Will .22 ever be cheap again?

[Kain]

@brickboy240

The question is not only when will 22 be affordable again but will it ever be consistently on the store shelves and in quantities that we want?

I still see gaps in gun store shelves and very limited selections in 22 from time to time. Many places will not allow bulk buying, either. Also, the big bricks are harder to come by - only the 50 and 100rd boxes.

Come up here, the local Cabela’s has it coming out their nose and ears, and weeping from their eyes at the moment and it has been that way for at least a month, if not two. I mean they have two end caps and another pair of half shelves loaded with the stuff. It is there. The issue, is that they have gone from like $23 for a 500 bulk pack of Remington(The price it was last time I bought the stuff) and ~$7 for a 100 round sleeve of CCI mini Mags, to $35 for the remington and like $9.49 for the CCI. The 333rd Winchester is $20 something(i want to say $27 but can’t recall) while I can buy it at $17-18 elsewhere. It just isn’t worth the price at that point when my LGS have the stuff and at a reasonable regularity. I mean for a brick of Fed Gold medal Target for below $40, the same stuff at cabela’s would come out to $55 if they let you buy it by the brick and they don’t.

Rant aside, the stuff is coming back into stock to where you can get it, I know I am slowly stockpiling the stuff up, though I am also shooting a good bit more of it than I was a year and a half ago since I can find it. As far as price, at the moment I think we are to the point of waiting for the price to drop out of it. I mean 5.56 had dropped down to around $300-340 a case before the whole ATF bullshit. Hell I am seeing 9mm down closer and closer to $200 a case. So prices are coming down, the only issue is will they stay there? I doubt it, which is why I am picking up more ammo, mags, guns, and components as well as other things as I am able to.

[26_Inf]

I wonder where the hiccups are occurring?

Here locally, a couple weeks ago the Dicks Sporting Goods stores in the area had a good supply of CCI AR in the 300 round box, at the same time the LGC that I frequent had the same thing. Both of them were selling for about 8.5 cents a round so I bought all I could - a box at a time each trip to Dicks and a box a day at the LGS - I ran my wife into Dick’s and had her buy some right after I did - it made her feel secret agent like - all told one day in Wichita netted 1800 rounds from Dick’s. After a couple days it was gone again - it was like CCI put out a hunk and it disappeared.

BTW I don’t really hoard the stuff, my daughters shoot it up pretty quick. I try to keep about 1200 on hand at all times - generally I have to buy on-line, with shipping it usually works out to around .11 a round.