How I shoot for cheep.

Sevens, I believe what we are sharing here is alternatives to shooting high priced/hard to find .22 ammo. Not a replacement. Nope, none of these ideas will help you shoot your vintage Colt, nor your favorite plinkers, but just allow us to have fun shooting without robbing the milk money. I'm very fortunate I have a lot of .22 rimfire ammo left 'cause I would buy a brick almost every time I went to the store, but I often get my Garand out instead of my 10-22 (about the same on the "fun meter", a 9.5!). Cost a bit more to have fun? Yep, but I'm worth it...:D
 
Don't fill your closet with 22LR ammo bricks until the cost gets back down to 3 cents a shot.
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ROTFL!!!
And don't buy a new Chevy, Ford, or Ram truck until they are priced below ten grand either!:eek::eek::eek:
Aren't fantasies a wonderful thing!:D

Reloading, and casting your own booklets does help. Even if the powder, when you can find it, and primers, when you can find them cost at twice the price they were when 22 rimfire was three or four cents per round.
 
When .22LR ammo went stupid, I had a pile of 40 grain .223 rounds and several pounds of blue dot lying around. I wasn't using the BD for anything else that was going to use it up, so I started loading reduced velocity .223 rounds for squirrel hunting. Got some rounds that had the same bullet weight as 22LR running about 1000 FPS and brass that could be infinitely reloaded with better accuracy. When I checked, the squirrels didn't notice they were being shot with "budget" ammo, so I still do it today. I worked out the math once (and now I don't recall what it was costing me, but the BD was a gift from a friend who was moving and didn't want to take his powders, so it only cost me the primers and bullets), but it was WAY cheaper than I could buy .22 ammo for.
 
.32 round ball 15 Gr Unique in a .303.

*poot*

Great plinking / pest load. Sights might need a bit of adjusting for long range though:eek:
 
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