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>almost 2016
>3 years after sandy hook
>still no .22lr in most stores
>scalpers still getting $50 a brick
Y?
>>27939435
Here in CA in gun control land (SF Peninsula) the both Big 5 in Redwood City and the Dick's in South SF are selling 550 round boxes for $25 until Christmas. I don't think they'll sell out as right now they'll let you buy a box every three days now (down from one/week).
>>27939491
huh I'm in central Texas and I've seen .22lr twice in the past year in a half. I bought a brand new 10/22 3 years ago that I've shot twice. It's saddening. On gunbot I can never find anything less than .10 cents a round.
Not the time of year for manufacturing .22lr. Manufacturers are running the fraction of the employees they once did. Outside military contracts there's popular hunting loads people stock up on this time of year.
And stop trying to buy at Wal-Mart. Those motherfuckers dont know shit about ordering. Many of the sporting goods chain stores are compelled not to buy ammo From corporate for political reasons.
>>27939435
So were still doing the "theres no .22 anywhere" meme?
still cant find federal 550ct
Here in BC, Canada we can find them pretty easy. The going rate is about .07 cents to 12 cents each. Before you talk about how expensive these are just remember that our dollar is only 0.75 of yours.
>>27939435
.22lr is the only round I know of that is readily cheaper in stores than online. You just need to be a bit smarter about when and where to buy it. The deals are out there you just need to beat the retired, wealthy prepper who goes to Walmart every morning in hopes of buying the shipment that got there 30 minutes earlier.
>>27939435
I really don't know anymore, but I stopped carrying. I put my .22 away, most times I forget I even own it. I don't ask for .22 at the stores, I don't look for it, and when places have it I don't buy it.
>>27939435
>scalpers still getting $50 a brick
more like $75 to $80 in my area. course that's what they advertise them for. don't know if anyone is actually dumb enough to buy them at that price.
>>27939435
Because you guys still buy it. Even though you can reload 9mm for the price of 22 these days.
>>27939757
Not a meme dude. Sure it's available online, but who wants to pay 10 cents per round plus shipping. I could drive to every store in a 100 mile radius and find zero boxes of .22 ammo on the shelves. And it's always like that.
>>27939757
Clearly someone who doesn't have a .22lr
wasnt there some post or series of posts some time ago that said some major .22 manufacturers were shutting down lines to grow their production plants to capitalize on the swell of demand for .22 in the near future?
i like to believe this is true but in the meantime i can at least find a few 50 round boxes in the PX every week or so to go plinking with.
>>27939435
why did .22 run out? Was it fear of .22 being banned or something? I don't get it.
>>27940460
hoarders (and by that I mean buying in the tens of thousands of rounds. A case or two isn't hoarding), scalpers, and increased new shooters
22lr is more available now than the last year to year and a half.
>>27940460
cheapest ammo to stock up on
for a while everything was unavailable but you can see all other ammo recovered for the most part save for surplus common gun food like 5.56 and 7.62
>>27940460
After Sandy Hook people got real scared and started hoarding. The thing is, if you want to buy 1000 rounds of .22 it'll run you like 50 bucks. You want 1000 rounds of 9mm it'll run you around $250. That's just plinking rounds too.
Secondly, everyone owns a .22, ever since they were boys. It's what you use to teach women and children on. So between the fact that it was the cheapest/easiest to hoard there were also more people doing it.
Plus it's a rimfire so you can't into reloading.
There is lots of it here. There are some guys that buy .22mag in bulk so it may or may not be on the shelf but usually only a day or two away.
>>27940528
>Plus it's a rimfire so you can't into reloading.
technically you can, it's just not worth it and more dangerous than centerfire loading.
After casually looking for .22lr for close to 4 years now, I've only found it stocked once, at Dick's about a month ago.
10 dollars for 100 rounds.
In disbelief of actually finding any, I commented to the clerk that it was very unexpected.
I asked him the limit and he said "Five boxes"
I said huh, and he asked "So, five then?"
Naw I just go two.
Just for the fuck of it.
>>27940253
9mm is cheap enough these days there is no point in reloading it
At the Gander Mt. Where I work we stock it fairly regularly. Doesn't last long though.
