kFinally started seeing .22LR prices starting to fall.....

[Harry O]

Went to two gunshows yesterday. There was plenty of .22LR in the tables. The best price I saw was $32 for a brick of Remington. There were numerous other bricks priced at $35 to $50. Too bad I remember buying some Winchester bricks for $8.70. Doubt that it will ever get back to that, but it is starting to come down. Thanks Trump.

[Plate plinker]

Still to high. I be waiting for $20 per 500 bulk pack.

[abunaitoo]

I'm still waiting for the $9.99 brick of Blazers to come back.

[Geezer in NH]

Still waiting to see some at Wally World on an other than every 6 months.

[bullet maker 57]

I'm with abunaitoo, 9.99 Blazers. Sounds good to me.

[bubba.50]

I'm still waitin' for the gougers & hoarders to have to start puttin' it in a bowl & pourin' milk on it for their breakfast. then maybe the bass-turds will stop waitin' on the truck to show up at Wally-World and the people that want it to actually shoot will be able to buy some.

[rockrat]

I get emails from online dealers on 22's and their "wholesale" prices are higher than I can go to Academy sports and buy them.

[Rick Hodges]

Dunhams around here...27.99 for Remington 500 brick.

[marlin39a]

It's everywhere but not at Walmart. I don't need it. I hoarded all mine prior to BHO.

[GL49]

I'm still waiting for the $9.99 brick of Blazers to come back.
Geez, I must really be old. I've got a couple of old cardboard boxes in the garage from bricks of Blazers purchased from Bi-Mart, $3.49. Couldn't find a price on the Winchester Wildcats or the Remington Thunderbolts.

[Traffer]

I have several boxes of 50 from the 90's that have $.99 price tags on them. I saw CCI quiet 22 at Wallyworld today for $3.37 a box of 50. They had CCI Maxi-Mag 22WMR for $13.50 per 50. A couple of weeks ago they had CCI mini mags for $7.37 for a hundred round box. You may say all you want about Wallyworld but their prices for ammo is hard, no very hard to beat. They consistently have 9mm for under $10 a box of 50.
Yay Wallyworld.

[Idaho45guy]

Still none that I've seen in Walmart or any area gun stores for over three years. Broke down and bought a brick of CCI Mini-Mags last year and it was $61 after shipping. Never again...

[easy ed]

Got a box of 325 Federal for $18.64 at Walmart.

[bdicki]

I've noticed that some of the bricks only 400 pcs.

[pill bug]

Still waiting to see .22 ammo at Walmart here in southern California. I'm thinking that when its always on the shelves at everyone's Walmart, that great .22 drought will be over!

[NavyVet1959]

Last time I bought .22LR, the 500-round brings were around $7-8 for the Remington Thunderbolts and Federal. When they get back down to that price, I'll break out my .22LR firearms from the back of my gun safe. Until then, they are "in exile" since I can reload .38 / 9mm / .357 for cheaper than they are asking for .22LR ammo these days. And besides, when I'm making cheap loads for those calibers, they are quieter than .22LR anyway.

I did see quite a few 100-round packs at Wal-Mart the other day though. I guess that's a sign that they're coming back.

[runfiverun]

the last 22's I bought was at wal-mart they were like 17.00 for some federal little milk carton looking containers.
I was paying that for the AM eagle 400 count boxes not too long ago.
I just gave a buddy of mine a brick of those eagles cause he couldn't find any of those around here.

[54bore]

I'm still waitin' for the gougers & hoarders to have to start puttin' it in a bowl & pourin' milk on it for their breakfast. then maybe the bass-turds will stop waitin' on the truck to show up at Wally-World and the people that want it to actually shoot will be able to buy some.

This is EXACTLY the problem!! I was recently in a discussion about this, a guy asked 'WHERE IS ALL THE .22 SHELLS?' My reply was 'Check your Basement'! I gave up on rimfire and went to air rifles, i bought a .177 and .22, doubtful i will ever own another rimfire, VERY DOUBTFUL. The hoarders in line at Wally can have mine!!

