So I've been tracking down 22lr since January, primarily due to purchasing a suppressor earlier this year from Jake. It created a new found enjoyment for me and I sort of rediscovered the 22, which I hadn't shot in years. Almost all of my purchases have been online, with the exception of a handful of boxes picked up occasionally at Gander. No waiting in lines, no scoping out stores on shipment days and NO ridiculous flipper purchases. Every round has been purchased for between $0.04 - $0.10 / round from, midway, cabelas, PSA, etc. Mostly cci & federal and a decent amount of Remington. My best guess is an average of $0.06-$0.07 / round. As a result of sporadic purchases, a brick or two at a time, I had ammo stashed in a few places and really didn't know how much I had accumulated. I recently reorganized my ammo and got around to taking a 22lr inventory tonight. Turns out, I'm sitting on 18-19k rounds! HOLY CRAP! That doesn't count what I've already shot up, which is close to 3k. I honestly thought I was around 8k before taking inventory. I think I'm done. No more 22 purchases for a while for me. I may be kicking myself if prices ever get back to "normal", but I'm just glad that I'm set for a while. Just goes to show you, there's REALLY no reason to tolerate flippers or to believe that there's no ammo to be found. It's out there if you look hard enough.
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....mikey357
I'll actually be spreading some of it around to friends and family now that I figured out what I've got. Conversely, I've bought almost no 9mm or 5.56 in 2 years and have gotten really slim. Prices have gotten back down to pre-panic levels on those (~$0.23 for 9mm & $0.32 for 5.56mm) Right now, I've got about a 30 day supply of 9mm (1k) and I need to shift gears back to centerfire. 
