I've been shooting .22 a lot this year because I haven't had time to reload like I did last year and I bought a Ruger Charger that shoots 1 MOA. After a month I don't think it's true, that it was a hallucination that the 10 inch barrel shot CCI SV that well and I have to go back to the range and confirm that it does indeed shoot 1 MOA with CCI SV out of a 10 inch barrel.
Thus sometime in November, I'm going to order another 2000 rds of CCI SV and other .22 LR and hope for the best.
This year was really the first time I’ve ever really taken note of my 10/22’s accuracy. (It’s hard to measure MOA on a tin can.) It actually seemed to shoot better groups with SV ammo than it does with HV. I’m currently trying to trade into some SV ammo so that I can test my theory.
22 is great, esp if you put a suppressor on it. . . .
I’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of my first suppressor!
I quit shooting 22LR as well during the long drought. I formerly bought my 22LR ammo at Walmart, but didn't see any there for many years. They always told me it would arrive and be sold out within a very short time. It was obvious to me that certain people were being notified when it was available and scooped it all up. It would have been some help if Walmart would have put a reasonable limit on volume purchases at the time, but none of the stores around here ever did. . . . .
I don’t know if anyone was being notified about arrivals at the WM where I shop, but we had our scalpers, too. Ours had limits, though. Still does, actually. The guy who works the ammo counter told me that the same guys would come in, buy a limit, go out to the car, change shirts, and come back in.
. . . .I went through a bout of 10/22 tinkering in the 1990s. I spent a lot of money with a result that wasn't great. I succumbed to another bout a couple of years ago and found a wider choice of good parts. Maybe a lot of that is just the relative easy of internet shopping. . . . .
My 10/22 has never been a target rifle. Growing up, we just shot out on the farm, and it never dawned on me to test its accuracy. I just killed soup cans with it. I am, however, trying to finance a .22 bolt gun as a target rifle/suppressor host.
The Great 22 Drought only lasted about 2 years out west where I live, after that there was plenty of ammo online. Most stores wouldn't order in ammo that would be selling for less than they paid within 30 days though, so a lot of brick and mortar shoppers felt the drought lasted longer than it did. I had to scramble a bit for a couple of years, and even sacrificed some of my personal supply to my shop for testing customers' guns, but the supply issue fixed itself pretty quick. But I did get some strange looks from shooters at the range when I would give my kids 300 rounds of ammo to burn up while some shooters said they couldn't find any. I had to cut back a bit on my 22 shooting for a couple of years, and probably haven't quite made up the difference.
Unfortunately, I lived in an apartment for 2010-2015, so I really didn’t want to order ammo online. I didn’t really want a case of ammo sitting on my doorstep to: (a) get stolen; and (b) advertise to my neighbors that I had guns.
Interestingly, and
purely as a matter of speculation and innuendo, heard from a relative of a guy that worked at the Remington plant ~40 miles from my house . . . . . I have heard rumors that the Remington plant had
containers (the big steel ones) of .22 ammo sitting out back, but that they wouldn’t ship it out. They were, according to rumor, afraid that the market would bottom out if they released too much ammo too fast.
