Dreaming of Canadian .22 ammo.

from all that i read on cast boolits they never bought lead from the last smelter because they don't use virgin lead as it costs more.
 
Yycadm said:
Jeez, where are you looking OP? I mean, what part of the country? I'm in Saskatchewan, we've never had any shortage of .22 ammo ( or anything else for that matter really). I was in all three Regina firearms retailers yesterday afternoon, all three had Federal .22LR....cases and cases and cases of it. Prices are good, supply is good...biggest issue I've seen around here this year is that so many farmers are poisoning gophers now that there are hardly any left to shoot. That's starting to take the coyote numbers down too; too much of their main food supply in the summer is dead or has been poisoned and they consume it before it dies naturally, and it gets them. We've found more coyotes dead from "unnatural causes" (i.e. not from a bullet) this summer than I am comfortable with. More wolves though, for some reason.
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Wow guess I will have to come to Regina I was in Saskatoon last weekend and cabelas had very little
 
Seems to be an odd mixture of reports of overflowing and reports of scarcity. Probably depends on what you consider good ammo and what you see on a particular day.
 
Go to the CT store here then and look for ammo and also Wally World. CT changed the ammo case half over to fireworks and and part to knives and just uses a 1/4 of what they did use. They have two boxes of 22 shells period.
 
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Went to Wallymart last night, sold out... even the crappy stuff was gone.
Went to Crappytire and picked up their last box of 50 rounds of CCI Blazer and that was it for .22LR.

We suck, as Canadians, for stocking. Rather they suck.
Local firearm shops are also stripped of anything good in the .22 Long Rifle.
 
Last summer, when the supposed shortage in Saskatchewan was near its peak, my gun partner tells me that WSS in Regina is completely out of .22. Really? I was there the day before and they had tons of .22, of a wide variety of brands. Well, somebody told him that. Hmm... Must have had either a couple of semi loads come in with .22 ammo only just before I was there,and had a whopper of a big day selling hundreds of thousands of rounds before the trucks came in.

Moral of the story, unless you have been in the store and saw that the shelves are empty, try to limit the inventory reports to what you know for sure.
 
Cold Lake/Bonnyville has never had a shortage of rimfire ammo in literally years.

Don't know and don't care what people are crying about.

If there is a shortage in your town or city there are these strange things called the internet, fax machines and credit cards. lol
 
You're lucky to live in an area where the bullet per capita is reasonable but I live in a city with way over Cold Lake. Also the credit card / internet shipping cost has been discussed. I guess this thread is not for you.
 
transporteRR said:
Issue is people want the back then prices
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Well, Canadian .22 ammo was never bargain priced but it was always good quality and always available. If it was being made here again, I seriously doubt we'd have any shortages at all: As already stated, Canadians don't tend to be ammo hoarders, and also we're more used to being terrorized by our government than Americans are. But I think I've found out that the manufacturing equipment costs millions and probably no one here is willing to take the risk that legally owned firearms won't completely disappear with the next change in government, so....
 
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