Wally world shelves are bare

[qcdougn]

Might be BS. But, have you tried to find ammo from some of the Suppliers like Sportsman's Guide Warehouse, Georgia Arms or Natchez Sports? They're sold out...Guess the shortage whether it is intended or not, is not BS.
However, some of the LGS still have a limited supply although they don't offer a big selection.

 

[Bpregler]

NE Oklahoma here. No ammo at any of the Walmarts. Did pick up another MP 15-22 yesterday just because it was there. They had one left. Bass Pro is OUT of all handguns and 90% of rifles. Still had some CCI 22 on Friday.

 

[stadn67]

Lucky me picked up 640 rounds of Tulammo 223 last night...

how much you pay for that??

 

[stadn67]

walmarts near me are pretty bare too (salem, or) few other places look the same as far as anything bulk. forgot about a true value/ace hardware and they had some bulk blazer/federal. been buying that up.

 

[magnetik]

I think the same person pillages the walmart near me because there's nothing ever in bulk..

 

[Loy Loyola]

nothing in Tampa, FL.

 

[ECLIPZD95]

All out here in San Diego as well. Went to 5 different Walmart stores and their ammo shelves were empty. Made me wonder if the Walmart employees were snatching them up before they are put up on the shelf?

 

[speedyquad]

i was at m local walmart on saurday...they had lots to choose from, especially rifle ammo. there was plenty of .22lr, just not the bulk boxes(but they are sold out of those normally anyway). i didn't see any bulk .40sw(remington umc, 250rds), but they did have 2 box of that in 9mm.

 

[JLSWMP40]

It's been like that for about three weeks here. Lots of shot shells, some .25s, but that's about it.

 

[sambuh]

Same here. 4 Walmarts, 1 Gander Mountain and 1 Dicks, all out. We have 3 or 4 mom and pop shops all have decent priced ammo.

I have a friend who owns a shop in WVa. He says everyone is cleaned out, but thinks the rush is over for now. We may be ok come Feb.

 

[Daviscc]

Same here in NW Oklahoma. No 22LR or 9MM anywhere. WalMart has been out for several weeks. Attwoods is out too.

 

[Scopes]

Mine only sell fishing gear.

 

[thousandstar]

The only 22cal. here is at Durhams and they want 3.99 for 50rds of Rem.!!!!!

 

[mr.jbk79]

Whatever is put out goes quickly. Managed to pick up 4 (50 round) boxes of Federal hi shok 9mm @15.99/box. I've not seen this before at walmart, but looks like a good price for hollow points. I left the remaining 4 boxes for the next guy.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

My Dad was a kid on the farm during WWII. All ammo was in short supply. Farmers were "alloted" a couple boxes of shotgun shells periodically for pest control. He said it was very hard to have enough to go hunting. After the war and after I came along he always kept enough ammo to feed our guns. He's gone now but I've always adhered to the same principle.

 

[Scopes]

My Dad was a kid on the farm during WWII. All ammo was in short supply. Farmers were "alloted" a couple boxes of shotgun shells periodically for pest control.

That is my fear.

 

[PowerGuy]

Same here in Coastal NC, Wally World and BassPro shelves empty.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

It will be interesting to see how quickly things comes back in stock. I order ammo from sgammo and they went out of stock of CCI SV before the weekend. Today thy are showing another 123 cases of 5k in stock.

 

[rburg]

My Dad was a kid on the farm during WWII. All ammo was in short supply. Farmers were "alloted" a couple boxes of shotgun shells periodically for pest control. He said it was very hard to have enough to go hunting. After the war and after I came along he always kept enough ammo to feed our guns. He's gone now but I've always adhered to the same principle.

Skeeter Skelton wrote stories on this same situation. There was some ammo, but it was used as needed, not wasted. You can argue that range time isn't waste, but if you watch you'll realize a lot of lead goes down range is really isn't even aimed. During WWII there was an honest shortage with every round going to the war effort. Today we have an artificial shortage that will soon start to ease up.

If anyone really wants ammo, they can find it at the gun shows. I'm pretty sure folks still buy it at the stores then tote it to the shows to sell and make a modest profit. At last weekends show there was almost every caliber represented. Sure, the sellers know its in short supply. Those same sellers have never been very willing to cut the price and even less so now they can't resupply. So if you want ammo pay the price and take it home. Complaining about it being gouging won't get you any sympathy.

 

[snubbyfan]

We went to the local Walmart for our monthly grocery stocking up trip yesterday. For us up here in the West Virginia mountains, local is a 70 mile out of state trip to Lavale MD.
I just had to check out the ammo shelves and they were bare. There was a little sign instructing people to ask for ammo at the counter. We didn't, we've got lotsa ammo already. Don't know why they pulled all the ammo off the shelves, maybe a Maryland thing? They do have some goofy gun laws out there.