I understand shortage of 5.56... but 22 LR??

22lr is survival round, plus it's used in rifles such as AR-22 models. Anything with a magzine over 10 rounds is off all the guns shops I go to, this includes 25 round magazine for ar-22. :mad:
 
Tom68 said:
found some in pawn shop yesterday afternoon. a brick of white-box remington, plain jane lead bullet cartridges were $40; the clerk told me that the owner called the store that morning and told the staff to mark them up from $30, cause that's what he'll have to pay to replace them.

I understand supply and demand quite well, but like a lot of others I also recognize gouging. he very well may have to pay upwards of $40 for a brick next time, and price it accordingly... but he certainly didn't have to pay that for the stuff sitting on the shelf.

I bought three boxes of 50 instead, for $4 each. Still got gouged, but not as much. I can wait till sanity returns, and in the meantime I just won't shoot a lot of 22LR.
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Think about his re-order. He bought a box of ammo fir say $10 and had it fir sale for $15. Say he sells it, retains $4 for expenses and profit and uses $11 to buy more boxes. Works fine as long as he can buy the next at $10 again.

But suppose his cost goes to $20 per box. If he sells his original box at $15 and uses $11 of it to re-order he cannot buy the same qty as before. Over time his inventory will dwindle and he goes out of business just when demand is greatest.

On the other hand, if he sells that original $10 box for $30 then he can use the same percentages and keep $8 while using $22 to buy more inventory.

So he has to sell it at the higher of his original cost or his future cost of replacement, plus his percentage for margin.
 
I usually shoot a lot of rimfire. Right now it is all I shoot. Who knows when or at what price I will be able to replace 9mm. I don;t even look at the centerfire when in walmart as even there price is edging up. I check for 22lr and move on.

Worse than 2008-2009? Not in my opinion. Not much on Wal-Mart shelves, but more than one lonely box of 357 sig. I ended up buying thousands of pellets to shoot through that scare.
 
During the thanksgiving period, 2012, I was able to get (9) 500 round bricks of .22 out of Cabela's.....all of it for about 4.5 cents/round.

My 10/22 will be well fed.:D
 
With the high prices of CF ammo, I've started shooting .22 a lot more than I ever did. Since supplies are tight, I've been watching for opportunities to stock up a little. There's not a whole lot available but when I saw one of my favorite internet sites listing .22 at a reasonable price, I put in an order for 5K. I kind of wish I would have doubled the order, but that's getting into serious money.

edit: I just checked and they sold out of everything except a few cases of $400+ subsonic and that's too high priced for my blood.
 
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