Lakeville Fleet Farm...

[Rodentman]

Went to FF in Lakeville today and they were busy resetting the shelving area where they have their reloading stuff. There were the empty jars of powder and underneath was a taped up sign reading:

«NOT displayed but in stock....» followed by a list of several powders including Bullseye. I asked for a container of it. They told me the sign lists what they DON'T have in stock. I said there were a lot of powders not listed, like Eunuch, so I asked for that. They looked at the sign again and agreed that it didn't make a lot of sense. They went to the back to look for Bullseye, asking on the way if it was pistol powder. I said yes, but you can identify it by the word "Bullseye" on the container.

PTL they had some, and I bought 1 pound, for the poultry sum of $16.39. Not bad. I think we need to send Sam out there to give them a primer, so to speak, on the basics of reloading.

[Seismic Sam]

You mean like Alcan-8 and W-W 1630?? Plus the ones that changed named, like Ramshot Big Boy turning into Ramshot Magnum.

[Rodentman]

I stopped by there again today to see how their setup of reloading stuff was going. They are still working, but there's a fair amount of shelf space to stuff. I am concerned that they *probably* aren't well versed enough to answer questions like John can, but we'll see, Maybe Big John can transfer there and help out.

While I was there they were opening cases of ammo and put 24 boxes of 22lr Win 555 rounds to a box, 36gr hollow pernt copper plated for $24.49/box. I bought the limit of 1. In the 15 minutes I browsed around almost all of them went. They had a lot of ammo in 9mm and other calibers as well. People were milling around like moths to a flame or kids on Christmas morning.

[gun_fan111]

Stopped by there tonight. They changed their powder in/out of stock indication system - probably based on many confused customers . Now if there is a price sticker next to the powder - it is in stock.

No sign of .22 though.

[SamM]

Lakeville FF seldom has .22 (non-shot). I've picked up all of 1 100rd box in the past 6 months that's been on the shelf. Must still be a bunch of .22 grabbers around here. You can go across 35 and pick up .22 at GM, last week they had hundreds of 50rd CCI boxes for $4.99 (not that great of a price but it was in stock, unless it's all gone by now)...

[Holland&Holland]

Lakeville FF seldom has .22 (non-shot). I've picked up all of 1 100rd box in the past 6 months that's been on the shelf. Must still be a bunch of .22 grabbers around here. You can go across 35 and pick up .22 at GM, last week they had hundreds of 50rd CCI boxes for $4.99 (not that great of a price but it was in stock, unless it's all gone by now)...

And there-in lays your answer... FF in general seldom has .22 because it is still at a good price when they do have it and it flies off the shelves. GM has .22 much more frequently but at a much higher price. Interestingly enough I was in the new GM "tacti-cool" center in Rogers over the weekend and it was a sight to behold, they had so many American Eagle .223 battle packs, I could not even hazard a guess at the number. Of course they were priced at 59.99 Remember the days when these went on sale at FF for $29.99 regularly? Hint, it was less than a year ago...