.22mag is a different story. Haven't seen any in at least 8 months
>>27940653
I saw it recently for $8.99 for a box of 50. It was the only .22 ammo in town but I wasn't about to pay that much for .22.
And it wasn't even some high quality german match grade or anything, just typical winchester shit grade. The store had exactly two boxes of it. A month later they were both still there.
>>27940658
If you have absolutely no time, then perhaps. I'm saving loading at 11 cpr with scare price components, aside from the bullets which are commercial coated cast, still almost half off the the cheapest remans even.
I only shoot like 2k rounds of 9mm a year though, but that's still around 200 dollar saving.
>>27939757
It's fucking true. Whenever I walk into Wal-mart they have no .22lr at all. If I walk into a gun store they might have a couple bricks of golden bullet or some other junk if I'm lucky.
>>27940725
Well 9mm is like 20cpr right now. If that time is worth the 9c to you better for you mate.
That being said you are using cast. How much would it be to reload using fmjs?
Maybe you guys should look around other stores than walmart. I can find it 4.99 for 50 in New York ... There is no shortage. Just panic buyers.
ITT people confusing hard boxed CCI and match ammo with trash bucket bulk.
>>27940772
>I can find ammo in a state with super retard strong gun laws and the lowest gun ownership per capita in the country
Gee what a shock. In other places where people actually own guns, you can't find .22 anywhere.
>>27940768
if you don't buy in bulk, then it'll go up to 17-19 cpr for 115grn, maybe 14-16 cpr if you buy in bulk. I wouldn't reload at that cost myself unless I'm doing odd ball loads.
I'll still buy commercial as well if they're cheap enough. I just bought a few boxes of 124grn ammo for like 6 bucks a box due to sales and coupons and shit from sportsmanguide.
>>27940726
Same here, the only place near me that carries .22lr (Epic Firearms) only has the $20 for a box of 50 Eley and RWS premium ammo. I've been out of state (between WA, ID, and MT), and have yet to see anywhere under 15cpr
Occasionally there will be some garbage Aguila or similar showing up for 10cpr online plus shipping fees, but at that point id rather just shoot my Talon SS
I see CCI mini mags and subsonic advertised all the time, but it's never in stock
Personally I think the people in the supply chain buy most of it before it ever gets to shelves, and rest is got by camping hoarders who then sell it to new shooters at gun shows
>>27940042
same in ontario and quebec, the white boxes of 555 rounds are still available for 27$ in walmart
I've been able to consistently find mini mags for 10 cpr in the east bay..........considering that I live in the bay area in California (where everything is expensive), I think it's a decent price
>>27940460
you can blame it on hoarders all you want and they are a large part of it but there are alot of new first time gunowners that were recommended 22lrs who actually need those bullets now
demand has increased compared to before
>>27940658
If you're looking to shoot something at $0.12/rd there is.
>>27939435
Big 5 employee here, we get some almost every week, sells for 9-10 cents a round.
>>27940995
First time gun owners aren't the problem. It is/was the same 10 or 20 guys that wait outside a store for hours before they open and then go in and buy every round before it ever hits the shelf.
In some areas, like where I live, they're still doing it.
>>27940999
Like i said unless all your shooting is casts at that price. Its going to be like as this anon said 14-16 cpr
>>27940866
You can find it readily available for 20cpr on internet. You can get better than that locally. Its generally not worth my time right now. When it goes up in price thats when i will start reloading it with all my new brass
>>27940205
Tbh you'd be better off just paying the 10 cpr online then waking your ass up super early to beat grandpa Fudd just to save a couple of cents
I dunno, I had no problem stocking up online for less than 10cpr. I stopped buying because I had more 22 than I could shoot
>>27940661
Which state? I'm at the CO gander mountain as a gunsmith and we ain't got shit
>>27941356
>the CO gander mountain
there's only one in the entire state of colorado? i figured there'd be tons of them.
>>27939435
semi-weekly trips to every store in the area got old after a few months. I just order online, it's worth the shipping cost to not waste my time and gas trying to find it on the shelves only to be allowed to buy 2-3 boxes when I actually do find it. and 9mm is still at least 2x what I'm paying for .22 so it's still worth buying.
