On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:33:10 -0600, Dave Balderstone
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

What's *really* scarce is .22LR and what's available is ridiculous
($70/500? Crazy!).

Yikes! Up here in Canuckistan I recently bought 2,100 rounds of .22LR
in a metal ammo can for about $80 CAD. That was Cabela's employee
pricing, but still...

That price was at a gun show. None of the retailers have had any for
a couple of years.