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

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Where is the .22 Mag supply?

I know this has been beaten to death, but my Kingdom for some .22 Win Mag. Where the hell is it? Doesnt it have higher margin compared to .22lR? Why doesnt ATK raise the price incrementally and them make a few billion for the masses?
 
Yeah...I am very tempted to buy a new Ruger American 22mag. The only thing stopping me is that I have not seen a single round of 22mag ammo for months.
17HMR, sure...22mag, never.
Kind of puts doubt on the story that 22lr is sold out due to all the new platforms for it.
 
.22 WMR is a low demand cartridge. With all the demand for more popular cartridges, right now, it just isn't a good financial move to stop production, to gear up for .22 WMR.

It's roughly equivalent to Ford stopping production of their best-selling vehicle, the F-150, in order to run a couple thousand C-Max hybrids for the 7 people in the country that want one.

When the ammo companies get a chance, they'll run all of the .22 WMR they have orders for (and maybe a little more). But, there are plenty of other cartridges they feel they need to catch up on, first.

In addition, .22 WMR primarily uses jacketed bullets that are made on the same equipment used to produce bullets that are needed for centerfire ammunition production, as well as bullets that are in high demand for reloaders. Again, it doesn't make sense to stop producing a high demand bullet for ammunition production (and the component market), in order to satisfy a tiny fraction of the market with .22 WMR. ...especially when you have to shut down one of your ammunition lines, to produce the .22 WMR ammunition, once you do have the bullets.


One of my favorite rifles is a .22 WMR. But, I also know it's not a very popular cartridge. I buy large quantities when the price is right.

There's still some out there, and there will be more. But, getting your hands on some may require a little patience.
 
I want to buy a LCR in .22WMR but I could not find any ammo for it locally or even at all the online retail sites. God forgive me, I broke down and bought some off Gunbroker!!! $250/500 rds but I don't plan to shoot it a lot so that should last until retail supplies recover. I have a ton of other ammo so it was humiliating to have to resort to this, but it is the same situation for anyone getting a new gun/caliber. If you want to feed it you have to pay the price. I was glad to find something.

I bought the ammo first because I did not want to buy the gun until I knew I could feed it.
 
Some lament that we are buying more ammo than we need.

So let's see deer season begins this weekend, I shot one round to make sure my scope rifle is set. With luck I'll shoot one or two cartridges and get a deer. Then the rifle sits until next year.

So should I be happy with a 20 round box of cartridges for five years?
 
Went to Walmart at 3PM today and bought 3 boxes of 100 CCI 22lr for $7.50 a box. I guess things are easing up.
 
$7.50 a box! :eek: and you bought 3?!? :eek: :eek: :eek:

At $7.50 for a box 100, I would have kept walking.

People need to stop buying ammo just because they can. The sooner everyone starts waiting for lower prices, the sooner the things will return to normal. The price won't come down if people keep paying crazy prices.
 
StukaJU87 said:
$7.50 a box! :eek: and you bought 3?!? :eek: :eek: :eek:

At $7.50 for a box 100, I would have kept walking.

People need to stop buying ammo just because they can. The sooner everyone starts waiting for lower prices, the sooner the things will return to normal. The price won't come down if people keep paying crazy prices.
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7 1/2 cents @ round for mini mags doesn't sound too bad to me. After all its 2013! I wouldn't look for prices to come down much from there even if the shelves were overflowing.
I used to find boxes of 50 for $1, but don't suspect I'll see that again either.
I still wouldn't have bought them IF I didn't need them or had at least 500 rounds in reserve
 
I think I was just shocked to find any 22LR at Walmart, other than if I came in at opening time in the morning on a shipment receipt date. I think about the lowest price I can remember is when I was paying about $10 for a brick of 500, but I agree that we will not likely see those prices ever return. My guess is that we will see a brick for about $30 at best, so $7.50 for 100 was not too outrageous.

I checked last night and I have about 3,000 rounds of 22LR, so unless I see a really good deal, i.e., 5 cents a round or less, I won't be buying for awhile.
 
At $7.50 for a box 100, I would have kept walking.

People need to stop buying ammo just because they can. The sooner everyone starts waiting for lower prices, the sooner the things will return to normal. The price won't come down if people keep paying crazy prices.
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$7.50 for a box of CCI Mini Mags is pretty much the going rate. They're listed between $6.69 and $6.99 at MidWayUSA. $7.50 retail in a store is pretty normal. Hardly "gouging" even if you believe in such a thing.
 
I wasn't trying to knock anyone in particular. It was more of a blanket statement about people's current buying decisions.

I've read too many posts lately about people buying ammo without knowing the price, only to complain when they got home and looked at the receipt. How do you not know what you paid? I can't remember ever buying ammo without knowing the price.

A customer at a LGS asked if they had a certain caliber in stock and how much. The clerk told him the price, the customer got mad, complained about the price, and walked away. Not two minutes later, same customer comes back and says he'll take every box on the shelf. My question is: If you didn't like the price per box, why would you buy every box he had? Maybe it's me but I just don't understand that mentality. I could see one box, if you absolutely had to have it, but every box?
 
Was in my local Wally World getting my wife's cars oil changed so I meandered over to sporting goods and was amazed to see a fairly good supply of Federal Lighting 22s
2.47 a box of 50, yes I bought the whopping 3 box allotment.
Also had Federal 9mm at 25.00 per 100 rounds, 12.50 per 50 if you look at it that way..
I was tempted but need 22 more than 9mm with my Hi Standard 22 on its way to my FFL
This was at WW in Cape Coral, Fl for any local members.
 
Good to hear prices are getting better for some people.

My local Walmart wants $25 for federal .45acp 230gr/50 and $22/500 22lr, (if you can beat the scalpers). I've noticed that they've started carrying Tulammo. They had 9mm for $10.50/50, .223 for $5/20, and 7.62x39 for $5.17/20.

Tula isn't my first choice but at least it's something. Unfortunately, it's so close to what brass should cost, it might just be better to wait for the price of brass to return to reality and if it doesn't, well, we only have ourselves to blame. ;)
 
I picked up Tula before only because I was completely out of 9mm
I didn't have any issues with my Pistols eating it but man was it a mess!
Took an extra 15 or 20 minutes making sure my girls were clean.
 
Was surprised to see .22 LR CCI Stingers at the local WalMart. The lady with the cabinet keys just happened to be finishing up selling a hunting license so I picked up a couple boxes. She said she was surprised the price on them was still the same as before, and I agreed.

There were also a few boxes of Winchester .22 mag which have been hard to find around here.
 
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