I never thought I would see the day you couldnt find any 22 ammo.Here in Alaska is rare as hens teeth.I swear it was gold these days.I hope CCI gets better.I have 4 Stoger lugers that will only shoot CCI ammo in them.I swear i am afraid to go target shooting any more.Its up to $9 a /100 for CCI when and if they have any.The only $7 bricks at wallyworld are $33.And they are junk.I have not seen a box of CCi stingers.It really bites when you can shoot your 22 for fun.I stocked up a little but not nearly enough!!!

last i looked a guy could still .22 ammo here in iowa..... i started stocking up 2 years ago when i could see what was coming down the line.....................

LIFE IS SHORT.....

I found some in June for $16 a brick and picked up two.

Wal-Mart sells out before 10 AM every day here in SoMo

Here in South & East Texas it is much easier to find. Wally World & Academy has some at most stores but not the selection we'd like. Most of the better guns shops now have good selections.

Prices are also edging down as inventories come up. All prices need is big stores like Wally World or Academy (south sporting goods chain) to get full inventories and they'll get prices back to normal. Their inventories have to rotate every week or so.

The truth is there is plenty ammo in every state & town. It is not in the stores but in the closets of your fellow shooters. I suggest that now only buy what you can shoot as these prices are at their peak. We are in a classic boom/bust cycle, albeit a quick one.

Pete A.

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The truth is there is plenty ammo in every state & town. It is not in the stores but in the closets of your fellow shooters. I suggest that now only buy what you can shoot as these prices are at their peak. We are in a classic boom/bust cycle, albeit a quick one.

Pete! Don't you know that it's un-American to discourage people from buying while the market is artificially high? Americans like to hoard expensive stuff they'll never use to wait for the price to go down so that they can eventually move it to a $50 per month storage unit before abandoning it altogether. If people don't go out and buy tons of bullets, powder, and ammunition that they don't need, how will you and I pick up all of that stuff at garage sales five years from now? Please, Pete, quit disillusioning the folks who will make our shooting hobby cheaper and more enjoyable in the long run!

If you don't believe it, just ask the ghost of my Great Uncle. He celebrated the end of WW-II by cleaning out his storage shed where he had kept four brand new tires he bought on the black market and hoarded all those years, just to be destroyed by dry rot.

Is he the guys with 4 tire swings?

The business's that are going to get hurt are the small & mid sized shops that have recently gotten stock at the much higher prices from the distributors. Big box stores are ruthless with their suppliers on buy backs & price adjustments. I was at Academy this evening in far west Houston. They have plenty of Remington (4 choices in 22lr) and lesser quantities of Win (bulk & 100 pack), Fed Bulk. CCI MM HP. pretty good selection of lower end 22lr.

So it is coming back.

Pete A.

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The business's that are going to get hurt are the small & mid sized shops that have recently gotten stock at the much higher prices from the distributors.

I absolutely agree. Just about everyone who perceived ammunition and components to be "vanishing" has filled up their storage and either has no more room, or no more money, to allow them to buy more. Once they quit buying, they won't be back in the market for a long time. The guy at the corner gun store who has had 500,000 primers on back order since October is going to receive them in a month or two, just to find that most of his customers already have more primers than they'll ever use. And when Fred the Hoarder falls dead out of his tree stand this December with a heart attack, his widow is suddenly going to go into direct competition with the Corner Gun Store by putting Fred's two hundred pounds of powder, five thousand rounds of ammunition, etc. in a big garage sale.

Economists assure us that the free market is a great self-leveling mechanism which will correct itself. What they don't tell you is that it will often do so in wild swings that can fatally injure some of the market participants.

Local Walmart, New Boston, Tx, has not had any .22 ammo when I've gone in for months, not saying they don't get any, just that I haven't seen any on the shelves. OTOH, the Walmart in Mt. Pleasant, Tx had .22 bricks two months ago when I walked in. Don't know if I just caught them as they put it out or what. I didn't buy any, because I've been "hoarding" it for years. I don't really hoard it, I just don't like having to go chase down ammo when I want to shoot. Barring getting into some kind of competitive shooting, I doubt I'll ever be able to shoot what I've got on hand. One of the few things I know of that has really gone down in price in real dollars is .22 LR ammo. I was buying it for about a buck a box 30 years ago, still buying it for just over that.