>>27940460
preppers that thunk they're going to live long enough in SHTF to need 100000's of rounds of shit ammo.
Chain gun store employee here, for some reason my manager gives me a 1 box limit (as in, 1 box of 50 rounds) for my customers. Even when we have 40-50 boxes and it's an extremely slow day, and we never get scalpers/hoarders anyway. I hate the policy and would love to give more to people who are obviously just trying to shoot with their kids.
Waited 40 minutes for this. Fucking Walmart.
>>27940528
While .22lr is nonreloadable, .38 SPECIAL is a very good substitute, as reloading it is unfairly cheap, if you leadcast - it's pennies to the shot, and using a light load on an already light cartrige makes it just as good if not better than shooting .22, yet it has some of the same ballistics statistics. (a lightload .38 vs a .22). Still cheaper than .22 and infinitely more available/effective.
Small pistol primers are cheaper than shit
Small pistol gunpowder is (eh) cheap
Small pistol (caliber) brass is alright
Small pistol boolet is the most expensive and still uber cheap.
Leadcasting? Remove most expensive bit. Total cost is less than 7 cents a shot
>>27939491
Where in Redwood City? I'm from Emerald Hills.
>>27941369
No there's two actually but the other one sucks
>>27941525
Why is .38 special $18 a box of 50 at my Walmart? It's not even JHP or anything.
Down here in SC, the drought of .22 LR appears to have largely ceased. Plenty of places have bricks and boxes in stock. I think people realized that .22 tends to not keep as well as centerfire rounds in a stockpile.
Why do people stock up on 22 lr after a mass shooting?
>>27939435
I just bought 4 boxes of 50 for around 5 dollars a box, what are you on about?
>>27939435
>tfw bass pro shops black Friday sale is $20 300rd bricks and $35 500 round bricks of Winchester super X
>mfw at the height of Sandy vag I bought two wood box 500 rounders of superX on black friday from them for $25 a box
what the fuck
You can buy thunderbolt for 6c a round all day everyday from them yet their black Friday "deals" are worse than their current prices
How about we abandon rimfire shit and select a new plinking cartridge that can be reloaded?
What should it be?
>>27942213
Closest would be like 9mm if you are going from todays pricing
lol gust sitten here in florida with all of this 22.lr
I'm halfway tempted to sell my Marlin 60 and buy something in .17 HMR like the Savage A17, since at least you can find that round on shelves.
>>27939435
.22LR ammo producers are in it for the long haul, a while back I was genuinely interested in learning why production hadn't increased, turns out they think the increased demand is temporary and won't justify (in the long run) expanding, not sure what length of time they are considering though.
"temporary" must mean 5 or 10 years to them.
>>27941758
I remember one of my friends back in '06 or '08 or so bitching about a 500 count box of .22lr costing $20.
Had a new Field and Stream open up in my area bout 2 months back. They had 3 pallets of .22lr. All gone now, but they were selling that shit at no limit and for pretty much standard retail prices. Federal 325 ct boxes were $20. Remshit bucket o bullets (1500 RDS I think) for $70.
All the pawn shops in the area typically have .22lr in stock but at escalated prices.
>>27942491
Yeah I've had the same thought. Too bad neither the rifles nor the rounds are anywhere near as cheap
>>27942574
>Federal 325 ct boxes were $20
Damn. I would have spent $1000 and had enough .22 ammo for years and years.
>>27942585
The A17 retails for around $400. It's a lot more expensive than the Marlin and 10/22, but it's a better gun chambered for a better round, and there's no point in keeping a rifle that you can't get ammo for.
>>27942511
Because it's completely different equipment from centerfire, and it's a major investment to make.
That's why.
>>27942619
How the fuck could that be?
They still swage brass and press a lead bullet into it, dropping a ring of priming compound into the case can't be that much different.
