Where has all the .22 rimfire gone?

Sorry to hear about your father.

They're bullets. They can send you to the emergency room. I'd try to stick with fresh ammunition. I have no idea what happens to bullets as they age. Dispose of them properly--I'd bring them to an armory. Let them deal with it. Don't throw them in the trash.

At worst, you're throwing away $6.00 worth of ammo.

Ammo is good for decades. Perhaps centuries, but we haven't had modern stuff around long enough to tell. WWI stuff still goes boom, and I have personally shot '30's head stamp mil surp 8mm stuff coated with sand from some long forgotten hell-hole in the middle east. Went boom just fine.

Always be careful with click-where's my boom's. But I bet that stuff you found won't do that at all. And, of course, always be very careful with any firearm, which I'm sure doesn't have to be said, but can not ever be said enough. And sorry to hear about your loss. It sucks. Go pop a few rounds off in rememberance.

Woody wrote: Nothings better than a whole country full of gun owners whose skills have gotten rusty due to lack of practice.

I can shoot on my own property...I get plenty of practice.

wbjones wrote: bringing back an old post....... in keeping with the title of this thread.. question about 22 caliber ammo... how long is it good, I ask because when going through my fathers things today ( he passed away Mon.... 86 ) and found a box of 22 shorts... he hadn't fired a gun in at least 50 yrs... visual inspection , they look fine... anyone think there is a reason not to go and pop off a few rounds ?

Don't shoot them. There are collectors of old ammo boxes. They may pay quite well for them. Not sure if there's more money involved for a complete box, but I'd sit on them till I found out.

there's no date / lot # on them... but they are Winchester super speed 22 short

the box is red and yellow and has the marking 50 long range rim fire cartridges staynless (sic) kopperklad (sic) made is USA ss22s

anyone recognize this ?

thanks for good wishes... it was fairly quick and a huge blessing since he had been in great pain for the last 12 -18 mo, and his mind was starting to deteriorate quite rapidly ... so thanks guys , say a prayer for him to speed him on his journey..

Dr. Hess wrote: Ammo is good for decades. Perhaps centuries, but we haven't had modern stuff around long enough to tell. WWI stuff still goes boom, and I have personally shot '30's head stamp mil surp 8mm stuff coated with sand from some long forgotten hell-hole in the middle east. Went boom just fine. Always be careful with click-where's my boom's. But I bet that stuff you found won't do that at all. And, of course, always be very careful with any firearm, which I'm sure doesn't have to be said, but can not ever be said enough. And sorry to hear about your loss. It sucks. Go pop a few rounds off in rememberance.

I once fired mil-surplus 7mm Mauser that was older than the gun fired from it... my Model 1895 Chilean Mauser. Worked like a charm!

One of our rifle club members had a few hundred rounds of foreign military .30-06 ammunition. It shot poorly in his rifles, but he thought the brass was good enough.

Rather than buy a collet bullet-puller for his reloading press, he decided to shoot it up in a well-worn Garand. Then he worried about a pierced primer or some such calamity.

He was quite snazzy in his welding jacket, ski mask, goggles, and heavy gloves, benchresting an M1 in semi-rapid fire.

That's why I shoot shotguns. I can find 12 gauge 2 3/4" shells all day long any old day of the week.

The local Wally World had a little of everything the last I looked. You weren't going to walk out with cases of anything except shotgun shells, but they had at least a couple of boxes of almost everything.

Wally World Store 100 (the flagship store across the street from HQ) had 9mm instock today at like 9 bucks a box. No 22LR. Some shorts and 22Mag. Few boxes of 223 at like a buck a pop.

Wally World Vestal, NY. 555 count boxes of coated winchesters, aprox $15/brick. I grabbed 2.

My Wally world had everything I needed but .357 mag.

neon4891 wrote: Wally World Vestal, NY. 555 count boxes of coated winchesters, aprox $15/brick. I grabbed 2.

I picked one of the same from Dick's.

If anyone is processing their .22 rimfire through a Ruger Mark II, 22/45, or Browning Buckmark, your life is not complete until you get an Ultimate Cliploader.

http://www.gunblast.com/Cliploader.htm

Woody wrote: If anyone is processing their .22 rimfire through a Ruger Mark II, 22/45, or Browning Buckmark, your life is not complete until you get an Ultimate Cliploader. http://www.gunblast.com/Cliploader.htm

I do shoot a Browning Challenger. Wonder if it would work for that?

spitfirebill wrote:

Woody wrote: If anyone is processing their .22 rimfire through a Ruger Mark II, 22/45, or Browning Buckmark, your life is not complete until you get an Ultimate Cliploader. http://www.gunblast.com/Cliploader.htm

I do shoot a Browning Challenger. Wonder if it would work for that?

I don't know anything about the Challenger. Does it use the same magazine as the Buckmark?

I didn't read the thread but J&G sales has cases of .22 rimfire, like thousands of bullets, available for shipping... so if there is a shortage order yourself a case of 10 bricks. I think thats like 10,000 rounds.

andrave wrote: ... a case of 10 bricks. I think thats like 10,000 rounds.

FYI - Standard "brick" of .22LR is 500 rounds - 10 boxes of 50 rounds.

These days they also sell bulk-packed .22 with a couple of hundred rounds loose in the box.

When you hear about drug busts on TV, and they mention finding thousands of rounds of ammunition, scan the images for bricks of .22 ammo.

My last brick had 550 rounds.

spitfirebill wrote: My last brick had 550 rounds.

Was it a brick (stack of smaller boxes in a large box) or a box of loose rounds?

slantvaliant wrote:

spitfirebill wrote: My last brick had 550 rounds.

Was it a brick (stack of smaller boxes in a large box) or a box of loose rounds?

A box of loose rounds. Close enough to a brick for me.

all my bricks have been loose.

Yeah, classically, "Brick" is 10 boxes of 50. The loose 500/550's are "Packs," I think. Maybe we should call them "Blocks." Speaking of which , Wally World Store 144 had Remington "Packs" in stock today at $16.47. They had at least a case there, maybe 2. I sure hope the scare is letting up. That's what I used to shoot when I shot competitively. There's more accurate ammo, but I figger it's best to practice with what you compete with, and I can't afford to practice with the ten cent+/shot stuff.

The neat thing about the old bricks was that they were very close to the same size, even for different brands. That made for convenient stacking, etc.Not so for the boxes of 250 or 333 or 550 loose rounds.

OK 10 boxes of 550 rounds is what it is, so you can order it 5,500 rounds at a time... I think its like $150 bucks or so. Don't remember exactly.

And we have the loose 550 boxes here at the house and the box says on it "THE BRICK."

as if that settles it.