Chantry Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Was watching an auction for something else and I just saw 2000 rounds of Remington 22 LR go for $1100 dollars, yes that is eleven hundred dollars I just typed. I doubt I've bought more the 2 or 3 guns for that price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 That's totally nuts!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 It is not over. I don't see it ending until 2016 if we're lucky. It may get a little better but I think that's all we can hope for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 I just don't understand it. It is not difficult to produce .22 ammunition if you have the equipement. Most of it is automated. But it never seems to get anywhere. Midway sent me a notice that they had CCI .22LR. By time I called it was gone. CR man said that it was a small order of only 47 bricks. Most went for back orders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Foolery U.S.M. #2348 Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 And now those @$$#*%%'s in Sacramento have passed a $50 "fee" to buy ammo with a background check. TF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantry Posted June 20, 2013 Author Share Posted June 20, 2013 I just don't understand it. It is not difficult to produce .22 ammunition if you have the equipement. Most of it is automated. But it never seems to get anywhere. Midway sent me a notice that they had CCI .22LR. By time I called it was gone. CR man said that it was a small order of only 47 bricks. Most went for back orders. People are buying it up as fast as it can be made. I think we're in the "buy a brick now even if you don't need it because you don't know when you'll see another brick" phase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 And now those @$$#*%%'s in Sacramento have passed a $50 "fee" to buy ammo with a background check. TF Tom, I don't think it's a done deal. I'd like to think it's too stupid to ever be a done deal.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 People are buying it up as fast as it can be made. I think we're in the "buy a brick now even if you don't need it because you don't know when you'll see another brick" phase More like some folks with deeper pockets than mine buying everything they can get their hands on and piling it up in their garage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 People are buying it up as fast as it can be made. I think we're in the "buy a brick now even if you don't need it because you don't know when you'll see another brick" phase I think you are correct. Panic buying is not going to help our cause though. AND, I doubt that it is only 1 brick if they can get more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger #3720LR Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 "And now those @$$#*%%'s in Sacramento have passed a $50 "fee" to buy ammo with a background check." TF ========================= Now! not exactly. The bill came out of Senate Appropriations Committee, May 25. NOW ! Goes to the Senate floor for full vote. I has not yet been scheduled. If passed the permit to sell (vendor license) will start July 1, 2014. The permit to buy will start Jan 1, 2017. --------- The bill has been modified several times and there is still time to contact state senators. Oh, the Bill is SB 53 AMMO PURCHASE PERMITS(De Leon) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bristol Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I have 2 bricks and a carton with 525 in it. Have had them since before the shortage. In fact I gave away 6 bricks last year. If I had only known they were worth that much to someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger #3720LR Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Last Sept 2012, I was cleaning out the shop and had two cases of CCI Mini mag .22s. (10,000 count) I took them to the range for two months and put them on my table for sale. $7.50/100 box. I only sold about 3500 of them. Then no one want them at that price. Brought the balance them home and placed them in the safe. Turned out to be a good move on my part. They are no longer for sale. In case you're wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bristol Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I wish I still had those 6 bricks I gave away. I bet I could have swapped em off for some .38 brass or even some bullets for reloading. I haven't even shot my 22 in over a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frazee Ridge, SASS #54171 Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I am not hoarding, bought some for my son and I today. 19 boxes of 50 for about $190.00. Seems his girlfriend likes the 22. Price wasn't bad after what I have seen around here. Frazee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace_of_Hearts Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I stopped in a store new to me here in Las Vegas called Gun Show Ammo...... I walked in, saw a 1000 round box of 45 auto for $995.00. I walked out and will never be back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virgil Ray Hality, SASS# 37355 Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Har, i nedd to get into the ammo makin business! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I started buying .22's in the 70's at Wal Mart for... $4.96 per bulk pack, I think. Every time I was in, I tossed a couple in the shopping cart. Eventually it went up to $9.96, which wasn't all that long ago. My basement flooded a few years ago and I carried box after box after box of .22's out (along with everything else) so the cleaning company could get things cleaned up and dried... I really had no idea how much I had til that point and haven't bought any more since. I just did a rough count and STILL have ~51,000 rounds on hand... but for $28,000.00, I could have -0- on hand real quick! That's nearly three times what I paid for my first house in 1978. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Whiskers Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I had about 10,000 or so rounds of 22's when I moved back here in 01.Shot some once in a while but not very often.When my Dad died in 04 he was like J Bar. I inhierited about 30-40,000 more 22's.Took 10,000 rounds out to the range and gave them away to the Boy Scout shooters we let use our range.Then took another 10,000 out again and put them on a table marked for Buckeroo's and Buckerette's.Would have been ok,but there were more people that saw oooo...free ammo and took over half of them and I know they don't have kids in that age range.Haven't taken any out since.So I guess now I'm a hoarder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Foolery U.S.M. #2348 Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Sorry for jumping the gun, there. With them getting THIS far with it is a tragedy . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantry Posted June 21, 2013 Author Share Posted June 21, 2013 While I don't have as much as some of you do, neither am I likely to run out anytime soon. However I'd be hard pressed not to buy a brick or two if I ran across them at $25/brick or cheaper. Not because I need it right now, but because of the uncertainty of how long it will be before things return to close to the way it was 12-18 months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Nathan C. Riddles, SASS # 7462 Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Last Sat. I stopped in Walmart on my way to the range. They had four 525 rd count bulk boxes of Remington Golden Bullet 22s. I bought two of them for $21.50 a box. An hour ago I was in Academy and they had just about every popular caliber on the shelf but 22s. Gal said they sold out about 8:10 a.m..They are still limiting sales to one box per customer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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