.22 lr ammo availability improving?

[LynnJr]

Dicks in Santa Rosa was $456 for 7800 rounds or 5.8 cents a round.
I had to take 3 people with me and wait about 45 minutes in the checkout line but nobody online had a better deal.
We drove to the Petaluma store but the AutoMatch were all sold out so we picked up 40 boxes of Golden bullets in the 100 packs for $320 out the door. They were buy one for $9.99 and get one half off.
11800 rounds ran $786 or 6.6 cents a round not counting gas or beer for my helpers.

[goodoljake]

Golden Bullets are excellent bulk ammo. Occasional fliers, buy for the most part accurate and function very well.

Thunderfarts are an entirely different story.

[RawHP]

The Bucket-o-bullets had 3-8% FTF rate, also the casing would get stuck in the barrel, just horrible... Shouldn't have bought it for $100.

That's not ammo, that's a novelty. I got a bucket online last year for $79, free shipping, no tax. I didn't get it to shoot though. Maybe some day if I'm really desparate.

[kaitrek]

The Bucket-o-bullets had 3-8% FTF rate, also the casing would get stuck in the barrel, just horrible... Shouldn't have bought it for $100.

[RawHP]

Plus, because it's heavy, and it's shipped, it's likely to get thrown hard a lot, thus you'll get a lot of duds because the primer separated from the rim.

Is this theory or from experience? I've never had an issue, and can't remember the last time I've experienced a failure to fire. I only see plinking ammo at Dicks; I did see some Eley Club once, but that seems rare, otherwise it seems like they top out with MiniMags at best.

[kaitrek]

I don't see the appeal of online shops for ammo, it's always more expensive than what I am able to get from Dick's store when it's on sale, and by always I mean 0.5-3 cents cheaper.
I did see some Fed 22 deals posted here for $20 per box, but there was a limit of like 2, sheesh, no thanks. Plus, because it's heavy, and it's shipped, it's likely to get thrown hard a lot, thus you'll get a lot of duds because the primer separated from the rim.

[RawHP]

Looks like a lot of the online shops are lifting their limits (Cabelas, Gander, etc.). I ordered 50 of the plastic mini sleeves (50 round sleeves) of CCI SV, $3.99 per sleeve, free shipping, no tax. I was done buying 22LR, but saw the deal and couldn't help myself. Dollar cost averaged down my CCI SV a little, and since it's my target practice ammo, I'll use it no matter what anyway.

[kaitrek]

Dicks black Friday ad said 2 box limit but they had plenty on hand so they gave us six boxes each.
24 boxes was $456 with tax out the door and they were packed.

The limit is 6 per customer as per the ad, not 2. It's 2 for $35, meaning you can't buy 1 for $17.50, you need to buy in sets of 2.

I scored 36 boxes total from Dublin 6:50PM, Hayward 8:05PM and Fremont 9:10PM. Hayward sold out right after us, and I read in another thread Dublin sold out at 8:30PM.

[HOGDOG1955]

salin as dicks was stacked with auto match as well as the cheap remington 9mm. i went with daughter and son in law and they didnt need 22 so i let a buddy have 6 of the 12 they got me so buddy and i each got 12 boxes.

[LynnJr]

Dicks black Friday ad said 2 box limit but they had plenty on hand so they gave us six boxes each.
24 boxes was $456 with tax out the door and they were packed with customers.

[billt]

I just came from Cabela's again this morning. They had Fiocchi 115 Gr. FMJ 9 MM for just $9.99 a box with no limit. People were carrying cases of the stuff to the registers. I only bought 6 boxes, but I had another $10.00 off coupon that really made it a good buy. Ammo is definitely coming down in price, and the availability is going way up.

[Cuyler]

Code is on the website. "6THANKS" Free shipping on purchases of $99 or more.

Yep, I knew about the "6THANKS" code cause I've already used it, but was unaware of the "6WINTER" code.
Edit: Hello, I feel really dumb now. The "6WINTER" code is posted on the Slickguns site.

[goodoljake]

6thanks still works too. But need $99 or more.

[sixoclockhold]

Code is on the website. "6THANKS" Free shipping on purchases of $99 or more.

You must be a snowflake.

[sixoclockhold]

Where and when did you see that code? I guess I must have been sleeping and missed that one.

Holiday Flyer that came in mail, good till Dec. 3rd

Maybe only for cabelas credit card holders? Got my free shipping on small order of ammo.

Put it in on an order and see what it does when you apply it.