I couldn't believe my eyes. They had six 50 round boxes of CCIs at ONLY 14 cents a round. What was even more astonishing was that an old guy (old like me) was actually buying them. I commented that last year they were 5 cents and he agreed, but bought them anyway.

If he wanted or needed them then sure he would buy them. It is not like $7.00 a box or $35. for all of them is much money to most these days.

Were they stingers? If so, I would have bought them. Walmart has not changed the price of 22LR in last couple years. If it was CCI Standard Velocity it would have cost $3.XX .

I just picked up 3 boxes of stingers for $7/50 at Chinamart so that’s my guess.

It’s the normal price for them.

Saw some at the gun show over the weekend, they were $30.00 a box and some north of that. Fed 350 rnd boxes were $69.00 a box-- $13.25 some time back.

Walmart in Flagstaff, Az. had 1400 round golden bullets this morning for 64.95. I have a bucket already so I passed on them. Good to see that price .

Went to WM to pick up a few groceries, walked past the ammo case and there was a sleeve of 5 boxes/100 CCI Mini Mags HP. Limit of 3 boxes, so I bought 3 and left the remaining 2. Also in the case were some Winchester 20 & 12 gauge slugs. In the past month there has been ammo trickling in to 2 WM's in my area. I pick up what I can use.

A Rural King in another town actually had ammo in stock, Ingman 9mm 124 Gr FMJ @ $20.99/box 50. They had 223/5.56, 357 Mag and a few more calibers plus shotshells. Boxes and bulk packs. Funny thing was, nobody was there buying ANY ammo! Guess maybe folks have reached a saturation point, or just don't have any more money. I myself passed on it all; still waiting for things to get closer to "normal".

CCI and Federal have been selling direct off their website lately. The stock varies and the price is regular retail with free shipping if you buy a certain amount. There is a limit per order but I purchased nearly 4000 rounds in a couple of orders.

They’re charging retail as you’d expect but even at retail 22’s are still cheap shooting. Also you don’t have to get up and be at Walmart about the time they open and hope they got a box or two in. I spent several months going to Walmart at opening a few times a week just to score 800 rounds. No thanks I’ll pay a few dollars more and sleep later and have it delivered to my door. I figure I burned more gas driving to Walmart than what I’d saved if I’d found my ammo at Walmart.

Federal / CCI had quiet target, standard velocity target, stangers, bulk Federal 800 round boxes and mini mags.

Six 50 round boxes !!!

Do you think my great grand kids will believe me when I tell them in the 1970's and 1980's , how many 500 round boxes used to be stacked on tables ...no buying limit ...what the prices were ( $10 - $12 ) and how every time I went to wally world I would by a big box , just because they were so cheap and never in short supply ?
They gonna think I'm dreaming and telling them tall stories ...that's what I believe !
Gary

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The GhettoMarts around here don't carry any ammo. Apparently too much was going out the back door. Ripped off by their own "associates."

YUP..... One box of 500 every time you go shopping with the wife. All you had to do was put-up with: "what are you going to do with ANOTHER box of .22's ?". Every time I go to the range these days, I remind my wife exactly what I'm doing with all those $12 boxes of 22's.

DON'T BUY.... it may not drop to $12 a brick, but it's gotta come down plenty ONLY if you: DON'T BUY

J.

I needed my glasses adjusted and the local WM is only a stones throw away. So I stopped and walked back to the ammo dept. There on the shelf were 10 boxes/325 rounds of Federal Auto Match. There was a lady in front of me who got 3 boxes (limit) and I got my 3 boxes. The 12 & 20 gauge slugs were still there from last week. At $5.97 for 5 rounds Winchester Super-X I didn't think that was too bad. Maybe nobody needs slugs right now.

Anyway, I'm liking that I can find some ammo for regular prices locally. And there doesn't seem to be a line waiting for it like before. :-)

THE BIG QUESTION:

What did you pay for each box (325) of Fed Auto Match?

J

well, it's not .22lr, but optics asteroid is supposedly shipping my federal shorty's and federal 9mm 150gr HST ammo. 2 days ago it was shipping 7/20, today it is 7/22. the shorty's are $11/12 a box (the old price). the HST? Don't ask. but at the price, it better be one shot stops.
midway emailed me yesterday to say they had bricks of thunderbolt .22lr for $56 for a little while...

