Oops went to Walmart for Groceries

mrcharlie3531 · August 25, 2013, 11:51 AM

My title explains it all. I made the weekly trip to fill my frig up for the week. I stopped at the sporting goods section first.

The young lady working the department was opening up boxes and stocking ammo on the shelves. She had .223 22 45 and 9mm ammo. I tried to buy it all. "Sorry only 3 boxes per customer" I purchases three boxes of federal 9mm FMJ 115gr at 14.67 per box.

I was shocked to find ammo at an excellent price. It made my day. I came home with ammo, no groceries.

Semper Fi,

Charlie

Uncle Malice · August 25, 2013, 12:01 PM

$15/box for 9mm is most decidedly NOT an excellent price.

Waspinator · August 25, 2013, 12:14 PM

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$15/box for 9mm is most decidedly NOT an excellent price.

Around my are it is... lowest I've found in months is $20 a box (don't have a 9mm, but I look at all the prices when I go to the store). Maybe it wasn't a good price pre-2013, but right now I think it's fairly low considering.

... I remember when gas cost 88 cents a gallon too...... doesn't mean I expect it to be so again.

FrosSsT · August 25, 2013, 12:20 PM

I saw Remington 9mm for $15/box yesterday. Fair price for my area

Model12Win · August 25, 2013, 12:21 PM

A couple months ago when I was back home in Illinois, the local Wally world got in one heck of a shipment of ammo, including a couple hundred Federal Champion 9mm 115 grn. 100 round value packs for the unbelievably low price of $11 something. Me and my father bought 3 boxes each for several days in a row. I haven't seen a deal like that on 9mm ammo since the start of the whole ammo crisis, online or otherwise. Wish I would have bought more but my new GP100 was calling for some .38s to feed on

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Uncle Malice · August 25, 2013, 12:23 PM

Meh. Keep an eye out online. It's available for cheaper. About the very most I'll ever pay is $0.27/rd for good stuff, and I get irritated about that.

They're only charging that much because people are still buying it as if it's no longer going to be available.... If everyone in America stopped paying these ridiculous prices for just a couple of weeks... prices would come crashing right back down.

Surely you've noticed that the shelves are now completely stacked with guns again whereas they were all bare when everyone went all "OHMYGAWDTHEYBETAKINMAHGUNZ!"....

Ammo is still a little more scarce because all of those people who bought an AR for $2,500 want to shoot it now.

I'm still shooting ammo that I've had since before December... The ammo supply hasn't dried up, it's a self-fulfilling paradox. Everyone thinks there's an ammo shortage, so they buy up all the ammo they can find... so now there's an ammo shortage because people are buying up all the ammo. Manufacturers aren't making LESS ammo - in fact, most of them are making MORE than ever.... but everyone is tickled pink to be paying $15/box for it which means it's going to keep selling for that price until they stop.

mrcharlie3531 · August 25, 2013, 12:26 PM

I can find the ammo locally at gun shops. They want between $24-$27 a box. They want to charge 1.00 per additional box you purchase. I also remember when gas was a $1.25 a gallon. I could also get a pack of smokes for $1.85.

sigarms228 · August 25, 2013, 12:53 PM

Nice score for American made brass ammo.

IMO pretty decent price for quality ammo these days. Usually what is cheaper is crappy steel cased import ammo. Some ranges won't even let you shoot such. I won't buy such myself.

The days of quality USA made brass ammo for $10 a box of 50 has probably gone the way of $1.59 gallon of gas and affordable health insurance that was possible not all that long ago pre obama.

sig1 · August 25, 2013, 12:56 PM

I just picked up some federal 180 gr fmj 40 cal for 19.00 per 50 at walmart, cheapest i have found it.

coronatj · August 25, 2013, 12:59 PM

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I can find the ammo locally at gun shops. They want between $24-$27 a box. They want to charge 1.00 per additional box you purchase. I also remember when gas was a $1.25 a gallon. I could also get a pack of smokes for $1.85.

Well, if every American would have quit buying gas when it it 1.26 a gallon, we would have these high prices.

RamItOne · August 25, 2013, 01:03 PM

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I tried to buy it all.

And there's our problem folks....

spacecoast · August 25, 2013, 01:04 PM

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100 round value packs for the unbelievably low price of $11 something

I think you may be mis-remembering or the boxes were mis-labeled.

