.22lr ammo price, will it drop?

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I'm not overly new to shooting sports. The queation I ask is, Is the price of 22lr ammo going to drop when production matches or exceeds demand? I know there are alot of factors in play.
Say that everything calms down in the US and ammo levels go back to sorta normal.
Would the price of 22lr go down?
When I got my Pal bulk ammo was $20-$28 for brick of the cheap stuff. CCI and yellowjacket was $8 and $35.
Yes Im young. I do have some of my grandfathers and father n laws ammo with Gas station price stickers marked 25¢ a box of 50.
So yes I know prices do go up. However someone posted a comparison of 22lr cost vs gas and other goods.
IIRC the ammo held the lowest inflation price.
Reason why I ask is I have two young boys who I plain on introducing to shooting. Id hate for it to cost $50+ a brick by the time they want to shoot.
 
I don't see prices easing that much, though they may plateau a bit. Production capacity isn't there, and the ammo companies would rather focus on more profitable calibers... Buy it cheap (when you can) and stack it deep!
 
The price from the Manufacturers may go down. But will the Canadian distributor lower their price or keep the profit. Will the dealer lower their price?

I would say the price will never go down.
 
It's kinda like the fuel prices it goes up and people complain then they get used to it and forget about it, so I'd say no. This has been 1.1/2 years or so with short ammo supply they have no reason to drop prices when there adding shifts and selling all they make.
 
It will go down a bit, but not to where it was before. As with all things, it goes up a lot, then down a little, up a lot, down a little.
 
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Ammo prices have never dropped. Just gone up. Supply and demand is only part of it. Government interference in the economy has a lot to do with it too.
 
Do you expect your salary to do down?

Prices are "sticky" for everything, unless there is a large surplus on the supply side.
 
Compared to other calibers it will still be affordable (what ever that means) even going to the movies is getting pricey for a family.. Go for it.
 
I doubt prices will drop, most manufacturers are running 24 hours a day to try to keep up so they will just scale back the hours as demand normalizes and run the hours required to maintain a constant supply.
 
At $0.025 cents per round for .22WMR.... who cares? My 9mm is 35 cents a round. Again, who cares? But, my .308 factory match grade loads.... that's another story. At $2.39 per round.... ouch!!
 
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At $0.025 cents per round for .22WMR.... who cares? My 9mm is 35 cents a round. Again, who cares? But, my .308 factory match grade loads.... that's another story. At $2.39 per round.... ouch!!
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500 mag is $4/shot when you can find it! so just cast/reload and it drops to 35cents :)
 
Why would the price go down?

The only thing that will make the price drop in demand, and that likely won't happen until people feel more at peace in the world….. do you see that happening any time soon?
 
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I doubt prices will drop, most manufacturers are running 24 hours a day to try to keep up so they will just scale back the hours as demand normalizes and run the hours required to maintain a constant supply.
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The story is that the makers aren't the ones jacking the prices or taking the huge profits, at least not in the USA. People line up at places like Walmart every morning and immediately buy what's put out. They buy at normal prices and resell it for, allegedly, a 3X to 5X markup. And the legend continues to say that the managers of those stores are into it too, that they skim off some even before it's put out, ammo which they buy for themselves and 'friends" but goes into the same resale mill. I'm not there to see all this, but it's been said by people I trust.
 
I don't find the prices as bad as they could be. I have an old box of imperial .22 from the '70s for 2.99 for 50...
I know it was only $20 for a brick 10 years ago but the availability over price seems to be the biggest concern...
Lowest I ever paid was 15.99 for a brick of Winchester wildcats at a wal mart in edmonton last year!
 
I do not know if that's cheap but I just was lucky to purchase a couple bricks of CCI mini mags at my local gun store for $34 for 500 rounds. Like I said I do not know if that is cheap but I just was happy to find some :)
 
I can't see that it will go down, hopefully it won't go up a lot more in the future. Its still the best bang for your buck out there.
 
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