$18.73/box 325 = $.058/round. Less than 6 cents/round.

My order from November shows 7/22 shipping. They’re not serious.

Same here in the southern part of the Hoosier state.

3 boxes of 325 (3 box limit) was $53 and change before the 7% tax.

6 cents is always a buy price point for me.

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I have to admit that the price you paid is not bad in today's world. I have been known to pay about that well before the latest panic set it....
There IS hope....
Thanks,
J.

I was in Buckeye Outdoors in Hebron, Ohio July 8. They had mountains of 22, 22 Mag and even 22 Winchester.

But the price, Browning 400 count bulk pack $99 (25 cents a round) for so so ammo. CCI Stingers at $15.99/50 (32 cents each!) Outrageous!

Ivan

Stopped into WM this afternoon to pick up a few grocery items. Walked past the ammo cabinet and was able to pick up 3 boxes Winchester 333 22 LR @ $18.73/box ($.056/round). That's almost 2,000 rounds 22 LR in 2 weeks at less than 6 cents/round. Also had some 270 & 30-06 and a few others on the shelf; CCI 22 Magnum also. I'm happy to see a little more ammo showing up on the shelves. At least WM isn't gouging like the LGS are here locally. Last week I even scored a box of Winchester 308. :-)

Two weeks ago at the Walley World near my west Houston lab I picked up my 4-box limit of Win Super-X 40 grain HPs which shoot well in my firearms for $8.23/100. This is pretty good ammo at near pre-scamdemic pricing. I saw the same ammo at same price at a second WW in Richmond, but I left it there for you guys.

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The last I found at Wally world (maybe 3 months back) was a 100 round box of CCI Mini-mags, seems like it was $9 a box. I bought all they would sell me at the time. 2 of the 40 grain and 1 of the 36 grain they had in stock. Picked up some CCI 22 mag for $11.99 a box (50 rnd) about a month ago.

Rosewood

BPS had some of that 2 Sunday's ago but was running at $12.99 for 100.

My WM and my farm store both have 22 ammo at regular prices. The farm store is jacked up just a little.

A guy at the range yesterday had a backseat half full of various 22 ammo for sale. He wanted $15 for 100 Mini Mags. I let him keep them.

I like your word ... " Scamdemic " ...says it all !
Gary

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I was traveling through Indiana yesterday, and stopped at a Walmart ,they had 3 boxes of 350 rounds for less than $20 a box.They told .me that they. Received 6 cases.I don't need any so I left it .

Not 22 ammo, but the wife and I went for groceries today and walking past the ammo cabinet I spied 2 boxes of Federal 308 Win. $20.46/box, bought both. Girl at the counter said they were getting a little ammo more regularly. She said it was staying on the shelves longer also.

I've seen small amounts of 22LR, 30-30 and 30-06 in my Walmart in the last few weeks. Shotgun shells were in abundance.

Been a while since any ammo at the local Walmart (about 7-15-2021), but needed to pick up a few things today and there was "some" ammo in the case. I picked up 1 box/20 Federal 308 @ $20.46 and 1 box/525 Remington golden 22 LR @ $26.83.
Still watching for anything that I can use, at a reasonable price.

Last week I grabbed a box of 550 Remington Thunderbolt for $26. They also had Winchester 330 for around $20

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Last week, the local WM had the 550 rd box of Remington Golden Bullet for about the same price, but I already have more than enough .22. I remember that before the first Obama election, the same box was $9.99.

I just got Federal Auto Match 325 round boxes at my local Walmart for $18.73, 3 for me and 3 my wife got.

The sporting goods store across from Walmart had about a 100 boxes of Remington Thunder Bolt (525 count) for $55.00 each, I will never pay that price for Thunder Bolt ammo (the worst ammo).

I was also recently in Minnesota a few weeks ago and another sporting goods shop had 100's of Winchester Super X (300 count) boxes for $55.00 each, too much money so I passed.

It's good to see that Walmart doesn't rip off customers for ammo, I just have to keep checking when they have stock.

Here's my update.

Had to be in Wallymart to pick up a prescription today. They actually had about 15 guns in the rack and one single box of Winchester 12 ga. trap rounds. I didn't check the price.

I beg to differ, the "Golden Bullets" are worse.

Academy had the same box of Thunder Bolts for $39 last week.

