I finally went ahead and ordered a bucket of Remington 36-grain hollow point .22LR (1400 rounds) from MidwayUSA website. $59.99 + shipping (~$72 total), and backordered until the end of December, maybe longer. But at least it's a damned good price, even with shipping, and will eventually make it into their warehouse, and shipped out to me. Limit of one, but I figure as soon as I get the e-mail saying it's shipped, I'll order another one......and keep doing that, until I've got about ten of those buckets stacked up in my closet!
WHICH BIG BOX STORE? sorry somewhat for the caps but it would seem obvious I am not the only one looking.
That 36-grain Remington is good stuff, IMHO. A lot of people like to knock it, but I've shot quite a bit of it and even though it's nothing special, I can't say anything bad about it. At approx 5 cents/rd, that's a fair price too.