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I have read some other threads that claim ammo is back on shelves at Walmart. Horse pucky! Today in my area found 1 box of 30-30 4 boxes 30-06 a box of .270 and a few shot shells. I grabbed the 30-30 and two 30-06 for my 3 box limit. I will be going to the hamburg cabelas in the next two days to pick up a box of 22lr this forum alerted to me. Had it shipped to the store to save the cost and as an excuse to go and check out the ammo shelves. So how are the stores around where you live? Is it same as it has been? Or are you seeing more stock?
 
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I managed to pick up 500 rounds of WWB 9MM the other day at the local WM and they've had 40S&W for a couple weeks now.

Many sporting stores locally are starting to have lots of ammo in stock - everything but .22LR.
 
We have had more stock and seems to be sticking a little longer than just a few seconds. 9mm is still the one caliber that gets sucked up first. Ive been lucky and scored a box of 250 mag tech, two 50 round boxes of brown bear ammunition (its got some type if lacker on the casing and hoping it doesn give me any issues, never have used it before) and just ordered the winchester white box count of 100 all from midway. The Stuff at midway is not staying on for long either.

One week and 450 rounds later...not bad at all ;)
 
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The shelves here are not as empty as they were a couple of months ago, but still not much here, and no .22LR of any kind yet. I heard the Wal-mart in the next town over got a small amount of what they call 1/2 bricks and they were gone in a couple of hours. I think that .22LR will be the last to get back to normal, but guns are returning to normal and dealers are getting more and more in stock, and some types of ammo are getting back to the shelves. It may well take a couple of more months before all is normal again.
 
Its been spotty, but I've managed to score some ammo now & then at Wally World. 40sw, 45acp, & 9mm. 22, I don't know as I don't shoot it. This is lately at a store that hasn't had any in months, and in the afternoon, not lurking around at six am waiting for the truck to get there. So I wouldn't call it "horse pucky"!:cool::D
 
Without doing the (coming in at 5:30 am and waiting to unload
the truck deal) i'm still not seeing anything as far as the popular
calibers at my 2 local Wallyworlds. Been spot checking them when
i go there for other things like groceries and all i see are shotgun
shells and .270 and some .338 win mag.
But thats alright because i have a local gun shop with "cases"
and cases of everything....

Chuck
 
I'm encouraged. I guess maybe because my county is the most guns per person in the state I have lots of competition for ammo. I hope it gets here before the year is out. I'm not dry by no means but being able to pick up a bottle of aspirin without running back to sporting goods every time would be nice. Lower my bill too.
 
To the extent that it existed, the ammo "crisis" is over in my neck of the woods. I have always been able to get what I wanted at LGS at normal prices, national chains are now generally following suite. Hope it clears up for you soon.
 
Gunsnwater, folks in the "ammo" forum --> Ammo <-- post sitings at WM as well as other places. It is interesting to read that some parts of the country are about flush, whereas others are still barren.

Except .22. It's Gones-ville everywhere. Glad I never developed that particualr habit.
 
22lr was always supposed to around according to all the gun rags as far back as the 70's when I started reading them. It was supposed to be cheap too. I never liked that you couldn't reload them. You can make jacketed bullets out of them.
 
Last Saturday they had a full pallet of ammo at 7am about 50 boxes including 22's, all Federal. Things are slowly increasing but rimfire seems to be the hardest to come by.
 
Hi:
I visited "Benton Sporting Goods" in Benton, Tennessee yesterday (Tuesday). The shelves were loaded with all calibers of ammo. The prices were "Heart Stopping"! I only looked at an impressive stock of handguns, rifles, shotguns and used the Mens' Room (no charge).
I took a second look at an array of Rossi Model 92s in .45 Colt caliber. Blued and Stainless. An really interesting one was a Rossi Model 92 .45 Colt in stainless with a 16" barrel (Trapper Model ?)
 
jimmyj said:
Hi:
I visited "Benton Sporting Goods" in Benton, Tennessee yesterday (Tuesday). The shelves were loaded with all calibers of ammo. The prices were "Heart Stopping"! I only looked at an impressive stock of handguns, rifles, shotguns and used the Mens' Room (no charge).
I took a second look at an array of Rossi Model 92s in .45 Colt caliber. Blued and Stainless. An really interesting one was a Rossi Model 92 .45 Colt in stainless with a 16" barrel (Trapper Model ?)
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If the prices were "Heart Stopping" I'm glad it's still there. Lets leave it there!
 