" Beggars can't be choosers "
Sometimes you have to buy whatever you can get ...
anything beat nothing seven ways to Sunday .
Gary

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The only ammo my local Walmart has had in months is one box of 28 gauge shotgun shells.

I had an appointment in a neighboring town yesterday and stopped in one of my favorite dealers shop. This is a fair size shop and strictly guns and related items like cases and holsters. A few months ago they were down to a half dozen guns and no ammo. They’ve not had any ammo for months. Yesterday not only were they totally stocked with guns at pre pandemic prices the had the shelves stocked pretty well with ammo. Unfortunately the ammonia was at higher prices but there was a pretty good selection of calibers.

Just estimating I’d say they had over 150 AR and AK platform rifles, a very good selection of lever and bolt actions too. They even had several Smith and colt revolvers. As mentioned ammo was a bit higher.

The small shops in my town are getting ammo now at higher prices but when supply is plentiful and sales slow down prices will return to a more normal level. I expect them to be up some though due to inflation.

I've had some good luck finding Federal 325 round packs at a few local Walmarts lately. Bought max allowed 3 boxes at two seperate stores over the last week.

Was in wally world about a week ago. So wandered over to the ammo counter. Much to surprise they had about 8-9 boxes of federal Auto Match. About $19 a box which has 330 rounds. So got 3 boxes. And except fpr about 4 boxes that was all they had. And no firearms in the display counter.This is one of their super centers and appears to be poorly operated. Unstocked shelves, meaning nothing that should be there wasn't. Mens dept found only 1 pack of white crew socks.. area where there there was a huge selection of potato fries, just nothing but bare shelves in the freezer. Really sad as we were in there almost every week.A real shame as a lot of folks depends on that store for food and other thinks. Frank

My local WM had the 325 round count Federal Auto Match but it was priced a little over $21 a box.

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The wally world I work part time at has been getting some ammo in pretty regularly for the last few months. Most of the time the quantities are small, a few boxes at a time. Last week for some reason we received 11 cases of Federal Fusion 30/30. Have also gotten a few cases of the Auto Match 22 as well. Since they put limits on quantities it has made it possible for more people to get at least some ammo at a reasonable price.

Of course "reasonable" can change, Sunday when I went in to work there was a price change and new labels set out for me to do. Virtually all the Remington, CCI and Federal ammo went up in price (hint: they are all owned by the same corporation). Some were only a dollar or two a box higher (mostly the 22's), others were quite a bit more. Federal 7mm Mag went from $24 to $32, the Fusion 30/30's jumped about $5 a box. Still a lot cheaper than the flea market/gun show prices and many small shops. There aren't a lot of places around here for people to buy ammo without driving a ways so at least they are still selling it and the prices are still better than I see at most places.

Local ww has little bit of ammo again. 325 box of Fed. 22 match which my Supermatic and Colt target love for the usual $21 and some change. There were more 7.62 Fed. ball for $21 a box, some 350 and lot s of assorted shot shell. Oh, the no buy 22 win was sitting there too.

At WM for a few groceries, 1 box/20 Federal 308 on the shelf. Until today, price was $20.46. Today $23.86. Still less than $1.20/round, but hate to see higher prices even at WM. :-(

I bought Federal Auto Match .22LR at Wally World last Thursday for .064 cents each. Same price as about 2 years ago. A box of 325 was 18.?? each.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

Me 2! Bought 2-325 round Boxes of Federal.
That shoots good in all my 22s except my Problem Child Small 22 Autos.

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WalMart, Evans (Augusta), GA has ZERO ammo on the shelf. No labels, no stock, just EMPTY shelves.

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I just picked up a 525 bulk pack of Remington Thundebolts at the Pahrump, NV, Walmart for $26.

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I’ve visited a few Wally’s in my travels lately yesterday payed $12.23 for 100rnd Winchester Super X 40gr Hyper Velocity. CCI Clean 22lr polymer tip 200rnd in the little milk carton think I payed approximately $18 for those. Did score some 410 on one visit and some 12 gauge #4s.

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Last week a bought 3 boxes Auto Match at Walmart for a little under $19 plus tax

I got a couple boxes of Auto Match at my local Wally Friday for $21.16 plus tax. I'm surprised they all aren't the same price, unless there's been another price increase.

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