Fire75
Member
So my local had the federal 325 pk for $14.27 not long ago. Today it was $18.97!!!! That seems like a huge price increase in a short time.
Walmart prices shooting up?
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J. R. WEEMS
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Doesn't matter around here. A bit of rifle ammo and a few shotgun shells is all they have. I check once in awhile when ever I go by.
ArchAngelCD
Moderator, SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
I'm not sure where you have been over the past 8 months or so but this has been going on since Christmas 2012. In reality I have not seen any 22LR ammo in my area for months.
MichiganScott
Member
Wal-Mart has kept their prices the same since last December instead of raising them to reflect the prices every other ammunition seller in the country was charging. They could have greatly increased their profit margin by increasing prices for the product they sold during the time of massive shortages in this country, but they did not.
Now you begrudge them for what seems to be a totally reasonable price increase inline with standard business practices. They have been more than fair. If you don't like their business practices, shop elsewhere.
Now you begrudge them for what seems to be a totally reasonable price increase inline with standard business practices. They have been more than fair. If you don't like their business practices, shop elsewhere.
perfectcircle1
Member
Wow. He was just stating there was an increase and you got all defensive. Easy bigboy
private pile
Member
Heck! I'd buy the .22lr at that price. My wally world had ZERO stock of the .22 this am. I did find some .17hmr Winchester. There were six boxes of 50. I got two. Its the first WM ammo I have purchased since last Oct/Nov.
De ja vu all over again
http://smith-wessonforum.com/ammo/325436-federal-auto-match.html
http://smith-wessonforum.com/ammo/325436-federal-auto-match.html
I hit Walmart in the afternoon last Wednesday and got the one brick of 550 Remingtons that they had for $22. That was the first time I had seen any 22s in WM in quite a while. I've been buying the 40rd boxes at Academy for $1.97 (limit 1) so it is beginning to get back out there.
I noticed the jump in Federal Auto Match 22's from Walmart about a month ago. I think the increase might be traced back to Federal and not Walmart, though I could be mistaken. At about 6 cents per round I can live with it.
ma deuce
Member
Price doesn't much matter when the shelves are stripped almost all the time. I've stopped bothering with Wally-World. Store employees hold back a lot of the ammo for themselves and their friends, the rest is snatched up by the same dozen guys who come every morning at 7:00 to grab what's put out in the case, then list it on the internet. I buy from Cabela's and Palmetto State and save myself the aggravation.
Smitty357
Member
$18.97 and ur complaining.
There are idiots around here paying $50+ for bricks. And the funny thing is they can drive to wal-mart at any time and buy it for under $20.
There are idiots around here paying $50+ for bricks. And the funny thing is they can drive to wal-mart at any time and buy it for under $20.
I don't ever think prices will ever return to pre election prices in the future and right now it's very difficult to find any ammo and especially 22LR. I paid $24 a 325 pack a few months ago and I was just happy to get it and I got 3.
I have seen the federal 325 packs at Walmart several times since they went from 14.00 to almost 19.00.
Friday night I went to buy .45 that showed up and there was 6 boxes of it setting on the counter.
They set on the shelves and dont sell near as fast as they did at 14.00.
At .06 a round they are still cheaper then most anything available.
Friday night I went to buy .45 that showed up and there was 6 boxes of it setting on the counter.
They set on the shelves and dont sell near as fast as they did at 14.00.
At .06 a round they are still cheaper then most anything available.
What a lot of the people waiting for the "good ol days" to return fail to realize is that manufacturing prices for the materials used in ammo have went through the roof the last few years.
Lead, copper and brass = $$$$$$
Everything federal went up.
9mm .40 .45 .223 and 22lr.
Shotgun shells even had a price increase.
Funny, over the last 4 months, price's at my local wallychina have gone up quite a bit on ammo.
