Comments on: How .22 LR Ammunition is Made

By: Ashley Nicely

Ashley Nicely — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 03:55:19 +0000

Craig, that’s one roupd per person every ten days, not a thousand rounds.

By: looking

looking — Tue, 12 May 2015 01:47:36 +0000

i wish everyone hoarding 22 cartridges would choke on a brick full of them. It is absurd that the prices are at least double just because of demand and fear. The law of s&d is out of control here. 10+ cents per round is absurd! Poor man will have to wait until chaos is over or resort to my STW to “plink” Zombies. End this zombie culture bs asap! Im fine with the cock roaches surviving. Just let me have some inexpensive fun until then…damn!

By: cb

cb — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 02:40:22 +0000

Goes to show Obama may not gain control of guns but he can impact the production of 22 AMO. the most sought after affordable lethal AMO available.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:41:56 +0000

… and I already bought my box this year!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:38:35 +0000

Craig;
CCI makes 4,000,000 rounds/day, so makes 300,000,000 rounds each 75 days.

Hence it takes 75 days to make ONE 22 round per person in the US, or somewhat less than 5 rounds/year per person.

The US has 90 guns per 100 people (according to Wikipedia). I couldn’t get an estimate on how many were 22s, but suppose that is 10 guns/100 people. That makes 30,000,000 22s, so under that assumption, CCI is making about 50 rounds (one box) per gun per year.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:44:32 +0000

I’m not clear on the math. 30 mil/day times 10 days is 300 mil. There are ~ 300 mil people in the country so does that mean enough ammo is produced equating to 1 mil for each person every 10 days. Something doesn’t add up.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 20 May 2014 17:57:41 +0000

It’s always amazed me how much .22 ammo is made a day,

CCI = 4,000,000
Fedral = 8,000,000

Remington > 4,000,000
Winchester > 4,000,000
Aguela > 4,000,000
All others > 6,000,000
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That’s some where around 30 mill a day!!

They have been making that every year for decades and never slowed down!

Wow

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 20 May 2014 04:28:17 +0000

I would love to see how the crimp is applied.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 19 May 2014 02:35:05 +0000

“Guy”, that may indeed be true, but looking at it from a marketing experts perspective, you and I (Target shooters) are not the average. Sure, we’d like to have 2 cases of CCI 0035 and 2 cases of Eley Tenex on hand at all times.

Making decisions about where to invest capital and time revolve around ROI, and figuring ROI on this sort of thing can only safely be done using statistical AVERAGES of demand. The last few years are not average, and the average shooter doesn’t generally want nor need what a target shooter does; there are a WHOLE lot more of them than there are of us…

I hear a lot of talk like yours–and to be clear, I don’t completely disagree–but I also know that for somebody like CCI to produce a lot more means a larger plant, or another one. To see a return on those millions of dollars probably would mean many years of production, (look at how long many of them have been producing on the same machines) and from and that’s a lot of risk to take on what might be a ‘bubble’ of demand.

It might just be too soon.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 19 May 2014 00:50:42 +0000

Agree with Guy. 4Mill rounds is nothing when the demand is so high. Demand is not going down anytime soon.