Local Wal-Mart has maybe 10 boxes of assorted 22LR and a good bit of 17HMR.

Went to a Dick's Sporting Goods yesterday and saw 2-550 count boxes of some kind of Remington for $19.99, a single box of Remington Target (didn't check price on the rest), maybe 6 boxes of CCI Standard, I do not remember any Win or Fed 22 ammo, and of course a good bit of the waaaaay over-priced 17cal rimfire stuff.

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One of the few things I know of that has really gone down in price in real dollars is .22 LR ammo. I was buying it for about a buck a box 30 years ago, still buying it for just over that.

Ain't it the truth! I marvel at the rock bottom price of .22 LR ammunition. For about two cents a whack (at least before the "shortage"), you get a primer, a brass case, powder, and a bullet -- and since it is finished ammunition the manufacturer had to pay an 11% Pittman-Robinson excise tax which is rolled into the price. By comparison, a small pistol primer (no case, no powder, and no bullet) would cost (again, before the "shortage") about half-again as much, and there's NO 11% EXCISE TAX on the primers.

Either .22 LR ammunition is underpriced, or primers are overpriced.

(Gato, I'm one of those, probably like you, who buys a couple of bricks of .22LR whenever the store does a promo sale. Not that I need them, just on the principle that when something is too cheap, then you ought to buy it. As a result I've got a closet full of ammunition and can invite my kids and grandkids to spray the countryside, ridding it of unpunctured soda cans and other such dangerous vermin until their hearts are fully content.)

The Gander Mountain store in my area has tons of .22LR. I bought 2 bricks the other day at $19 each.

Here in Las Vegas there is nothing but 22 WMR ammo, a few boxes of 17 HMR and the very useless .22 short subsonic. If and when they do get any in you are limited to 6 boxes (not bricks) in one 24 hour time period. I stocked up on ammo many many years ago when it was dirt cheap and my friends thought me a bit crazy. Well, guess who's crazy now. . . . .

The last time I looked, There was a little bit around but the cost was 25-26 bucks a brick. I still have a couple of the big 550 round boxes of Federal so I am not biting yet. Its Scary though. DW

I picked up 600 rounds of Rem LR, plated RN two weeks ago at WalMart. They had a LOT of .22 ammo. As I recall, the stuff I bought was what they had the least of. (when I left they had none of it though.)

I just order mine from the CMP. Last batch was 2 cases, 5,000 rounds per case. Delivered to my door in Alaska via FedEx for $219 a case. Brand was Aguila. Beats running around trying to track it down.
Also ordered a case of Aquila but it has not come in yet. It was priced at about $300 a case delivered.

I'm seeing more and more in the local wal-marts, not big stacks of it, but multiple promo packs, etc. Seems the base price has gone to $14.97 for 1000 cheap rounds. I don't see how that can be possible, the Fed Chair and various other wise men tell us there is no inflation........

Unless you've got a big need for cash right now, and IF you're a bond type investment person, I'd RUN, not walk to my brokers and get into TIPS.

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Originally posted by Snowwolfe:
I just order mine from the CMP. Last batch was 2 cases, 5,000 rounds per case. Delivered to my door in Alaska via FedEx for $219 a case. Brand was Aguila. Beats running around trying to track it down.
Also ordered a case of Aquila but it has not come in yet. It was priced at about $300 a case delivered.

I'm laying plans, Lapua has to be mail-ordered here, no one stocks it or Eley, and the governor signed a new bill to kill mail-order and internet sales in 2011. Hell of a mess. I got the last box of 711B at the rifle shop the other day, $4.95.

It has been about 2 months since my last reply to this thread. I went to a somewhat local Gun Shop yesterday(23Oct09) and they had enough 22RimFire ammo to fight a small War. Prices were considerably higher than a year ago.

Dang I went To Flordia and there was no 22 CCI at all to be found.There are none in Ga here either.I hope to find some soon.My 22 stoger pistols only shoot CCI Stingers or regular LR .My Brothers 22 Bretta is the same way.The bricks that use to be $7 two years ago were $38 in Alaska CCI packs of 100 were $10 and stingers were $10 a pack.I think that 22 shells will never come down again.I keep watching for 22 shells here in north Ga .