powder supply

[Richard Flanders]

The .22 shortage is a real mystery to me. I know folks hoarded them but there is a good little video on youtube that shows CCI making over 2 million rounds per day throughout the 'shortage' so how could there possibly be a shortage?? Somehow it doesn't make sense. At least they're not $100/brick now as they were at Denver gun shows last spring. I can tell you I have plenty!

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Richard Flanders

The .22 shortage is a real mystery to me. I know folks hoarded them but there is a good little video on youtube that shows CCI making over 2 million rounds per day throughout the 'shortage' so how could there possibly be a shortage?? Somehow it doesn't make sense. At least they're not $100/brick now as they were at Denver gun shows last spring. I can tell you I have plenty!

I haven't seen the video but we do we really know the date(s) it was taken or are we to take at face value it was done during the shortage? Two million rounds per day sounds huge but that represents 4000 bricks of 500 (3536 bricks of 550). 4000 bricks spread across how many stores across 50 states (80 bricks per state per day).

The shortage/non existence of 22 LR is real, it has gone on for most of the year and as far as I can see it persists for whatever the reason(s), and they are not good for sportsmen.

[6pt-Sika]

Well i'm heading back to Shirk's sometime in early December to get a load for us and a friends shop !

As long as I can get 3 or 4 pounds of SR7625 and a couple pounds of SR4756 my shotgun powder needs are covered .
Also may as well pick up some of the Claybuster knockoff AA16 wads and some Remington SP-10's . Couple thousand 209 primers as well . A bag of Magnum 6's also .

I'd like to get a 5 pounder of Unique but Shirk told me last trip that he didn't expect to get any Alliant powders before the first of the year .

In the past we've gotten delivery from Park's in North Carolina , but as of the last 4-6 months they have virtually nothing we order except shot and clay targets . So I have to hit the road for the two shops every so often .

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Pete Lester

I haven't seen the video but we do we really know the date(s) it was taken or are we to take at face value it was done during the shortage? Two million rounds per day sounds huge but that represents 4000 bricks of 500 (3536 bricks of 550). 4000 bricks spread across how many stores across 50 states (80 bricks per state per day).

The shortage/non existence of 22 LR is real, it has gone on for most of the year and as far as I can see it persists for whatever the reason(s), and they are not good for sportsmen.

None of my usual distributers have been able to get us ANY 22LR blam blam ammo .

I can however get the higher priced quality target 22LR ammo . But the stuff I can get is all dealer cost over $100 a brick and was those prices before "the fit hit the shan" !

[6pt-Sika]

FWIW I was at a gun auction last friday night and they sold some ammo after the guns !

They had lots of 22LR 2800 , 2500 , 2450 each of these sold in excess of $300 . They also had two bricks of Remington Thunderbolts that went for $130 !!!!!!!!