Where is all the .22LR?

[rakstr]

Academy had a couple of the 1400 round .22LR cottage cheese tubs this morning for $65.99 + tax. I passed. Over the past couple days managers at a couple of Academy and a couple Walmart stores said they are slowly seeing the "nightly" shipments grow in quantity and selection. I'm hoping in a month or so we'll actually begin to see 550 boxes on the Wally shelves. I've bought 100 box Federal in 9 and 40 over the past 10 days!!!!

Just for clarification, Wally World sells (or used to , these days they don't have anything to sell) Federal 550 bulk packs. Everyone else in the civilized world sells 525 bulk. Apparently Ole Sam Walton negotiated a deal with Federal to give them and extra 25 rounds per box. And its a way you can tell where the seller got his ammo. We use that at the gun shows just to see where they got it.

I'm pretty certain the 333 packs were an effort to confuse those who are bad at math. I have no idea where Remington got the idea to market medium size cottage cheese tubs with 1350 or whatever they contain. It just keeps being more confused.

In another thread someone suggested the 22 mags were rimfire ammo at centerfire prices. Now we're seeing 22lr at centerfire prices.

I can tell you that when someone offers to buy my 550 cartons for more than $50 each, I'm going to be sorely tempted. At $500 per case, I could sell one or two and still have a couple of rounds left to shoot.

 

[troutjunkie]

Academy had a couple of the 1400 round .22LR cottage cheese tubs this morning for $65.99 + tax. I passed.
That's .05 cents a round, I would have jumped all over it. I think part of the problem is people are sitting at the stores when the shipments come in every day, buying it at 5 cents a round, putting it on gun broker and other sites and getting over 10 cents a round at auction. One guy on gunbroker has several for sale every day, he just started selling recently, and only sells 22 ammo...I'm sure there are many more on there like him. Doesn't take but a couple of people per town doing this to create this "shortage" and until the idiots paying 10-15 cents a round on auction STOP IT! The cycle will not end.

 

[Northdallas7]

Academy had a couple of the 1400 round .22LR cottage cheese tubs this morning for $65.99 + tax. I passed.
That's .05 cents a round, I would have jumped all over it. I think part of the problem is people are sitting at the stores when the shipments come in every day, buying it at 5 cents a round, putting it on gun broker and other sites and getting over 10 cents a round at auction. One guy on gunbroker has several for sale every day, he just started selling recently, and only sells 22 ammo...I'm sure there are many more on there like him. Doesn't take but a couple of people per town doing this to create this "shortage" and until the idiots paying 10-15 cents a round on auction STOP IT! The cycle will not end.

Yeah, I think that's the guy I saw on gun broker. He's now selling exactly what Cabela's is selling, Federal 22lr 325 round boxes. He's part of the problem.

I did get kind of lucky today. Walked into the Wal Mart on Marsh LN in North Dallas and got the last 2 boxes of Winchester 22 Mag. 100 rounds for about $18 bucks. I'll take it.

 

[Inspector-Callahan]

All this talk makes me feel happy I stocked up when the Walmart 550 bulk packs were going for $8.99 5 years ago!!!!

IC

 

[22bond]

Yeah, I think that's the guy I saw on gun broker. He's now selling exactly what Cabela's is selling, Federal 22lr 325 round boxes. He's part of the problem.

I did get kind of lucky today. Walked into the Wal Mart on Marsh LN in North Dallas and got the last 2 boxes of Winchester 22 Mag. 100 rounds for about $18 bucks. I'll take it.

How about this for luck?
11 cases of WWB 9mm. Each case has 10 100ct boxes. Wish I had my camera with me.
All sold by noon when I check even with a 3 items limit.

Interesting the label shows a date of 1/30/13 and today is 2/5/13.
Does it take that long to ship from Winchester to Walmart warehouse?
How does one Walmart get 11 cases and surrounding ones get 1 or none?

 

[Frank46]

Last few Christmas's when asked what I wanted just said get me some winchester white box 100 value packs in either 40 S&W or 45 auto. Worked for me. Was at our local wally world today and just for grins and giggles checked the ammo section. No pistol ammo, no 22 ammo, a few boxes of some remington rifle ammo. Even the usual standing display with shotgun ammo was missing and just a few boxes on the shelves. While I was there at least 3 folks were asking about getting 9mm ammo which wasn't there. Even the last ammo panic wasn't as bad as this. Frank

 

[brucev]

Where is all the .22LR? Bought a Heritage "Rough Rider" .22 for myself for Christmas and now can not find any .22LR. Why the run on .22?
Strange thing is I can find .40SW at Wal-Mart for $15.00 a box...in my area that is cheap.
Cheers

First, congratulations on the purchase of your new Rough Rider .22 revolver! You will enjoy it... once .22 LR ammo again becomes broadly available.

Where is the .22 LR ammo? Probably in production. After the recent election cycle and the widely publicized murders at the elementary school, people justifiably started buying whatever was available in their area in anticipation of likely efforts at the state and federal level to restrict the availability of ammunition and firearms. The consequent demand was simply not anticipated by manufacturers. Production by domestic sources is now ramped up to full-capacity. At some point, the supply chain will again have product moving down to the local retail level.