.22 LR in Stock

[Erik]

I don't know for sure, but I doubt Australia is the reason. There's no shortage of .22lr here like there's been of some other ammo and gunrelated things. I heard that a club in my area recently bought a pallet of .22lr, which should be something like 150K, to get a good price, and I have not heard anything about a shortage of .22lr.
If the shortage crossed international borders we would have noticed it here as well.

[martini]

I just buy .22 when it goes on sale and rotate. It means that my average cost is about .032 per round and so what if it takes me a while to go through it? I haven't had to buy any during the panic. Center fire on the other hand... I've seen the error of not having a year's average supply on hand for that and am rectifying it as I find reasonable prices. It's kind of slow going.

[Precision]

I am trying to get a school marksmanship team set up for smallbore. That requires .22lr ammo in mid to large quantities which has been dramatically depleting my personal stock. 500 rounds per outing will do that.

I used to keep a min max of 3k - 5k. I think that will up to 7.5k-10k once supplies normalize at something close to a reasonable price. $49.99 a box for Blazer bulk is NOT reasonable. Especially the box I just used had a price sticker of $12.99 on it. My personal stash is down to 2k ish.

The good news, I have seen $.04 cents per round. I have not been quick enough to acquire. But the prices are dropping.

The bad news, once my marksmanship kids get better, I will be buying Eley or equivalent for the accomplished shooters and will be back up to $.20-.40 a round.

[rightisright]

The Federal 525 packs of 36g are my go-to-works-decently-in-all-my-.22s choice. I'm glad I stocked up a few years ago at $15 a box. I've seen it at over $100/box in the past months.

[rightisright]

Here's some Federal 40g. Not a great deal when you include shipping, but better than most out there. http://www.natchezss.com/product.cfm?co ... dID=FAAM22

[Greg]

The Federal 525 packs of 36g are my go-to-works-decently-in-all-my-.22s choice. I'm glad I stocked up a few years ago at $15 a box. I've seen it at over $100/box in the past months.

Same here. I have a few dribs and drabs of this and that that I've tried, but what I bought in bulk was the Federal 525 rd 36gr hp bulk packs. I still have a few thousand rounds left, but it's still less than I'd like.

Current prices are still up in the silly range. > $.07/rd is mini-mag territory. Anything bulk-pack should definitely be less than that.

[martini]

The Federal 525 packs of 36g are my go-to-works-decently-in-all-my-.22s choice. I'm glad I stocked up a few years ago at $15 a box. I've seen it at over $100/box in the past months.

Exactly, I stocked up on it every time I was in Cabella's and they had it for 14-18 per box.

[PawPaw]

Wandered into Academy two days ago while I was in town running errands. .22LR is still in stock and the price now is down to 10 cents per round. Limit two boxes per customer. I picked up my two boxes and added it to the stock.

[slowpoke]

I don't know for sure, but I doubt Australia is the reason. There's no shortage of .22lr here like there's been of some other ammo and gunrelated things. I heard that a club in my area recently bought a pallet of .22lr, which should be something like 150K, to get a good price, and I have not heard anything about a shortage of .22lr.
If the shortage crossed international borders we would have noticed it here as well.

That was European made stuff though, right? eBay, SK, and other European made have been available during all the panic, but American manufacture stuff was right gone. Australia isn't the answer, I'm sure that a lot of it is the scarcity panic, but something else triggered it to start.

[John_in_Longview]

The local Academy is only keeping .22LR and 9mm at the service desk now. You can now purchase two boxes/buckets/etc of either regardless of size. (Before you could only purchase two boxes if each was 50 rounds or less.)