I have yet to find any at what I would call a fair price. The prices on .22 at the gun show were ridiculous. $50+ for a 550 box is nuts.
I said the same thing about $1.19/gallon gas a few years ago.
I fear we've seen the end of the $25/500+ round 22 ammo. It's gone, probably for good.
And we've only ourselves to blame.
I was talking to a friend I work with about .22 ammo and another coworker chimed in with his opinion of the government throwing all the .22 ammo in the ocean... I tried not to laugh and just kind of walked away! haha! anyways. No I don't think it's true that the "shortage" is just in Indiana. I have heard people say it quite a few times but I've also heard the opposite. People think because they stopped at Cabelas on their way back to Indiana in whatever state and just happened to have some .22 left on the shelf that it means that whole state is piled high with .22. I always hear "they had a whole shelf full of .22!" and yeah ok so a whole shelf full so if it's bricks of 500 a "shelf full" might be 20 bricks? Maybe 30? even at 30 bricks that's only 15,000 rounds. Manufacturers claim they're running 24/7 on rimfire and doing at least 20 million rounds per day. That means that's 30/40,000 bricks for one day. Just my opinion and probably illogical thinking but hey, my two cents
$25/500? Hell, when I was a teenager, bricks of .22LR were like 9.99...
Now I feel old and stuff...
Think .22lr is scarce? I just won a Henry lever action rifle in .22mag.
It's like searching for a quality Bryco/Jennings, or a pretty Glock.