.22 rimfire is starting to become more available, as tremendous demand is being met. From around the country I am hearing reports of more .22 rimfire being available, though supplies are still not sufficient to keep stores stocked.
My friend Jerry needed to purchase some shotgun ammunition for dove hunting, as I was taking his son and friend out as beginning hunters. We drove to Wal Mart. Shotgun ammunition has never been in short supply. Wal Mart was out of dove loads!
Shooting dove with duck loads or buck shot is not a good idea. I should explain that this is in the middle of dove season in Yuma, and after I had taken Joe, Jerry's son hunting, we went out for brunch. We had to wait over an hour to get a table, because all the restaurants in town were crowded with dove hunters that had come in for the season.
So, we went to a local gun shop and range, Sprauge's. They had lots of dove loads, at prices lower than Wal Mart's.
We looked around the store, and I noticed that they had some .22 ammuniton in stock, at almost reasonable prices. $3.19 for a box of 50, is 6.38 cents per shot, much lower than it has been for a while. I talked to the clerk, and she confirmed that two months ago, it had been $5 a box of 50, with a one box limit. Now the limit was three boxes. You could buy one 333 round box for a little over $21. Standard velocity CCI was available for about 10 cents per round.
Wal Mart had no .22 RF in stock.
This all points to supply starting to meet demand. Prices should drop, if we escape another political scare from the Obama administration.
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I was at the locsl Walmart on Wednesday, first place I head is sporting goods.
ReplyDeleteThey are getting the ammo shelves restocked again. Not full blown restocking, but a heck of a lot more than the last few months I've been in there.
The usual ammo, 22, 32, 38, 380, 40, 45, 223, etc.
slowly coming back.