Went to cabellas hamburg Thursday (yesterday) all the shot shell are now used long guns in the area of the gun library. They had 3 different powders. Winchester larg and small primers very few bullets to reload. They have a selection of 223 5.56 and alittle bit of most calibers in rifles, limited in hand gun but do have 38 sp 9, 45, 10, 40 ,32 no 22 rimfire had 17hmr and all shot shell but not in the old amounts.
Prices ok cheapest 223 was just under 10 dollars. Picked up a little ammo and a scout scope they didn't have last time.
 
Within the past few weeks I've visited Walmarts in Crestview, FL; Chantilly & Charlottesville, VA with the same result: bare ammo shelves. The only calibers they seem to have in stock are 20ga, .30-06 and .243.
 
JustinL said:
Within the past few weeks I've visited Walmarts in Crestview, FL; Chantilly & Charlottesville, VA with the same result: bare ammo shelves. The only calibers they seem to have in stock are 20ga, .30-06 and .243.
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Yea, no ammo here. Don't come here for ammo, none, shop some where else, PLEASE!
 
I don't know what's going on around here in North Texas. Normally I pull up to the loading dock at my Walmart where I've paid off the staff, push the de-cloaking button in my truck to reveal the top secret entrance, locate my custom forklift, take a sip of the latte in the armrest, and load the pallets of ammo into the bed of my pickup. After parking my forklift, taking the latte, re-cloaking the entrance, and returning home, I post all the ammo on auction sites where I've found thousands of lazy ill-prepared people with more money than sense who don't have the privileged access I have to ammo.

However, today, my cloaking device failed. I had to actually visit a couple stores, walk in each store, and make a choice of which 3 boxes I wanted to purchase and which caliber I desired most. I got multiple boxes of each caliber I needed. Had this happen a few weeks ago as well IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AFTERNOON. What nerve these Walmartians have.

I seriously hope my platinum hoarder card is just damaged. I'm currently on hold with customer service 1-800-WMT-HOAR(D).

In case you can't tell, I'm REALLY tired of the "hoarder" defense for those that failed to prepare. Step up to the plate, realize what YOU failed to do, learn from the experience, and move on with life more prepared than before. It's a simple lesson I've learned the past XX years.

(50 < XX < 70)
 
JustinL said:
Within the past few weeks I've visited Walmarts in Crestview, FL; Chantilly & Charlottesville, VA with the same result: bare ammo shelves. The only calibers they seem to have in stock are 20ga, .30-06 and .243.
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I've come to realize that WM not longer stocks their shelves. They now only plink them, and if your not there to catch the deflections your SOL!
 
If nothing else, Walmart is being pretty fair.

I have stumbled across a few rounds of 22LR at local WMs and the thing you have to credit them with is their pricing. While many others are charging in the range of 10 cents/round Walmart has had Winchester and Federal at 5 cents/round but not much of it. Their 1000 round box of Winchester at $47.+ is an example, their 555 Winchesters are less than $25/ box, where else do you see anyone holding prices like that?

They can't be faulted for the people who hang at opening to rush in and buy for resale. The 3 box limit is the best they can do and they don't hire people to fight with customers, they have simple rules and follow them.
 
My local Wallychina's and LGS are all completely stocked for the simple fact they are charging stupid price's.

Eric
 
Went to Cabelas (Greenbay) yesterday and they had a couple shelves full of 9mm no limit. Several of us starred in awe at the sight not sure how to react. They had good supply of 22LR but it was limit 2 boxes.
 
Around here, we can walk into pretty much all the stores and buy whatever caliber we want (including .22lr). The only thing they still dont keep in stock is the long lost .300 ACC. When it hits the shelves, it disappears the moment the first person walks by.

I think all these people in the South have found a new round to tinker with, lol.
 
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