Cheapest bulk 22lr HP?

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Just wondering what prices have you guys seen lately?
Two years ago I bought 5000 Ae 38g/40g for just under $200 taxes in.
Since the US craze, prices I've seen jump and or ammo shortages.
Seems like stock is slowly returning.
Thanks for your time!
 
Best in a long time was at Cabelas Saskatoon last boxing day. $ 12.99 for a box of 500 Win X pert. Too bad I only bought 5 boxes. Hopefully they have the same this year.
 
Donny Fenn1 said:
CT on Southland has mini mag HP at 134$ for 1400 or 1600 rounds (great ammo for that price) (they did anyways 10 days ago in plastic ammo cans)
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This comes out to be more expensive than buying 16 x 100 count boxes of mini-mag HP (36gr)! (134/1600 = 0.083$/round)

Wolverine may still have 100 packs of Mini-Mags for 6.95. (6.95/100 = 0.0695$/round)

Cost per round and quality of ammo is what matters here.

Just another note, the mini-mags I have in 100 packs (plastic boxes) seem to be better quality than the bulk packs I got (375 Troy Landry). The ones from the bulk packs cause me lots of feeding issues for some reason. Might just be the rush to produce ammo affecting quality, but they don't feed as reliably (crooked/bending bullets) and the accuracy was not very good. I do admit that the feeding path needs tweaking, but switching back to the 100 packs reduced issues dramatically.
 
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JonMtl said:
Just another note, the mini-mags I have in 100 packs (plastic boxes) seem to be better quality than the bulk packs I got (375 Troy Landry). The ones from the bulk packs cause me lots of feeding issues for some reason. Might just be the rush to produce ammo affecting quality, but they don't feed as reliably (crooked/bending bullets) and the accuracy was not very good. I do admit that the feeding path needs tweaking, but switching back to the 100 packs reduced issues dramatically.
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I found the same thing. I picked mine up as soon as cabelas got them here. Lots of wax on the bulk choot 'em packs. The 100 round boxes are still very good though.
 
he's in Calgary so shipping is a factor, comes with an ammo box, CCI HP was kinda hard to find locally this summer and its great ammo that will go bang every time unlike some of the 333 and 525 round bulkpacks from other brands, misfires are very disconcerting in the middle of a field of rampaging gophers ;)
 
Yes shipping matters! Atleast for me. I thought this was covered, the mini mags at CT aren't hp. Atleast I read a bunch of people sayin that they were dissapointed to find out that it was advertised as hp but they were round nose.
So which is true, are the bulk cans hp or not?
Thanks for all your posts, if you read and saw I'm looking for bulk hp!


JonMtl said:
This comes out to be more expensive than buying 16 x 100 count boxes of mini-mag HP (36gr)! (134/1600 = 0.083$/round)

Wolverine may still have 100 packs of Mini-Mags for 6.95. (6.95/100 = 0.0695$/round)

Cost per round and quality of ammo is what matters here.

Just another note, the mini-mags I have in 100 packs (plastic boxes) seem to be better quality than the bulk packs I got (375 Troy Landry). The ones from the bulk packs cause me lots of feeding issues for some reason. Might just be the rush to produce ammo affecting quality, but they don't feed as reliably (crooked/bending bullets) and the accuracy was not very good. I do admit that the feeding path needs tweaking, but switching back to the 100 packs reduced issues dramatically.
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little_airwolf said:
Just wondering what prices have you guys seen lately?
Two years ago I bought 5000 Ae 38g/40g for just under $200 taxes in.
Since the US craze, prices I've seen jump and or ammo shortages.
Seems like stock is slowly returning.
Thanks for your time!
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Prices up (like everything else), yes. Ammo shortage, no.

Stick with Mini mags which is the best of both worlds; very accurate/reliable for target shooting and good hunting ammo. Worth to pay a few $ more for. If accuracy matters to you then switching back and fort between 22 ammos is a bi...ch. It throws your gun off balance each time, and requires re-adjustments.

If being cheap is your only concern, then blue box Federals and Win. 555 are among the cheaper (but still reliable) 22s. There is alway a sale on them somewhere.
 
Winchester 555 pops in and out of local walmarts at about $22 a box, groups 1/2" at 50yards out of my savage, I have no reason to pay more for better ammo (I have tried it though). I'm happy that my rifle likes that ammo as it's the cheapest around.
 
Just picked up 2 boxes of the Winchester 525 bulk stuff. Copper plated 36gr hollow points for $19.85 each from LeBarons.
That's $0.0378/round.

JonMtl said:
The ones from the bulk packs cause me lots of feeding issues for some reason. Might just be the rush to produce ammo affecting quality, but they don't feed as reliably (crooked/bending bullets) and the accuracy was not very good. I do admit that the feeding path needs tweaking, but switching back to the 100 packs reduced issues dramatically.
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I remember reading that to try to meet demand CCI was starting to produce CCI branded ammo in the Federal ammo plant (I forget who owns who). Since I read that I have found a lot of CCI ammo to be hit or miss compared to how it was before (99.9% great).

Archer069 said:
are ammo prices going up?
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Some retailers are jacking prices and they tend to be the ones with stock on the shelves because no one is buying from them. The honest retailers haven't had much of a price increase vs. a year ago but they are the ones constantly sold out. My local range store actually lowered prices vs. a year ago; bulk 500rnd 22lr packs (CCI, Federal, Blazer, whatever) went from $25 last year to $23 now.
 
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