Why the panic on 22 ammo?

[Pinecone]

I don't think it started as a panic, it started as a shortage. I really believe the factories are using their labor to fill the higher profit 5.56/HG caliber orders, and putting out less of the lower profit .22 lr. Once people start seeing shortages on their .22 supply, they panic and buy up more than normal and so we have the current situation. What scares me about this is ATK was quoted last week as saying "they have a back-order queue, that currently will take 3 years to fill". I don't know if it is true, but it isn't promising.

Different production lines, different equipment.

The factories are turning out as much .22 ammo as always, people are still panic buying.

Like powder, Hodgdon is producing more powder this year than last year. And 805 of their production does to consumers (reloaders) but you can't find it anywhere.

But now, if I find a powder I use, I don't buy a pound, I buy several, as I don't when I will be able to get it again.

 

[Sundazes]

Amazing! in the classifieds someone is selling .22 at a 100 bucks a brick. f ing nuts.

 

[jcass]

cci is making 4 million .22 lr rounds a day , I would imagine that remington and winchester are doing the same. Also all the other manufactures making what ever their production runs are, you'd think there would be plenty.

 

[jcass]

http://youtu.be/ipNGB7O9WlY

 

[Boxiron1]

Just panic buying!!

 

[Jed195]

Assault rifle ammo?

 

[AntiGun]

Amazing! in the classifieds someone is selling .22 at a 100 bucks a brick. f ing nuts.

http://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=110527

http://www.precisionriflesupply.com/product_p/je-blazer-22lr.htm
$180 for 525 blazers

 

[mgagne77]

My daughter recently showed intrest in going to the range. She shot some. 22LR down range and loved it. Bugging me every day about going again. Problem is, no ammo! Stocked up on all my other ammo before the election except for the. 22. Maybe I can find someone to trade. 223 for it. Not ready to pay the elevated prices I see.

 

[TheWhiteBuffalo]

Jed195,

I was going to ask this same question.


Assault rifle ammo? Really?????

 

[ccarson]

The sound from a .22 won't draw in zombies from as far. And it's a lot easier to pack 300 rounds for a post-apocalypse Walmart supply run, which is where most of your zombies are going to congregate, since it's embedded in their subconscious to seek out others of the same kind.

Zombie based planning is critical...always be prepared

 

[CorpsmanUp]

It is a well known survival/tin foil hat wearing hedge against the collapse of civilization.

Somehow .22 is going to save them from the end of the world...

 

[notme0255]

Do you need .22 that badly that you are already selling off your chickens!

I am good on the toilet paper and coffee thanks, I have phone books and dandelion root.

I've got a brick ready to go if it's barbecued

 

[revwood]

Not to mention that .22ammo could be used as a currency if things get real bad.

All those tin foil hat wearing doomsday preppers are causing inflation. What are us normal, well adjusted folks simply equipping for the zombie apocolypse to do?

 

[steveh326]

My daughter recently showed intrest in going to the range. She shot some. 22LR down range and loved it. Bugging me every day about going again. Problem is, no ammo! Stocked up on all my other ammo before the election except for the. 22. Maybe I can find someone to trade. 223 for it. Not ready to pay the elevated prices I see.

I'm in a similar situation which is what prompted my original question. My daughter has been wanting to go to the range, plus I just bought a new 22 pistol the other day that I want to take out and play with, and my existing supply of plinking ammo is dwindling. Prior to the panic I never gave a thought to stocking up on 22's, I just picked up whatever I needed whenever I needed it at walmart...

 

[Rack&Roll]

It is a well known survival/tin foil hat wearing hedge against the collapse of civilization.

Somehow .22 is going to save them from the end of the world...

no soup for you

 

[wesser1]

OK, I can sort of understand the panic buying on handgun/assault rifle ammo

What about sporting firearm rifle ammo? It's not just guys with pistols and fully automatic firearms that are buying ammo!

 

[rustyrustic]

Don't forget New York. One provision of their insane new law is that residents can't buy ammo online after a certain date. I'm sure they're buying a lot now while they still can and 22 is the most popular out there.

 

[Schwabe]

.... everyone should have 10-20,000 rounds of .22lr at home .... AT ALL TMES ...

this should also be the minimum requirement to join MDS .... jus' sayin' ....

 

[BlackBart]

shortround91 sold me 3 bricks last weekend..... GOOD deal and I REALLY appreciate his help, no inflation at all. Only problem for you guys is he's in Pocomoke.

 

[kohburn]

according to the CCI "how 22lr is made" video they sell a lot of it overseas.

so factories may be filling overseas orders also, while annoying for us is actually the best thing possible for our economy, get money back from other countries.