On 2/1/2014 12:09 PM, Dave Balderstone wrote:

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

You can't get .22LR? That is indeed crazy! Where is it all? I'm buying
Federal up here, and it's marked made in USA...

Crazier than you can imagine, with regard to .22LR

Around here there are actually organized 'teams' who line up at 6AM to
buy any .22LR that are on the shelves when Academy opens at 8.

They clean the shelves, one to a person, then all load up in the same
van in the parking lot.

WalMart and other retail outlets the same, except the buyers seem to
know precisely when shipments are in and are actually put on the
shelves. There is no doubt that there is 'insider trading' and collusion
going on, routinely verified by employees of these outlets who are on
regional gun forums and have stated that to be exactly the case, and
occasionally dropping a few hints to the participants.

Most of this stuff ends up at local gun shows at high prices, or on the
online ammo sites at high prices where it is sold FTF, or is hoarded
against future high prices and shortages. AAMOF, there are several
precious metal investment adviser services that no include ammo as one
of the commodities.

I use "Ammobots", and often check them at the wee hours of the morning
for .22LR. By having pre-signed up for online accounts at most of the
ammo retailers (Midway, Cabelas, Natchez, et al), I can pull the trigger
pretty fast on an order below .08/round, providing the shipping makes it
worthwhile:

http://www.wikiarms.com/

I pretty much stocked up in the last year at around .05/rd, and only buy
now when I see a good deal with shipping.

Just bought 500 rounds from Natchez 10PM night before last for 32.95;
went back at around 1AM to buy another 500 and they were "out of stock.
Sometimes it only takes minutes from when wiki shows it "in stock", to
being "out of stock".

I also have an existing "back order" of 1400 rds at .04/rd from Midway,
originally ordered at 3AM in Sep 2013, and scheduled for shipping, first
by 12/31/2013, but now changed to 6/30/2014. Go figure ...

My youngest daughter likes to target shoot with her .22LR Browning Buck
Mark, and I enjoy the break, and cost savings, by shooting .22LR myself,
so I try to stay stocked up if the price is right. We just generally
restock what she shoot lately, unless like the above, it's a pretty good
deal.

Times have changed, and the libtards and their media cohorts, with their
constant anti Second Amendment gnashing and wailing, have dramatically
increased the demand for both guns and ammo in the past few years, and
the Molon Labe crowd are reacting as expected.

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