What The F...

[ducks~n~bucks]

So You can't find .22 lr ammo anywhere inn this God forsaken state, but you sure as hell can go to Walmart and pick up a box of .50 BMG rounds for $37.99 when you can't even own a 50 cal in California. Propbably a trap so they can start watching you and find a reason to search your house for that illegal 50 cal.

[IndianaMallard64]

sorry bud

[RonE]

I feel for you...........I moved to Texas and I can buy .22 at walmart but they are out of .50.......

[Olly]

.22 is more scarce than .223

[NuffDaddy]

.22 is non existent around here. Talked to a guy they knows when all the shipments come in and takes his family to buy as many boxes of .22 as possible. Said he has around 20,000 rounds piled up.

[Goldfish]

.22 is non existent around here. Talked to a guy they knows when all the shipments come in and takes his family to buy as many boxes of .22 as possible. Said he has around 20,000 rounds piled up.

Stupid

[NuffDaddy]

.22 is non existent around here. Talked to a guy they knows when all the shipments come in and takes his family to buy as many boxes of .22 as possible. Said he has around 20,000 rounds piled up.

Stupid

Yup. If everyone would stop that shit for a month there wouldn't be a huge shortage anymore.

[R. Chapman]

We get a steady supply of them from Sportsmans every week on Thursday. Mostly Remington Value Packs for $24. Even with the one per customer, all 150 boxes are gone within half an hour.

[Flightstopper]

I still have not found a person that can answer why 22 is what everybody is stocking up on.

[Feelin' Fowl]

I still have not found a person that can answer why 22 is what everybody is stocking up on.

Preparing for an invasion of paper targets...

[NuffDaddy]

I still have not found a person that can answer why 22 is what everybody is stocking up on.

Because its the only bullet that can't be found anywhere. It's just a retarded circle. Idiots keep buying every box they can weather the need it or not creating a false shortage so they think they need to buy more because they can't find it. Just keeps going until they run out of money or places to keep boxes of bullets.

[Goldfish]

They are cheaper to horde than other rounds

[rebelp74]

I still have not found a person that can answer why 22 is what everybody is stocking up on.

Most popular use round would be my guess; target shooting, small game, trapping, etc? If I was a prepper, I'd stockpile 308 rounds.

[assateague]

I still have not found a person that can answer why 22 is what everybody is stocking up on.

Most versatile round there is. It's common (well it was, anyway), easily transportable (I can carry 1,000 rounds of .22 and not even know it's there- the same can't be said with any other rifle caliber), can be used to kill anything from squirrels to deer (I know, I've done it). So in an ugly situation, you get the benefit of having a LOT of rounds, for food of any kind (try shooting a squirrel with a .308 and see how much you have left for dinner) and for protection (no matter what anybody says, if I shoot you in the face with a .22 you're gonna change your mind pretty quick about whatever it is you were doing)

Just my opinion, though.

[sws002]

I still have not found a person that can answer why 22 is what everybody is stocking up on.

Most versatile round there is. It's common (well it was, anyway), easily transportable (I can carry 1,000 rounds of .22 and not even know it's there- the same can't be said with any other rifle caliber), can be used to kill anything from squirrels to deer (I know, I've done it). So in an ugly situation, you get the benefit of having a LOT of rounds, for food of any kind (try shooting a squirrel with a .308 and see how much you have left for dinner) and for protection (no matter what anybody says, if I shoot you in the face with a .22 you're gonna change your mind pretty quick about whatever it is you were doing)

Just my opinion, though.

This. Although I would make the argument that .22 WMR is probably the best survival round, for all the same reasons but just a little more oomph.

As far as the "shortage", at this point it is literally panic buying that has fed back into itself. There is no shortage, there never really was. All that is happening now is people are buying .22 because people are buying .22, most ammo companies have made 2-3 times more .22 ammo than they do in any given year, but they can't keep up until people stop stockpiling it. The guys who used to buy a brick that would last them 2 years are now buying every box they can, and the market can't accommodate that. I bet I've repeated this dialog over 1,000 times in the past year (no exaggeration), and I want to punch every single person that I've had it with.

Customer: "Do you have any .22"
Me: (Some version of) "None today"
Customer: "That's okay, I have plenty, was just going to buy it if you had some. Wonder why that stuff is so hard to find?"

If you're going to stock up, fine, there's nothing wrong with that. It just absolutely baffles me that people can't figure out (or refuse to acknowledge) that the reason .22 is so hard to find is because they won't quit buying it the second they fucking see it. It's absolutely ridiculous that I've had to witness customers sprint from the parking lot, up the stairs to the counter and have to catch their breath because they heard we only had 2 boxes of .22 left. That has happened no less than a dozen times over the past year. Don't even get me started on the fact that we sold damn near 500 bricks of .22 on Black Friday in less than 15 minutes. One box, one customer, 500 fucking people standing in line for a $25 brick of .22. End rant.