S&W-Keeper
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I was beginning to think that they had stopped making .22lr.ammo,when I stumbled on to 4 boxes of 550 rounder's. I was down to about 350 rounds.Life is good.
Woo Hoo, found 4 boxes of .22 lr
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S&W-Keeper
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I was beginning to think that they had stopped making .22lr.ammo,when I stumbled on to 4 boxes of 550 rounder's. I was down to about 350 rounds.Life is good.
Good for you! Isn't it sad though when we celebrate the availability of .22 ammo?!?
I remember walking or riding my bike a couple of miles to buy a box of 50 for .60 cents. And I was only 12 and they would sell to me! No cigarettes though, might stunt my growth.
I remember walking or riding my bike a couple of miles to buy a box of 50 for .60 cents. And I was only 12 and they would sell to me! No cigarettes though, might stunt my growth.
I try to stay 15 years or so ahead on .22lr. I am currently shooting out of a brick of Cyclones with 12-93 dated on the box. I had not bought any .22s since the middle '90s, so I started about 15 months ago buying a couple of 550 packs a month. I am glad I did. Started getting sort of iffy just 'fore Christmas.
As cheap as they are (comparatively speaking), I don't see any reason not to keep at least 10,000 on hand.
As cheap as they are (comparatively speaking), I don't see any reason not to keep at least 10,000 on hand.
rburg
Member
Its a lesson for the future. Each of us who expects to find his favorite package when he walks into WalMart has some learning to do. The next 3 times it works like that, the panic starts to set in. Then the happy day comes and he finds 4 of them or 10 or whatever, we all react the same way.
We buy all they will sell. And the guys walking into the store who's wives made them go to the housewares first lost out. But next time they'll learn. They'll meet the old lady after they make the check at the ammo counter, first.
Because of this, the shortage won't be ending soon. For this to normalize, we'll all need to stockpile our comfort level. Until we reach that point, we'll buy out the store each time we can.
At the gunshows I've been to lately, there have been both Federal and Remington bulk packs. Just as they came from WallyWorld, except priced at 100% over the retail price. And people who want to shoot, or are out of ammo will pay it. They grumble, but the shortage mentality is pretty predictable.
Yes, in my illspent youth, I cherished the few rounds of 22s I had left over. There were times, way too frequent, when I had well under a box of ammo. Those still stand out in my mind. They made an impression. I still probably wasted ammo during good times. But not very much. When I finally got rich (cutting grass for $1 a yard, and it took about an hour), I swore I'd never be ammo-less again. I always had a few boxes stashed away. I also learned to spread the risk, not storing them all at the same place.
I can also remember times in my youth when I went with my dad to a range.. Someplace, and I was young and I can't for the life of me remember where. All that stands out in my alcohol soaked brain is me walking along the shooting line after others had left picking up the occasional dud or unfired round dropped on the ground. Looking back, times weren't equally hard for everyone. Others had the money and the ammo, things were only tough for me. I didn't like it, and I swore things would change for me.
So I'm part of the problem. I have ammo, and I won't share. I feel no guilt for buying when I found adequate supplies. I have no feelings for others plight, except they need to learn the hard way. You buy ammo when you find it. Only you can guess when you've got enough. Its all about priorities. Drink your Starbucks coffee, or buy some ammo you won't consume for months or years. Your choice.
Being ammo poor isn't fun.
We buy all they will sell. And the guys walking into the store who's wives made them go to the housewares first lost out. But next time they'll learn. They'll meet the old lady after they make the check at the ammo counter, first.
Because of this, the shortage won't be ending soon. For this to normalize, we'll all need to stockpile our comfort level. Until we reach that point, we'll buy out the store each time we can.
At the gunshows I've been to lately, there have been both Federal and Remington bulk packs. Just as they came from WallyWorld, except priced at 100% over the retail price. And people who want to shoot, or are out of ammo will pay it. They grumble, but the shortage mentality is pretty predictable.
Yes, in my illspent youth, I cherished the few rounds of 22s I had left over. There were times, way too frequent, when I had well under a box of ammo. Those still stand out in my mind. They made an impression. I still probably wasted ammo during good times. But not very much. When I finally got rich (cutting grass for $1 a yard, and it took about an hour), I swore I'd never be ammo-less again. I always had a few boxes stashed away. I also learned to spread the risk, not storing them all at the same place.
