I have a friend in Ohio that regularly scores .22lr in 525 boxes. He grabs all he can for a couple of us, never charging more than $1-$2 more per box to cover gas. With the number of .22 rifles and handguns we have, we wind up going through one box and part of another each time we visit the range. We're only sitting on 2500 additional rounds as back-up, because we've already experienced the taste of not having it...and didn't like it.

I read in a magazine in the past 3 or so months, that production of .22lr is basically running at full steam. It's not necessarily preppers that are buying and holding, it's a lot of new gun owners. Sales of .22 caliber firearms has skyrocketed since the end of 2012, and a sizeable percentage of those sales are to first time gun owners. It's the perfect caliber to start with, because traditionally, ammo is plentiful and cheap.

I'm sure that as long as D.C. backs off of their drive to make more restrictive gun laws, that this will level out in a few years. Hell...Obama will be out of office soon enough, and we'll have an R in office. Give it 3 years from now, and you'll see it all over the place...IMHO

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