So you guys got me to drop into the Walmart in North Platte Nebraska today. First I went over my lunch hour but two other guys have been waiting for half an hour for a clerk so I jetted. Went back after my work day was done, purchased 250 rounds of 38 special,18.63 cents per round after tax. 158 grain LRN, Federal, brass casings. Cleaned them out. I don't buy Remington Core-Lokt so I don't know if $12.38 or something like that for a box of 20 is a good price but they had loads and loads of that in 308. Same price for 270, but all they had was 150 grains and my rifle is sighted in for 130 grain handloads.

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My Walmart today had:

Rem UMC 180 grain .40, WWB .40, and WWB .380all for $7 a box of 50.

Stopped by my local WM today (smaller store in a small town) and sure enough most of their handgun and MSR inventory was discounted "bigly," with the notable exception of self defense rounds and 22 (no one at any WM I have been to in Texas can tell me if 22 is going away or not).

Cleaned them out of UMC 125 JHP +P ($15/100) and Federal 44 Mag 240 JHP ($17/50). Most of the 9MM and 5.56/223 was already gone when I got there.

I hit the other 3 Wally's in my area today.
No joy.
Lots of 40 S&W, which I don't shoot, and lots of 380ACP, which I don't need because I have a lot already and don't shoot that much.
BUMMER!
Oh well at least I got some bargains....

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Just went down to my local Walmart and they were wiped out. Clearance stickers were up but bare shelves. A couple boxes of 25 acp was all I saw.

Today’s haul:

4 more WWB .45 ACP at 9 a box.

The last two Federal Aluminum .40 FMJ for 5 bucks a box.

Winchester 147 JHP 9mm at 11 a box (last one)

Winchester 180 JHP .40 at 11 a box (last one)

Federal HST 9mm 150 at 7 bucks for the small box

Federal 135 JHP low recoil 9mm at 7 bucks for small box

They still had range packs (100 and 200 rd) of .40 and .45 but I’m trying not to be a hog. If its still there tomorrow I may snap it up.

This a fairly rural Wal Mart about 20 miles away. The one in my town is stripped clean.

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Hit the last one within 25 miles of my house this morning.
Got ONE 20 round box of Tulammo .223 for $2.50 and that's all they had.
I swung back by the one that had the Tulammo and Blazer aluminum 45ACP the other day and it was all gone too.
So it is all over for my entire area. 5 Walmarts and every one has been picked clean.

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Likewise, I couldn't resist going back for seconds. Today's haul consisted of some of my lesser stocked pistol calibers plus a few boxes of brass-cased AK ammo:

• .380 ACP 95 Gr FMJ - 300 rounds
• .38 Special 158 Gr RNL - 150 rounds - (last 3 boxes)
• .357 Magnum 158 Gr JSP - 50 rounds (last box)
• .357 Sig 125 Gr FMJ - 150 rounds (last 3 boxes)
• .44 Magnum 240 Gr JHP - 100 rounds
• 7.69x39 123 Gr FMJ - 80 rounds (last 4 boxes)

Still no 9mm ammo in sight except for self-defense rounds. Department manager says that this is it... no more incoming shipments expected. Nothing left in the back room.

Only thing I might go back for tomorrow is more .45 ACP and some 130 Gr jacketed .38 Special. I'm also debating buying some of that self-defense ammo, but even at 50% off, it's not exactly cheap.

Before it sold out UMC 130 grain FMJ 38 spl mega packs(250 ct) went down to $35 down from $59 which started at $68+.I've seen the UMC mega packs at $90 online. I picked up the last 3 boxes of the UMC and the last five boxes of Federal Champion 158 gr RN 38 spl, both at $9/each. Federal 38+P HST micro I got for $13. I'm done. No more sales after Dec 29th and what's left goes to state police.

When centerfire handgun ammo is priced under $2.50 per box of 50, I'll go look. That's what it costs me to reload except 357 and 44 magnum. I'm cheap. Now I'll buy that 1 gallon of milk for $1.30 all week long.

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My plan is to get set up for re-loading before my stash of Walmart ammo runs out. Between the 38/357 brass I've saved in the past 5 years + recent Walmart hoarding I'll have plenty of brass for myself and could probably sell enough brass to help offset the reloading equipment. Going to buy a reloading book for winter reading.

I'm glad the shooters in my area left all that .40 ball ammo for me. At $7 a box, I can't load my own for that.

They did???

Around here, everything is gone. Between the several Walmarts I checked and reports coming in off a local (MA) forum, there isn't a box of anything left anywhere. Our local police are getting zero leftovers. No Christmas presents for them.

The greatest ammo sale in history is now over, most likely never to be repeated again in our lifetimes. I scored for sure, but others did so much better. Many were able to locate and spend thousands on half-priced ammo. It was all about being at the right stores and the right times... for one last wild party before Walmart closed the door forever on pistol and MSR ammo sales.

What happens next? Lots of people are trying to guess. Do ammo prices go up or down with Walmart out of the picture? Will ammo manufacturers and importers cut back? Only time will tell.

What happens next? Jeppo pays off his mortgage selling WM ammo at market prices in next month’s big local show.

But seriously folks, our local board was abuzz with reports of who grabbed what and which stores still had what. We did our best to help each other and ourselves, to the detriment of prospective LE department recipients.

Now, a couple clods have already popped up offering boxes they paid $15 for at $30, “prices firm”. The dedicated board members aren’t taking kindly to that gouging. One guy responded to such a listing with, “Are those silver bullets? Asking for a friend.” The “seller”, too stupid to get the point, responded, “No, they’re brass cased hollow points.”

I managed to grab a good range of ammo during numerous store visits. The last was a couple boxes of Remington .45 hp’s. That cleaned out that particular store.

My WM is clean of pistol ammo. Moral of the story? To quote Janis Joplin, "Get it while you can".

Not this guy. I bought a bunch over the last six months or so and I'll be shooting it all up then loading the cases and shooting again.

The stores here in Ohio received a letter from the corporate office when this whole thing started stating that while they were getting rid of all handgun and "short barrel rifle ammo" (which seems to mean ammo for AR's and AK's) that they would continue to sell "hunting rifles and shotguns" in the stores that currently do. They would also stock ammo for those guns (though it seems no one at the main office realizes they sell Henry rifles that shoot handgun ammo and bolt actions that shoot 223). After the big blowout (which lasted about one day here) all they still have is rim-fire (22 and 17), shotgun shells and a limited amount of rifle ammo (243, 308, 30-06 for example). While I can't say they aren't doing anything different in Texas I can't see any reason why they would since corporate seems to be making all the decisions storwide on this deal

Interesting, at the local WMT "hand gun" center fire ammo is gone but there is still a Henry Golden Boy in .357 magnum in the rack. I'll have to rag them and see if they can discount it's price since they don't have any ammo available for it anyway.
Steve W

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