Aquila Increasing .22 Production by 30% per Year

By Dean Weingarten

The .22 rimfire market has been in a bubble for the last three years. Total production has maxed out, and still demand hasn’t been met. Part of the problem is that increasing production is expensive, and manufacturers don’t want to overshoot the market and be left with a lot of manufacturing capacity that can’t pay for itself. Aguila Ammuntion has been producing innovative .22 ammo for years. They made quite a splash with their 60 grain .22 SSS Sniper Subsonic and primer powered Colibri rounds . . .

I talked to Rodney S. Taylor, chief engineer, at the SHOT Show, He said that the .22 ammunition is the company’s mainstay, by far the majority of the ammunition that they produce. Much of the ammunition goes to the Central and South America markets and Aquila made the decision to significantly increase production a couple of years ago. Their machinery is state of the art, an almost completely automated, top of the line, process.

Last year, in 2015, they increased their production by close to 30%, producing a little under a billion rounds. I recall a figure being mentioned of about $2 million dollars being invested in .22 rimfire production last year.

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