Dang!

[Black_Sheep]

Gander Mountain advertised 550 round boxes of Remington .22 lr on sale in last Sunday's paper, the special was valid today only. I got there a half hour before opening and a line had already formed in front of the store. I thought to myself there is no way that everyone waiting in line could be there to score .22 ammo. Wrong! By the time I got back to the gun counter the alloted stock of Remington .22 was gone.

So close and yet so far...

 

[sophie]

Very seldom do I ever stand in line for anything but I did this morning. I arrived at Gander Mountain at 5 minutes before 9 am and there was probably 40 people in line at the door. My first instinct was to turn around and leave the parking lot but I didn't. I got in the line and just shortly they opened the doors and all filed in and went straight back to where the ammo is kept. Right before I got there I heard from people ahead of me that all the .22 ammo of which you speak was gone. Lot of disappointed people.

I was not after the .22 ammo but was after the CCI Blazer Brass 9mm, 115 gr fmj, 350 rds in a plastic ammo box. They were going pretty fast but as luck would have it I got what I wanted and got in line behind a man that had grabbed 3 of the 350 round 9mm Blazer Brass in the ammo box and we were both in the checkout line. When he got to the register the employee told him he could only buy one container. The guy says that is bull**** because you had no 1 container limit in the ad. The man was right, there was no limit stated. The employee said 1 container is all you can buy and again the man persisted there was no limit. It done no good as the employee lifted 2 containers off the counter and said do you want the 1 container. The man paid for it and left and was so mad he couldn't hardly keep his cool. I don't know if the guy went back and tried to buy some more but I doubt it. He was sure mad. I thought the employee kept a level head about him. I checked later on their website and all they had left was .45 acp in the CCI ammo boxes. Everything else was sold out.

 

[Arik]

I dont stand in line. Ammo or no ammo.

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[arjay]

Gander and cabelas both sell on line and will ship to the store for free-much easier.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Thursday is delivery day at the local Gander Mountain, and I have been stopping in just about every week all summer long. Sometimes I end up with a few 50 rd. boxes, sometimes I get a couple hundred, sometimes I get shut out.

A couple of weeks ago I paid almost $30 for a 335-count bulk pack of CCI .22lr (the Troy Lady "Choot Em" souvenir box). This week I saw the 550-round Remington bricks for the first time in months. I pulled the last one off the shelf (reached over the top from the next aisle) and paid $19 for it, just like the old days. In the last couple of months, I have picked up almost 2500 rounds in this hit-or-miss fashion. You just never know what's going to happen, price and availability all over the map from one week to the next.