$69 worth of .22 ammo at Wal Mart today

[Ben]

No " give-away prices ", but it is a crazy world out there.
I'll feel better knowing I've got these sitting on the shelf.

Ben

 

[Ben]

This puppy has an appetite and my grandson loves to shoot it :

 

[JonB]

I bought one pak of those a last week ago at the local Walmart.

I probably wouldn't have bought any, but this happened...

I'm at Walmart, buying soap or something. I see and hear an Employee get a call to go to sporting dept, if they have a key to the ammo display. The employee replies he'll be right there with keys. Now, I've been going to this walmart for a long time, and there is never anyone near the sporting goods dept and I've tried to get someone to open the display case...takes for ever to get someone to open it. So, I think to myself, I'm gonna follow this employee and see if there is any ammo to buy. Sure enough they have a few of the 325 Fed auto-match in the display. The other customer takes 3, and leaves one for me.

 

[Ben]

I guess 1 is better than none.

 

[Red Bear]

i could stand some more 22s but can not bring myself to pay the price they are asking. price is coming down some so there is hope. 500 pack of rem thunderbolts is $54 . eighteen months ago paid $14 for same thing. down to five boxes left and wife shoots a lot of 22s so might have to bite bullet and get some more.

 

[Ben]

About 5 yrs. ago, I was paying $12.95 for 525 rds. of Fed. HP

 

[Bret4207]

Outside of trap loads, there hasn't been any ammo on display in the 3 Walmarts I occasionally go to in 2-3 years. I hear they keep it in the back, out of sight. II also hear that getting notification of when they get ammo can be made more certain by writing your phone # on a $100.00 bill. I'm all for capitalism, but that kind of gets me PO'd.

 

[JonB]

the 325 count Fed auto-match at walmart was $19.

 

[Pressman]

Our local wally world has the best price around on CCI SV, 3 boxes at a time takes a lot of visits to build my stash.

 

[Jeff H]

the 325 count Fed auto-match at walmart was $19.

That's what I was paying for the 525-round boxes at the tail-end of the last drought and just before this one!

I'm going out on a limb and saying this is the manufacturer or the distributor scalping us, because WM has always placed what little 22 LR they received on the shelf at "normal" prices - at least throughout the previous drought. Who's kidding who?

Anyway....

I grabbed a couple when I saw them, and another a month later. Then, another and maybe eventually another, but I dearly wish now that I had snagged at least one a week while they had it. I don't have a 22 LR, but both of my daughters do.

If I'd been wiser and bought more, I'd look more actively for a Ruger MKII, have it integrally suppressed and add a "dot" sight to it and actually use it. Even the high-velocity bulk ammo barely breaks 1kfps in a 4" to 5.5" barrel (Ruger Bearcat, OM SS and Standard Auto), so no special "sub-sonic," boutique ammo required.

I'm tickled to see a few fellas from here get some 22 LR ammo. Those Ruger Autos are great guns and a lot of fun, while still being a serious piece of machinery, and it's good to see someone able to keep one in action.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

OUCH!!!

Bought these before this nonsense. 69$ ea...

 

[Petrol & Powder]

If it makes you feel any better, inflation has reduced the value of the U.S. Dollar. So, some of the increased cost can be attributed to the decreased value of the dollar and not to the increase in ammo cost.........

 

[fiver]

i feel much better now.

i passed on a bunch of those buckets because i had no idea on their quality,,, still don't.

 

[waco]

I stalked up on 22lr when President Trump was in office. I really don’t burn through all that many rounds per year. Think I’m sitting on 7-8k
I won’t be buying any for the foreseeable future.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

i feel much better now.

i passed on a bunch of those buckets because i had no idea on their quality,,, still don't.

Many complain... But you know as well as I folks LOVE TO complain but not so many PROCLAIM.

Its bulk ammo, but by and large Remington Goldens have been good to me since I was a boy.

CW

 

[Bret4207]

I bought what I thought was quite a lot of 22LR in bricks some years back. Stupid me. I should have bought 25x what I did. Amazing the way dads stash of ammo gets pilfered!!!

What I really should have bought was a mess of 22WRF back when you could get it in bulk for not a lot more than good 22LR stuff. Tough to even find it today, but I can get all the 5mm RF stuff I can afford. That's weird.

 

[Winelover]

I stopped purchasing Remington bulk 22 LR when they were in the paper milk jug type containers. There was just too much lube, making handling messy.

I'm still shooting bricks of 22LR that cost $8.90 a brick. I think I'm up to Oct 1997............yeah, I put purchase dates on all my factory ammo. I'm slowly working my way though a 20mm mortar ammo can of 22LR bricks.

 

[JonB]

I'm still shooting bricks of 22LR that cost $8.90 a brick. I think I'm up to Oct 1997............yeah, I put purchase dates on all my factory ammo. I'm slowly working my way though a 20mm mortar ammo can of 22LR bricks.

I "had" a huge stash of that 22LR bricks bought in 1990s for under $10 per 500, mostly the Fed Lightning. The Lube dried up on those Feds, so when the Price was insane during the first famine (2013-2015), they got sold.

 

[Jeff H]

No lie, the very best 22 LR ammo I have ever had has always been the cheap, Federal "Value Packs" of 550, first bought for under $10/550. They've shot exceptionally well in any 22 I've owned, which has been mostly Ruger Standard Autos, MKIs, MKIIs, Single Sixes and Bearcats, plus a 10-22 and a few CZ 452s, etc.

Worst luck I had was Federal lightening and one of the really budget Remingtons, but not the ones @CWLONGSHOT is showing. Lucky me - the cheapest stuff I could fins shot the best and never fouled my guns. Keeps well and is accurate to boot.

EDIT: I should add t hat the cheap Federal bulk stuff is useless on game/vermin/varmints, unless the pseudo hollow point ( a mere dimple) is clipped off flat. They still fee from magazines, but they are way more effective and you can hear them SMACK when they hit. It makes a difference of not even being able to find a hole and not being able to find part of a coon's or woodchuck's head.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

THUNDER TURDS!!!

The old truncated cone thunderbolts was worst ever. Federal Lightnings only slightly better!!

NEW Thunder bolts are mush better but damage to the name was done.

The Rem Goldens claim to fame was NO MESSY WAXY LUBE EVER! But still primed in Remingtons lack luster methods.