[C. Latch]

I shot about 25 rounds of .22lr yesterday for the first time in probably a year. I keep one handy for varmints, but haven't shot it just for fun in a long, long time.

On the other hand, I have two little girls that are approaching shooting age. The oldest is already showing a keen interest in shooting dad's guns. So I probably need to start getting serious about .22lr ammo again. I have a nice pile of it, but that's my problem: Back when I was stockpiling it, I bought enough to last *my* lifetime. Didn't plan for what the kids might shoot.

[15meter]

Geez, I must really be old. I've got a couple of old cardboard boxes in the garage from bricks of Blazers purchased from Bi-Mart, $3.49. Couldn't find a price on the Winchester Wildcats or the Remington Thunderbolts.

I must be older than dirt, try $3.12 for a brick of federal shorts....couldn't give a guess how many bricks I shot at that price. My neighbor when I was a kid worked at the Chevy transmission plant in Toledo, a store across from the plant sold them. I think he was picking me up a brick every other week.

[Der Gebirgsjager]

Last Friday I became the proud owner of one box of 350 Federal .22 L.R. for $18.97. One box per customer.

[km101]

Haven't seen any "affordable" 22lr around here since before Obummer was elected. The hoarders get all of it @ Wally World. Academy generally has it in stock but it's $2.00 - $2.50 for 50 rnds. I buy a box occasionally just to be sure my 22s still work.

What ever happened with the new .22 manufacturing plant that was supposed to open I E. Texas? Anyone heard anything lately?

[historicfirearms]

I couldn't tell you about 22 ammo at walmart. I won't shop there. But every gun shop I go into has plenty of 22 ammo for sale. Prices are higher than 5 years ago, but everything costs more than five years ago. Couple inflation with increased demand and prices are bound to stay higher.

[RogerDat]

$5 to $6 per hundred has been typical around here. I just bit my tongue and bought a brick of 500 awhile back so I just not going to need to worry about it, and be able to give a couple hundred to a kid in the family so they could use their 22 when they went up north. Don't shoot .22 much, still have some from my Y2K stash floating around, thought I was getting gouged back then at under $3 per hundred for CCI in plastic holders. Little did I know...

New factory will help supply more than it will prices, even with todays interest rates being low that factory needs to get paid for, and if selling the ammo doesn't return more than the money could earn invested after making the mortgage payments and wages then why do it?

[dbarry1]

$29 per brick at the local lgs (CCI standard velocity). No limit. They had a couple pallets.

[308Jeff]

$29 per brick at the local lgs (CCI standard velocity). No limit. They had a couple pallets.

Not bad.

[GhostHawk]

I shot a pin today, in my basement. A solid plastic headed, measured one quarter inch on a 1/2 shaft. Shot with an air rifle at 20 feet with a Bushnell 3x9x40 scope dialed up to 5. Cost me a whole 1.8 cents to do it. Yep, 1.8 cents. At that rate, you can stack away thousands.

No powder to go bad, no primer to deteriorate. Only needs a little muscle power to make it work.
Its called a Vortex gas ram. Cocking force is probably in the mid 55's lbs range.

As long as you have pellets you can have meat for the pot.

Hoard them if you like. Not likely to bother me, I'm sitting on my stash.
That is the only .22 rifle I shoot.

I do shoot a little .22lr pistol from time to time, nostalgia mostly.

My rifle, Hatsan 135 QE Vortex, cost 300$ delivered. Turkish made, turkish walnut stock, blued steel. It LOOKS like a rifle. Weighs 9 + pounds. Feels like one too.

Yet I can shoot it in my basement with a homemade bullet trap. Or you can spring for one of those noisy 70$ rimfire traps from amazon.

Shoot whenever you feel like it. Teach your grandkids.

Shoot pins, or whatever tickles your fancy.

I do also have one other thing hanging in my trap. It is a galvanized steel cover for a 4x4 electrical junction box. I bet it cost a whole 1.98$. Hung it in there, put a target on one side.

Hit that with a pellet, watch it fly, hear that CLANG,bang.

My wife thought it sounded like glass breaking. Smile

I always liked breaking bottles.