Ammo availability on the Front Range
So I usually buy from Wal-Mart and from time to time Dicks and the Local Gun Shop even though they have the highest prices. For the last few months few months .40, 9, and 5.56/.223 has been non-existant from what I have seen. So have they stopped making the stuff for some reason or is it just being bought up within seconds of it hitting the shelf?
I have my own little reserve stash but I can see it running low/out within the next few months if I keep going to the range. When are we expecting stuff to hit the shelves again?
Same goes for Pmags. I heard they are in overdrive for producing the stuff but where is it going?
Ammo availability on the Front Range
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Originally Posted by
brobar
I gave up on trying to find ammo at Wal-Mart several weeks back. I never could find the right time to go. And when I found a couple that showed local stock online... the guy at the counter would tell me the stock indicator online was wrong. I figured that was his way of telling me he is either taking it for himself or holding it for somebody else.
I've always done my bulk purchases online anyways. Found some 5.56 in stock at Midway USA on Tuesday, they shipped on Wednesday and it arrived on Thursday. 25 boxes at a fair price... delivered right to my doorstep. I would have ordered 50 boxes, but they had a 25 box limit.
I've found quite a bit of ammo at Walmart and have built up a fairly substantial stash in the past month and a half.
I have 3 Walmarts that I pass on my way home from work. I make it a point to stop by each Walmart a couple times a week. I've managed to score several thousand rounds of 9mm, .40 and .22LR. I've seen .45 and .357 on the shelves quite a few times but I don either so I don't pick it up. 9mm has been the toughest to come by but one of the Walmarts recently got in 50 50 packs of PPU 9mm. I bought half of their stock. I went back a couple hours later to get more for one of my buddies and they were already sold out.
.223 is a different story. I had a tough time finding .223 pre Sandy Hook. I managed to find a handful of the Federal 100 round bulk packs a few weeks before Sandy Hook. They had the American Eagle stuff in pretty much every time I went there but at $.60 a round I never gave it a second look. Now you can't even find the American Eagle stuff.
I used to hate the guy that would buy out Walmarts supply and not leave any ammo for anyone else. Now I am that guy, it sucks but I go to the range at least twice a month and ammo is extremely scarce. The only way I've been able to maintain my regular range trips is by hoarding ammo. On the plus side I finally have enough ammo stashed that I can go to the range and blow off a couple hundred rounds without fear of not being able to get more ammo.
