What is the deal with 22 lr ammo?

[ebeeby]

"To the readers who think that when the Government's "orders" are filled we will see ammo again, I think it is real strange that the rounds such as 25/20, 7.5/55 30/30 etc. are not available at all also."

Privi has stopped production of everything except the "hot" cartridges. I'm guessin they're not the only ones....

[joem]

Talked to a fellow shooter at the range today, $70.00 for a brick, OUCH.

[Art]

The .22 ammo situation really is crazy. I have found one, and only one, box at Academy in the past several months and picked it up for $3.50. The other popular ammo has started to make a comeback and while it is still rationed 9mm, .40 Cal., .45 ACP, .223/5.56mm NATO and 7.62x39mm are becoming available at reasonable prices where I live if you shop a bit. Any rimfire is a different story. I found some .22 Mag. at a little gunstore that generally has reasonable prices and they wanted $20.00 for 50 rounds of CCI 40gr h.p. . Last week I bought 50 rounds of Com Bloc 9mm for $12.00 and a couple of weeks before that a box of Winchester military ball which is very high quality stuff for $17.00.

People must be still adding to their .22 rimfire hoards, only thing I can figure.

[BudT]

Saw a "stack" of cases yesterday in a Nevada store for sale with no takers. Only 70 dollars per brick of 500 of the Remington .22LR standard velocity, what a great deal huh. Piles of other ammo, none of it was "flying" out the door way to rich for me and it would seem to others walking by. Lookie but no buy. Anyone that wants to pay that much for ammo....have at it but not me. I did buy 3 bulk boxes of 22lr in a Wally World store in California for "retail" and later that week a box of 9mm again for retail. Coould have bought more of the 9mm but at the time didnt know about friends that couldnt find any, I'll find them some ammo to take on the next trip for them.

When I was waiting to buy some in a W. Mart I was talking to a guy when I said out loud enough for the others to hear that the @$$h0les buying this stuff up and putting it on line auctions were nothing but a bunch of fudGepacking low life that will get what they deserve when this turns around all but the one guy looked away and real sheepish, ya they know who they are and this WILL change.......you can take it to the bank. Oh ya one of the 3 boxes of 22 ammo I bought I sold to a retired friend who couldnt get any from the stores there so Brian got his 22 shells to clean out the dam ground squirel infestation around his home and I will probably go pig hunting with him on the next trip. I'll see if I can find a few more boxes for others and Brian, they need them they dont just want them to "play" with like some of the others.

[Johnny in Texas]

A local indoor range does not sell there .22 LR as they are getting 6.95 per box for use in there rental pistols and rifles. They cannot get enough to sell it and keep there rental guns loaded.

[Johnny P]

Talked to someone that went to the Dallas gun show, and when he spotted .22 LR for $50 a brick he bought four bricks. Didn't go very far down the aisle and found it for $37.50 a brick.