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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: garand4life on May 16, 2009, 09:33:26 PM
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I went in to the Walmart in Steubenville, OH which is 15 minutes from my house tonight only going for maybe a movie and some more shotgun ammo. Typically I buy about a 100 rounds of the Federal multipurpose loads and in so doing I thought for laughs I would look and see if they had anything else I "needed". Low and behold I see not 1, not 2 but 3 boxes of 100 rounds Winchester white box 40S&W for $28.99 each. So in a moment of clarity I run to find an employee who could provide them to me and in so doing I spy a box of Federal 55grain FMJ .223 for $35 with 100 rounds. Of course I bought all 1 box and at that point between my 12gauge , 40s&w and .223 I reached the newly instated maximum of 6 boxes of ammo. Which was fine that was about all the cash I had on me. So as the guy said that was all he got in this morning and he didn't get anything else on the nightly truck. They didn't have any .45acp, 9mm .380 but plenty of .308 and .30-06 as well as plenty of 7.62x39. So I'm thrilled!!! Best of luck to everyone else!
FYI the Mossberg M590A1 I just acquired shot wonderfully with everything I put through it. 00Buck mil grade grouped well, 2 3/4 rifled slugs shot good offhand groups at 50yds of about 6" and the 3" magnum nearly took my shoulder off so HAHA!! Wonderful lil' gun
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Great find! I went to my local Wallyworld, and literally, all they had was a box of 7mm, and one teeny little tumbleweed a-tumblin' along the ammo shelf towards the paintball gear.
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Geez,
I thought I "scored" on finding .22 mag CCI (of which I haven't seen in 2 months) @ Wally.. Maybe there's hope after all....
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Yesterday my WM had lots of 22 CCI MiniMag and about 24 boxes of 9MM.
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FYI the Mossberg M590A1 I just acquired shot wonderfully with everything I put through it. 00Buck mil grade grouped well, 2 3/4 rifled slugs shot good offhand groups at 50yds of about 6" and the 3" magnum nearly took my shoulder off so HAHA!! Wonderful lil' gun
Sabot slugs are pretty kool out of that gun too.
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Congrats on the new shotgun. I am dismayed to here about the 6 box limit though. Does that mean you can't buy shotgun shells by the case, or is just one big box?
FQ13
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Since ammo went wacko, every trip to Wal Mart includes a drive by the ammo counter. I have a job where I have to chance to stop by a lot of different towns so my luck has been better than most. One gun shop I stopped in was selling 100 rds of white box Winchester .45 for $54.00 with a strait face. I rolled into the Wally World the next town up and got it for a more normal price. ;D
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Out of curiosity I just went over to Cabela's web site and looked at ammo. There appears to be better supplies than I have seen in quite a while. Things may be looking up a little bit. Prices haven't come down, but they haven't gone up either.
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Congrats on the new shotgun. I am dismayed to here about the 6 box limit though. Does that mean you can't buy shotgun shells by the case, or is just one big box?
FQ13
I can never figure out if the big box of 4 25 pack boxes counts as a case. Its one box with 4 smaller boxes of 25 shells each and it counts as 1.
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Out of curiosity I just went over to Cabela's web site and looked at ammo. There appears to be better supplies than I have seen in quite a while. Things may be looking up a little bit. Prices haven't come down, but they haven't gone up either.
while i was at a local cabelas today they had good selection of defensive ammo for handguns and plenty of .223 from black hills and others as well as the bulk .223 for $119 with 250 rounds. Not sure the manufacturer of the ammo though. But overall I was much more impressed by what they had and prices weren't bad.
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I can never figure out if the big box of 4 25 pack boxes counts as a case. Its one box with 4 smaller boxes of 25 shells each and it counts as 1.
In Texas and FL, a case is usually a dozen boxes of 25, but legally I guess the same thing would apply. Thats good because you usually saved about 10%
FQ13
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My Walmart had... nuffum.
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I drive pretty close to 3 WW most days. When I have a chance I stop on to check to see what they have. Sometimes nothing, sometimes I get lucky. All three keep telling me the warehouse shows out of stock for the calibers I ask about. They never know when it's coming, it just shows up. A lot of times, they don't even get it put on the shelf as people are buying it straight out of the packing box. I have gotten lucky and have gotten .32ACP, 38 special, .357 mag, 9mm, and .40 cal and .308 recently. Sometimes only a box, and some times a few. I haven't seen any.380, .45 auto, .223 other then high end cartridges or bulk .22 in a long time. I may have a couple of boxes of .380 coming from another source. A friend stubled on some at a small gun shop and was going back to check if they still have some. Have been seeing a few more guns lately also. I think maybe sales and demand may be reaching their peak.
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Not much ammo in local Wally Worlds in NE Ohio but went to a local gunshow and there was tons of ammo at good prices 9mm under $20/50, .45 under $25/50...Didn't check out the cost of .223 but it was there. .38 was the biggest disappointment except for primers which were marked $60/K (don't know if they sold or not!).
FWIW
Richard
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I can honestly say, I've not step foot in walmart in 15+ years. you couldn't pay me to.
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I can honestly say, I've not step foot in walmart in 15+ years. you couldn't pay me to.
I admire your conviction. I sold out several years ago as the result of them being open 24 hrs and then moving to a small town where they were about all that was left. I still shop there occaisionally, but I do try to minimize it.
FQ13
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I wish I would have taken a picture. I was at one of the local Wal-Marts, and in the parking lot was a car with a F Wal-mart bumpersticker and someone with a full cart and keys to said vehicle.
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I have not set foot in a Wal-Mart in years. I don't care what their prices are like. Last visit at 2 in the afternoon, they had 2 registers open with about 30 people in each line. Do you think any of the 6 people in customer service could open some registers? If you guessed "NO" you would be correct. They don't have anything I can't buy somewhere else, so they can piss off. >:(
They are on my personal boycott list (I know that scares the crap out of them :P )
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I just got back from one of the 4 WalMarts within 35 miles and was surprised to see some ammunition on the shelves!! The last time I was there (a couple of weeks ago) they had buttloads of shotgun shells and precious little else. Today I bought their entire inventory of 9mm (100 rounds) as well as 1000 rounds of .22LR (they had none of either caliber last trip) and the one box of 7.62x39 that they had in stock!!
Of course then I went across town to the gun store and found some other cool stuff (some of which MIGHT have followed me home had Mrs. T not been waiting in the car). Gun store had plenty of handgun ammunition, but they were awfully proud of it. I did pick up a couple of 30-round magazines (just for you, Haz, I educated the guy at the store when he called them "clips") for my Remington .22 rifle. It looks scary now, by cracky. ;D
All in all a pretty decent day. Woulda been better had that nice little 1911 followed me home, though. ;D
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I did pick up a couple of 30-round magazines (just for you, Haz, I educated the guy at the store when he called them "clips") for my Remington .22 rifle. It looks scary now, by cracky. ;D
All in all a pretty decent day. Woulda been better had that nice little 1911 followed me home, though. ;D
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