This .22LR shortage is starting to piss me off.

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I use a couple of boxes of 22's just to keep the stupid coons off my door step let alone the chicken house. Then there is the skunks in the fall. I buy 22 shells every time I go into the gun store as they only have a few boxes at a time and only allow us to buy a few at a time. I have always had lot's of ammo in stock and that was years before anybody thought up ammo shortages. I just have to spend more time buying them now.
 
Stopped by High Caliber Sports in Hinton yesterday; nice little store by the way. Remington Viper 22LR $70/brick (500). Ouch.
Who would have predicted this shortage 5 or 6 years ago.
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Some might remember there was an ammo shortage in the 90s.

There was some panic buying but the prices did not go through the roof as now and thankfully it did not last long.
 
Brutus said:
I have that exact same Mauser rifle tacfoley! (But mine had the rear sight robbed and a Walther part replaced it)

Of course we both know that both of us already own, at least one Ruger Old Army.

Strange but too strange, quality is a special thing that gets extra attention from those that know better! ;)
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My ES350B is serial #169070, and after buying it in 1990 without a back sight, Jon Speed the author found me one at a gun show in Kentucky in 2005. It was still in the white, and it cost me over $300 to buy it and another $250 to get it blued properly.

Email me and I'll send you pics - it has a set of high AKAH see-through mounts and a x2.5 Ajack scope on it and the original Mauser banner sling.

tac
 
I can't believe people would pay $80-$90 for viper ammunition. I was at the range on Saturday and one other shooter said he paid $80 plus tax at Grouse River for remington yellow jackets.I felt sorry for him and offered up a surplus buckets of bullets for $80 same as I paid last year with tax.I just received 3 bricks of lapua standard plus for $85@ brick taxes and shipping included. That s for real target ammo made in Germany.
 
he paid $80 plus tax at Grouse River for remington yellow jackets ............. OMG 16cents + tax a round WOW !!

I Picked up 2 bricks of Federal AutoMatch .22 LR $25.99 a brick of 325 = 7.9 cents a round last Thursday and I though that was pricy but just finding a brick of any type of 22 lr down here is a big surprize .

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tacfoley said:
I'm completely at a loss to figure out why over here in UK we are paying substantially less than HALF of what you are paying for American-made .22 ammunition......

tac
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One reason may be that due to shipping differences ( by containers on boats as opposed to smaller orders by 18 wheeler ) the UK dustributer may have a larger cashe of older stock .. it will catch up at some time. Becides you pay so much more for everything else you should get the odd discount .. :)

edit: Well definatly electronics ....
 
No doubt in the UK there are now much fewer gun owners/target shooters so a larger supply of .22 ammo is not surprising at the present.

Just think of the huge amount of collectible firearms that were destroyed literally or by total butchering, an unforgivable crying shame.
 
Guess you might be right - but we still bought 120,000 rounds of mixed brands a couple of weeks ago, and we are just one club among over 1500 or so.

Two serious .22 shooters in the club bought their own batches of Lapua match - 5000 rounds each.

As for the last sentence, I'm not even going there.

tac

PS - BTW, there are 320 shooters in our little club. Most of us have a couple or more .22cal rifles - I have seven.
 
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