>>27939435
Im in upstate NY. .22lr is easy to find for cheap stuff. CCI's are always gone but i can always find boxes and usually buckets of 1200
>>27942603
Shit man, I bought a good bit and went back 3-4 times and finally said OK that's enough. They also had fiocci 9mm at $7 for a box of 50. I stocked up on that shit. I'd rather shoot fiocci than blazer brass anyday
>>27939491
yeah down her in the L.A. area it isnt too difficult to get it now, got some at big 5 last week and i got a bass pro shop sales thing in the mail stating they had some on sale.
Charlotte, NC area here.
Sure, it doesn't pop up in chain stores, but I can name plenty of small gun shops that carry it regularly.
>>27940271
>mfw still get buckets of 1200 for $60-$80
.22lr, one of the weakest calibers in existence, terrible for killing a person, died because of Sandy Hook? I'm pretty newgunz, and wasn't that big on gun culture when it happened, but this is news to me, and retarded news at that.
>>27942612
>there's no point in keeping a rifle that you can't get ammo for.
Good point, but I wouldn't get rid of my .22s I'd just add the 17 to the arsenal
>>27942649
Everyone everywhere (in America) started thinking the world was going to end when king nigger decided to attack our firearm freedom, and so they determined the logical course of action was to buy every single fucking round of .22LR they could get their hands on.
This was in the middle of the Jews' attempted "Assault Weapons" ban (AWB) in '12 or so--which sparked a gun buying panic and prices on everything remotely related to firearms increased 5fold and guns, ammo, gear were flying off the shelves.
>>27942630
doesnt it have to be spun after?
>>27942639
Always surprises me that there isn't a .22lr manufacturing facility set up right around Concord Mills. A person could make a fortune
>>27942643
Is it legal to drive to Canada and buy .22LR then drive back?
>>27942649
Yep, the good old scare of 2012, fudds are still mass buying the stuff around where I live, you can usually find it online if you look.
>>27942643
Are you sucking the dick of the shipping supervisor at the Winchester .22 factory or something?
>>27942667
donnow
>>27942678
can confirm, every baby boomer in rural America is still buying .22LR like crazy
Jelly fags are jelly
>>27942649
It was not banned, nor was it threatened to be banned.
Many centerfire calibers appropriate for autoloading "military style" rifles were threatened to be banned, namely 5.56x45 (.223rem) and 7.62x51 (.308win).
It never happened, but enough people bought into the panic that their precious AR's would go hungry that they bought .22lr rifles and pistols because at the time when M855 was going for $3 per round .22lr was still 5-6 cents a round and they could still afford to shoot -something-.
Well, what happens when approximately 400,000 new people own .22lr guns? Demand for .22lr goes up. Then the current supply dries up because manufacturers can't keep up with demand, and .22lr goes up in price while simultaneously becoming hard to find. People start hoarding it when they can find it (buying 10,000+ rounds at a time instead of their normal brick), which exacerbates the scarcity. People start scalping .22lr, further exacerbating both the price and the scarcity.
Here we are several years later, .22lr is still hard to find because nobody opened a new ammo plant for .22lr and very few shooters sold their .22lr guns so the demand is still there and the supply is still not.
Oh, also 5.45x39 7n6 got banned from import by name and Russian arms producers were heavily restricted on imports, severely impacting the availability of 7.62x39 and 5.45x39. This also added to the demand as many of those guys switched to other calibers.
remshit ammo is fairly easy to get nowadays, but everytime I buy i regret it the instant I shoot them.
>>27942690
Weak dude.
>currently sitting on about 23,000 rounds
I will shoot it all before 1 January 2016 too, so I'm not even hoarding.
>>27942696
If we went into the illegal importation business (Canada) we could still probably make a fucking fortune.
>>27942675
No
>>27942681
No, just get it cheap here
>>27942487
Got a few thousand down in the glorious gunshine state
>>27942716
You'll shoot 23,000 rounds in 41 days?
What in the world are you doing and how many mexicans did you hire to load mags for you?
>>27942774
Eh, phrased that poorly.
Myself, my wife, and my 3 teenage kids will shoot 23,000 rounds in 41 days.
We go to the range at least 2x a week, and each kid will blow through a brick an hour. I personally actually shoot the least amount of .22 in my family since I only shoot competition-grade stuff (SK Rifle Match or better) through an accurized boltgun. My kids each have their own Marlin 60+speedloader and my wife has a 10/22.
