How much .22 ammo is enough?

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I wish I could find some :[

I have about 250 rounds of Federal Bulk for plinking, shoot about 50 or so a month only.

then I have about 300 rounds of CCI HP for safe keeping if I ever need to defend myself....from a rabbit :p
 
Having blown through a case (5000 rounds) in one weekend with the kids, those days are now over. Current supply lines can't keep up with the demand. Won't say how much I keep on hand now.

When it takes two years for suppliers to fill existing backorders, one needs to be thinking in terms of how much to store with those kind of lead times. Two years is an awful long time to wait between shipments.
 
been almost a month long dry spell

With gas at over 3.50 a gallon, not much point in checking out the local big stores for 22 up here where I live, Maine, might as well pay for shipping, but it has been almost a month long drought in reasonable rimfire from the internet.

Seems like the longest I can recall over the past year and half, as we wait for the saturation point to be reached on hoarding, it seems it keeps on getting further and further down the road.
 
i hate these posts.

last year i felt guilty because i bought a 500 round bring of milsupr 22 shorts at 5 dollars a box of 50. right now the only 22lr i can find is 23.99 a 50 round box. midwayusa. everybody else has none.

right nowits actually SLIGHTLY cheaper to shoot my 20 guage. i can get a 100 round birdshot pack at walmart for 25 bucks i believe.
 
I was fortunate enough to find a 1400 count Bucket o' Bullets at the local Academy recently. This is my reserve. I have picked up a few boxes of 22 here and there over the past year, so I have enough on hand to take the kids out plinking several times a year. 22 is rare out here, but not impossible to find, so the 1400 should suffice as an emergency stash.
 
I've a 2nd cousin who has 100k rounds of .22 LR. He bought it years ago, long before any run and keeps it as his personal stash. I always feel understocked by comparison.

I suspect he's gone just a tad overboard but, then again, he hasn't had to search for any when he wants to go shooting.
 
You guys win. I am going to make it my mission now to buy every box of .22 I come across because apparently if I don't have somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 rounds of .22 on hand I am part of the problem.

Thanks for showing me the light.
 
My reserve that I wont touch is a 500 round bulk back and 100rd's of CCI Mini Mag's. I have a small stash set aside for range use and that has slowly dwindled to 180rds that I am saving for a camping trip in a couple months. I used to burn through 500rd bulk backs in single shooting sessions, now I am lucky to shoot 100rds. When thing's start to get back to normal, which I suspect wont be for another year or so, I will aim to have between 5-10k rounds in case this happens again.
 
As this year long shortage shows, I would say up to 10,000 wouldn't be unreasonable, if you wanted to keep shooting regularly, as a buffer for hunting during a disaster, ammo suddenly being outlawed or just wanting some on hand in for varmits, 1000 would be plenty.
 
I was talking to the firearms counter guy at our Wallyworld. He said they get their bricks of .22LR about ten at a time. He said the other day he was just unpacking it, when somebody noticed, bought his 3 limit and immediately called his buddy, who scrambled to come in to get his 3, and in the meantime, another overheard and came over and bought his 3. The counter guy bought the last one-all gone before even stocking. Don't really know if the guy's buddy got his or if it went to somebody else that just happened to be there. Don't really care, either. If you can be there at the right time, they still sell it for 24 or so bucks.
 
Last time I bought a brick (500 rounds) of .22LR, it was around $7-8. Back then, it was nothing to shoot a brick during a day at the range. .22LRs were plentiful and the sporting goods stores frequently had advertized sales in the $7-8 range for a brick. I usually had a few thousand rounds on hand and did not consider it excessive since that could easily be used up in a weekend by myself and another shooter. These days, I'm down to maybe 1000 rounds and haven't shot a .22 in a few years since I can't replace any that I shoot. The cheapest that I've seen bricks of .22s going for is at Wal-Mart and their price if $22 per brick. Even so, that was just the sign on the shelf -- I haven't actually seen any actual boxes of ammo there. As such, I have just switched to other calibers that I can reload for. I have a good supply of primers and powder, so I can reload my own and even full power .45ACP or 10mm rounds usually cost less than $3 per 50-round box (as long as I can recover my brass).
 
Well...
I am paitent and when 22 LR goes back below 10 cents a round, I will
stock up. If it doesn't... my passion for shooting the 22 rifles will end and
the rifles go up in the attic. No big deal.
I don't live across the street from Walmart and even if I did, I can't picture myself camping out in front and then olympic speed walking down isle 16
to get to the ammo counter.
2,000 rounds of good stuff is enough for me. Hopefully, someday I will
get it.
The online stuff comes up but the S&H wipes out any deal.
 
How many rounds in your stockpile before you don't feel bad about shooting it?
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I feel "bad" shooting any ammunition I have on hand other than occasionally because I know how much trouble it is to re-supply. As to a cache size, I don't have a set amount that I seek. Like you, I like to shoot 22LR a lot. I keep a lot of that on hand which I purchased prior to the Nov. 2012 election. I suffer from no hoarder guilt.
 
The last time I inventoried the stash I was sitting on about 18-20rds in bulk packs. About 3k-4k in specialty stuff like CCI Velocitors, CCI CB Longs and Subsonics, which is what I use the most of anyway. I have about another 3k or so in .17HMR.

But I live out in the bush 630 miles from skAnchorage and I have to shop for 6 months to a year supply anyway as I never know when my next trip is going to be out of this blowhole.

I shop for my non-perishable groceries the same way.
 
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