In this area it is almost impossible to buy .22 ammo due to all the hoarding going on.

I think this problem could be solved in one day if before selling any .22 ammo to you one would be required to bring in all your empty .22 brass. If you had a hundred empties you could buy 100 .22 shells. The brass all can be recycled. This would get rid of the hoarding and the hoarder would be stuck with their overpriced ammo.

A store owner trying that would turn off a lot of customers. Suppose the customer is new to shooting and doesn't have any empties, or hasn't policed his brass before encountering this "regulation"?

Bad idea.

Steve

My blog LIVE FREE OR DIE

"It's not the critic who counts ..."

Problem is more scalpers than hoarders. I,m all for puttin away a brick here and there for a rainy day. That ain't what the scalpers are about.

quote:

Originally posted by Denny:
In this area it is almost impossible to buy .22 ammo due to all the hoarding going on.

I think this problem could be solved in one day if before selling any .22 ammo to you one would be required to bring in all your empty .22 brass. If you had a hundred empties you could buy 100 .22 shells. The brass all can be recycled. This would get rid of the hoarding and the hoarder would be stuck with their overpriced ammo.

What part of Obama's "reasonable gun control" monarchy do you work for? Sounds like a bureaucrat's paper-shuffling wet dream to me.

The modern American way..."if you don't like it, give up more freedom and pass another
BS law".

I haven't bought any 22 ammo since 1989, glad I bought it back then too; guess that makes me one of those evil hoarders too. Honestly though, all I ever use it for nowadays is shooting wood & debris floating down the Yukon at high water with 10-22. I doubt anybody in my family will ever run out of 22s to shoot.

its actually simple ..

if you don't like the high prices, don't pay it...

that drives the prices down

quote:

Originally posted by Denny:
In this area it is almost impossible to buy .22 ammo due to all the hoarding going on.

I think this problem could be solved in one day if before selling any .22 ammo to you one would be required to bring in all your empty .22 brass. If you had a hundred empties you could buy 100 .22 shells. The brass all can be recycled. This would get rid of the hoarding and the hoarder would be stuck with their overpriced ammo.

If any store tells me this, I will tell him to take a bloody hike!

We have enough stupid rules and regulations already, without having this one added.

It is definitely due to hoarders; because 22 ammo is relatively cheap, anyone can buy a few thousand and hide them away. People have enough for several lifetimes of shooting squirreled away and keep buying more. The shops around here don't raise prices but the demand side is skewed way up. Same thing with pistol ammo and they have a limit on that. I personally saw a guy in Gander with his wife, daughter, and mother, all buying ammo; they were in line laughing and joking about it.

I was at Cabela's yesterday just before noon and they had about 100 bricks of Blazer and Winchester 333 packs on the shelf.

Went back about 7:30 in the evening to see what was left and it was all gone!

They still had some 50 round packs of CCI's left.

I would like to know how many customers actually bought some. I guess, not anything near 100.

The real issue is the hoarding consumer fueled by the fear of their own government. In Edmonton Canada at Cabelas the 1400 tubs of Remington Golden bullets are hanging off the shelves. Canadian Tire stores have all the 22s you want. Fear of our own govt is a sad thing!

One man's 'hoarding' is another man's 'stocking up'. IMHO depends upon whose ox is being gored....

A ding dong on another forum was bragging about making multiple passes at his Walmart to buy 96 bricks of .22 ammo. That Walmart had received 1500 bricks qnd he had to go though the line with his wife at several different registers in sporting goods before he ran out of money.

To the original poster

I guess you have never shot a .22 autoloader that scatters empties far and wide. I am not going to pick them up.
Then you would have the guys at the indoor rifle range that could take a 5 gallon bucket in to trade.
That idea is not going to work.

96 bricks 48000 rounds a serious target shooter or some one with kids who like to shoot could easily burn through 500 rounds a week.

That's 25000 rounds a year 96 bricks is less then two years worth of shooting.

Before this shortage I would buy a couple of cases worth at a time.

Some of us live in places we can still shoot a lot.

I almost brought 100000 rounds in one purchase because it would have been cheaper wish I would have.

I have had to curtail my shooting down to 100 rounds a week hopeing to hold out until the shortage is over.

Shortage is not just the .22, but everything. I have not been able to shoot my .45 Bullseye gun for a while as I have run out of the pistol powder it likes. Can't find it online or gun shows for months, and I am back ordered at all the major online stores, and check daily as well.

Now, I could buy some from Gunbroker if I was willing to pay 5X per pound.

I think some are missing a major point, Ammo has out performed alot of other investments. Ive seen Ammo out-perform my 401K. I have ammo from the 70's and 80's with $2 and $3 dollar price tags, a box of 20- 243's were $6.99 at the Five&Dime. remember when a 500 round brick of 22 was $5.99? Im buying everytime Im in the store I'll pick up a box or two or three, everytime I have cheesed out because the price wasn't right I've been sorry, 100% of the time when I returned because it was higher. It lasts for 50-100 years if properly stored, and if the poop NEVER hits the fan then my Grandchildren will be shooting 20-30 dollar boxes of ammo instead of $100-$200 dollar boxes

Besides we have known for ten years or more that the 2nd Amendment haters would try to attack ammo as a way to get to our guns. At what point does being prepared turn into Paranoia, or is it just overly prepared if you are ok but Paranoid if someone's got what you want

Its not hoarders.It is scalpers ,gougers,call them what you want to.Go to any Gun show and see these schmucks selling bricks for $75 to $100.Whats worse are the people who pay these prices.If no one bought from them their game would be up!!!!