Cheap 22 lr ammo?
- Thread starter Jeffhere
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Currently don’t have much choice around here. You see some on the shelf at Cabela’s you grab it because you come back in few minutes and it’s gone. I haven’t found 500 rnd boxes in months. Buy it when you see it out someone else will.
My local Canadian Tire is showing in stock:
- Winchester 40gr M-22 1000 rd box
- Winchester 36gr HP 555 rd box.
- Remington Thunderbolt 500 rd box
Cheap, dirty, very poor accuracy, large group size, but they go bang and hit big diameter targets.
Every CT store is different of course. But this indicates that some bulk ammo is out there for the alert shopper.
- Winchester 40gr M-22 1000 rd box
- Winchester 36gr HP 555 rd box.
- Remington Thunderbolt 500 rd box
Cheap, dirty, very poor accuracy, large group size, but they go bang and hit big diameter targets.
Every CT store is different of course. But this indicates that some bulk ammo is out there for the alert shopper.
There are 10k rounds in the EE right now for about a grand and some change....
Gentle Ben
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- Warburg, Alberta
Seems like you need a time machine to find any deals on 17 & 22 rim fire ammo anymore. Doesn't seem that long ago when UFA sold a brick of Wilcat's or Thunderbolts for $4.99. I remember seeing deals like this in their weekly fliers, spring special to get the farmers in for prairie dog plinking. Perhaps I'm dating myself....
I bought that pack for 450$ just in March or so. I've never bought ammo and regretted getting too much - more often that not its the opposite problem.
if you go on the can tire web site in the search function type "ammunition" then select "In stock at my store" you can see what that have before you make the drive
You can also change your preferred store to other ones around you. I have done this many times and website inventory is 95% accurate.
Edit: don't try and get fancy by searching by caliber or anything. The site isn't that good. You need to select all ammunition and just page scroll from there. Just remember to hit the "in stock at my store" first
Q1: No, the future is unknowable.
Q2: Yes now is a good time to buy rimfire ammo if you need it, because life is short, and the future is unknowable.
For target grade ammo (e.g. SK, Lapua, Eley), I always try and order online "in bulk" so to speak, by the case (5000 rounds) or in multiple bricks (500 rounds each). This saves on shipping. Its not "bulk" as in loose rounds jostling around in a pail or a box of 500 all loose. These are properly boxed target rounds in 50 rd boxes, with each round supported in a plastic holder. Most online stores will provide a discount if purchasing by multiple bricks, or a case.
There is no local bricks and mortar store near me supplying target grade ammo, so I have to use online stores, and the shipping costs definitely are worth buying by the case.
Buying ammo is like the stock market - hard to predict, but unlike the stock market, ammo prices generally go one way and that is progressively up. Given this trend (at least in my lifetime), it is best if you find ammo you like and works with you gun, grab it during sales if possible and squirrel it away. A month or two ago, FOC had in a shipment of CCI Blazer .22s. A brick was $49.99. Now, 10 years ago that would be highway robbery, but given everything has gone up and even CCI SV is now $60+ for a brick on average, the Blazer was a good deal. There are also deals to be had on the secondary market, ie the EE. Maybe not necessarily steal of a deal off high end of Lapua or Tenex, but for plinking ammo, sometimes someone just decides to unload a brick or two of something or another, possibly part of a bundle deal. I recently picked up a brick of Remington Yellow Jacket for $25.00 for the brick. I mean, these aren't SKs or anything but for plinking, hey why not.
I have found over the years it is a fool's errand to try to time when to buy ammo. Sure there may be some good sales like during the Black Friday weekend, but sometimes flash sales occur on things. I never shop at Bass Pro / Cabela's, as I find their ammo prices really high, but last year, I was informed about a quick sale they had on a 525 box of Remington Golden Bullets for $34.99 each. I know, not premium stuff, but for me I plink and don't complete, so it's fine for weekend duffers like me...
The old adage buy it cheap stack it deep applies...sure, cheap is subjective, but it is almost in retrospect in looking at prices that prices for ammo in the past almost always turn out to be "cheaper" than present prices. So I just find 22 rounds that I like and buy when I can.