Eric
MattLarmore
Member
my local walmart literaly has nothing in stock but some shotgun shells(and even then only birdshot) and some 30-06 and 270
Here in my neck of the woods, South Eastern KY. "London" getting any 22 LR at Wally World within about a 50 mile radius has been nearly impossible since Dec. The few LGS that I have found some in have raised their prices from 50% to 100% of the pre-panic prices. I personally thought things would be better by now. IMO the problem might get worse. If the Reps. lose the house in 2014 the stuff might really hit the fan all around for us shooters, and if Hillary gets in The white House in 2016......that will almost surely be bad news. As crappy as it is if I see 22LR that I can buy right then and there for 20-30% higher that it was a year ago I buy what I can while the getting is good. Just my opinion folks. Bob
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I asked the guy at the gun department at Walmart about "holding back ammo for themselves and their friends". He told me that would result in immediate termination if they got caught. The employees where I go seem to take the situation very seriously, maybe it's different where you are.
Central MA...I've been looking for .22lr pretty hard for 8-10 weeks. I finally found two 18.97 325 packs at one WM on Monday and was happy to buy them... the clerk said they had gotten 15 in that morning...I bought the last two that evening (not sure why two, with a three box limit 
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On a hunch, I hit another local WM the following noontime. they had two 325s in the case... I went to the dept next door looking for a clerk, was back in like three minutes and there was another guy ogling them, lol... we were going to split the two boxes, but the guy with the key shows up and produces five more boxes from under the counter We each bought three, leaving one I the case.
Things may be on the mend, all I know is this is the first .22lr I've seen in months so the 18.97 was hardly an issue. I also know in things of this nature you have to buy it when you see it. There is nothing on the horizon that tells me it will be cheaper or more plentiful in the future
)On a hunch, I hit another local WM the following noontime. they had two 325s in the case... I went to the dept next door looking for a clerk, was back in like three minutes and there was another guy ogling them, lol... we were going to split the two boxes, but the guy with the key shows up and produces five more boxes from under the counter
We each bought three, leaving one I the case.Things may be on the mend, all I know is this is the first .22lr I've seen in months so the 18.97 was hardly an issue. I also know in things of this nature you have to buy it when you see it. There is nothing on the horizon that tells me it will be cheaper or more plentiful in the future
CatSnipah
Member
Bingo. Its not just demand. Its materials.
spad124
Member
In northern Illinois the WMs are starting to have some supply. Also the Cabela's in the Chicago burbs. Yes, prices are up some-except for Tula it seems. I think the supply was drained by a lot of first time gun buyers during the post shooting panic - but, if you just bought a new gun/ caliber you need ammo- so I don't begrudge the new people in the sport.
What frosts me are the friggin speculators. A WM clerk said he has a regular crowd at 7:00 am the morning his shipment comes in. All with their cell phones calling the shipment inventory into their buddies - who show up 15 min later as soon as the drive over from the next WM. At a recent gun show there were guys with ammo only and .22lr at $55-$60 a brick. No one was buying. I hope they get stuck with it.
Personally I just buy what I need. So, instead of buying 3 bulk packs of .22 I buy one. I figure leave some for the guy who might want to teach his son or daughter to shoot.
What frosts me are the friggin speculators. A WM clerk said he has a regular crowd at 7:00 am the morning his shipment comes in. All with their cell phones calling the shipment inventory into their buddies - who show up 15 min later as soon as the drive over from the next WM. At a recent gun show there were guys with ammo only and .22lr at $55-$60 a brick. No one was buying. I hope they get stuck with it.
Personally I just buy what I need. So, instead of buying 3 bulk packs of .22 I buy one. I figure leave some for the guy who might want to teach his son or daughter to shoot.
elm_creek_smith
US Veteran
I'm still operating off the two 550 round boxes of .22 my mom got me for Christmas about 2 years ago. I've just been using it for my grandkids, but now that they like shooting the Mini-14 I've been going through lots of Monarch (made in Russia) .223Rem/5.56X45mm. Luckily, Academy has gone from one box per caliber per person per day to two boxes, and I can get two boxes of Monarch for $13.00 after taxes.
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Harrison
US Veteran
I have not seen any 22lr or pistol ammo at any of the three localish Walmarts since before Christmas. I guess a price increase on something that is unobtainable doesn't make much difference. I heard yesterday that a LGS in Corpus is selling Federal primers for $6 a hundred.
