.22 LR worth more than gold?

[Stone]

I'm curious why people are paying so much for .22 ammo. Is it on national back order? I've seen some pay absurd amounts for a box when they use to be able to get them for around $12.00 to $15.00 bucks. I was going through some old stuff of mine and found a box of 500 rounds but no longer have a .22 to use them in. I feel like I'm sitting on a gold mine. Thoughts?

 

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[DeepseekerADS]

Thoughts?

Hmmmmm.....

I'd say you'll be getting some PM's

Good luck!

 

[empty_pockets]

DeepseekerADS is correct about the PM's.....What we have here is a bad case of .....If you read the child's book, The Sky Is Falling, Chicken Little is one of these people that think that everyone is out to kill them......

 

[wainzoid]

I go to an auction house every Thursday evening where they hold estate auctions. Over this past winter, 50 round boxes were bringing 7-8-9 $ a box, 100 rnd boxes of cci mini mags were bringing 15-18 $ a box, and bricks were selling for 60-80 $ a box. On most ocassions the winning bidder took all that were available at the time.
I have a friend that works at a local gun shop who was able to get me a brick for 35$. They had received a small order, and I was one of the lucky ones, they decided to hold them for those who bought new guns.

 

[NHBandit]

DeepseekerADS is correct about the PM's.....What we have here is a bad case of View attachment 976929 .....If you read the child's book, The Sky Is Falling, Chicken Little is one of these people that think that everyone is out to kill them......

Interesting theory buttt... Typical military style ammo such as .223, .308, 7.62x39 is back on the shelves. Are you suggesting that the public is getting ready for an attack from millions of rabid squirrels ? I agree that people are grabbing all the .22LR they can when they see it but I think it's more due to them seeing it as an investment. Old retired guys hanging out by the ammo counter at Walleyworld on the day the ammo shipment comes in. Grab all they can and that weekend you will see them trying to sell it at jacked up prices at the local flea market. Don't buy it from these scalpers. It will come back down. Simple really.

 

[Stone]

I believe it caused by all the new conversion kits for instance, there is one for the Colt 1911 and Glock has one out also. Then there are all the .22 AR platforms. It's becoming a very popular target round.

 

[texasred777]

Then there are guys like me. I love to go out and shoot paper targets. If I could find decently priced .22LR ammo, I would probably go burn several hundred rounds a week. I have about 1200 rounds that I have bought at reasonable prices. That's just not enough for me to start going out every few days and burning 3 or 4 hundred rounds. I'm trying to be patient and wait for the prices to drop and for the supply to become plentiful. I found one place in Boise (about 40 miles from here) that has some 100 count boxes for sale some times. If I'm in Boise, I either call them or go by. Sometime I can buy 2 boxes; but sometime only 1 box. The price has been about $7 to $9. (I remember buying .22 shorts for about 25 cents and LR for about 40 cents in the 1950s.) The last couple of times I was there, they were out. I happened into Walmart a few weeks ago and there were 14 boxes of 50 on the shelf. I was only allowed to buy 3. I have several .22 rifles and a couple of revolvers. I don't hunt since my health hinders me from tromping through the woods and climbing the hills. I just go out in the country to a couple of places or to an open shooting range that's about 30 miles from here and burn as many rounds as I feel like doing. The last time I went to the shooting range, (several months ago) I burned about 550 rounds and that was because I didn't want to get too low on ammo. I would love to go out to the range and burn a brick about once a month or more. I'm not into 'sharp-shooting' or trying to refine the closeness of my patterns; though I like the patterns to be reasonable. I just really enjoy going out and blasting away at targets.

 

[liftloop]

problem is you can buy gold
you can't by 22. rounds


liftloop

 

[doc-d]

This entire ammunition shortage is suspect IMHO……...

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Bet ya there's no shortage, it's something else.

 

[luvsdux]

Local paper just had an article on this. In spite of all the rumors, it's a supply and demand issue. Starting with the Obama presidency, the number of firearms sales have gone through the ceiling. 22s are a large number of these and people buying new weapons want to shoot them so the run on ammunition has gotten well ahead of the supply. In spite of the view point of the ant-gunners, during this period sales have gone way up, but according to the latest FBI and other statistics, the numbers of firearms related crimes has gone down. The appalling nut case mass shootings are in a class all their own and IMHO the country needs to delve much deeper into mental health issues.
luvsdux

 

[DanFL1962]

problem is you can buy gold
you can't by 22. rounds


liftloop

Exactly!

 

[Stone]

Local paper just had an article on this. In spite of all the rumors, it's a supply and demand issue. Starting with the Obama presidency, the number of firearms sales have gone through the ceiling. 22s are a large number of these and people buying new weapons want to shoot them so the run on ammunition has gotten well ahead of the supply. In spite of the view point of the ant-gunners, during this period sales have gone way up, but according to the latest FBI and other statistics, the numbers of firearms related crimes has gone down. The appalling nut case mass shootings are in a class all their own and IMHO the country needs to delve much deeper into mental health issues.
luvsdux

I agree...

 

[voodoo]

put em up for sale see what they bring......

 

[xrunndonex]

The shortage was people panicking and buy a lot of ammo. A brick here would fetch $400 its evening out now though. I know people that have made a lot of money off the panic.

 

[NHBandit]

It will be interesting to see what happens now with all the military caliber ammo we have been importing from Russia. Russian steel case ammo is dirt cheap and lots of guys have been buying it for the past several years. Silver Bear, Wolf, etc. Personally I won't use it because I've seen too many stories about expensive rifles being blown up by a bad round but with the crap going on in the Ukraine I expect it could be used as an excuse to stop the importation of that ammo.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Fear.

No one trusts the government and so they are hoarding ammo. In NY the "Safe Act" now forbids us from buying ammo through the mail. If your local sporting goods store wants to charge $1 a cartridge for .22LR you may have to pay it. And for a brand you're not sighted in or care for.

One of the reasons I do most if my hunting with traditional recurve bows and wood arrows. We're being regulated to death.

 

[Nitric]

Local paper just had an article on this. In spite of all the rumors, it's a supply and demand issue. Starting with the Obama presidency, the number of firearms sales have gone through the ceiling. 22s are a large number of these and people buying new weapons want to shoot them so the run on ammunition has gotten well ahead of the supply. In spite of the view point of the ant-gunners, during this period sales have gone way up, but according to the latest FBI and other statistics, the numbers of firearms related crimes has gone down. The appalling nut case mass shootings are in a class all their own and IMHO the country needs to delve much deeper into mental health issues.
luvsdux

I agree with you! We also have to be careful what we are for on the mental health issues! Who determines mental health? I think this term is used sometimes to get people to go along with, and be ok with what is trying to be passed! No one wants a mentally ill person running around with a gun! So the term is going to be used as leverage! Just like the term military style weapons, or automatic weapons! Not picking on your post! Just saw that and wanted to say my 2cents! lol

 

[Luv2fishcb]

I was talking to a salesperson at a Bass Pro a couple of weeks ago and he said there is increased demand but the real issue is that ammo manufacturers have a higher profit margin on the larger calibers and therefore are not producing as many .22. I don't know if this is true but didn't see that posted here.

Steve

 

[mope540]

I "hoarded" .22 several years ago when a bill that would place a 5 cent tax on every round of ammo sold in this state was introduced (written by a 2nd Amendment & gun owner hating socialist, of course). I wasn't about to pay a $25 tax on a $15 box of 500 so I bought all that i could afford. Thankfully that ammo tax bill failed....for now