Where has all the 22 rimfire ammo gone?  Have been hearing that they are catching up.  but this long,   Any one on the inside have a clue?
bill

Don't tell me that considerable production capacity hasn't been diverted to all the super HV stuff--17 Mag, 22 Mag--that can be sold at premium prices.  No shortage of that.

At the gun shows I have listened to people that have hoarded and pseudo panicked and have far more .22 ammo than they'll ever need or shoot up - and they brag about it!!  This is the cause.  When the supply catches up I hope they keep their ammo til it's old and cruddy and misfires most of the time.

22LR's are about 50:50 ... in stock & out of stock
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I'm up to 900 Black Powder reloads of 22LR!

Over the last year or so $10/box seems to be the threshold for availability, above $10 the supply seems to be ok, below $10 has been bad. I just bought some bricks of Lapua Center X from Champion Shooters (at $10.50/box). Since I only buy target-grade ammo, I've always been able to find something. I think the best ammo below $10/box is either Wolf or SK and this ammo has definitely been in short supply. Last  May, Champion Shooters sold out a shipment of 750,000 rounds of Wolf in three hours. one option is to go to one of the sites and put in a "notify me" request, then you'll be notified when ammo is available. Bruno often accepts back-orders for currently out of stock ammo and will call you when ammo is available.

.22Hepburn wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2014 at 6:57pm:


Did that with Champion's, Midway, Natchez, one or two others last SEPTEMBER.  Not a word since.  Also called couple of times to make sure my info hadn't been lost.

Have also seen similar price gougers at a local show: $125/brick CCI SV last summer, dropped to a "mere" $100 by Oct., but still, no takers.  (I counted the boxes.)  I hope somebody broke into his car or house and stole it all.

I'm seeing more and more available, with lowering prices to boot every week!

Just bought some bricks of Thunderbolt for $25 for plinking and I saw bricks of CCI std velocity for $35-40/brick ... that was running $75-$100 at gun shows in the middle of this dreadedly cold & snowy Winter. Nor'easter US observations ...

I just checked Champion Shooters and they have a 4 brick limit on RWS ammo, Bruno Shooters Supply doesn't show a purchase limit on their site, but they don't have much in stock anyway.
I just did some testing in one of my .22 Hepburns (Douglas barrel w/Win 52D chamber) and found that at 100 yds there was a slight difference in groups between Wolf Match Target and Lapua Center X, it hated Eley Match EPS (black box) and Midas + was just a bit better than the Lapua Center X. The Midas is nearly 3 times the cost of the Wolf (which I purchased about a year and a half ago). Wow, this gun's like a cheap date!