Ammo has made its return?

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Been seeing lots of federal 9mm ect at Walmarts lately which is surprising. 22 or 22wmr is only there when the trucks come in.
 
If you haven't seen it in a year you aren't looking in the right places.
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I did look at Midway a while back. I looked around so often I got tired of looking actually. Thanks for the links though. The 75 Grain Match is right up my alley although I usually buy the reloaded stuff. It's just as accurate and costs a lot less.

I've shot up some .223 this year but it's been lesser quality stuff because I moved away from the range where I can shoot long distance. I'm about to move again where I'll be able to shoot long distance off the back porch with lots of coyotes to shoot at. But I don't really like to use the Black Hills stuff for that either. I don't need that kind of super accuracy to shoot 'yotes. And again, I do have a pretty good stock pile of Black Hills ammo already. I just don't like to shoot up what I might want to use in a match (I was about to join another club locally but I had some health issues the day I was supposed to show up of orientation).

I'm certainly glad to see Black Hills being sold again though. Maybe it's been around a while. I've really not looked for it many places for a while. I've had a lot of luck with Hornady ammo lately and I've found all of that I wanted to buy. But it isn't Black Hills accurate at least in my rifle.
 
Everything but .22lr... People are still lining up at Walmart's door first thing in the AM the second walmart gets some in stock.
 
I think most people around here in WV are still holding onto the mindset that there will never again be any ammo.I know guys who are sitting on thousands of rounds of 22 lr and still buying up anything they can find.As long as we keep buying it up and storing it,the shortage will continue.It's getting better,but we need to be patient.Plain and simple,more people than ever have gotten interested in shooting,so it takes more ammo.If we keep paying way too much for it,we're gonna keep paying too much for it.The law of supply and demand is very much in effect.Once it starts moving off the shelves slower,supplies will loosen and prices will drop.The glut will take effect,and all will be well(hopefully).
 
WVRJ said:
I think most people around here in WV are still holding onto the mindset that there will never again be any ammo.I know guys who are sitting on thousands of rounds of 22 lr and still buying up anything they can find.As long as we keep buying it up and storing it,the shortage will continue.It's getting better,but we need to be patient.Plain and simple,more people than ever have gotten interested in shooting,so it takes more ammo.If we keep paying way too much for it,we're gonna keep paying too much for it.The law of supply and demand is very much in effect.Once it starts moving off the shelves slower,supplies will loosen and prices will drop.The glut will take effect,and all will be well(hopefully).
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Or people keep buying it for long enough that supply increases as manufacturers add production.

Either way, barring other panics set in motion by gun grabbing politicians, it will continue to get better.
 
I currently buy just as needed for the gun range ... I'm definitely NOT stocking up my long-term supplies with cheapo 115gr Federal running $29 + tax and 5.56 above .45 cent per round...
 
Yeah, I think it's getting much better little bylittle *but* the prices locally are obscene and we still have to buy what they have in stock...you don't get choices. We are either buying stuff we wouldn;t normally like and paying premium price for it or doing without.

I buy all my ammo online now and all my reloading supplies as well which sucks for the LGS but it is what it is. I'll buy guns from them and pay a little more but I'm not paying $22 - $30 a box when I can order it for $13 - $19 online.

I do have hopes that this whole shortage will be history by this time next year. Fingers crossed.

VooDoo
 
I was the Gander Mountain today here in Madison looking for some .22 ammo. None.

But they had .223 and lots of it. Over two hundred 312-round green ammo cans ($180) full. Cases and cases and cases of the Isreali made stuff in the bule and white boxes. I did some quick and dirty math and figured out they had over 150,000 rounds of .223 on the shelves. IT wasn't cheap, AFAIK (I don't shoot or buy .223) but it was there.

Pistol ammo too. Lots of .45 and 9mm. It was expensive enough that resellers can't make any money on it, but not so bad that a guy can't justify buying a few boxes to shoot.

Seems about right to me.
 
Walmart still has almost nothing.

The places with stock, have that stock because their prices are a little high.

We'll know ammo is back when you can walk into any Walmart in the country and see .22lr, 9mm, and Federal 5.56
 
All of the Walmarts in my area ONLY had 12 gauge ammo for most the year until last month. Now they are packed full of everything but 22lr. People are still lining up 5am in the morning waiting to buy it all.
 
Praxidike said:
All of the Walmarts in my area ONLY had 12 gauge ammo for most the year until last month. Now they are packed full of everything but 22lr. People are still lining up 5am in the morning waiting to buy it all.
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Do they buy it all, or are they packed full?

I just went to my Walmart today. They had shotgun shells, bolt action hunting cartridges, bulk boxes of .40, zero 9mm, zero .22lr, and 1 box of 5.56 or .223 (150 Federal XM855)
 
Well it's well stocked with everything, but 9mm & 22lr. They usually have a that cheap Tula 9mm and sometimes Winchester white box 9mm, but when I see that 22lr ammo has come in via Walmarts website, by the time I get there it's already sold. The clerk says that people usually line up to buy it the second it's on the self. I'm not desperate enough to stalk Walmart's website and wake up that early to go through all of that...
 
I am blowing up poster of that first post. Maybe hang it in the family room. With a caption underneath, that says, The Way it is Supposed to Be.
 
The guys buying up all the Walmart ammo are working to sell it off to those with no skills or a clue where they can get some. I hear stories constantly about how these operators are flipping the ammo in trades for guns. It's really a speculators market right now.

What do they buy? A few boxes. We aren't talking cases or pallet quantities, where you can get ammo direct cheaper and shipped to your house. If your perspective on ammo is to pick up a box or two with some milk, chips, and pop for that nights Red Box movie, you aren't really into shooting. Just plinking.

And as said, it's the military calibers and .22. Prepper, not Fudd (sorry, but it's accurate.) The old school non-military ammo is still on the shelf, just like the last Obamascare, and you can still get .30-30 nearly every day. The Good 'Ol Boys aren't hurting for ammo, it's those with TEOWAWKI fever.

I have been resorting my inventory for the next time this happens - it will, because none of you are doing anything about it except planning to line up at Walmart for even less chance of getting any. The .380 is going, sold, because in the best of times it's been scarce. I don't shoot 5.56 - I can buy 6.8 anytime I want, it's not subject to the roller coaster as much. I have a lever in .30-30. And the big rifle is in .30-06, not .308.

Military calibers being the weak point they are, you are setting yourself up for another fall looking to get into something that was supposed to be a little cheaper. Well, if it dries up completely, and the few boxes you can find are twice the price of the next one on the shelf, how is that working out for you? And if it's for the excuse of SD or whatever, then it's a failed plan, you don't get any to shoot to keep in practice.

Basically, the market is being manipulated by your neighbors speculating on the scarcity, Don't be taken advantage, switch calibers, and move on.
 
Tirod:
For rifles, 7.62x39 ammo might be the new .22, except for new, younger shooters.
For those who don't want an SKS, AK clone, Mini 30, Vz-58 etc, one day they might wish that they had stocked up now on this ammo.

The AK-74 and Mosin-Nagant crowds can find plenty of lower-cost ammo at pre-panic prices.
Many of us never wanted to wait for hindsight to teach its painful lessons, and acted accordingly.
 
good supply here in PA, Wal Marts still a bit weak, though I have been able to score some of my budget tula there in recent weeks. Fortunately, my job takes me to diff towns where there is a Wal Mart in each, so I usually hit paydirt at at least one.
 
Walmart this morning (11:00) had 8x 100 round value packs of Federal .223 55gr FMJ for $40.97

They also had a pile of Tulammo steel case .223, $5.27/20
 
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