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chuck j wrote:People are hording still , like JRG said ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I started to say I'll take it all . Nothing wrong with it but it's going to be a bit undependable to be on the shelf for a while yet .

The situation has gone on so long that "hoarders" must be sitting on MOUNTAINS of .22 by now . . . and of course, one has to wonder HOW people can build their hordes, when retailers simply aren't getting product.

Either we're being lied to about production numbers, or someone (a LOT of "someones") are able to intercept a good part of the supply before it ever reaches retailers.

I've seen runs on various products in the past, but SUSTAINED shortages of a specific item have never lasted this long - and folks older than I haven't seen sustained shortages like this since WWII.

Something fishy is going on, and given the length of time this has gone on, the old standby "supply and demand" explanation is looking more flimsy every day.

A few months ago the Cabela's in Buda had a modest amount of .22 LR in stock.

Today - zip. Zero. Nada.

Talked to a clerk, he told me they had NONE in, and he didn't know when they'd be getting more. When I asked him - politely, I thought - what the problem was with the supply, he rather gruffly answered that "He didn't know anything about that" and walked away.

So it would seem that there is STILL something strange going on with the .22 LR supply - something that isn't actually explained by saying "high demand."

(They had PLENTY of .223, .308, 9mm, etc. available.)