.22LR ammunition

[DoNotReply]

I stacked them deep when they were cheap.

[plumbum]

Every time I’m in Sportsmans in Chico there is some kind of .22 LR on the shelves - sometimes bricks, sometimes just boxes.

And like others, I have been a habitual buyer of ammo since about 1995.

[sigstroker]

They will only let you buy 2 boxes at most. I'd be surprised if they sold you a full brick.

[tabascoz28]

Nope. .22lr manufacture hasn't stopped in place of other calibers.

There is a finite amount of machinery available for manufacturing of any caliber. Nobody is going to build more machines to make bullets to fulfill temporary demand spikes. They will just run at full capacity until supply = demand.

Same thing happened when Obama was prez.

1) There's going to be upstarts trying to make business sense out of this, maybe run themselves ragged, go into debt buying equipment to meet demand.

2) Big ammo makers aren't going to just buy in the millions of dollars more equipment or complete factories to make ammo for us. They are beholden to profit/shareholders/owners/stakeholder, not the public. It just so happens that if there's enough profit for the foreseeable decade, they might start the project.

3) Were there any of us thinking about cooping and starting ammo plants when prices were cheap? Remember they would have 5c rebates on ammo a few years ago, I do and took advantage of those. And they still made profit from those. I took a look at stamping my own jacketed .224 55g from spent .22lr casings and pouring primer compounds back into used primers and said hell no.

4) So if I was a big company, go to 3x8hr shifts with no overtime, jack up the price to pay everyone fairly and make that profit. Watch the news, meet the going rate and put my kids through college.

5) What we could use is an insider that owns an LGS that can let us know dealer cost prices. That will tell us when ammo makers know the demand is being met and driven down. By the way, if that was your business, do you want prices to dome down?

[tabascoz28]

6) If someone is trying to get into it now they're probably too late. Component costs/land/buildings/equipment has all gone up because of this too. All raw materials are probably spoken for by the big companies and they have more buying power. And that's if there's no bottleneck on powder/primer compound which is also the rumor. There were much bigger fires in Australia that ruined the gunpowder supply line as we don't make most of those chemicals here.

[plumbum]

They will only let you buy 2 boxes at most. I'd be surprised if they sold you a full brick.

If it isn’t crowded, you’re nice about it and you don’t go overboard, it is up to the employees discretion about how many boxes they will sell you



...or I used my white privilege all those times?

[Bull Elk]

Ammo

That's not what I've heard. They run .22 in batches, then shut down to convert machines to run something else.

You are correct.

[operavoice]

If you're willing to drive to Santa Rosa, you could try Load-X.
Last time I was there he had some, but it was crazy expensive (like real cartridge expensive).
I'd definitely call first.

[ar15robert]

Bought 4500 rounds last time still have a lot left kids didn’t shoot as much after I bought it. Gonna buy me a 22 revolver to have fun with

[michaelf3]

A shoe box fits about 10,000 rounds.

Guess I better buy 10 new pairs of shoes. Need the boxes for ammo storage.

[plumbum]

A single action .22 is a damn fine way to spend an afternoon plinking, while still conserving your reserves.

[BigPimping]

You didn't start hoarding years ago?

[200Apples]

A single action .22 is a damn fine way to spend an afternoon plinking, while still conserving your reserves.

Remember to bring along a basic kit to clean the cylinder bores every 50 rounds or so...

And a lever-action .22-chambered carbine is an oustanding compliment to the day.

[ChampCarStar]

I was paying $20.00 for a 50 round box of .22 way before it was cool (or necessary).

10,000 rounds of Eley Tenex .22 I bought in 2014 for a total of $3907.97. That's about $195.40 per brick of 500, or $19.54 for a box of 50.

Went through that and have bought tens of thousands more since.

[cz74]

Save them Eley Tenex! I wouldn't be surprised couple years they will only allow Olympic competitors to get hold of these ammo