I would wait at least a month before going near there for the crowds to thin out.

 

The problem with todays prices for 22LR is I can't remember what the going price was before the 2012 scare. Been buying 22 for 5-6 cents a round via Walmart, so your price of around $19.99 is about what I paid for it at Walmart earlier this week. The cheapest I've ever gotten it was 1 box via Gander Mountain at 4 cents a round, with a 1 box limit, plus shipping. Wouldn't of bought it but also ended up getting some other stuff that justified buying it.

I refuse to pay more than 6 cents a round for it, but when it comes to 22 magnum, feel like crying as I just bought a 50 round box at $13.99 per box, but it's so damn rare to find any, I bought 6 boxes at Cabela's any way.

Thought that by this time in 2013, the ammo shortage would be over, including 22. Seems all ammo is dropping in price and available basically everywhere.....except 22. One guy was telling me he thought it wouldn't be readily available until some time late 2015, maybe even 2016.

 

The problem with todays prices for 22LR is I can't remember what the going price was before the 2012 scare.

3 cents per round in 2011. Last time I bought 22 ammo was 20 bucks in Wally World NY for a box of 555 winchester. 5 cents seems to be the inflation norm, everything else is price gouging for bulk .22.

 

Sandy Hook was 2-years ago. The prices arent likely to go back to pre-2012 prices for lots of reasons. Inflation is one of them. Another is that ammo suppliers now know what we will pay. You may find a decent cost from time to time but I dont think I'll ever be able to buy Federal 550 count bulk packs for $13.47 at Wal-Mart. Thats the amount on the side of the 2 cases that I bought there in 2009

 

Why haven't the manufactures increased production it's been two years!!

 

That same box of Federal Automatch 325 round box - carries a price tag of 29.95 here at the LGS. It does occasionally show up at Wally World or Gander Mountain at about 19.99...

 

I sure miss the 550 pack at Wal-Mart for less than $15.00. Probably won't ever happen again

 

Yep I can remember when I was a kid in the early nineties, I could buy me a brick of .22lr for around $10 at Walmart. I would beg my mom to take me buy there every week so I would have ammo for the weekend with my buddies.

It sucks that those times are long gone.