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Thread: Why is there a rimfire ammo shortage?

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    Why is there a rimfire ammo shortage?

    CCI Can produce 4 million rounds of 22 rim fire a day.
    Now some one please tell me why they can't get those to the store shelves.
    Go now and pour yourself a hot one...

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    Because people can buy 4,000,001 round a day. The supply never exceeds the demand.

    Basic economics.
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    Because people are standing there buying them off of the pallet, before the employees can get them on the shelf. lol

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    Really? Seriously? Again?!?

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    there's not a shortage of 22 ammo. there's a surplus of money-grubbin' hoarders. tables full of 22's at the gun show yesterday. $15.00 boxes of 100 & $60.00 bulk boxes of the federals that were like 8 bucks or so before the nonsense started. bricks anywhere from $60.00 to over $100.00 dependin' on grade of ammo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bullshop Junior View Post
    Really? Seriously? Again?!?
    Must be a shortage of topics to post about. Dang hoarders and gougers must be snapping them up too.....
    You will learn far more at the casting, loading, and shooting bench than you ever will at a computer bench.

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    Who cares! Anyone that has a center fire of any flavor and casts boolits don't need no stinkin RF.

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    Well, there are centainly a lot of new high capactiy 22 rimfire guns coming out nowdays. They're a basic big boy toy. I think that's where all the 22 is going.
    In all, the .41 Magnum would be one of my top choices for an all-around handgun if I were allowed to have only one. - Bart Skelton

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    This to me is funny, and the outcome revolves around what Bullshop says. Here I go to the Post Office and I get hit up by 2 different people that know what I do (very small town) asking if I know where to get 22rf ammo.

    To make a long story short I told them I have no clue, got rid of the only 22rf I had 2yrs ago. When asked why I simply put it I can make my own CF ammo cheaper and better. And.....if you learned to cast and reload you can do the same.
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    Quote Originally Posted by btroj View Post
    Because people can buy 4,000,001 round a day. The supply never exceeds the demand.

    Basic economics.
    Four million rounds per day = 8,ooo bricks of 500 per day.
    If there are 100,000,000 shooters looking for 22 ammo, it would take CCI 34 years to produce one brick per shooter!!

    btroj,s answer is right on the money!
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    I bought a brick, that's why the supply can't keep up. Me!!! All me!!!

    In all honesty, it's absurd. People still pay the huge ticket price even if they can wait a while and buy cheaper if they put a little effort in. That's why you got scalpers around still.
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    Because the evil dragon Smaug is hoarding it all. The only way to get 22lr back on the shelves is to send a quest, staffed by dwarves and a Hobbit, to defeat the evil dragon and return all the 22lr back to the shelves.

    That's the only way I know how to solve the issue.

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    This so called shortage is a great thing. I always give bricks for christmas and even birthday presents. The folks I give them too think I am going all out anymore. lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Love Life View Post
    Because the evil dragon Smaug is hoarding it all. The only way to get 22lr back on the shelves is to send a quest, staffed by dwarves and a Hobbit, to defeat the evil dragon and return all the 22lr back to the shelves.

    That's the only way I know how to solve the issue.
    Truer words have never been typed. Lol.

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    [QUOTE=btroj;2784672] hoarders and gougers QUOTE]

    Two words I'm sick of reading. It's supply and demand. You'll pay for what you want.
    Find out when the store receives a truck and get down there before they're open.
    Stand in line and make a purchase. It really is that easy folks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bullshop View Post
    Who cares! Anyone that has a center fire of any flavor and casts boolits don't need no stinkin RF.
    That's my thoughts,even thought about selling all my 22s except maybe a squirrel rifle.what I can't understand is why does every body want 22s so bad.

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    If I have to stand in line, I would just leave them for somebody else. lol
    But then I am the type of guy that pulls up with a full shopping cart of groceries and leaves it when the lines are long and they only have one or two registers running out of ten or twelve.

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    There is no real shortage just cheap people.
    Life's hard, even harder if your stupid.

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    The 'shortage' exists because people were daydreaming about shooting during economics class, and they learned nothing the easy way, so they're now learning economics 101 the hard way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by starmac View Post
    If I have to stand in line, I would just leave them for somebody else. lol
    But then I am the type of guy that pulls up with a full shopping cart of groceries and leaves it when the lines are long and they only have one or two registers running out of ten or twelve.

    EXACTLY, and I thought I was the only one that did that!

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