My wife sent me to Walmart today and while I was there I passed by the Sports dept. to look at the ammo case. Bought a couple boxes of 9mm & 45 acp and asked the guy behind the counter the old question. "Do y'all get much 22lr?" He says yes they do but it gets put out at 5:00AM and the same guys are camped out there every day. He says they all tell him they're selling it on the internet. He tells my "Try Lucky Gunner."
A conversation in Walmart today.
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Hattrick 22
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Supposedly they do this at the Academy near me too I probably unlike them have a day job so I don't compete for it. I just buy some here and there when it's at a reasonable price (pre panic) online using email alerts.
asianpersuasion
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The Academy near me puts out 22 around 10:00
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I'd love to be able to get a big group together and beat them to the ammo... And then offer to sell back to them for triple cost. Haha!
Seriously this can be stopped by putting the ammo out at random times.. The store manager can easily put a stop to it.
Seriously this can be stopped by putting the ammo out at random times.. The store manager can easily put a stop to it.
How much money can you make doing this? I mean, after buying the ammo on the front end, 9% tax, paying for gas to go to the store and back then the post office and back, auction fees, shipping, packaging, etc it can't be much. Certainly not enough for it to be worth being at walmart every day for 5 AM.
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SpeedRacer
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Certainly not much. Especially since .22 prices seem to have started to decline. I'm sure it's just very simple minded folk thinking they are being entrepreneurial without actually doing the math.
Which is why I equated them to bums begging for money under the bridges in New Orleans. Just as sad and pathetic.
I talked to a guy in Wally World the other day since we both were checking on ammo. He mentioned he had 27 boxes of 550 RDS era already and was lucking for more, I wanted to punch him right in the face. Who really needs 15K of .22 lr just to have. With horders like that no wonder why I can't find any. With my schedule I can't hang out at Academy oy Walmart till they put it out on the shelf so I'm screwed.
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I've seen the AARP brigades first hand.. I was on vacation and my 15month old is up at 0630 every morning so I went to Wal-Mart to get some oil and sure enough like wolves to dead caribou they were waiting to pounce for .22.
I have 33 boxes but were bout at 14.97 a box way back when. Or less that should tell ya how long i had them.
If i was still using what i used to that would be 4-6 months worth.
I refuse to be part of the shortage and also pay that much. will but some again
every time the wife dragged me to wal mart i would go look around and would just grab a box.
FWIW i used to shoot 1/2 to 1 box a week.
I would take a few of my sons friends and give them a box So together used 1.5-2 boxes a week.
Then i got a deal on some surplus Rem at 90 bucks for 5000 so grabbed 3.
I have one gun that only uses Mini Mags right so some bought bulk of that not much.
When the price is normal again I will probably get some at 20 a bulk and replenish what i shoot.
Someone that gets 27 boxes now days to just resell and keep new shooters and kids from shooting is just an idiot
Exactly. With very little effort it can be found through Cabellas. Its just as much the idiots who are buying at dumb prices fault as it is the idiots standing in line at 5am waiting to make $10-20 after all the hassle.
I happened to be at Cabela's at opening one day for 9mm and .40 and just wandered over to where the .22 was five minutes after opening. I picked up two boxes (never did the math to find the exact price, but under $3/50 seemed reasonable) and just asked if she had any bulk. "Just sold it all." I don't even remember what day it was, but I guess that's why there were 20 guys waiting around at the door when I got there. My ass was looking for some kind of door buster sale. I can't sit online all day waiting for ammo any more than I can camp out for a brick. I'm getting ready to take my nephews shooting, so it's going to get annoying after we run through my brick of Wildcat and 200 Blazers and I can't find any bulk because some hillbilly thinks he found a get rich quick scheme.
You dont have to sit at the computer. Go to slickguns.com and have them send you notices when .22 comes up at a certain price.