I can also remember times in my youth when I went with my dad to a range.. Someplace, and I was young and I can't for the life of me remember where. All that stands out in my alcohol soaked brain is me walking along the shooting line after others had left picking up the occasional dud or unfired round dropped on the ground. Looking back, times weren't equally hard for everyone. Others had the money and the ammo, things were only tough for me. I didn't like it, and I swore things would change for me.
So I'm part of the problem. I have ammo, and I won't share. I feel no guilt for buying when I found adequate supplies. I have no feelings for others plight, except they need to learn the hard way. You buy ammo when you find it. Only you can guess when you've got enough. Its all about priorities. Drink your Starbucks coffee, or buy some ammo you won't consume for months or years. Your choice.
Being ammo poor isn't fun.
crofoot629
Absent Comrade
I've got less than 50,000 rounds. I just went by Wally's, none in stock, had to settle for toothpaste and TP.
I've noticed I have some 22rf dating back to 1986, it's stuff I like less, or am saving for a certain gun that likes it. I've always kept a few thousand rounds of rf, but a couple of years ago I starting stocking up more. It was approximatley $10 per 500 then. I buy at Least a 550 pack of Federals now every time I’m in Bimart or Wally’s if they have it.
I went to the range today and shot a few hundred 22’s out of a K22 3rd Model and my Spikes AR upper. 36,500 is only a hundred rounds a day for a year. I need more.
Emory
I've noticed I have some 22rf dating back to 1986, it's stuff I like less, or am saving for a certain gun that likes it. I've always kept a few thousand rounds of rf, but a couple of years ago I starting stocking up more. It was approximatley $10 per 500 then. I buy at Least a 550 pack of Federals now every time I’m in Bimart or Wally’s if they have it.
I went to the range today and shot a few hundred 22’s out of a K22 3rd Model and my Spikes AR upper. 36,500 is only a hundred rounds a day for a year. I need more.
Emory
truckemup97
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Anyone got a warehouse I can borrow???
beemerrider
Member
rburg; I like your style. We have a membership discount store here called Bi Mart. They always had these deals "$6.00/500"; limit 6 on the coupon. They knew me, so I could usually get 12 paks. Between all that and the Win T22, Rem & Eley left over from my bullseye days, and oh yeah, all those CCI plastic boxes of 100. I've got "alot", thus no need to venture out. My bigest fun of late is shooting .22 shorts out of a neat Win .22 pump I picked up. Don't know why, but shucking shorts thru that rifle is a lot more fun than a semi-auto.
Spotteddog
Member
I have this recurring nightmare of being Captain Kirk trying to make black powder from raw materials, while the Gorn stalks him?
armybass
US Veteran
I try to buy a 550 pack every week or at least twice a month. I get more if they are out of 38SPC or 45ACP. I am trying to stock up on a few calibers so it is a little harder.... I am not rich...yet.
Jack Flash
Member
I'm still shooting rf from the 1970's. Then there's the stockpile my dad had on hand when he passed away 10 years ago. I guess I don't shoot it nearly as much as you guys do.
My local gun shop has a decent supply, and for prices close enough to Wally World that I buy from them instead of WW just on principle.
I saw a couple of boxes each of .38 Spl and .45 ACP hundred packs at WW a week ago and passed because I thought this hoarding mentallity was getting out of hand. Sure enough, it was all gone (along with all the 9mm) next time I went back.
My local gun shop has a decent supply, and for prices close enough to Wally World that I buy from them instead of WW just on principle.
I saw a couple of boxes each of .38 Spl and .45 ACP hundred packs at WW a week ago and passed because I thought this hoarding mentallity was getting out of hand. Sure enough, it was all gone (along with all the 9mm) next time I went back.
rburg
Member
Back in 1966 I was wealthy. I worked all summer at a real job. I saved my nickels and I saved my dimes (Like Blue Bayou), then at the end of the summer I headed over to the friendly gunstore. The proprietor knew me well. A friend had bought a Browning T-1, but all the gunshop had was a T-2, so he did the considerate thing, he cut the price to the T-1 level
and said the nicer wood and longer barrel shouldn't get in the way. Then he walked over to his ammo shelf and built me a brick of assorted (sordid?) ammo. Some of the boxes weren't full, an oddity at a gunshop. I didn't care. Then, as now, ammo is ammo.
