Walmart Done Went Crazy !

[BigCityChief]

Walmart here had nothing but shotgun shells and a bunch of 22wmr. The only pistol rounds they had was maybe 2-3 boxes of 380, 1 box of wwb 40 sw and 2 100 round wwb 40sw. Thats it lol

Exact same situation in Capital District area of NY State.

 

[BigCityChief]

I remember when I lived "up north." At the first snow flake, the stores were emptied of bread, milk and toilet paper!

When there is a perceived shortage, everyone who can will start hording - ensuring that there will be a shortage.

There's a lot of wisdom in those words, sir.

 

[358156hp]

There is a Local Gun Store, that is known for wiping out WalMart's ammo supply and reselling it in his store..
In order to stop that, at times WM puts limit's on the boxes per customer..
if you need more than 6 boxes at a time, you are just ammo hoarding and denying others a couple boxes..

The time for ammo hoarding has long passed..

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

 

[kbm6893]

Sorry, but I think they SHOULD put a limit on the amount sold. It isn't fair that a guy can't get ammo because some other guy bought it all when they got it off the truck. Until this madness passes, they should limit the amount sold.

 

[Cerberus62]

I've been wondering ever since the shootings in Sandy Hook and the panic buying and hoarding that has followed, where everyone has been for the past four years? I've bought a box or two of ammunition every other week when I do my shopping. No shortage here.

Welll said, my man. This is the world we now live in.

Buy a litttle something every week, or every paycheck, however you do it. Some powder, some primers, some bullets, "oh, you gonna toss that bucket of wheelweights?"

It all adds up.

Somehow, now my having 73 bullet molds doesn't seem so ridiculous.

 

[Old Corp]

Well, I should have loaded up and done some additional hoarding.

Except my ammo stash from the Y2K stock-up has taken up most of the room I have.

Back to my p/t job at the GS, I'll have to say, the guys I work with and I are getting just a bit tired of the endless phone calls from people looking for .223/5.56 ammo and AR mags.
And every 3rd or 4th call is evidently from people who live in remote caves - questions like 'what's going on with all this?'

 

[m657]

Hoarding? I've been shooting the remnants of the 22LR stash a buddy long dead pawned off on me a couple decades ago.....and he wasn't hoarding then. Some store he was at had been flooded and he bought a BUNCH of 22LR that had been underwater.

So far, it fires better than the newer stuff. Hate to see it go.

 

[Bobthegod]

Geeeez I feel lucky. I have a local retail reloader near buy.....bring in your brass and have it reloaded. No price gouging, no waiting, and plenty of whatever you need. Custom made to your (sane) specs too.

 

[amazingflapjack]

Suggest you learn to reload.

 

[Don G.]

The Walmart near me is empty of just about everything except .38 special and .357 magnum. Seems like the bulk of the panic buying is with the auto-loaders.

 

[MIKE2013]

the walmarts in las vegas have no limit its crazy people just buy all of the ammo and leave none for others

cannot find any 22 or other types of ammo hardly right now in vegas got lucky the other afternoon picked up 550 round boxes at one walmart

 

[radar1972]

Today, my son-in-law went to the local Wal-Mart to buy .22LR ammo and he said the shelves were totally EMPTY except for a couple boxes of .22 shorts. Wow!

 

[wft0461]

Hello, It's a d-- mess, prices jacked up on all guns, and shooters supplies. I wish that gun owners could stick together and boycott all these vendors. let them see how it is to held hostage by greed. They are just holding shipments causing a panic, so they can collect more money. I hope most of you, planned for this to happen. We can control supply and demand. see how long they can go with income. Good people don't deserve this. I hate seeing people being taken.

 

[walnutred]

Hate to sound cynical but if you were not buying what you really wanted/needed before November 2012 you were living in denial. This situation was never a question of IF but WHEN.

 

[Smokester653]

I kind of like the ammo limit. It prevents some ******* from clearing out all the shelves as soon as a new order comes in and gives humble folks like me a chance to at least buy a couple of boxes.

I hear ya! In times like this I like the limits because as stated above it keeps someone from cleaning the shelves and also helps prevent the LGS owner from clearing the shelves for resale at a MUCH higher price as I have personally seen a LGS owner and his wife do at our local Wally World.

 

[Smokester653]

Hate to sound cynical but if you were not buying what you really wanted/needed before November 2012 you were living in denial. This situation was never a question of IF but WHEN.

Some either did not have the finances or are new gun owners and I feel for those that COULD NOT prepare for whatever reason. I will agree with you if you didn't see this coming you had your head in the sand.

 

[Harrison]

I think it was Ben Franklin, or maybe Mark Twain that said "The early bird catches the worm". We have had ammo/primer etc. shortages before and they lasted months to years. If people don't stock up little by little while the stuff is available, they should not complain when it is unavailable. You cannot foresee exactly when a crisis will occur, just that it will eventually. Don't forget the Boy Scout motto, "Be Prepared". P.S. it helps to reload and cast your own bullets.

 

[Welder1]

I've found that fine scotch and cheap beer are always readily available

 

[rburg]

Unfortunately, they also raised their prices across the board. The above 38 specials that were previously $18 are now over $20.

Ben, you need to listen to Joe and learn from his methods. He looks at private tables at gun shows and buys the old ammo. Not a little, he'll buy anything that looks cheap. If you run out, he may even sell you a few boxes. He'll still make a profit, but you'll have ammo if it gets to that.

4 years ago when the last shortage hit we must have carried 50 or more pounds of the old ammo out. At the old Paris, KY show I nearly bought a table out. The guy had all the odd 22s from someone's closet. Dozens of boxes of brands I'd never heard of. Joe and Glenn were beside themselves laughing. But over the last month I bet I could make 10x what I paid. Except I'm not selling.

 

[jtcarm]

They were probably just trying to make sure everybody gets a chance to buy some. Trust me, the shelves would be full if they had the stock.

A good policy, I think, and the manager should have stuck to it. A lot of bigger purchases are surely being scalped.

During the Great Primer Scare of 1994, Dillon began limiting purchases to 1000 primers when they got wind of them being resold for $$$.

RELOAD! Most of my guns have never fired a factory round and some have never fired other than home-cast bullets. The only retail purchases of centerfire metallic ammo I can remember were 100 rounds of .22 Hornets (anxious to shoot a new Ruger #3) and an emergency purchase of 40 rounds of .270s when I got to deer camp sans ammo. The largest purchase of factory ammo I ever made was 850 rounds of .38 wadcutters in 1985, and that was old stuff at a gun club swap meet.

BTW, if you take up casting, do load up on lead. The staple of the home caster, wheelweights, are being replaced with zinc.