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How much 22lr do you keep on hand?

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#1 ·
I just counted all the 22lr I have been able to buy over the last 2 years together. I used to keep a stock of about 1000 rounds. After I shot a brick I would buy a new one. Over the last 2 years I have been buying it when ever I see it at the store. Not a lot but one of whatever they have. I now have 7525 rounds in storage and another 5oo in my range kit.

I will keep doing this until I have 10,000 rounds. When this shortage 1st hit I was down to about 50 rounds. I may have become some what of a hoarder I don't know.
 
#30 ·
I try to keep at least 2500 rounds for each weapon I have. With that in mind, the 10,000 rounds of .22 (Both LR and Mag) is a little short. 15 .22s on hand and climbing each time my wife sees a purple gun or Henry rifle she can get her hands on.
 
#32 ·
Kicking myself today, Gander mt. had cci mini mags friday , 1600 rounds in a can for $120.00. Thought about all day, then decided to head into town to get it, and of course they were sold out. Oh well I'm going on a 9 day fishing/ camping trip this weekend, need the cash for that. Also gander Mt. up here has been getting .22 ammo in lately so I can keep my supply up.
 
#36 ·
I bought a brick of that about a year ago. They told me it wouldn't work in any semi-auto but it worked fine in my 10-22.
 
#38 ·
I keep a useable supply of all my calibers on hand, always have, when the insanity hit I had approximately 30,000 rds on the shelf. A CMP order on file at the tiime added 5000. I have shared bricks with Boy Scouts and Hunter Safety during these dark days and certainly do not scour the isles looking for a $50 brick of Federal.
Thanx to those like you who understand the true value of a gun in a young persons hands
 
#39 ·
I actually recently had to go through my fanny pack that I keep my loose rimfire ammo in and remove all the Colibri ammo that my idiotic brother threw in there. I didn't exactly count each one, but from the looks of it, I have about 2,000 rounds in there. Oddly I found a couple .410 shells in the mix as well.
 
#40 ·
Due to having a couple Calico .22's and half a safe full of .22lr rifles,
always kept plenty on hand...after the Recent Unpleasantness started,
just quit shooting it except for pest control and occasional new gun/repair testing.

Occasionally get in before the LGS guys and get some Wally World ammo,
due to my work hours, I'm up WAY before they are...and hit up the yard sales,
sometimes you get lucky there too :)

And, strangely enough, SOME LGS's are being honest and selling ammo at reasonable prices...
they know that without cheap ammo, less shooters, less shooters mean less sales...
less sales mean being in the red, being in the red means CLOSED.
So I'd like to thank Ron's Guns of St. Marks, FL...it is literally in the middle of nowhere...
has a pretty much local clientele that he takes good care of...
but they do some Florida Gun Shows...if ya see him, check him out :)
 
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#41 ·
I recently did a velocity test and, recording of the results, involving 20 brands of .22 rimfire ammunition, using 11 Ruger Mark pistols with barrel lengths from 4-1/2 to 10 inches. This project burned up 2200 rounds of my stash of .22 rimfire. I don't know if it's OK to "link" to that report, but I could do that if it doesn't raise any hackles with the powers that be. I sell some of my inventory of .22 rimfire to my local customers, at reasonable prices, but at this point I just don't know what I'll need for $$$ to replenish my depleting inventory. In March of this year, I had a person call and ask if I had any .22 rimfire in stock. I said yes, I do, and what do you need? He immediately said he would buy ALL that I had. Being that we had a local gun-show upcoming in April, I pretty much figured that the prices I sold it for would double, or triple at that show. So, I asked the guy who he was and if I've ever been able to help him out with gun repair in the past. The phone went silent. So now, all my .22 rimfire inventory has been put under lock and key and only valued customers get consideration.
 
#44 ·
I had kept a small stock from the pre-o days, and had not been shooting my Twentytwos nearly as much as before. At the height of the ammo shortage, I have even gotten seriously into air guns. Much better ammo availability, much power prices, just as fun and accurate within their distance limitations.
But I still enjoy shooting the rimfires.
Having finally gotten my 'smart phone', I found I could use the 'notify me' feature of some vendors, to order ammo when it came available. I have been able to stock up a bit. Still find most times it's already sold out minutes after notification, but it beats driving to the stores hoping for a break.
At present, I have some 5K of various brands and types. I have had to use certain brands I had either avoided or never desired to try before. But I am able to shoot. Have had to pay more than it should be, but that's the market these days. I will NOT pay the highway robbery prices that I see on ********* and other sites!
 
#45 ·
Sucks to hear most people aren't making out on .22 either. I went in to Dick's about a month ago and must have been there for truck day because they had value packs of Federal but that's all i've found (granted I can't check everyday since all the stores are so far away). My aunt who lives in MA couldn't believe it when my mom told her it's nowhere to be found here so she was gonna look but I haven't heard anything. Look's like it'll be cheaper and easier to shoot my shotguns :D.
 
#46 ·
I have bought 2000 rounds of .22 in the past three or fours weeks. I have been able to get 2 bricks of Aquilla sub-sonic from my LGS and I bought 2 bricks for one of the slickguns.com ads that showed up a week ago here. They were from Cabela's and had cute little wooden boxes with them.
 
#48 ·
That's my problem too. Most of the time I can't find any .22lr, and when I do it's either priced way to high, or I don't have the money to buy it at that time. When I do have the money, there isn't any to be found anywhere. I know some of the guys here can afford to spend 1, or 2 hundred dollars at a time for good deals on line, but that won't ever happen here unless I win the lottery. The wife keeps telling me that I have to buy a ticket, and I keep telling her that if God wants me to win the lottery, I'll win the lottery, ticket, or ticket!
 
#52 ·
Every time I go into a Walmart, I do venture down to the sporting goods department hoping for a little .22 of any kind. I have never seen any in either one of the wally worlds here in Athens, at least in the past 2 years. This past July while visiting family in Florida, I found some at one of the wally worlds in Tallahassee. They had nine 100 round boxes of CCI, they told me there was no limit so I took five of them.
 
#57 ·
I guess i'll have to try them one more time. I've been there twice and waited around for 45 minutes and no one got free so I got fed up and left.

I solved my .22LR problem. I got rid of all of my .22 LR guns. The only one I've saved is a stainless Ruger convertible from the 80's in the original box & packaging with both cylinders which has never been fired. I bought it for my son shortly after he was born. Some day he'll have a classic. Then he can worry about finding ammo for it.
Sounds like a good idea :D. I'd do that with mine but this plus my 2 12GAs were given to me by my grandfather and since this will probably be the only thing I'll get to remember him (he gives his trash wife everything so she can destroy it/sell it) i'd better hang on to it. Man if only I could get his 855 John Deere.

Good thing (kinda) is I can't shoot it at my house so this box has stayed full :cool:.
 
#56 ·
I solved my .22LR problem. I got rid of all of my .22 LR guns. The only one I've saved is a stainless Ruger convertible from the 80's in the original box & packaging with both cylinders which has never been fired. I bought it for my son shortly after he was born. Some day he'll have a classic. Then he can worry about finding ammo for it.
 
#59 ·
I am not going to do that but I see your point. I think at some point 22lr will be available again. Who knows when? I never thought it would be a problem this long.

The guys at Cabela's tell me a few years ago they couldn't get rid of it. They had it stacked everywhere in the store. Always on sale. In just a few weeks it was all gone. Along with almost everything else.
 
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