This is where my gun logic fails me. I’ve never seen anything like it.
To me, the whole point of owning a .22 LR rifle is that, well, the Ruger 10/22 is the most reliable, durable weapon I’ve ever fired, yes. I grew up plinking and hunting with one, and the 10/22 is still my hands-down favorite firearm ever. But aside from that, the whole point of buying a .22 or converting your current rifle to .22 LR is ammo is supposed to be cheap and plentiful.
Hah. Not so much with Obamascare II. Mel and I have had to jump through some hoops and search a lot, but we’ve been able to find somewhat affordable 9mm, .357 mag, .223, and of course 12 ga everything is still easily found. (For the pistols and rifles, we’ve found the internet has some good deals if you buy bulk.) But .22 LR? It’s a fucking unicorn. I’m down to my last 900 rounds, and I want to be able to fire my damn 10/22 with impunity. But no – rimfire .22 LR is a fucking ghost, still. Cabela’s gets a shipment every so often for reasonable prices (about a buck more than before Obamascare II, per box of 50), but the rest of the time I’ve seen travesties like this shit going on.
$80 BUCKS FOR 500 ROUNDS OF GODDAMN .22 LR??? In 2011, a 500 round box of brand-name .22 was $22 at Walmart!!! And shit, it’s Centurion! Bargain basement generic bullshit! Not even Remington or CCI!!!
So much for that. $0.16/round? For .22 LR? The Mosin Nagant is now comparable to fire, at $0.20/round. Twist that one around your head a bit. Shit, I have almost as much 7.62 x 54r as I do .22 LR right now, on hand, and honestly, I can replenish THAT big beast much more easily after shipping.
Ugh. Sad state of affairs. Know what we should do to these overcharging retailers?
Loved the music video. Portlanders represent!
Woot woot!
Wait, how many of us Portlanders are reading these strips?
I really should check with a coworker, and see how many boxes he has. And maybe point out that it’s selling for 3 times what he paid for it, so maybe he should sell some.
5.45X39 is also around .20 cents a round as well. And you get to shoot an AK platform!
However, I don’t think they are overcharging. They have set a price that consumers are willing to pay and gets the seller the most profit. Its simple supply and demand. If jerkwads would stop paying these prices, prices would deflate closer to the norm.
Simple supply and demand. Demand is super high, supply is super low. Ergo, higher prices.
Look at the AR 15 market, prices are dropping through the floor. Over saturated, panic buying is over = less demand = drop in price
Ammo is different from firearms, however. One can buy enough firearms. One can never buy enough ammo 🙂
Once supply picks back up and the customers are sated and fall into slumber, prices will return to normal. It will just be a while.
There’s also the PSL, of course. An AK-platform rifle, chambered in the big 54R round at .20 a pop.
I can’t wait for the AR market to hit the bottom, I might be able to afford a production on rather than a piecemeal made-by-me one!
Though making one sounds cool and fun… Maybe it will just be one made by me that is not piecemeal! Whooo!
“One can buy enough firearms. ”
We’ll agree to disagree on that one…
“One can buy enough firearms”
You shut your goddamned mouth!
Ok, Ok. I admit, I worded that incorrectly. Please don’t hurt me 🙁
What my intent was, one can become more easily sated with the amount of firearms they own than the amount of ammo they own.
I’ve never heard a gun owner say “Ive got enough ammo for now.”
Ok, I’ll buy that.
They’re not overcharging, they’ve set a price consistent with supply & demand. For them to be overcharging, you’d have to be able to reliably get it somewhere else cheaper.
http://www.liberalorder.com/2013/06/what-statement-do-price-controls-make-about-our-society.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/artcarden/2011/07/08/price-controls-make-a-statement-about-society/
I’ve got enough ammo that I’m not going to help the makers and venders gang-rape us. Not buying more until prices come back down from their artificial scare.
Damn, I thought that ODGreensupply was obscene for charging $.32/round for Centurion .22. Freaking out of control.
I’m reloading .357 & .45 Auto for less than what .22 LR is selling for.
