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flphotog
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I'm seeing quite a bit of .22 at midway. The problem is that they limit in most cases to one (box) and there shipping is higher than anywhere else I've seen which brings the cost per round above what I am willing to pay.
Bide your time?
I've been tracking Walmart deliveries in about 20 or more stores in my area for quite some time (built a spreadsheet in order to predict deliveries based on past history). I got tired of being yanked around at my local store (there every morning @ 7am for 8 weeks and got 22 twice) so did my homework and got systematic AFA tracking / buying.
Over the last few days I've given up on updating my spreadsheet as deliveries are now fast & furious - over the last few days I've turned down opportunities to buy 22, and it's been a while since that happened!
The local store got in 3 cases of Winchester 555 the other day - that's the first time they've received more than one case in a loooooong time.
I was a few miles up the road the other day and stopped by a Walmart I'm familiar with @ 12:30pm - figured it would be useless to stop, but since I was in the area, you never know. To my surprise, they had one box of Federal 550 Value Pack on the shelf - clerk said he got in 40 boxes that morning.
The flippers / flea market buyers are still out there gobbling it up, but if deliveries continue at the accelerated pace I'm now seeing, I think the 22 bubble is going to burst at any time.
I've been tracking Walmart deliveries in about 20 or more stores in my area for quite some time (built a spreadsheet in order to predict deliveries based on past history). I got tired of being yanked around at my local store (there every morning @ 7am for 8 weeks and got 22 twice) so did my homework and got systematic AFA tracking / buying.
Over the last few days I've given up on updating my spreadsheet as deliveries are now fast & furious - over the last few days I've turned down opportunities to buy 22, and it's been a while since that happened!
The local store got in 3 cases of Winchester 555 the other day - that's the first time they've received more than one case in a loooooong time.
I was a few miles up the road the other day and stopped by a Walmart I'm familiar with @ 12:30pm - figured it would be useless to stop, but since I was in the area, you never know. To my surprise, they had one box of Federal 550 Value Pack on the shelf - clerk said he got in 40 boxes that morning.
The flippers / flea market buyers are still out there gobbling it up, but if deliveries continue at the accelerated pace I'm now seeing, I think the 22 bubble is going to burst at any time.
MagnunJoe
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Yeah, but some people here tell us that things are improving.
mdauben
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Actually, it was probably gone by 11:16 last night.
MidwayUSA seems to be getting ammo, even .22LR, in fairly often but like anywhere else it just doesn't last. Unless you are litterally at the keyboard when the email notification pops up, you are unlikely to find it still in stock when you check.
primalmu
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I had a chance to buy some .22 LR from Midway the other day. $30.99 for a brick. Shipping was $19. I decided Midway wasn't worth my time, and in fact I've gotten so fed up with Midway's shipping that I shop primarily with Brownell's now.
mdauben
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The shipping isn't really Midway's fault. Its the UPS surgcharge for shipping "ORM-D" matierial.
It's the one-box limits that really kill it for me. If you can bundle multiple boxes of different ammo to spread the shipping cost, it becomes much more reasonable.
Queen_of_Thunder
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And herein lies the problem. Its not those waiting in line causing the problem its the fact that the stores are not receiving ammo. The scarcity of ammo is what is causing the lines. Say a store gets in a case of 5000 22lr. So we have 10 boxes for sale. I don't know about your area but 10 boxes of 22lr can't meet the needs of the shooters in my area even under the best of circumstances. The question that hasn't been answered is why isn't the ammo reaching the stores.
I don't know about your area, but in mine the ammo IS increasingly reaching the stores, both in accelerated deliveries AND lot size.
At the current rate I'm seeing come into some stores, I think the flippers / flea marketers will soon be out of business. Went to my first flea market ever the other day (picked up a few good DVDs and scored some great banana bread), but saw only one person selling 22LR - $35 for a box of Remington 225 (triple Walmart price) and $50 for a box of CCI AR Tactical (double Walmart price).
From what I hear, flea market prices seem to have come down.
The Walmarts in my area that seem to be the most difficult to find ammo at are those located in small towns, where flea markets are popular.
As some may have run across some of my earlier posts / threads and my Walmart 22 adventures, the ammo is coming in so often now that I've just given up on building my database - it was handy to loosely predict when a particular type of 22 was due to arrive (within a window, based on historical deliveries), but that was when a particular flavor of 22 only arrive once a month.
Darn stuff is coming in so fast now, that I don't have to bother with the spreadsheet - if it ain't there, just wait a short while and you'll see a delivery.
'Course, the insiders are going to die hard - my local Walmart's inventory tripped yesterday - Federal 550 Value Packs came in, so I planned on being there for the 7am ammo rollout to help out a friend that's still working.
Evidently they were just too tempting a target - inventory showed them gone within about 4 hours - never made it to the "official" 7am ammo rollout the next morning!
I think the ammo makers may also have shifted from hunting ammo to other things (increased 22 and ? production).
One curious thing in our neck o' the woods - Federal AutoMatch used the be the 22 our local Walmart got the most of - it seems to have disappeared, and now we're seeing deliveries of Federal 550 Value Packs (instead?).
Been a long time since our local store stocked the 550 Value Packs, and I'm glad to see them return - these were one of my old favorites, as well as being one of the cheapest PPR 22s out there.
I picked up a few AutoMatch out of town the other day, and I don't know if it was a mistake or for some reason this Walmart sells cheaper, but the AutoMatch in our area was going for $18.97 box (and one Walmart employee told me the ones I got at that price were $1 a box cheaper than his previous deliveres). The ones I picked up out of town the other day were $16.97 box.
Another sign of the ammo supply easing?
myFRAGisFUBAR
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In my area of east TN, ammo is starting to show up. I went to walmart yesterdat and they had dozens of boxes of .308/.223/.40 and even some 380/45. I was even able to take home a box of 9mm. All that is missing is .22 but it will only be a matter of time.
DNS
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I'm tail end Charlie for resupply here and I actually saw one box of Federal bulk 22 for $24 at Wally.
I walked away, thought about the price for twenty seconds, walked back.
Roughly nineteen seconds too late.
But i'd say its a good sign.
I walked away, thought about the price for twenty seconds, walked back.
Roughly nineteen seconds too late.
But i'd say its a good sign.
threefeathers
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Yes I got the Midway e-mail, but I had purchased 2 550 bricks of .22 at Walmart during the week so I'm not going to order. I think folks over ordering is what led to the shortage in the first place.
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