So yeah, approximately 6 range trips between now and then, at over 2000 rounds per range trip between 5 people, plus loaners.
Everyone in here talking about finding it, if you're paying more than 5 cents a round you're getting fucked and shouldn't even consider buying it. It would be a cold day in hell if I payed $10 for 50 rounds of .22lr. Might as well just shoot steel case 9mm.
>>27942817
When was the last time you saw it online for less than 5cpr? Because it's been years for me.
It isn't available at all locally, so I'm forced to order online and the cheapest I've seen it is around 7cpr plus shipping which usually bumps it up near 10.
I have 10 bricks in stock right now for $20. Y'all motherfuckers don't look.
>>27942845
no, it's just still not available in a lot of areas. there are still fat fucks around here that wait in line for hours every day to buy up every last round as soon as the store opens.
>>27942835
if people ever stop hoarding .22LR it will surely be plentiful as fuck
>>27940839
Maybe we should buy it and sell it to u go- I mean guys.
Cabelas in Union Gap, WA has shelves of .22; has for 2 years.
>>27942068
Have you guys ever looked at the consumer price index and compared that to the price of .22 lr? I'm a noobie ass gun owner, I don't even have a .22. But I think you guys maaay be tripping. The value of the dollar drops every year. If you look at the CPI, in 1982 a dollar was worth 132% more than it is now.
>>27939541
What? Nigger what? I work at Bass Pro in San Antonio and we just go over 100,000 rounds of .22. Remington thunderbolt, cci mini mag, federal, blazer, even fucking .22 short. You just haven't been looking.
>>27942696
Ah ok I got you. It went short because of overbuying due to proposed assault bans, not because it itself was used in Sandy Hook.
>>27939757
Yes. Apparently we are. In the past two years I've lived in southwest Louisiana and central texas and everywhere I go I can find it. Granted, when my local stores are getting them they go. But we get shipments in at least every week and a half.
>>27942995
is san antonio in central texas? no.
that guy could be in some little hick town where San Angelo is "the big city" and maybe .22 isn't available there. just because it's available where you are, doesn't mean it's available everywhere.
>>27943059
>is san antonio in central texas?
Yes.
>>27943069
no it's not
>>27943069
You're in south texas you dirty beaner.
>>27942670
I live right by concord mills.
Great area for a gun owner.
>Acadamy, Walmart and Bass Pro all in one place.
>>27942985
pretty sure the Cabelas in Marrysville, WA is loaded up on .22, they were packed with everything else a couple weeks ago.
>>27939491
>they'll let you buy a box every three days now (down from one/week).
what the fuck?
I just by my .22 at the nearest base.
>do you have .22?
>yes
>buy 4 bricks of federal automatch for $20/each
>>27942795
>a brick an hour
are you basically just mag dumping for an hour straight?
>>27939435
because poorfags, fudds and retards still pay it.
>>27939491
Across the bay in Livermore I can get 325 auto match for $29.99 from big 5.
What's going on here?
Send me some ammo faggot. Preference the copper plated packs.
>>27943299
Yeah plus you've got half a dozen decent LGS in about a ten mile radius
>>27942664
God, I love this country. This is a country where guns and ammo flow so freely that people are able to just roll their eyes and complain whenever there's a shortage. I'm not joking. A lot of countries in the world don't have this luxury.
>>27943101
>SA is south texas
Barely.
Gander Mountain down where I'm at has shit loads of .22.
>>27939435
I saw shelf fulls in my LGS in Iowa... All of them here put hard limits on the scalpers, and its done good to keep it on the shelves. Fuck those guys though
>>27941356
>>27940661
CO Big 5 here, we have more trouble with getting .22 WMR than .22LR.
>>27939541
254?
