The Quarterly "Where is everything?" thread -- guns, ammo, primers, powder, etc.

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I was able to snag 1100 rounds of .22 LR for about $0.07/round off Armslist. Usually sellers are around $0.10/round.


Why do I feel like I got a bargain, and got screwed both at the same time?:confused:
 
I can get any caliber I have ever known walmart to carry at walmart now pretty much anytime I check. Both expensive and cheap loads. Except 22LR. It has been like that around here for months. What continues to surprise me is how far behind 22lr lags. I have not seen a bulk pack on the shelf for under $30 since Newton.

I can remember walking into my walmart in 2011 sometime and seeing the entire bottom shelf of the ammo cabinet packed with Federal bulk red box and thinking I should buy it all and hold onto it. I guarantee you when this cools off I will increase y 22lr stash significantly. Maybe to 20K.
Can I purchase a pallet from Graf and Sons with a C&R discount?
 
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I guarantee you when this cools off I will increase y 22lr stash significantly. Maybe to 20K.
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is exactly why 22lr is lagging behind. So many are perpetuating the shortage because when they see it they're going to "never be caught without again".

I too recently have seen every caliber except 22lr on the shelf at Walmart, however 22lr is there you just have to know when to look.
 
Yep. Proud of doing my part. I had enough for a decent year of shooting as I didn't expect a shortage to go longer. Started rationing just in case and still have a better supply than most, but I won't be forced to ration again!!!
I can probably make it through this year without buying anymore with the amount I am shooting now.
 
is exactly why 22lr is lagging behind.
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I doubt that. If we can't find it, we can't hoard it. It's lagging behind because it's the highest turn over ammo ever. Most of us wouldn't blink an eye at blowing through 1/4 to 1/2 of a brick at the pistol range (from a money or effort standpoint at least). They don't get to make them appreciably faster for being 22LR.
 
I can find it at Walmart with little effort. As I said you just have to know when to look and what tool to use.

As for the mentality of, when I see it im stocking up so I'll never be caught off guard again, not playing a part in the scarcity and length of the shortage you're fooling yourself to believe otherwise.
 
I have seen polls indicating firearm ownership has increased 15% over the last 5 years or so. It seems to me the amount long time owners shoot has probably also increased. 8 boxes a day per walmart simply isn't enough.
 
I found some 335, some varget, some reloder 15, some 77&80 smk's
But still rationing 22 from my sūpplies, wish I had some more target 22 ammo,
But refuse to pay 30% more than it is worth..
Have enough for 8 more matches, maybe things will be better then.

Otherwise I'm shooting other calibers I have supplies for and not much rimfire.
 
The guy at the new Gander Mtn in McDonough Georgia said they are starting to get some in regular. I also ordered a box of 22 Mag shotshell from their website with no HazMat surcharge.

I also ordered a couple of bricks of 22lr from smokeyMountainmunitions.com in cleveland, GA last week.

since I have been out of the firearms business for about 13 years, I am not real sure what is considered to be a good price.
 
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Guy hasn't bought ammo in so long he doesn't know the normal price of 22lr, but he just bought "a few" BRICKS.
That is why we have a shortage. People who have either been gone for a while or never been around guns before are getting into it.
Its a good thing, even if occasionally frustrating.
 
Gold dot 38 short barrel in stock

I was surprised to see Gold dot 38 short barrel in stock at Cheaper than Dirt. While I normally avoid Cheaper than dirt because of their history of price gouging during shortages, I couldn't resist ordering 8 boxes of the short barrel ammo - it has been impossible to find for some time.
 
The guy at the new Gander Mtn in McDonough Georgia said they are starting to get some in regular. I also ordered a box of 22 Mag shotshell from their website with no HazMat surcharge.

I also ordered a couple of bricks of 22lr from smokeyMountainmunitions.com in cleveland, GA last week.

since I have been out of the firearms business for about 13 years, I am not real sure what is considered to be a good price.
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You paid about 3 times MSRP. That's a 200%+ markup. There is no Hazmat for loaded ammunition, only for powder and primers.
 
Guy hasn't bought ammo in so long he doesn't know the normal price of 22lr, but he just bought "a few" BRICKS.
That is why we have a shortage.
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We have a shortage because some guy apparently buys several years worth of ammunition at a time, and just happened to run out this year?
 
No, because a lot of people are doing the same thing. A lot of people who have had a box of fifty or a half full bulk box dwindling away a few rounds a year are getting back into shooting.

Using some poll figures and rough math there are probably about 4,000 gun owning households in the service radius of my walmart. 8 boxes a day is slightly less than 3000 boxes a year. Less than one per household. Sure there are some people that don't shoot any, but there are also people like me who want to shoot 15+.
 
Finally found some 222 brass!

Wideners has it for $27/hundred RP brass. Been looking almost daily for a looonnnnggggg time. Couldn't believe they had the price so low....seems like that was what I paid at Sportsmans three years ago. :D
 
Powder slowly coming back. I just scored me 12 eight lbs jugs of 2200 that I can run through my m16s. Probably enough to last me three months.

Felt so good to finally find some powder!!!!!!!

Now, if only the prices will come back down to pre-shortage levels.
 
Just picked up 900rds of mini mags and 3 555 packs of winchester 22 from wallyworld. Most all other calibers were in great abundance. I still have no trouble finding 22 when I need it and at WM's normal prices.

Oh and there was plenty of 22 still sitting there at 1pm on a Saturday no less. It was the Warren, Michigan store.
 
Gander Mtn has CCI and Federal .22 ammo on the front page of their online circular. Wonder if they have the stock to back it up.
 
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