He did it for a reason. He told me to stick a scope on the thing and test all the different brands and velocities and get back to him. The most interesting thing was the little boltgun seemed to like the high dollar target ammo pretty well, but it really grouped the Remington golden bullet hollow points. Then I did something really out of character. I returned all the ammo I felt the gun didn't like! Just what he'd expected me to do.
Then I went on a buying mission. I started looking for those Remington's at fair prices. What I found was some kind of crazy close out from a place named "Klein's". The ones I found weren't at that place, I've never been there. But I bought several bricks of it for 67 cents a box. I've still got some in the powder magazine. With the long since faded price stickers still there, if somehow soaked with a little oil.
I've also got the 2nd can of Browning gun oil privided with the gun.
I have no pride, its too expensive. But at yard sales out in the country I used to stumble across the old Western brand 22s in the nickel cases. I bought every one I found. I liked the headstamp. My now deceased FIL was an NRA instructor (for a long time). He taught target shooting at the firehouse and to Boy Scouts. He gave me a few bricks to "shoot up". That was long after he stopped training, but still had a bunch of ammo. When he died, someone else stole it (as opposed to me getting it.)
Ammo scrounges are everywhere. We're at the opposite end of the spectrum from those who just burn it up for fun. It relates to our early upbringing, and how affluent we were. I worked hard all my life to make sure my son's had it better than me. I'm sure my dad would take offense to that, he said he did the same thing.
He did it for a reason. He told me to stick a scope on the thing and test all the different brands and velocities and get back to him. The most interesting thing was the little boltgun seemed to like the high dollar target ammo pretty well, but it really grouped the Remington golden bullet hollow points. Then I did something really out of character. I returned all the ammo I felt the gun didn't like! Just what he'd expected me to do.
Then I went on a buying mission. I started looking for those Remington's at fair prices. What I found was some kind of crazy close out from a place named "Klein's". The ones I found weren't at that place, I've never been there. But I bought several bricks of it for 67 cents a box. I've still got some in the powder magazine. With the long since faded price stickers still there, if somehow soaked with a little oil.
I've also got the 2nd can of Browning gun oil privided with the gun.
I have no pride, its too expensive. But at yard sales out in the country I used to stumble across the old Western brand 22s in the nickel cases. I bought every one I found. I liked the headstamp. My now deceased FIL was an NRA instructor (for a long time). He taught target shooting at the firehouse and to Boy Scouts. He gave me a few bricks to "shoot up". That was long after he stopped training, but still had a bunch of ammo. When he died, someone else stole it (as opposed to me getting it.)
Ammo scrounges are everywhere. We're at the opposite end of the spectrum from those who just burn it up for fun. It relates to our early upbringing, and how affluent we were. I worked hard all my life to make sure my son's had it better than me. I'm sure my dad would take offense to that, he said he did the same thing.
Do NOT know how many 22LRs I have.
Largest pile is 40 pounds. Eight Remington 5 Pounders from 76 or 77. Two cans of each of the four designs that year in an original shipping box.
Quite a bit of Federal Standard Velocity in the plastic 100 pack boxes. (Stored in ammo cans)
Still have part of a brick of Remington bought back in 1964.
Bekeart
Largest pile is 40 pounds. Eight Remington 5 Pounders from 76 or 77. Two cans of each of the four designs that year in an original shipping box.
Quite a bit of Federal Standard Velocity in the plastic 100 pack boxes. (Stored in ammo cans)
Still have part of a brick of Remington bought back in 1964.
Bekeart
I like that terminology. It sounds a lot less sinister than "hoarder," doesn't it. I believe I will adopt it to describe myself, if you don't mind too much.
Your description of the less-than-full boxes of .22s reminded me of what the owner of my home-town gun shop and NAPA store told me about Jimmy Carter. He swears Jimmah came in his place a few years back, complete with his Secret Service detail, and wanted to buy half a box of .22s. Bo said he more or less politely asked him to leave because his entourage was getting in the way of paying customers.
OMG! You made me spit my coffee out!
And then he loads it with a rock crystal as a projectile. "Arena"
Jerry in SC
Member
Another ammo scrounge here. Not a high volume shooter, but a high volume hoarder
Back in the hills and hollers where I grew up it wasn't at all uncommon for the stores to have partially full boxes of ammo. They'd sell you a round at a time if that's all you could afford. Many a time we went hunting with only a few rounds between us.