>>27940661
>see .22lr Quiet a lot
>see .22WMR everywhere, even in Walmart
>see bulk packs of .22lr Standard Velocity
>see Winchester Super X 22lr (never buying that)
>see .22lr Champions and Automatches
>no .22lr CCI Blazer or CCI Minimags, which are the only .22lrs I even buy
>>27941285
I reload .380 with jacketed bullets for $.12 a round, if I wanted I could reload for 9mm with the same bullets for about the same price (actually thinking about it as the main 9mm pistol I shoot now days is a MAC-11 clone that will run just fine with 9mm loaded down to .380 spec, don't even have to use more powder, and then I only have to worry about stocking one type of bullet).
>>27942213
Some .32 caliber revolver cartridge loaded with buckshot, I can reload 7.62x38r with buckshot for about $.06 a round.
>>27943341
Go to Guns, Fishing and Other Stuff in Dublin......They always have .22lr in stock at a reasonable price as I said in >>27940968
>>27941285
When it goes up in price I'll still have 10K rounds left that I bought for 19 cpr
>>27942995
210 bro ayy lmao
>>27942717
I drive an armored car that can carry 13 tons of cargo to the Canadian border 3 times a week. Let's make money
>>27939491
WA FAG here NO .22 anywhere. i bought 2 300rd cci ar tacticool boxes about 6 months ago and never seen any .22 anymore :(
>>27944760
Seriously? Drive to Yakima, the cabelas outpost in Union Gap has 3 shelves of the damn stuff.
>>27941525
>7 cents a shot
So cheap
>tfw when shooting 5$ per round of 50 bmg
>>27944979
>tfw when shooting 5$ per round of 50 bmg
Supposedly in the late 90s/early 2000s before .50 BMG rifles got popular you could get it for $1 per round.
>>27945014
>1$ per round
>popularity rises
>5$ per round now
>>27945027
Well, one of the reasons it used to be so cheap is because only people with M2s and other .50 BMG belt fed guns could shoot it, so there was next to no demand and a shit ton of surplus.
>>27939435
I work at a fun store in WV. Still no bricks or bucketd but we've got assloads of CCI and Norma brand ammunition. Give me some info and method of payment and i'll ring it up and ship them to you.
>>27943059
wow you guessed it. San Angelo is the big city. No 22 here
>>27942710
First time I used remshit in my mark 3, I had like 5 FTF out of a 50rd box that my dad had. Never agin, even if it is free. Every other brand I've put through my pistol has been flawless.
The only people I see who can't find .22lr are people who only go to Walmart to buy ammo and then go "I checked all the stores!"
No .22lr is a myth.
That's why you should have gone with .25 acp and a shitload of buckshot to reload those rounds for plinking fun and vermin control.
>>27939435
Idk about you guys but I've been able to find any and all 22 wherever I go
>>27939561
I work at Walmart, in Southern California can comfirm not knowing shit about ordering, did get 525 bricks today however, that was a nice surprise. they should be gone by tomorrow because it looked like we only got 10 boxes and have a 3 box a day limit
>>27944310
I thought I was the only one to do this. Buckshot out of my 1985 is pretty fucking accurate too.
>>27943544
nobody cares about the other countries. Not even the people that live in those countries thats why they come to an american image board to hear americans complain about american problems
>>27943330
8.33 rounds per minute isn't a crazy amount for a teenager
>>27946621
pfft bricks are 550
>>27946626
Alright 9.17 rpm definitely breaks the bank
>>27943299
Wow small world I'm also from the area. My brother used to work at academy so he helped us stock up on .22 lr. (I guess we were part of the problem)
Either of you guys know of an outdoor gun range where I can practice long distance rifle shooting?
What does /k/ think of aguila brand 22lr ammo
>>27939435
Where are you?
I've been finding .22lr at walmart but mostly at sporting or gun stores.
This has inflated the price to at the most you can find a box of 500 round for anywhere from $25 to $30.
Only at gun shows are you going to find 500 rounds for $50
>>27946867
Not in Charlotte. Only free outdoor range i know of is in Asheville
>>27939435
>tfw the gun store i work at has a nice little Savage Mark II that i want but am holding off until i can get some fucking .22.
