Ammo insanity

lead

When all this panic buying started, it was mostly pistol ammo, AK and AR ammo that instantly disappeared. Yesterday I went in a Walmart and stopped at sporting goods for some targets. They had no 12ga on the shelves. All those bulk boxes of 100rd field loads were gone, most of the single boxes were gone. I heard the clerk tell another guy that it's sold out and hard to get now.
Is that true everywhere, are we gonna start seeing guys selling 12ga at double or triple the price and tell us it's just good capitalism?
I never would have believed this could happen in a country that manufactures ammo like we do.

Cornflk1

Yep, noticed that yesterday at one of our W-marts. Except for a few odd/end boxes. All 12 guage shells are gone. Only couple boxes of 7 mm rifle left as well.

Mobuck

If you'd been watching the entire span of ammo availability, you'd have seen that folks were shifting to any ammo available after the preferred choices were gone. Buckshot/slugs have been gone in several places for months.

TooBig

The Walley Worlds around here get more shotgun ammo than anything so go figure.

trc313

walmart is feeding to the frenzy. they cause panick buying by limiting what you "see"! keep shelves empty and you create a line when some suddenly appears. Especially on the stuff people really arent buying ie: 12 gauge.

Now when you go back and see three or four hundred round boxes you know you will snatch those up "just in case"

MrGunz22

The Wally World by me said they would not be getting any new shipments of ammo. This was last week.

mogley98

I even found a bunch of places are sold out of cross bow bolts, our local wal-marts have still had shotgun ammo and sporadic pistol ammo, you have to make the "seven O'clock" run though

shilowar

12 gauge has been gone around here from the beginning of the panic. Once folks couldn't get the stuff they needed, they bought up everything else. .410 and 7mm mag are is the only ammo that Wally World has here.

ChrisInTempe

I didn't use to go into Walmarts very much but began doing so out of curiosity. I've been in a half dozen of their Super Centers around the Phoenix metro area, one in Casa Grande and one in Tucson.

Store clerks tell me the same story, they are not allowed to order guns or ammo but they still receive it. Supplies are being managed higher up the corporate food chain.

Some Walmarts have signs up that they only stock the shelves at 10pm and open the sales counter at 7am.

Other posters to this forum have said Walmarts they checked stock shelves all day, as needed and as deliveries arrive. So that much varies I guess.

I have seen Bass Pro stocking the shelves in the middle of a Saturday afternoon and then again on a weeknight.

elect1mike

At our local wal mart there is lots of shotgun ammo and low recoil .45 acp hollow points NOTHING else I bought 2 boxes of slugs and plan on getting a couple more just in case this crap goes to shot ammo.

MFI

Shot shell ammo is next from what I am hearing.. The manufacturers are going to put much more emphasis on the rifle/handgun ammo.

calrugerfan

100 round bulk packs? That's enough for 50 women to safe![;)]

MMOMEQ-55

Wally World had 8 boxes of 7mm mag, one box of 270, 2 boxes of 243 and one box of 300 mag. A few odd boxes of 12 gauge and several cases of 410 shells. Even the 22 shorts were gone and thats why I went in there. Now I am out of 22 shorts. They always have boxes of 22 shorts. Now I can's shoot my favorite Walter.

Pearyw

I was in Wally early on Sat. and they had about 2 cases of Federal 22 Magnum ammo. It was $17.99 a box with a limit of 3 boxes. That was the only rimfire ammo.

Junkballer

Sounds like the gun to buy now is the .410 [:)] I've got a few of them too [:D]

JasonV

Cabelas in Mitchell SD yesterday has .22lr ammo with a limit of 100 rounds per customer. It went fast.

I can buy truckloads of 12 gauge ammo here at the regular prices.

Ridefar

I decided to step back from all this once I realized what was going on. I used to buy at least a box of ammo a week whether I needed it or not, just a strange habit I guess. My local gunshop is the largest volume store in the state, all bulk ammo shelves are empty. No .22 available, not even a box of .223 at any price. Some $2.00 a round .308 hunting ammo and a good selection of premium bullet stuff. Available handgun ammo is being rationed to 3 boxes per customer and some is being sold only with the purchase of a firearm. Management is clearly unhappy they do not have product to sell. I have had a couple friends call me asking to find them ammo, which really means that they want mine. Well that ain't happening, not unless they need it for survival. These are the same folks who thought tying money up in a couple cases of ammo was just crazy. My, how things have changed. Best to all.

bambambam

quote:Originally posted by Junkballer
Sounds like the gun to buy now is the .410 [:)] I've got a few of them too [:D]


[:0][:0]Could you amagine gouging prices on .410, they are already WAY over priced at ~$13-19/box.

All the retail stores in my area have 12ga coming out of thier ears.

I've got a few thousand hulls & plenty of powder,wads,primers, and 100lbs of shot. I haven't bought shotgun shells(except slugs) in years.

We have been getting pistol & .223 ammo in pretty regular (1-2 x's a week) and .22LR Rem Thunderbolts(1x's week) at our local farm sotre.

Edit: also have CASES or 7.62X39 left untouched on the floor.

legear

In this area there is enough 12ga and 22-250 to sink a battleship.

5.56 .22 was bought up then pistol rounds.
Still can find cases of 762x39 and 762x54r with ease

Junkballer

quote:Originally posted by bambambam

[:0][:0] Could you amagine gouging prices on .410, they are already WAY over priced at ~$13-19/box.

. Not down here, they're reasonable here, Illinos where you are it does'nt surprise me though [V] People tend to forget you get more shells in a box of .410's thus the price difference.

dakotashooter2

410 isn't that available in many places either. many shops only carry a few boxes to start with and guns like the Judge have increased demand for it.

Waco Waltz

Kind of exposes the lie that all the gun owners are the ones buying up all the guns. It's new gun owners who are in need of ammunition creating the shortage.