Venom1956 · August 25, 2013, 01:09 PM

9mm for me is usually close to 20ish per 100 is what I fell is a fair price. but that is the going rate for 50 boxes here @ my walmart also.

Joe_Pike · August 25, 2013, 02:39 PM

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$15/box for 9mm is most decidedly NOT an excellent price.

You'll have to get in your wayback machine to get it cheaper than that at most places. You can get reloaded/remanufactured for $ .25 a round but not the good stuff. I check ammoseek.com fairly often and even Blazer and PMC are $ .34-$ .35 a round.

g.willikers · August 25, 2013, 03:20 PM

You mean the days of $89 for 1,000 rounds of surplus 9mm is over?
Dang.

Ramon_ · August 25, 2013, 03:21 PM

That three box policy is crazy.

hardhat harry · August 25, 2013, 03:37 PM

Walmart in Cabot Arkansas two days ago, Federal Champion .45 230gr FMJ was $19.97.

I paid 10 cents a pack for cigs in 1966.

Mystro · August 25, 2013, 03:40 PM

That's a good score in today's environment. I lucked out last week with 3 100 round boxes of WWB 9mm. My wife use to think all my ammo was crazy 20 years ago. Now I look like a fortune teller...

Venom1956 · August 25, 2013, 03:52 PM

Ha. Same with my dad. I kept telling him to stock up on ammo or 'buy a pallets worth' with huge lump some no one listened... now who's got bullets?!

Uncle Malice · August 25, 2013, 04:13 PM

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You'll have to get in your wayback machine to get it cheaper than that at most places. You can get reloaded/remanufactured for $ .25 a round but not the good stuff. I check ammoseek.com fairly often and even Blazer and PMC are $ .34-$ .35 a round.

Funny, I picked up 1,000rds of Blazer Brass at Gander Mtn online a few weeks ago at 12.89/box with free shipping. Not to mention that most of the reloading houses provide better quality ammo than a lot of the factory new stuff.

Again.. the decent prices are still out there if you're paying attention. If you only get a box here and there at wal mart, I guess $15 is what you can expect for the time being. It will come back down again...

I saw people paying $1/round for 9mm and .223 back in April... newbs

Kreyzhorse · August 25, 2013, 05:18 PM

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I tried to buy it all.

When people stop trying to buy it all.... Prices may drop even lower. For the record, the last 9mm I bought was over $17 per box.

WVsig · August 25, 2013, 05:21 PM

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And there's our problem folks....

+1

Either you are part of the problem or you are part of the solution....

Jo6pak · August 25, 2013, 05:22 PM

3 box maximum is a good policy

RamItOne · August 25, 2013, 05:51 PM

Do we have enough for our SD needs?
Yes
Do we have enough of what we "want"
No
Do we have enough if zombies come
No

If we keep buying just to keep buying and stockpiling why would the ammo companies lower prices.

Once we can finally get ammo purchases down below pre sandy hook numbers then ammo prices have a good chance of returning to normal. If sales stay steady at pre SH consumption then why would they consider bringing prices all the way back down.

ritepath · August 25, 2013, 06:27 PM

For the second week in a row I was able to walk away with nothing...Last weekend there was 45 and 40 flowing out their ears, and I decided I didn't need anymore. This weekend there was 9, 38 and 223 (wolf) on the shelf. The past 3 weekends I'd spent at least 120 bucks each trip.

I kinda kicked myself in the arse for not buying any of the 45. Next weekend I'll probably be upset I didn't buy any 38 or 9mm.

My wife and I shot up a bunch more 38 and 45 this weekend, now I'll be trying to replenish that. LOL

August 25, 2013, 11:51 AM	#1
mrcharlie3531 Senior Member Join Date: February 22, 2013 Posts: 112	Oops went to Walmart for Groceries My title explains it all. I made the weekly trip to fill my frig up for the week. I stopped at the sporting goods section first. The young lady working the department was opening up boxes and stocking ammo on the shelves. She had .223 22 45 and 9mm ammo. I tried to buy it all. "Sorry only 3 boxes per customer" I purchases three boxes of federal 9mm FMJ 115gr at 14.67 per box. I was shocked to find ammo at an excellent price. It made my day. I came home with ammo, no groceries. Semper Fi, Charlie

