New norm for 22 bricks?

[ArchAngelCD]

I like to drive so i pay the price for gas, i like to shoot alot and i pay the price for ammo.If you want to play you gotta pay!

There is so much wrong with that short statement I don't know what to say.

Everyone keeps saying the higher costs are because of supply and demand but supply and demand doesn't only work on the up-side, it can and will force prices down too. It seems the younger generation is bent on driving the price of everything up with that attitude. Us old-timers did a little thing called "shopping around for the best price" and in doing so kept prices down. The concept will work just as well today if you're willing to shop around plus refusing to buy if the price is too high.

 

[redlevel]

There is so much wrong with that short statement I don't know what to say.

Everyone keeps saying the higher costs are because of supply and demand but supply and demand doesn't only work on the up-side, it can and will force prices down too. It seems the younger generation is bent on driving the price of everything up with that attitude. Us old-timers did a little thing called "shopping around for the best price" and in doing so kept prices down. The concept will work just as well today if you're willing to shop around plus refusing to buy if the price is too high.

I don't care if syrup goes to a dollar a sop, I'm still going to eat it with my buttered biscuits.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. So all you "old guys" complaining about prices going up and blaming younger folks haven't let prices go up on anything? Up until a few years back nothing cost more than it did back in the 60's or whenever the "good ol' days" were?

Hell, I'm 35 and I remember when gas was 75 cents and .45 ACP was $8 per box of 50.
Times change, prices rise, so does our earning potential.

 

[JustinL]

This past weekend I attended a gun show where most bricks were priced in the $30-$50 range. Back in May it was more like $75-$100 so things are at least headed in the right direction here.

 

[fyimo]

The story that the inventory is being bought up and hoarded for the reason 22LR ammo is so hard to buy is pure nonsense. That story could float for a while and sound reasonable but it doesn't cut it anymore. To much time had passed and the supply should have caught up with the demand and the hoarding stopped. The stores are still getting in very little 22LR ammo and yes there still are people standing at the Walmart desk when they put it out but not like 6 months ago.

The factories are either being forced to vastly reduce production for whatever reason (your guess is as good as mine) or the government ordered them to turn it off. They have the clout with the ammo makers because those makers have contracts with them for other caliber ammo.

No one else has that much stroke to make things happen on this scale.

 

[the ringo kid]

Bricks always used to be 1000 rounds, too... not this 450 or 500 stuff

In my area, ive never--at least in the past 20 or more years--seen 1,000 round anything. WM used to only sell 500 round buckets--not bricks--of 22. No buckets now--just bricks--and only from 500 round to 555 round bricks depending on maker.

Last Gun show I went to--some dealers were still attempting to get from $10-$15 for 50 rd Lightning 22s. I inwardly laughed while shopping with my feet.

 

[the ringo kid]

I like to drive so i pay the price for gas, i like to shoot alot and i pay the price for ammo.If you want to play you gotta pay!

Nope. I like to "play" but I aint "paying" stupid prices for stuff I can still get--even if not every time I walk into stores with more normal prices.