One point my local gun dealer made is this: it’s not a matter of hoarding, it’s just that a shit ton of people went out and bought guns and now, if you can even imagine it, they actually want to SHOOT the damn things. While this scare has been hard on our wallets, I think it’s actually put more guns in the hands of people and not less.
Why do you think the manufacturers whipped up the fear and hysteria? To sell more. They succeeded, and we lost nothing but money to them.
I don’t recall ever seeing any scare propaganda from Federal, Remington, Winchester, etc etc. I do know that a large chunk of the blame falls squarely on jackasses who really are hoarding and, even better, have no need for the ammo they’re snapping up.
I have WAY MORE 223 and 7.62x54r than .22LR right now…. sigh…..
I’d say you can partially blame the people who are buying up hoards of ammo to a level that is slightly rediculous because they still have the idea that it may get banned in the near future.
There’s really no decent LGS in my area, so I get all my stuff online, and range stuff in bulk whenever possible. I’ve actually been having much better luck nabbing reasonable .22LR from Slickguns emails this past month, it’s the only caliber I feel stocked with now. I even found WWB .40S&W for 40 cents per, which, since I didn’t have a 40 before now, I believe may be the pre-panic price come back around.
.223, both brass- and steel-cased, is showing signs of coming down (too slowly), and 9mm is still rare. I haven’t been able to catch either at a price I’m willing to pay yet. I think 9mm is just the current binge ammo like .22LR was for the last few months. That or the manufacturers are randomly lowering production on one caliber at a time for lulz.
I still remember 8mm Mauser ammo being cheap. 10 years ago I picked up 1,100 rounds for $63. Was crappy, corrosive Ecuadorian stuff that required a double strike on the primer every once in awhile but relatively accurate. got a few 250 round belts of Yugo stuff too for cheap. I just need to wait awhile longer, hopefully everything calms down then begin stock piling again.
Well once I figure out how that is. Stupid politicians with this new law, I can’t buy ammo online anymore and all ammo I buy I have to go through the fed’s background check again. Then if it’s deemed “excessive amount” I get reported to the state police, but no one has actually come out and given a number on what “excessive” is.
Gonna laugh next time I buy a case of 7.5x55mm Swiss and 7.62x54r in spam cans. Watch their heads spin 😀
Heh. Standing by to see what price Omar puts on that ammo. Or if he just hoards it all.
I predict a panel with Omar, in the back room, nekkid, rolling around in it.
thanks, even if he hadn’t thought of that now he has the idea…
Must go clean my eyes with steel wool and chlorine bleach now.
Thanks so much.
Or in a dumpster?
They have 22lr in stock here in my town. 50 rounds for 2.99.
Chek out these for .22lr prices. some as low as $0.10 / rd
http://www.slickguns.com/category/ammo?caliber=3
or
http://www.gunbot.net/ammo/22lr/
Don’t know if it comes from reading _Swiss Family Robinson_ and _Robinson Crusoe_ at an impressionable age or being the child and grandchild of Great Depression survivors, but I’ve always felt more comfortable with plenty of expendables on hand. Including ammo.
A few years back I got in the habit of checking the ammo case at the local Wal-Mart when in the area. When they had bricks of name brand .22LR on sale, I’d buy one. I didn’t quit after reaching 5k rounds but I did slow a bit. 🙂
My sister and her husband – also gun people – are getting ready to move. Their new home is far enough away that I won’t be there to help, so I offered to supply them and their daughters with ammo as a moving present. They stopped by a week and a bit later. Among their choices was a brick of name brand .22LR.
Sometimes I feel my continued existence is justified. 🙂
BTW, I love shooting .22 WMR. Have a revolver with a second cylinder for that, and a bolt-action rifle with factory scope for it. Remarkably accurate, with the right match of ammo and gun. And, yes, I also stockpile that. 🙂
Sounds like a job for…
Steven Seagal; cock puncher!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQKAydHA4J4
Heh. That box of Centurion ammo in the link looks exactly like a box of condoms…