August 25, 2013, 12:01 PM	#2
Uncle Malice Senior Member Join Date: May 11, 2009 Location: Phoenix Posts: 4,580	$15/box for 9mm is most decidedly NOT an excellent price. __________________ Handguns: 2x Glock 19.4 \| Glock 26.4 \| HK USP 9 \| HK P2000 \| HK VP9 SK \| HK P30 \| CZ Shadow 2 \| CZ P-10 C \| CZ P-07 \| CZP-01 \| S&W 360PD Rifles: DDM4 \| SGL 21 \| SAM7K \| Draco \| PSA PDW SBR \| ASA Side-Charger SBR \| CZ Scorpion K SBR \| Aero M4E1 9" 300blk SBR \| Angstadt Jack9 SBR \| Savage Mark II FV-SR Shotguns: Mossberg 590A1 20" SP \| Mossberg Shockwave

August 25, 2013, 12:23 PM	#6
Uncle Malice Senior Member Join Date: May 11, 2009 Location: Phoenix Posts: 4,580	Meh. Keep an eye out online. It's available for cheaper. About the very most I'll ever pay is $0.27/rd for good stuff, and I get irritated about that. They're only charging that much because people are still buying it as if it's no longer going to be available.... If everyone in America stopped paying these ridiculous prices for just a couple of weeks... prices would come crashing right back down. Surely you've noticed that the shelves are now completely stacked with guns again whereas they were all bare when everyone went all "OHMYGAWDTHEYBETAKINMAHGUNZ!".... Ammo is still a little more scarce because all of those people who bought an AR for $2,500 want to shoot it now. I'm still shooting ammo that I've had since before December... The ammo supply hasn't dried up, it's a self-fulfilling paradox. Everyone thinks there's an ammo shortage, so they buy up all the ammo they can find... so now there's an ammo shortage because people are buying up all the ammo. Manufacturers aren't making LESS ammo - in fact, most of them are making MORE than ever.... but everyone is tickled pink to be paying $15/box for it which means it's going to keep selling for that price until they stop. __________________ Handguns: 2x Glock 19.4 \| Glock 26.4 \| HK USP 9 \| HK P2000 \| HK VP9 SK \| HK P30 \| CZ Shadow 2 \| CZ P-10 C \| CZ P-07 \| CZP-01 \| S&W 360PD Rifles: DDM4 \| SGL 21 \| SAM7K \| Draco \| PSA PDW SBR \| ASA Side-Charger SBR \| CZ Scorpion K SBR \| Aero M4E1 9" 300blk SBR \| Angstadt Jack9 SBR \| Savage Mark II FV-SR Shotguns: Mossberg 590A1 20" SP \| Mossberg Shockwave

August 25, 2013, 12:56 PM	#9
sig1 Member Join Date: January 5, 2009 Posts: 76	Re: Oops went to Walmart for Groceries I just picked up some federal 180 gr fmj 40 cal for 19.00 per 50 at walmart, cheapest i have found it.

August 25, 2013, 01:09 PM	#13
Venom1956 Senior Member Join Date: October 4, 2008 Location: WI Posts: 3,656	9mm for me is usually close to 20ish per 100 is what I fell is a fair price. but that is the going rate for 50 boxes here @ my walmart also. __________________ E-Shock rounds are engineered to expend maximum energy into soft targets, turning the density mass into an expanding rotational cone of NyTrilium matrix particles, causing neurological collapse to the central nervous system.- Yeah I can do that. I guarantee you will know it if a bicyclist hits your house going 1000 mph. -Smaug

August 25, 2013, 12:20 PM	#4
FrosSsT Senior Member Join Date: July 17, 2011 Location: NJ Posts: 595	I saw Remington 9mm for $15/box yesterday. Fair price for my area

August 25, 2013, 12:21 PM	#5
Model12Win Junior member Join Date: October 20, 2012 Posts: 5,854	A couple months ago when I was back home in Illinois, the local Wally world got in one heck of a shipment of ammo, including a couple hundred Federal Champion 9mm 115 grn. 100 round value packs for the unbelievably low price of $11 something. Me and my father bought 3 boxes each for several days in a row. I haven't seen a deal like that on 9mm ammo since the start of the whole ammo crisis, online or otherwise. Wish I would have bought more but my new GP100 was calling for some .38s to feed on !

