Walmart Ammo Experience

[Jackie Graham]

I do reload 9mm for less.

I can't reload 9mm for the price of .22lr. The powder and primer costs around $0.04 cents alone. I am buying .22lr for less than $0.05 after taxes.

 

[Lazarus]

That's amazing logic right there! ^^^^^^
How come nobody else has thought of this?

Its nothing new. Its just that most people can't be waiting around at Walmart at 7am. I work from home and I still can't since I'm still calling hogs.

 

[Gigabyte71]

That's amazing logic right there! ^^^^^^
How come nobody else has thought of this?

Though it is logic, most of us have jobs to do and don't have time to go wait at Walmart every morning in hopes of beating the flippers to what they get in...

 

[Jackie Graham]

That is not always true

It is at the Wal-Mart where I shop.

 

[Lazarus]

I can't reload 9mm for the price of .22lr. The powder and primer costs around $0.04 cents alone. I am buying .22lr for less than $0.05 after taxes.

I think he means at the flipper price of $.10 per round for .22lr. I believe my 9mm load data was around $.08 per round.

 

[strider12]

I can't reload 9mm for the price of .22lr. The powder and primer costs around $0.04 cents alone. I am buying .22lr for less than $0.05 after taxes.

I was saying it's cheaper to reload 9mm than but 22lr from flippers.

 

[chucklenut]

OK I will let you in on the same secret about Wal-Mart ammo that the FLIPPERS are using. That way you can buy up the ammo before they do. If they can't find any they can't flip it.

Most Wal-Mart's get their trucks in over night. As a rule they do not put the ammo out until the next morning. The sporting goods department usually opens around 7:00am. Be at the counter at that time. When they bring out the ammo buy what you can. Repeat this daily or as you can.

I don't think it is one person buying it all. When I go I see several people standing at the counter. So if they have some come in it does not last long.

but that doesnt really make you any better unless you shoot it or actually want it

i just want to see prices come down a tad bit or stay where they are and availability to be enough to where someone can stroll in and pick up a box of 50 or 100 before they wanna go plinking. keeping the shelves artificially dry one way or another just kinda sucks

but yes, i would rather see that happen than someone buy it to merely sell to someone else

 

[twowheelz]

I think he means at the flipper price of $.10 per round for .22lr. I believe my 9mm load data was around $.08 per round.

Yes this. Plus I can sit in the basement with a beer and chill while I load. I picked up a bunch of "blems" a while ago so i am in them for cheap.

 

[Jackie Graham]

I was saying it's cheaper to reload 9mm than but 22lr from flippers.

We then you would be correct!!!

 

[GA_Dude]

Thanks for all your feedback everyone. I'm sure it's all been posted before but I guess we all hate how the public suffers from what I would call an ammo crisis given all that is going on in the marketplace. In past years I was not shooting much but as of last year I wanted to get back into it, a new indoor range opened near me and I had bought recently made some new firearms purchases assuming the shortage would not last like it has been. It's not just 22LR but there is no 9mm around either, I would like to shoot my Glock 17 but I'm not ready to purchase 1200 rnds for $500 to do so. Reloading has crossed my mind but isn't it just as hard to find powder, primer, and bullets? What is the up front investment for the equipment? I have not researched reloading.

In response to shooting 7.62 cheaper than .22LR, that's not been my experience. As expensive as .22LR is, even through the flippers, I have not seen the cost per round of 7.62 be lower than .22LR.

I didn't think about the Pawn Shops being partially responsible for flipping ammo, I have seen multiple posts in the Ammo FS section sighting various Pawn Shops as having ammo. I had just assumed they had an FFL license and were buying it just like the gun stores. How naive am I?

Again, yes people love to whine about things like this but enough is enough, it's been over a year now. I applaud businesses that try to limit purchases to 2 or 3 boxes so others have a chance to get some, but the flippers easily get around this either by making multiple purchases or getting others to buy it for them. I guess wherever there is a shorting of something, there is someone there with nothing better to do than buy and resell. It's the same reason I don't go to concerts or sporting events, the scalpers buy up the good seats and resell them in online classifieds.