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Whered all the 22lr go?

DairyDictator

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There doesn't seem to be a single bullet to be had under 20 cents a round for cheap bulk or aguilla. Not a round of SK anything in stock anywhere. Where is all of this stuff going?
 
I see everything else pop up here and there, but SK in particular seems to just be unobtainable right now.

Primers, powder, centerfire rounds, even bulk 22 pops up at some hardware stores, but no match 22lr except for Midas+ for like 150/brick every so often.
 
The fucking hoarders even evaporated my pet lot of Eley match from Zander's. So even .30 per round is not too far any more.
Truthfully it was probably more like competition shooters doing a preemptive strike and buying ammo before it disappeared, like I was trying to do.😁
 
Check the tables at your local gun show...
Round here I avoid those things like the plague. 90% of the time it's just a bunch of dudes over 50 trying to sell their used stuff at new+20% prices and 9mm handloads in 20 round bags for over a dollar a round.
 
In stock this morning.....

Optics Planet: “In-stock"
Me:

iu
 
Supposedly all the eley team and match at Zander was bought by a buyer group including Midway etc. I believe they are in need of ammo so that gun sales are easier when they have ammo on the shelves to go with it. Overall, for most of us BR shooters it's a good thing. It clears inventory we already tested and do not want. Now they have money and good reason to buy more so we have new lots to test.
 
I wouldn't expect to see it improve anytime soon, years in fact. You now have all the panic buyers, plus millions of new gun owners to fight against that kept 22 ammo out of stock for almost 8 years of Obama. However, now in addition you have all the people that learned during Obama buying and reselling ammo on gunbroker can pay off your home mortgage.
 
My local sporting goods store Dunham's advertised $20 bricks of Aguila on black friday. I went to three stores and they all said they never got any but the next day armslist was full of them at $35-$50 a brick.