22 AMMO SHOCK

[LONGRANGER777]

I thought i was dreaming at WW yesterday. I looked over at the perpetually empty 22 ammo shelf and BAM , eight or nine 525 boxes of Rem GBs. In a fog i grabbed a clerk and claimed my three boxes. $27.57 plus tax each. Added two more small ammo cans and i was out the door for $99.87. Two guys behind me got the rest. Is this a good sign or a fluke ? $20 a brick soon ?

[kdsd731]

I've managed to be at bass pro at the the right time and picked up a few 525 boxes for $23 out the door throughout 2015. It's few and far between but it's nice to see.

['ol shooter]

I think the shortage is easing up. The LGS is advertising that they have a ton of .22 in stock, and I just got 1k of Mini-Mags for $7.95 per hundred, not great, but better than the recent past. Only time will tell where the prices will land once it is plentiful again. I hope the flippers lose their butts.

[stilly]

Yeah. Bullseye Sport in Riverside is once again sitting on a butt-load of it. They are having a shooting day celebration sale/blow out coming up and they plan on letting it all go to the folks that show up...

I think they had a flyer in today's Press Enterprise.

[pacrat]

Yeah. Bullseye Sport in Riverside is once again sitting on a butt-load of it. They are having a shooting day celebration sale/blow out coming up and they plan on letting it all go to the folks that show up...

I think they had a flyer in today's Press Enterprise.

My Grandson only lives 1/2 mi from them. I'll tell him to give a look.

[rivercityshooter]

I am one of the guys that would buy a lot of 22. At one time I had like 10,000 rounds of 22 sitting in the safe that is because there was a smart phone APP called "BrassBadger" it would do alot of the work of deciphering the Walmart Website. There used to be a way to go to the WM site and do some editing of the browser and you could see if your particular WM had any 22LR in stock. WELL now WM FINALLY got smart to this after like 2 years of the brassbadger site and smartphone app being around and now pulled all the info for 22LR off their site. In essence the BrassBadger app and site no longer work. It is back to the old days of calling your local WM and seeing if there was any 22LR that came in on the nights load. There has been times lately that I have gone into the store and found almost full shelves of 22LR in the middle of the afternoon. I spoke with the sporting goods manager at my local WM and he has told me that sometimes 22 will just sit on the shelf for days at a time. He also has told me with a smile on his face that the days of him coming to work and seeing a big line waiting for 22 is long gone.


This is the pre BassBadger App/Site way of looking at the WM site and finding 22LR

[stilly]

Oh yeah, I forgot, Ammo bros has had a large amount of .22lr sitting behind the counter the last time or two we were there.

You need to ask them at the counter if they have any more of it left. This was at the riverside store. Not too bad of a price, but not the greatest either.


As far as I am concerned though, 9mm/.45 acp is the new .22lr.

I have free 9mm brass and PB is pretty cheap. I can cast and PC pills at about .02-.03 cents each if I bought PB at 1.50/lb but since most of my PB is sub $1/lb I am safe in saying that number.

Primers are what- .025 each. Powder is about what .02 per charge of 5gr if powder cost me about $29 (which it did not).

So it costs me about .06-.08 per round to load up. At least I do not have to suffer the walmart air and environment. I swear I wanna punch a fatty out when I go there sometimes. If it aint some snot-nosed kids running around playing soccer in the store it is some heffer on a motorized scooter wearing a moomoo and blocking the aisle. And if it aint that then it is any one of these: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=43165

Or maybe I just do not like people in wal-mart anymore. I know I should embrace my fellow americans for everyone has a story to tell, but I am finally done hearing stories. Now put a ball-gag on your damn crying kid, raise your other kids properly and GTFO my way... :\ Oh yeah, and apparently there is a new style of raising your kids- Everytime they shriek/scream/yell you kiss their mouth... I swear to god I was ready to **** punt that ***** for doing that...

Just saying...

[Ubermcoupe]

I thought i was dreaming at WW yesterday. I looked over at the perpetually empty 22 ammo shelf and BAM , eight or nine 525 boxes of Rem GBs. In a fog i grabbed a clerk and claimed my three boxes. $27.57 plus tax each. Added two more small ammo cans and i was out the door for $99.87. Two guys behind me got the rest. Is this a good sign or a fluke ? $20 a brick soon ?

One can hope.

[Fishslayer]

There is still American Eagle out there at $80/brick. I have a feeling it's gonna be on the shelf for awhile!