What the heck is wrong with people!?!?!

[alwslate]

Honestly im so sick of ammo talk and lack there of. Im starting to hate ".22" i have 8500 rounds and fear that will be gone by July and i check gunbroker to see if things are going back to normal and guess what.......nope they sure aren't. These prices are ridiculous. The whole thing is ridiculous. Seriously, its 22lr. They aren't gonna stop making it!!!! Pretty bad i could sell all my ammo and buy a higher end 1911 and a classic P&R smith. ( with just my 22lr ammo) lol

Lets see now; you have 8500 rds of 22 ammo and you fear it
will all be gone by July. You forgot to say July of what year.
I grew up rather poor in a rather poor neighborhood on the
outskirts of a small town and some of my neighbors were
avid hunters. Back then many folks squirrel hunted with bolt
action single shot 22s and prided themselves with making
each shot count. Accurate shooting was valued not number
of rounds fired on a given day. A round count in a hunters
pocket might reveal 6-8 22 shells of different make and type.
I'm not saying we all need to return to this level of austerity
but it seems to me that being conservative during times of
short supplies only makes sense.

 

[ladyT]

Maybe if folks didn't hoard... I don't know... 8500 rounds and then complain about the lack of ammo, there would be more for the rest of us. Sheesh! Sorry bro, YOU are the problem!

No he is not the problem. I really don't understand foks who blame others simply because they did not have foresight to be prepared thenselves. If you got caught short on ammo then whose fault is that. It's not the fault of those who were not caught short. If you got caught short that's your fault not someone elses fault. Admit and move forward to fix the problem

I myself got caught somewhat short in 9mm, 40 s&w and 45ACP. After some 3 1/2 months standing in line at my local Academy for ammo my stash has reached the point where I feel I can shoot a match this weekend. My problem is even though I have the ammo to shoot its uncomfortable thinking about shooting any of it as its value has skyrockected causing me to consider selling it instead. Afterall there is the new shotgun I want for Trap and Skeet plus I made the mistake of looking at Sig's new catalog and of course discovering the Tavor. All of which require money and the easiest way to get it is to sell part of my stash.

 

[perfectcircle1]

Outside of adding shopping and reloading to your list the answer to your question of " You cant tell me all you do is sleep, eat and shoot" is YES. Wait a sec. I take a bubble bath every now and then too.

I took one a few years back. It felt really gay

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[perfectcircle1]

I sure am glad someone started another thread to remind us of the ammo market. I haven't thought about it in, wow! 12 hours?

Hahahahaha good one

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[perfectcircle1]

Maybe if folks didn't hoard... I don't know... 8500 rounds and then complain about the lack of ammo, there would be more for the rest of us. Sheesh! Sorry bro, YOU are the problem!

Awwww are you mad "bro" cause you have none??

All i hear is old timers talking about how a box of 50 would last them hours in the woods. You know what? Im not you.

I go out and target practice with a couple hundred rounds then i just dump a couple hundred rounds for fun. Lets see that adds up to almost a brick. That means if im alone i could easily shoot a brick on a Saturday afternoon. 8500 divided by 500 is 16.5. So ill have enough for 3-4 months. If i shoot alone. I live in the north and only can shoot 5-6 months out of the year. I buy my ammo in the winter so i don't have to run out and get it evertytime i go out shooting.

 

[perfectcircle1]

I love these ammo threads lol

 

[dougb1946]

So we all agree then. The problem is high capacity magazines on semi auto rifles.

I found a 50ct box or .22lr in a dresser drawer. Unused. Only 25 years old. Do I have any offers.

 

[perfectcircle1]

So we all agree then. The problem is high capacity magazines on semi auto rifles.

I found a 50ct box or .22lr in a dresser drawer. Unused. Only 25 years old. Do I have any offers.

Ill give you $22 for it lol

 

[jsfricks]

As long as the folks keep paying the crazy high prices from these 'resellers' this won't end anytime some.

 

[perfectcircle1]

Maybe if folks didn't hoard... I don't know... 8500 rounds and then complain about the lack of ammo, there would be more for the rest of us. Sheesh! Sorry bro, YOU are the problem!

I also see you just joined this forum. Let me guess....you found it googling " in stock 22 ammo"

 

[setxn]

If there is actually a guy that has been hoarding .22 ammo since the 50's and has over 650,000 rounds there is a show on on of the cable channels that would probably like to talk to him. His collection is different than the usual newspapers,magazines,animals etc. that are usually on the show, but I think the condition is the same.

