.22 LR Available

[Traffer]

I'm waiting for 2 cents per round.

[GhostHawk]

Don't hold your breath.

[lefty o]

costs more than 2 cents a rnd to make.

[Traffer]

costs more than 2 cents a rnd to make.

I can make em for about 1 cent per round. If you don't count the labor.
P.S. lefty o, I just noticed your avatar looks like the ship is throwing a depth charge (the cast boolit above it) ...looks very cool.

[oldblinddog]

You can leave all those Thunderbolts for me. They are outstanding in my Remington 510's and 580's. And the stash of Remington Subsonic's I have is outstanding in the CZ452 Varmint.

[Texas by God]

Harter- "Squibman" is a terrible name for ammo! Funny stuff.

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[buckwheatpaul]

Stopped by Academy Sports in Greenville, TX last week and the shelves were full....bought a 500 Remington 22 l.r. for just under $29.00.....dont even waste my time with Wal-mart.......I agree ..... wont see 1 cent per round of 22 l.r. again......

[trapper9260]

Hope it will be down some the time I will need some and that is going be some time now since I have enough to last me for some time.I mainly use it for the trap line.if it gets to about $20 a brick of 525 I will be happy.but I know for how it looks I will be lucky to see that price again.

[Harter66]

Harter- "Squibman" is a terrible name for ammo! Funny stuff.

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Imported by Alexandra Arms from the Philippines long ,long ago .

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Remington thunderbolts...
I have many one shot groups.

[fatelk]

I suppose you all have heard the old story about the farmer who bullseyes all over on his fences out where he shot, each one with a bullet hole dead center. Someone asks him how he got to be such a great shot. Easy, he says, I just draw the bullseye after the shot!

[1bilmr59]

I have bought around 20,000 rounds for 4 to 5 cents a round. I don't think it will get much lower.

[fatelk]

I think you're right. For various reasons I think that once the shelves stay stocked for a while and everyone has had their fill, the real market price for cheap 22lr will probably be around 4 cents.

[abunaitoo]

Everything is always more expensive here.
But I remember buying Blazers for $9.99 a brick.
Used to buy a case at a time.
These days, they won't sell by the case.
Only a brick a day.
Wish those day would come back.

[mjwcaster]

The local Walmart has a stack of Winchester M22 ammo, $50 per box of 1,000. Anyone shoot this ammo? Any good?

Hopefully the newer production is good.
At the beginning of the last draught I bought 2 of the 1k packs, all the store had, and the last I saw for a long time.
This ammo made up most of my 22 stash.

Right after I bought them winchester had a recall on m22. Broke open the boxes and mine was a different lot number, so I thought I was good.

The next year I took my daughter to an Appleseed and brought the m22.
Multiple low powered failure to ejects and one squib that I swear I saw smoke and the bullet dribble out of the barrel.

Checked for an obstruction and changed ammo

Winchester sent a shipping label and then a check, but I sure would have rather had 2000 rounds of safe 22.

Ammo quality during that time sure went downhill.

Just worked a youth shoot this year, using mixed donated 22.
Lots of squibs and at least 1 obstructed barrel, in well less that 1k rounds fired.



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[wonderwolf]

A year ago I finally found "golden bullets" for $35 per brick iirc....picked up a few bricks to carry me through for awhile as I currently don't shoot a lot of .22's, few weeks back I picked up 2 bricks of "thunderbolts"....those leaded up my semi pistol pretty quick. I think those will be strictly single shot and bolt action ammo.

Maybe someday I'll take the plunge and lay in a supply of CCI mini mags for ultra reliable .22 ammo but for now the bulk stuff does well.

[beezapilot]

Just back from British Columbia, the sporting goods stores there had an amazing selection of centerfire and .22. For some reason I always thought much of that was essentially unobtainable there.

[GhostHawk]

Late 70's early 80's I noticed that my then favorite Rem .22lr in the clear yellow 100 round box were starting to gum up my mag's.

I have not bought Remington ammo since.

CCI, Winchester, Federal all seem mostly ok. Perhaps not quite what they were but close. The whole .22lr scarcity thing got me to hang up my rimfire's mostly and play with other stuff.

This week it is .45 Colt. 200 new Winchester Brass, a new Lee 6 cavity mold, and a set of .45colt dies.

Tommorow is a casting day, got 200 empty's to fill and it is nice to have a few extra's.

We'll see how it goes. The new Lee 6 cavity is cleaned and ready to roll. Cases are primed.

Most likely going to be looking at Red Dot for this first batch. Probably in the 6 to 6.6 gr range. .452 230 gr TC alloy roughly 50/50 range scrap and COWW with 1% tin added.

We'll see how it goes.

[oldblinddog]

Remington thunderbolts...
I have many one shot groups.

The target I posted above is one of 25 on a USBR 50 meter benchrest target. More than one shot on a single bull would disqualify it just as one with no shot. The 10 ring is 1/8" in diameter and there are 25 shots for record. That target was shot in a match with Remington Subsonics from the CZ 452 that I mentioned in the previous post.