't even trying :-0