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Went to Wal-Fart to pickup my wife's prescription. Checked ammo situation in sporting goods.
dreher
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Momma's prescription wasn't ready so I walked back to sporting goods. The ammo shelves were really well stocked. (Where is the green font when you really need it!!) 😂
Two boxes 16 gauge number 6 shot. And then I looked to my right and I saw.....................wait for it..............................one 15 round box of Winchester Super X 20 gauge # 3 buckshot for $14.93!!!!
I bought 1/3 of Wal-Fart's total ammo inventory!!!! 😁😊😁
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Forget 401k I stash 40 and 9 away as an investment
Buddy of mine was looking for some 22-250 and asked me to watch out for it. Stopped in WM for something and checked out ammo shelves. Few boxes of shot shells and 8 boxes of 30-30. Didn't need the 30-30 but have a couple of friends who hunt with them so I took 4 of them in case they need them (which they did). If WM can't keep it stocked and Sleepy Joe shuts down online ammo sales, it is going to get interesting.
I was at Cabela's Tuesday picking up some downrigger items, and as I was strolling past the ammo section, three store associates stopped in the aisle in front of me, each with a cart that contained very small amounts of what I assumed to be handgun ammo.
I wasn't close enough to see exactly what was in the carts, but a mob formed immediately, like they were giving stuff away. Everyone seemed civil, but I was definitely shocked by the number of people waiting for the arrival (although mostly because I was caught off guard by the rush).
Heck I have more 38 special than they had in all three carts, and that's my lean caliber.
My local gun shop is picked clean....a good size shop with several racks usually filled with guns. Ammo cleaned out to.
A lot of people milling around, being a regular customer, the owner gives me a come hither look and asked me what I needed, It reminded me of the days of Prohibition and speakeasys...a knock on the door and say " Joe sent me". I guess he has a stash for regulars. I didn't need anything.
I have a casual friend who chided me last year for picking up reloading components and a brick of 22lrs, now and then . He's now my long lost buddy.
Wife went to 'wally-world' for cat & dog food. I didn't care to stay in the car so I went along inside. I went to the sporting goods area just to have a look-see. The only ammunition there was 4 boxes of 28 gauge shotgun shells. Two of them were #6's and two of them were #8's. I have plenty of #8's so when I bought the two boxes of #6's I bought 1/2 of the store's total supply of ammunition.
Best - AQH
I cast and roll my on, I'm good....for-ever 😃, even grow my own food and don't owe a living soul any money. I hate to say it but many are in for a rude awakening coming soon.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
I made a trip to our local Wally World just prior to Xmas . You all’s descriptions jibes with my observations . Very limited ammo of any kind . Of the three active gun stores in town , two are limiting ammo purchase to those buyers who also purchased a gun . Ammo must be bought at same time and no caliber substitutions . The other , larger, store has about 1/2 the normal amount of shotgun ammo . Pistol and rifle ammo is a sometimes thing as to availability. As is reloading powder and supplies. Primers , large rifle and pistol are usually available but no small stuff in the past 3 or 4 months .
A very large store an hour away has an almost normal inventory of ammo . Prices for the most part are about double the pre- panic rate but it is avail and generally no limit .,They usually have 200 to 300 pistols in stock and about the same number of rifles and shotguns . Inventory numbers now run about half that amount
Walmart here only had shotgun shells. Cabelas had tons of shotgun shells and .17HMR along with a few boxes uncommon hunting rifle rounds.
Our Walmart has a sign that says they no longer carry pistol or .223 ammo, and they never have rifle ammo in stock, so I don't bother to look anymore.
Went to a local WM, no guns whatsoever and a few boxes of small shot shotgun shells. 7 1/2 and 8s. I have never seen it more empty.
At the M-W I go to there were maybe 15 to 20 long guns. Everything from 22s to 308 in rifles and both 12 and 20 gauge shotguns. The catch was, once I bought that one box of 20 gauge buckshot, they could sell you a rifle or shotgun but not one round of ammo to load the guns with.
back during the oldbig ears panic the local Walmart's had lines waiting out side every morning , lined up to run I mean do run to the sporting goods dept . any ar-15 was scooped up before it made the show case along with just about any semi auto rifle ( when selling prices were 2 too 3x over retail if you could find one ) same with ammo . at the time I was working 3rd shift so I would stop by for the fun some mornings . oh 😮😉 during that time I did buy a sig 522 I think what its called a sig 22 version of a AR and a Olympic arms ar15 and not sure how much ammo total over a few week period
a guy in front of me one morning snagged a colt AR the clerk told me that fellow had shown up 1st in line for weeks waiting on a "colt " it was same day I got the Olympic arms version when we latched on to the two rifles the only ones that day and it became obvious we were buying them about a dozen other in line just walked away I am sure to return the next day .
that's the only time I got caught up in the panic buying ordeal , but for me it was just the challenge and fun of the hunt if that makes sense
about the same time my youngest son bought two cases of 7.62x39 ammo from another Walmart he was going to buy a few boxes then ask if there was limit they said no so it took it all . after that they had a limit LOL
Stopped in my LGS, gave the owner a paint brush. He asked what for. Told him as long as his ammo shelves were empty, he might want to consider painting them.
Getting hit with a paint brush HURTS!