Its pretty chill. Bull Barrel, Free Floated, Accu-Trigger. Comes scoped. Really want. And its decently cheap on my discount
>>27940205
Or you could-
>break into his house
>pop him in the stinker with a supped .22
>hide his body in the basement
>get your well earned lifetime supply of plinkin' joy
>drink some bourbon while smoking a cigar when you get rid of evidence
>enjoy life and let memories remind you of the size if yer balls
>>27941515
>A17
Got one of those in a couple of Weeks ago. Fucking bolt feels and looks like its made out of aluminum
>>27939435
All it would take is 2 months
Stop fucking buying it for 2 god damn months and it will be back on the shelves. Seriously.
>>27947096
>>drink some bourbon while smoking a cigar when you get rid of evidence
>Leaving your DNA at the scene of a crime that has no statutes of limitations.
Just go in in a fucking Hazmat suit, Pop his ass. Pick up the shell casing. Get rid of the body with some Hydrofluoric acid. Take the .22. Then burn the suit. AND WATCH IT BURN AND DONT TOUCH ANYTHING AFTERWARD.
>>27939435
Wanna know a cool trick to get a shitload of .22 for almost nothing?
>go 2 walmart early right when they get their shipment in
>find the guy buying it all
>be really nice to him, offer him a lollipop or chocolate treat
>become his friend
>follow him home and murder him
>free mountains of .22lr, probably a good stache of diet Dew too
>>27946621
That's the way I was when I was a kid, I'd blow through a 500 round box every Saturday, sometimes two. It was mostly a waste, but a lot of fun. I usually only shoot 50-100 rounds per range trip these days (380 ACP and 45 ACP usually.)
>>27947060
Well I take weekend trips to Asheville with my buddies every once in a while. What's the name of the range?
>>27939757
>I have it here, thus its everywhere
suck a dick faggot, I haven't seen a box of 22lr at any walmart around here for 2 years. All the LGS and Cabelas have some, but it's all priced to match or even higher than online prices (10 cents/round).
califag here, going to gunstores and big box stores for other shit... own a .22 revolver my grandmother gave me, haven't shot it in the years I've had it, but in all my time since I've been in gun stores and shit, I've seen like 200 total rounds at a bass pro and like 50 at a sports authority. shit is RARE. even compared to my 7mm rem mag.
>>27939435
I found it very hard not to laugh when I was at a gun shop and they wanted to sell me a brick of 22lr for close to 50 bucks.
I was impressed enough that they had it, but there's just no way, not when I own ANY other guns or airguns that can sling lead ~1000fps or more.
>>27939435
where the fuck are you? in Maine things are pretty much back to normal
>>27942690
I'm a fan of those red plastic boxes but have only found one of them.
>>27939435
>my city is drowning in .22.
New cabelas FTW.
I normally hate Alabama, but this is something I can get behind.
>>27947251
I still don't get why the fuck they hoard this.
Do people really pay 50c+/rnd? Or does he jsut hope they will?
>>27939435
I manufacture 15 million rounds of .22lr ammo a week for white label brands. See OC attached of one of my machines.
I'm estimating mid 2016 for store stocks to be reasonable again, but prices will still be high. Give it another year when everyone's lines are over producing and you'll see prices plummet.
AMA 22lr related or ammo related if you want.
>>27950920
Increase production.
>>27950931
Doubling my capacity each month for loading
Make my casings int he US, prime them overseas, can make 100 million casings per month. Austrians/Germans buying most of it lately.
>>27950938
Stop selling to Eurokeks.
>>27950949
money is money my friend.
And they put down order deposits.
>>27950963
Stop being a Jew.
>>27950972
Hail Satan.
Does anyone live near a Cabela's?
They have CCI Mini-Mags in stock online right now. Paying for shipping kills the deal, but it's $25.99 for 300 rounds:
http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=1812801
>inb4 people cry about 8.66ยข per round even though it's a reasonable price for good ammo (that isn't match grade)
>>27939435
I don't know, op. I just bought 3 500+ count bricks of federal .22lr at wally world.
Im just waiting for the nuclear apocalypse. The great .22lr will be the wasteland currency of choice, not bottle caps.
My 80k round stash will be worth untold amounts of wealth.
>>27941758
Thats 10 cents a round. Better have been CCI or you got fucked m8
