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[Funflyer]

The wife wanted to pick up a few Christmas clearance items from Walmart today so I thought I'd take a peek in the reloading cabinet while we were at it. To my surprise they were clearancing off all their Hornady bullets and some of the RCBS die sets. $13 for the bullets and $25 for the die sets. I really didn't need another 9 or 45 set but they'll be good for trading. The 10/40 would be nice so I won't have to re-set the dies when switching from either caliber, and I don't have a 44 but this is a great excuse to get one now. I'm a sucker for a bargain.

 

[Hillbilly77]

Walmart sells reloading supplies?

None of them around here do.

 

[AJ]

No reloading supplies here either!

 

[Funflyer]

There are three Walmarts within 30 minutes of each other in my area (Prescott Az) and only one sells reloading supplies.

 

[Valmet]

I've never encountered reloading supplies at Wal-Marts here in Virginia.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I hopped you cleaned them out of bullets.

I probably would buy a 4th set of 45 dies at that price! With a progressive, I mix and match 45 caliber dies all over the place. The die set I use for 45 Colt uses a 1982 carbide Pacific die for 45 ACP, a Lyman 1964 45 Colt seating die and a RCBS 1990's 45 ACP taper crimp die!

Ivan

 

[ArchAngelCD]

The store manager decides what to stock in most cases. We have 3 Wal-Mart stores near where I live. One carries shotguns only, another has shotguns and bolt action long guns and the third carries no guns at all. Go figure!

 

[Bayou52]

Never saw any reloading stuff at our local WallyWorld, either...

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Back in the 90's Meijer's decided to no longer carry reloading supplies. It was pulled from the store shelves and sat in Gaylord boxes in the store's warehouse. A friend of mine approached the store manager about buying it all, he went to the district manager. For $500 a store he cleared out the warehouse of 5 stores in Central Ohio. No two stores were alike, but he had over 20 tons of Lawrence Magnum shot (that is not a mistake, TWENTY TONS!), several hundred die sets, almost 2000 pounds of powder. Around 100,000 primers, 1000's of boxes of bullets, pallets of shotgun wads.

He eventually sold all (or what he wanted to) of it at flea markets, at about 50% of going rates. He thought he made somewhere between $70 and $90 thousand on that deal! (I have seen him make deals for surplus ammo 5000 cases at a time.) He's never had a FFL! But the key to staying out of trouble is: Pay Your Taxes! Income tax, Sales tax, and Property tax. By and large, the various governments don't care how you make your money, as long as they get their cut!

Ivan

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Walmart sells reloading supplies?

None of them around here do.

Franklin, NC Wally has loaders/powder/primers/shot/RCBS equip........Only one I've been in so equiped.

 

[Skeet 028]

My friend from Md went into the local Wally World and was amazed..He bought some dies and bullets there also on closeout. I'm going to check it out tomorrow to see what they may have left. And a guy called me today with a large load of reloading equipment he wants gone from his place...gonna clean it out of there tomorrow Presses dies powder shot primers bullets etc. yippee. The Local WW is out of pistol ammo for the most part

 

[stansdds]

My two local WalMarts have never, to my knowledge, carried any reloading supplies, they stopped selling handgun ammo long ago and now have only shotgun shells and shotguns for sale, and not much of that.

 

[the_buckshot_kid]

The store manager decides what to stock in most cases. We have 3 Wal-Mart stores near where I live. One carries shotguns only, another has shotguns and bolt action long guns and the third carries no guns at all. Go figure!

I know what you mean. Here in NY I haven't seen reloading stuff at any Wally World. The guns they do have in the cabinets is all they have. Nothing in the back they get 1 in at a time and that could take months.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Different parts of the country are different. Crossing the continent by the southern route in 1972, I stopped at a hardware store in Texas to buy a cast iron frying pan. Also walked out of the store with his entire stock of .30 Mauser at half the antiquated price (it was antiquated but perfectly functional ammo). Remington had just discontinued production. I'm sure that we were both happy.

 

[kraynky]

Our WM has to poorest excuse for a Sporting Goods Dept. on the planet. Not a hint of reloading supplies, well...... they might have some 209 primers for inline BP shooters. Even their fishing dept. is awful. I stopped going back to look years ago.

 

[triaxle]

Three around here have reloading supply , every thing you need .

 

[Buckeye63]

The Walmart in Boone North Carolina.. used to sell reloading supplies.. Im not sure if they still do .. None of my local Wally Marts do (5)