Where do you think the price of 22LR ammo will settle?

[Bigslug]

I just got Bass Pro's Christmas flyer in the mail yesterday.

Aguila plated 40 grain solids or 38 grain HP for $14.99 / 250 ($0.06 a round). It says "Limit 2 per customer". Oddly, it does NOT say "Free crack pipe with every purchase". I guess they assume you already have one to pay that.

.22 Hornet is starting to look GOOOOOD.

[dverna]

I just got Bass Pro's Christmas flyer in the mail yesterday.

Aguila plated 40 grain solids or 38 grain HP for $14.99 / 250 ($0.06 a round). It says "Limit 2 per customer". Oddly, it does NOT say "Free crack pipe with every purchase". I guess they assume you already have one to pay that.

.22 Hornet is starting to look GOOOOOD.

I see it differently. $.06/rd is not terrible and about half of what it was a few months ago if someone could find it. So supply is up and prices are down.

Almost all my .22's are in the $.03-.05 range and I doubt we will ever see below $.04 again.

[smkummer]

Midwest gun works has cci standard velocity at 1.99 per 50 right now. .04 ea.

[Winger Ed.]

I had to get something from Walmart the other day and went through the sporting goods section.

The had 3 boxes of Winchester Super X .22LR.
They were only $40. for a box of 300.

The kid working the counter saw me looking at them and asked, "Can I help you".
I told him, "No thanks, I'm good".

[Minerat]

Norma tac 22 Murdoch's 70$/500 today Denver area

[Jedman]

Midwest gun works has cci standard velocity at 1.99 per 50 right now. .04 ea.

I looked at their rimfire ammo and there was nothing at twice the price you have listed here.

Jedman

[1hole]

Disclaimer alert.... I grew up in the days of 50 cent boxes of ammo....Anyone care to guess on prices??

Well, no. I don't know where it might stop and I won't guess. My first .22 rf ammo was around 25 cents a box. I was a little kid then and sometimes worked as a part-time farm hand at 10 cents per hour so a box of that "cheap" .22 ammo from the local Western Auto hardware store was what it was, and it really wasn't very cheep. Then I began to realize that everything went up from time to time and it hasn't stopped yet.

I'm not a kid anymore. And I've about given up expecting the prices of anything to stabilize for long.

[downzero]

I think you'll see it back at 5 cents a round after/during the next recession.

[uscra112]

I'm too lazy to do it, but if someone were to calculate the prices of ammo in grams of gold for the years from, say, 1960 to today....

[tarbe]

I looked at their rimfire ammo and there was nothing at twice the price you have listed here.

Jedman

Sold out at $5.99/50.

[tarbe]

Real glad I bought 30k rounds back when it was under 3 cents per round.

Then I found RWS Rifle match for 10 cents per round a few months back (usually double that) and bought about 20k of that. My Cooper can take advantage of the accuracy edge.

I hope ammo will come back down, but I am not betting on it.

[uscra112]

Only mildly off topic: I received an email newsletter today from Duck Creek, one of my favorite sources of centerfire brass. Denny writes that Remington and Winchester are both telling him that if-and-when any of the common but out-of-stock cases reappear, prices will be 25% higher. He also said the Norma has told him that they will cease selling brass in bulk, will only sell prepackaged in boxes at ~45% higher prices per piece.

I still see .22 ammo settling at the same % increases or higher. Maybe much higher if the current economic and fiscal insanity in Washington continues.

[Hodagtrapper]

I believe 7 cents a round average for all flavors of .22 ammunition is where we may end up. Fingers crossed, though.

Chris

[G W Wade]

Noticing Norma Tac was $100 per brick Today saw it for $80. And Fleet Farm had a sale 2 weeks ago $5.99 per box More of other brands are showing up also GW

[rockrat]

Bought some Aquila from Cabelas for 6 cents a round(+ tax) a few weeks ago

[Bill*B]

Local range is asking $10 a box! Online prices are around $6 when you add shipping. The "New Normal"?

[GhostHawk]

I just did a quick trawl on Gunbot. Bulk ammo listed lots of .22lr ammo for 6 cents a round. But those are all sold out.

What was in stock was all in the 12 to 16 cents per round range.

I think it will likely never drop below a dime ea for any measurable length of time. There is simply too much demand.
You may see a sale for a day or two. But once those are sold, price goes back up.

[dverna]

A few years ago, the same hand wringing was going on. I sold half my inventory in one day at a gun show. About a year later, bought more at $20/brick. I am not worried but I have planned and reacted.

There is no manufacturing reason for the price to be at $3/box. I may sell off most of my inventory now that I have an alternative.

[wv109323]

The price is demand driven- short supply. Once demand drops the prices will return to normal plus the inflation of raw materials and labor.

[GrayTech]

Doesn't matter that the price drops back to whatever it was if the value of a dollar is reduced to ½, ⅓, or even a ¼ of what it was. Our governments are spending us into bancruptcy, and dismantling any possibility of recovery from it, faster than most people realize.