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

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Supply and demand I guess. The high end stuff seems to be holding it's prices. I've been using the 22 as a long range practice rig in my bolt. I generally go through 50-100 rounds per range visit. When you shoot that little the 15-20 cents per round isn't so bad. If I was paying that for blue box federal I'd probably just shoot my 22-250 and skip the 22 all together.

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I was in an LGS in the States some weeks back and was shocked and amazed to see many 300 round packs of CCI .22 LR just sitting on the shelf where you could touch them, with no panic buying and no set purchase limits either. True, it was special purpose "AR Tactical" and special edition "Troy Landry" ammo and was selling for a slightly high $25 a box, but still that felt like huge progress. The clerk told me it was a sign that 'the end of the .22 shortage was coming but has not yet arrived.' I've read about such optimism before but had not experienced it myself. I suspect that O'Bammy's banning of green tip 5.56 has probably shifted the hoarders' attention away from .22 LR, which goes to show every cloud has a silver lining of unintended good consequences.

Meanwhile in Canada, I will of course be target shooting dirty crap bucket .22 ammo that sometimes needs straightening before it can even be loaded, but I look with hope to the future and all that stuff.
 
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soulchaser said:
Store I go to was selling the 222 round Winchester packs fo $10.36 in December.

Soon as the new year hit, $13.56.
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Some of that can probably be blamed on our dollar dropping 25% or so, but I wonder why we can't produce ammo here any more. I have a hard time believing the market isn't there.
 
Papaclaude said:
Some of that can probably be blamed on our dollar dropping 25% or so, but I wonder why we can't produce ammo here any more. I have a hard time believing the market isn't there.
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there are probably huge subsidies in the US which arent available here for production. thats the only thing i can think of.
 
I found a store that has the winchester 36gr varmint in 555 count for 40.99
Seems pricey.
Any opinions?
Ive never fired that specific round.
 
Wow.
I had so many cci stingers Ive been spoiled.
Thats big money for rimfire.

Guess I will have cash ready if minimags ever make it back.
 
Margucci said:
there are probably huge subsidies in the US which arent available here for production. thats the only thing i can think of.
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We had several ammunition makers, good ones, until the Liberal Party of Canada started to end firearms here. They got the message and sold their equipment to guess which country.

pc9 said:
Like others have said this seems to be the norm now for prices.
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Maybe but that price is still absurd for such half arsed stuff.
 
I still remember less than 2 years ago, I was picking up decent .22LR ammo for about 3.3-3.7 cents/round mostly from people selling it on EE, or the occasional sale here and there. My last purchase was at 4.5 cents/round and I don't regret it at all now that I stocked up on thousands and thousands at that time. The last time I saw some in person was at Cabelas and there was a max of 4, 50 or 100 packs (any combo of, but a total of 4 packs) of what they had per customer. Prices weren't terribly gouging and compared to the EE was a downright deal. It's not worth shipping it to yourself with the hazardous materials shipping costs, but if you're not too far, do ship to store. There was a bunch of minimag, subsonic and quiet CCI the last time I was there. about 5 100 packs of each, and like I said, limit of 4 per customer but no limit on ship to store.
 
I suspect that the ongoing demand and the slippage in our dollar against the USD will lead to prices settling in at 8-10 cents/round for the foreseeable future, at least for the stuff that's of decent enough quality. Even if the hoarding subsides, the 10-22 crowd will keep demand high.

But sometimes we're our own worst enemy. As consumers, we'd be doing ourselves a favour collectively if we simply refused to purchase inferior product quality like the Winchester 222 bulk stuff. I picked up a box of 222 back in the fall and I've never shot such rancid stuff, with at least a quarter of the rounds being FTF. You'd have to think--or hope--that prices and quality would adjust accordingly if that quality of ammo simply sat on store shelves, un-purchased.
 
Just an FYI for anyone interested, I was just in Wanstalls this afternoon and they had some .22 lr in stock. They had CCI standard velocity bricks ($41.99 iirc) as well as a lot of Winchester Wildcat and Federal Champion. They also had Eley Practice in for $5.99/50 I grabbed a couple to try in my Savage.
 
Was in wholesale sports in Kamloops today. The federal target 325 rounders is up to $26 a box from $22 last month. They had about 2 bricks AE $40 @ brick,. I passed prices are ridiculous. Glad I have 13k in reserve.
 
Was in wholesale sports in Kamloops today. The federal target 325 rounders is up to $26 a box from $22 last month. They had about 2 bricks AE $40 @ brick,. I passed prices are ridiculous. Glad I have 13k in reserve.
 
i was in the nanaimo canadian tire today and mentioned the seemingly short supply of .22. i told him i won't support that BS pricing and will shoot something else before i pay those prices. he told me it would be nice if everyone was like that. he was on my side as he is a shooter too but said as long as people keep buying it at those prices it will only go up in cost. i also mentioned that some guys are finding $20-$25 bricks at canadian tire in some area's of the country and he said they are full of ####. so i guess were gonna need receipt pics to verify someone got a good deal on ammo because i'm not buying it. cheapest i'm finding now is winchester bulk or federal 500 round bricks. i did buy 400 rounds a mini mags today. i won't say what i paid as it wasn't a deal but i found some mini mags nonetheless. wish they had more but i am happy for now. haven't had mini mags in over a year. the guy at canadian tire told me that he ordered in a few cases of the federal red box stuff and sold 15 bricks in 2 days. to bad most gun owners aren't on CGN cause it would be nice to do a protest as the prices of .22 just pisses me right off at this point. i don't mind paying more for quality ammo but the bulk ammo prices are just getting rediculous.
 
Heyy.. Does anybody know if VIPERS are good? Are they on par with CCI mini mags? They have a sorta more Coned nose eh... are they harder to feed in a 10/22, or other semi-automatics?
 
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