I think these days, when it says "match", it means it uses old match heads for primer and powder.
Does anyone here know where in the US ammunition is manufactured? Any ammunition. OK, how about now specifically .22 ammunition? Is it even made here now, or is it all in China? I still don't get why there is such scarcity. I understand a lot of people bought guns after Newtown, and others just stocked up on ammo, but you'd think they'd be caught up by now.
The largest manufacture of ammunition in the USA is ATK or to make things simple the sub company Vista outdoors which owns the brands
Federal , CCI , alliant, estate, Idependence , American Egle , Blazer Just to name some of the 50 or so brand's in the gun industry.
The government owns the largest ammunition facility in the USA Lake City Army Ammunition Plant....which ATK leases and runs.
The secound largest is also government owned in Florida.
Olin Corp. Owns a good amount of plants that produce brass,primers How much Olin is actually making these days I do not know. "Winchester" is a licensing whore who Olin will let anyone use if they pay enough.
As for how much 22lr can be produced well a lot but you have to remember in the last 10 years there has been 2 huge increases in ammo and gun sales.
Also with the price of ammo getting crazy back 05-06 everyone and thier uncles dug out the 22s only to make things worse come Obama sale I & II.
Think of it like this.
There's aprox 3000 Wal-Mart's for agument sakes lets Just say all of them sell ammo.
For arguments lets say they sell 10k rounds of 22lr per month per store that's 360,000,000 rounds.... And I would say 10k per mouth is low. That's 2 cases.
Now I seen a show where one of the manufactures can put out 4million rounds of 22lr a day. So that's 90 days just to keep up with Wal-Mart.
Another reference is the CMP recieved aprox 7500 CASES of 22lr as surplus from the army and it sold out 28th in a few days... That's 37 million rounds right there.
It's hard to fathom home much 22lr gets used up. A serious shooting team will even small ones burn through 100k easy per year. In my youth and peak of my 22 plinking days 20k just in the summer months was not hard to do...