Walmart Ammo Part 2 (The Discount)

[stonebuster]

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.

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.

 

[IAhunter]

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.

 

[TTSH]

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.

 

[Jeppo]

Jeppo at work

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.

 

[max503]

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

 

[IAhunter]

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.

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.

 

[desi2358]

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.

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

 

[Stevens]

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

 

[TTSH]

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

No one ever said that corporate anti-2A virtue signaling had to make sense.