August 25, 2013, 12:26 PM	#7
mrcharlie3531 Senior Member Join Date: February 22, 2013 Posts: 112	I can find the ammo locally at gun shops. They want between $24-$27 a box. They want to charge 1.00 per additional box you purchase. I also remember when gas was a $1.25 a gallon. I could also get a pack of smokes for $1.85.

August 25, 2013, 12:53 PM	#8
sigarms228 Senior Member Join Date: October 29, 2011 Posts: 1,765	Nice score for American made brass ammo. IMO pretty decent price for quality ammo these days. Usually what is cheaper is crappy steel cased import ammo. Some ranges won't even let you shoot such. I won't buy such myself. The days of quality USA made brass ammo for $10 a box of 50 has probably gone the way of $1.59 gallon of gas and affordable health insurance that was possible not all that long ago pre obama.

August 25, 2013, 03:20 PM	#15
g.willikers Senior Member Join Date: September 28, 2008 Posts: 10,442	You mean the days of $89 for 1,000 rounds of surplus 9mm is over? Dang. __________________ Walt Kelly, alias Pogo, sez: “Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.”

August 25, 2013, 03:21 PM	#16
Ramon_ Member Join Date: August 7, 2011 Posts: 27	That three box policy is crazy.

August 25, 2013, 03:37 PM	#17
hardhat harry Senior Member Join Date: August 27, 2010 Location: I've moved... Posts: 233	Walmart in Cabot Arkansas two days ago, Federal Champion .45 230gr FMJ was $19.97. I paid 10 cents a pack for cigs in 1966. __________________ "Let me live in my house by the side of the road and be a friend to man."

August 25, 2013, 03:40 PM	#18
Mystro Senior Member Join Date: November 26, 2004 Location: Central Pa. Posts: 1,528	That's a good score in today's environment. I lucked out last week with 3 100 round boxes of WWB 9mm. My wife use to think all my ammo was crazy 20 years ago. Now I look like a fortune teller... __________________ "I'm a good guy with a gun" What do I care if I give up some freedom or rights?....The Goverment will take care of me. This kind of thinking is now in the majority and it should concern you. "Ask not what you can do for your country, but what free entitlements you can bleed from your country"

August 25, 2013, 03:52 PM	#19
Venom1956 Senior Member Join Date: October 4, 2008 Location: WI Posts: 3,656	Ha. Same with my dad. I kept telling him to stock up on ammo or 'buy a pallets worth' with huge lump some no one listened... now who's got bullets?! __________________ E-Shock rounds are engineered to expend maximum energy into soft targets, turning the density mass into an expanding rotational cone of NyTrilium matrix particles, causing neurological collapse to the central nervous system.- Yeah I can do that. I guarantee you will know it if a bicyclist hits your house going 1000 mph. -Smaug

August 25, 2013, 05:22 PM	#23
Jo6pak Senior Member Join Date: August 5, 2010 Location: West Coast...of WI Posts: 1,663	3 box maximum is a good policy __________________ NRA Life Member, SAF contributor.

August 25, 2013, 05:51 PM	#24
RamItOne Senior Member Join Date: May 24, 2011 Posts: 990	Do we have enough for our SD needs? Yes Do we have enough of what we "want" No Do we have enough if zombies come No If we keep buying just to keep buying and stockpiling why would the ammo companies lower prices. Once we can finally get ammo purchases down below pre sandy hook numbers then ammo prices have a good chance of returning to normal. If sales stay steady at pre SH consumption then why would they consider bringing prices all the way back down. __________________ M&P- the other dark meat https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...rtant/DJyvnHz0

August 25, 2013, 06:27 PM	#25
ritepath Senior Member Join Date: February 22, 2009 Location: Virginia Posts: 1,419	For the second week in a row I was able to walk away with nothing...Last weekend there was 45 and 40 flowing out their ears, and I decided I didn't need anymore. This weekend there was 9, 38 and 223 (wolf) on the shelf. The past 3 weekends I'd spent at least 120 bucks each trip. I kinda kicked myself in the arse for not buying any of the 45. Next weekend I'll probably be upset I didn't buy any 38 or 9mm. My wife and I shot up a bunch more 38 and 45 this weekend, now I'll be trying to replenish that. LOL __________________ There's only one...