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Gander advertised Remington 525 bricks for $19.99. I went and got in line at 8:15 for a 9:00 opening. I had ticket #20. Eventually about 100 people lined up.

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The sale was not well organized. Two clerks with one bagging and the other manning the register. Would have been better to have the money exchanged away from the counter where everyone was packed together.

By the time my number was called they were down to 40 remaining boxes. Each buyer was limited to 2 boxes so I figure they had 80 when they started. So the first 40 folks in line got some and the 60+ behind us were out of luck. They may have made more enemies than friends with this sale.

But hey, I got mine. (Don't know why my camera is taking such bad photos.)


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For whatever reason. .22 rimfire is still difficult to find, especially in bricks and mortar stores around here. Even online, it's not that easy.
 
This was in North Little Rock. I understand this promotion was nationwide with Gander Mountain.

This silliness is still happening because 22 ammo is still nearly impossible to find. Big dealers get sporadic deliveries and are out 98% of the time, gun show dealers and auction sellers are gouging $60-$90 per brick (I saw bricks selling for as much as $125 at one point), and many people have not been able to find any at all. You check the auctions and there are guys buying all they can get regardless of price. There is some serious hoarding going on. I just hope that everyone trying to lay in a 10,000 round supply will soon achieve their goal and stop buying everything in sight.

Had a plumber out to my house a couple weeks ago and he noticed my ammo shelves in the garage. He asked if I had seen any 22 ammo recently as he had been out for months and could find none at all. Said he bought his son a new rifle but they couldn't shoot it because he couldn't buy ammo for it. I gave him a box of 50 off the shelf. You'd have thought I handed him the Holy Grail from his reaction.

The ammo companies SAY they are running at 100% production capacity but the stores are getting a tiny fraction of usual deliveries. It seems to be disappearing in the supply line somewhere. Probably industry people siphoning it off to sell at shows and on Gunbroker at gouger prices.
 
Actually, I would suggest that the shortages are still happening because the shenanigans are still happening. Panic begets panic.

If everybody would just stop. *Just Stop*

The store shelves would fill, those who are buying to resell at high prices would stop because no one would pay it, they'd be forced to either keep their stash or sell it at a lower price and supply would equalize.

The current demand is artificial. Created by and sustained by panic. I have no actual *need* for .22 ammo, even though I'd like some, and I refuse to buy any until I can walk into a store and pick a box of the shelf.

I will not feed the panic.

Think about it. They got 80 boxes in? That's probably a normal weeks delivery. It's not a "shortage". It's only a shortage because every body is panicking and buying every round they lay eyes on.
 
Same story here in FL.

100 people in line for ~80 boxes bur here they limited you to one box I was told.

I still have plenty left over from last year when CMP was selling Remington for $69 a case of 5K.
 
Just returned from a 40-table gun show, there were at least 75,000 rounds of .22LR in there for sale, all at inflated prices.

Precisely 3 spam cans of 7.62x54, and 2 cases of 5.45x39.

That's where it all went, folks.
 
Just returned from a 40-table gun show, there were at least 75,000 rounds of .22LR in there for sale, all at inflated prices.
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This will go on as long as people continue buying at the inflated prices.
 
Since I got caught with my pants down and under 5k .22 count on hand, I am asking for it evertime I am in Bass Pro or Walmart...

Now if my wife (works at walmart) would make it a habit of asking each morning before and evening once off the clock, I might be set... We do not restock by special order nor a weeks supply... Computer sees 9 sold so orders nine more boxes... We just can't get fully stocked from distribution center...

Brent
 
I just hope that everyone trying to lay in a 10,000 round supply will soon achieve their goal and stop buying everything in sight.
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I reached that goal long before the panic when you could walk into any store and find loads of it on the shelf. When I was at the range every week I shot mostly .22 so I bought it whenever I had the money and ended up with a pretty good stash. I have never sold any during this current panic, but still find myself not wanting to shoot any either because I can't replace it.

I guess I should have been buying .22 ammo when I was buying silver coins.
 
Actually, I would suggest that the shortages are still happening because the shenanigans are still happening. Panic begets panic.

If everybody would just stop. *Just Stop*

The store shelves would fill, those who are buying to resell at high prices would stop because no one would pay it, they'd be forced to either keep their stash or sell it at a lower price and supply would equalize.

The current demand is artificial. Created by and sustained by panic. I have no actual *need* for .22 ammo, even though I'd like some, and I refuse to buy any until I can walk into a store and pick a box of the shelf.

I will not feed the panic.

Think about it. They got 80 boxes in? That's probably a normal weeks delivery. It's not a "shortage". It's only a shortage because every body is panicking and buying every round they lay eyes on.
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I agree with this 100%. If retailers realize they can sell something @ a higher price most will. Simple profit can't blame them only the people who allowed it to become common place. I remember asking to buy 1k rounds @ walmart, to which the new clerk said something like 'stocking up now too huh?' to which my normal clerk told him 'no, he usually buys alot more' i dont need to pay 50 dollars per 100 for bulk 45s or 35 for bulk 9mm i've got plenty stocked up. I won't help the self made artificial price increase.
 
I agree with above posts! This needs to stop and those that are buying to resell are sad sacks! I bought a brick a few weeks ago at Gander and it was sad to see people falling over each other to get at the 1500rd buckets!!!! They pushed a lady out of the way to grab one!

I was second in line and did not want a bucket but should have had the option to do so before the idiots grabbed them.....
 
Strangely, .38 special is next in order for shortages around here. It's available on the shelf, but not much and it ain't cheap. .44 cents/round is the cheapest retail I've seen it for recently.
 
Strangely, .38 special is next in order for shortages around here.
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There is no shortage of .38spl. It may not be on the shelves in your area but it can be had online unlike .22lr.

Georgia Arms has a good price for them if you buy "bulk".
 
Brian, I agree in part with your comment. There is panic buying, but there is also a shortage of supply to the retailers. Gander had 80 boxes... this week. Last week they got none. Same the week before that. What we have are two contributing factors: panic buying and hoarding combined with a serious decline in supply.
 
Modern blow back airguns shoot so much like .22s that I don't even bother with the rimfires anymore.
And there's no need to go to the trouble and expense of going to the range for shooting .22s, either.
Life is still good.
 
Actually, I would suggest that the shortages are still happening because the shenanigans are still happening. Panic begets panic.
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Yep. During the height of the shortage, we were rationing ammo sales. Our regular shooters understood. Folks who were stockpiling threw a fit.

In one case, a guy accused me of infringing on his 2A rights because of it. I asked him how much of our 9mm he'd buy if we weren't limiting it. His response was "all of it."

And that's the problem. When that stops, the shortage will abate.
 
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