 

[rbianco3]

Any idea why .22 is in such demand? Obviously it used to be cheap so I assume that is why. I have some extra, my old 22 LR jams about every third or fourth shot so might as well sell it on Gun Broker and pay through the nose for small pistol primers. It seems ammo stocks are slowly coming back, very slowly

 

[ladyT]

Any idea why .22 is in such demand?

Its all my fault. I bought a 10/22 takedown and I want to shoot t.

 

[perfectcircle1]

Its all my fault. I bought a 10/22 takedown and I want to shoot t.

Your probaby the same person buying all the 9mm cause you bought a shield

 

[perfectcircle1]

Hoarder.

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[Smitty357]

Calm down, calm down. It's just 22LR and im pretty sure it's all over the shelves at your local stores.

Gees people, make it seem like there is ammo shortage of some sort. And i dont see why they are paying the high prices for such cheap 22LR ammo.

Will trade for high end 1911, LMAO

 

[lightsluvr]

If he's been stockpiling since the 50's he's not young which means he will probably never shoot over a half million rounds of 22LR in what's left of his life. He should sell some and buy a new car or a house or something like that! @ current prices he has well over $100,000 worth a 22LR ammo.

Beats the stock market for return on investment!

LL

 

[perfectcircle1]

For trade. 22lr collection. Id like to trade for a 2013 dodge challenger SRT-8. Even Steven.

 

[Smitty357]

For trade. 22lr collection. Id like to trade for a 2013 dodge challenger SRT-8. Even Steven.

Man u may wanna set that Troy Landry signature box of CCI to the side.

It's gotta be worth more than any of those regular boxes, lol

 

[perfectcircle1]

Man u may wanna set that Troy Landry signature box of CCI to the side.

It's gotta be worth more than any of those regular boxes, lol

Too late. Already opened it

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[ArchAngelCD]

Man, I have a lot of .22LR ammo stored away but I never bought more than 2/3 bricks at a time. I would like to say I saw the shortage in 2008 coming but I didn't. What I did see was prices ticking up a little at a time so me being me (cheap) I bought a little extra when I found a sale. Instead of buying 1 brick for the weekend I bought 2 or 3 depending upon the price. I did the same with primers, instead of buying 2000 I bought 4000 when at a show of during a sale. I now have plenty of primers and 22 ammo all because I'm cheap. Like I said, I would love to say I knew it would happen but I didn't, I just got lucky to be cheap.

I'm thinking of listing 6 boxes of .22 ammo on Gunbroker and when they go for $100 each buy a new big screen TV. I spent about $50 on those 6 boxes so I think that's a good trade, $55 for a 55" TV... and no, I'm not going to list them for a huge price. I will start them @ $1 and let the crazies over there do all the work for me.

 

[keakar]

If you went out and acquired 8500 rounds in one week or day then that is hoarding. If you slowly stocked up over a period of time knowing that 2008 could happen again then that is just smart.

no, that's still hoarding but sometimes hoarding is smart so you are a hoarder its just recent events have shown your hoarding to be a very smart and prudent thing you did.

there is nothing wrong with hoarding ammo if done reasonably and not to extreme

 

[keakar]

I think people are being rational.

In NY next year background checks will be required for ammo.

I expect half the ammo sellers to go out of business. Ammo prices will go up because now the cost of the background check time needs to be factored in. 10 minutes lets say per purchase at probably $10-$20 per hour for any purchase. The cost WILL be added to the ammo. I expect a 25-50% increase in the price of ammo.


A lot of people with minor arrest records or hunters with a checkered past are afraid they won't be able to buy, and everyone else realizes with the limited number of sellers and the fact NY states that ammo purchases will be monitored and if someone buys too much a state police officer will visit your home, they don't want to find out how much is too much.

The law doesn't say what is too much...

forget about all that, whats most scary about living there is if you buy a big soft drink or ask for salt on your French fries then you go to jail

 

[brokenprism]

I have about 1000 rds of .44 spec/.44 mag and I'm not shooting a single round until things get back to normal, if they ever do. I don't know if I'll need it for hunting or for fighting, but I have it and I'm doing other things with my time.

For the days when my 629-1 feels too heavy for carry, I dream of having a Glock 23 again, but I don't want a gun I can't feed. Just... holding steady.

 

[tacreload]

And then you have "Jimmy".Jimmy shoots a couple hundred rounds of whatever per year.Jimmy thinks that is a lot of shooting.Jimmy reads all of the forums and discovers that ammo is going to become extinct.Jimmy panics and says to himself"Self you better buy up every box of ammo you see for as long as you can".Jimmy and millions of others just like him are partially responsible.Don't mean to oversimplify but you know what happens to bread and toilet paper right before a snowstorm.