When will the ammo scarceness settle down. Running low on .22lr and it is NO-WHERE!

[oldpinecricker]

Been buying it for years and this summer to fall I picked up cases and cases of Federal bulk 22lr and a few cases of Blazer. I'm 40 and I think I have at least an lifetime of the stuff.

Good news is today I sourced 9 boxes of PMC 40 Starfire @ $17 ea, Federal Fusion 30-06 @ $16 box, and some Tula 7.62x39 154gr softpoint.

Right now 22lr is an complete ripoff because of demand. One thing we must all keep in mind is that the good ol days of cheap ammo are over. The base metals used in ammo is getting consumed more and more world wide, so after recycling you need to mine and refine. Mining costs are higher than ever and they will never go back down because demand in developing economies and population growth will be driving base metal prices.

[swamprat]

I stocked up on ammo. Then I stocked up on arrows....

sent from my dumb phone.

I bought heavily after the election in 2008 and have kept adding to it every since. My great grandkids will probably get to shootsome of it.

[UDTfrogman]

if i may, mods please remove if not revelent. i recall the 1965 auto workers strike, 74 oil embargo, brady bill, assult weapon ban, and the ban on the plastic glock pistol. just wait and all will settle down again. i never had trouble getting gas even though they imposed the odd/even tag number system. i may be older than most of you, but these things too will pass. sincerely, central joe

I thought the $3+ gas wouldn't last, but here it is 3 years later.

[bharen]

Rule #1: If you don't want Joe Public to have something, the last thing you want to do is threaten to ban it. The minute you do, Joe Public will suddenly realize that he deperately needs <insert soon to be banned item>.

That's precisely how old Joe Kennedy made his first couple of million. He was a supply side genius.

[JLRider]

Whenever the "Chicken Little" panic buying and profiteering is over. We went through this once before, not too long ago. There is no real reason to hoard .22 LR ammo but greed knows no bounds. Last time around I watched guys buy up every last brick of .22 ammo on the shelf at China Mart, intending to sell them at gun shows for inflated prices.

I guess we all have opinions.

How do you know it is chicken little? And how do you know there is no real reason?

People ask me why I carry a gun and state there is no real reason.

In the same light, I'd rather have a lot of ammo and not need it than need it and not have it.

I'm going to shut my mouth before my opinions turn political, because that's where they will go.


sent from my dumb phone.

[Ahnkochee]

In four years if Joe Biden not elected.

[red elm]

How is reloading components in your guy's areas? Another reason I have been looking for .22 Im down to about 200 primers and not much powder and my Local reloading store is cleaned out.

Had to order primers from midway and powder from Graf's. powder is 3-4 weeks to ship!!!!

[ezra45]

Firearms owners have been under attack, in one way or another, since the mid 1960's. it has ben increasing in ferocity and speed since the Clinton years and the original AWB. Whether it is moderated this time or not, if one wants to shoot in the future, I suggest that buying ammunition when you can find it, is not greed or hoarding. If it becomes commonly available again, buy it. Buy as much as you can or as much as you want. There will come a time when registration of ammo buyers and quantity limiting will come about. The Liberal anti-gunners are not going to stop. And I qualify the Liberal antis vs. the Liberal pro-gun folks because I know , first hand, that they are out there. I have received calls from quite a few that never owned guns but when it came down to it, the 2A was as important to them as to me. I have been to the gun store with 7 Lib friends in the last 3 weeks and they are now owners and are writing their legislators. It will take ALL of us this time to stop this garbage , if it is at all possible.

Regards,

ezra

[Bill Cox]

Whats this shortage I keep hearing about, I am well supplied with 22lr. When I started working retail a while back we had just stopped carrying firearms and also most ammunition. We had boxes dynapoint bulk pack that went on clearance for 10$ a box I picked up about 4 dozen boxes(all we had). Can never have to much 22lr lol.

[alukban]

Yeah, I love me some rimfire

I've got at least about 25,000... I should sell some back to Walmart eh?

"Wot eeeez deeeeez amu-shoot-age dat u speeeka of?" HEH-HEH