.22 Short Ammo Prices

The oldest American metallic cartridge still made, born in 1857 for the first Smith & Wesson revolver and somehow still in production over a century and a half later. It is tiny and quiet and gentle and it fed generations of gallery guns and small-game rifles and target pistols. A genuine piece of firearms history that simply refuses to disappear. The little round that started it all. A survivor.

Loads run around 29 grain in the modest offerings that remain. A niche rimfire priced above the .22 LR per round in small boxes. The gallery-gun crowd and the traditionalists buy whenever it appears.