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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #200 on: April 09, 2013, 08:00:45 PM »
  went at 7.30 this morning and all they had was the same crap they had the night before. ::mooning::
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #201 on: April 09, 2013, 08:05:12 PM »
Quote from: John Florida on April 09, 2013, 08:00:45 PM
 went at 7.30 this morning and all they had was the same crap they had the night before. ::mooning::

Where? Walmart? You have to ask and find out exactly when it comes in. I have an appointment for Thursday morning at 7AM but I will be getting there at 6:45AM just to be on the safe side. I might take my daughter with me so that I can double up 'cause three box limit and all. I probably won't be around but they will have another delivery on Saturday morning. But hey, if the weather is really bad between here and home I could justify staying down here for another day or two. And remember...don't expect them to actually stock the shelf. There isn't any point. It's all gone in ten or fifteen minutes.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #202 on: April 10, 2013, 07:01:07 AM »
The times we live in...

2 weeks ago Cabelas had 100 round boxes of CCI MiniMags in stock, limit 1 box per customer...this past week they're all gone.  You really have to nail to times and camp out.  With my work schedule it is practically impossible for me to do that without taking a day off, which I have done a lot of already...

 ::gaah::

I did get my cans of Fiocchi .22LR delivered though, so at least I have something to plink with.  
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« Reply #203 on: April 10, 2013, 08:57:54 AM »
I have promised myself that I will never take ammo availability for granted again.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #204 on: April 10, 2013, 11:06:26 AM »
Quote from: trapeze on April 10, 2013, 08:57:54 AM
I have promised myself that I will never take ammo availability for granted again.


Believe me, I would very much like to time travel to the late 90s / early 00s and kick the crap out of my then-self for not buying as much as I could. You could get brass case, reloadable 9mm for $5 or $6 per box of 50. The aluminum case Blazer was even cheaper, I occasionally saw it for as little as $3.99 per box. One thing I did do right was get into reloading when it was cheap too. I was reloading 9mm when it was almost an act of pure eccentricity considering how dirt cheap the factory stuff was. People would even sort of make fun of you for bothering with it, but they probably aren't laughing now.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #205 on: April 10, 2013, 11:24:01 AM »
I'm kicking myself for not getting my reloading gear when I had the chance, I was working my priority list but the time compression wave caused by the Obama & Co Leftist insanity had stuff flying off shelves at warp speed.  And if/when everything is available again God knows what the costs will be.

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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #206 on: April 10, 2013, 04:26:34 PM »
Quote from: Libertas on April 10, 2013, 11:24:01 AM
I'm kicking myself for not getting my reloading gear when I had the chance, I was working my priority list but the time compression wave caused by the Obama & Co Leftist insanity had stuff flying off shelves at warp speed.  And if/when everything is available again God knows what the costs will be.

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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #207 on: April 10, 2013, 04:41:15 PM »
Walmart ammo shelf still looks like a ghost town. Some odd hunting rifle rounds and .45 long colt and shotgun shells is all they got.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #208 on: April 10, 2013, 10:50:07 PM »
Well, I have my alarm set correctly for the Walmart ammo hunting excursion tomorrow morning. It's possible that there won't be any on the truck that comes in tonight but I'm gonna give it a shot.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #209 on: April 11, 2013, 07:21:16 AM »
This trip was a bust for me. All they got in was stuff I don't use. .45, .357 and 9mm. Some shotgun shells which I do use but am full up on. Some .30 rifle ammo that I don't use.

No .22, no .40, no .223 or 5.56 or .380 or .38 special

I'm probably leaving TX tomorrow morning and they aren't supposed to have another truck in until Saturday AM but I guess I will check tomorrow on my way out of town just to be sure.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #210 on: April 11, 2013, 07:39:40 AM »
Bummer.  At least you avoided some of the April CO weather.  Have a safe trip back.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #211 on: April 11, 2013, 09:25:56 AM »
Quote from: Libertas on April 11, 2013, 07:39:40 AM
Bummer.  At least you avoided some of the April CO weather.  Have a safe trip back.

Yeah, I missed out on a foot of fresh snow. Pisses me off...I thought that maybe we were finished with mud season and now it starts all over again. Oh, well...I suppose we needed the moisture.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #212 on: April 11, 2013, 09:30:51 AM »
Quote from: trapeze on April 11, 2013, 09:25:56 AM
Quote from: Libertas on April 11, 2013, 07:39:40 AM
Bummer.  At least you avoided some of the April CO weather.  Have a safe trip back.

Yeah, I missed out on a foot of fresh snow. Pisses me off...I thought that maybe we were finished with mud season and now it starts all over again. Oh, well...I suppose we needed the moisture.

Yeah, we got wet sticky slop coming down furious now, this winter just doesn't want to give up easy.  Oh well.  We get the "farmers need it" schpiel from the chatterheads.  Yeah, all the rain and crap wasn't good enough. 
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Called three Wal Marts by me, no .22LR in overnight deliveries.  I will go out tomorrow morning and see if I get lucky.  Today Gander is supposed to get their delivery, weather might slow that, will check in a bit and see if anything came in.  Maybe the crappy weather could work for me for a change.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #213 on: April 11, 2013, 12:21:44 PM »
If anyone finds 22lr, buy enough for all of us. I will gladly pay for shipping and a profit....

This sucks. I have my new S & W and all the ammo I could scrounge was 100 rounds.....And I wouldn't have that but the dealer "found" 100 rounds when I declined to purchase without ammo.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #214 on: April 11, 2013, 12:34:38 PM »
When my local supermarket spiked the prices on fresh produce I stopped buying. So did a bunch of others. When I saw the manager throwing out carts full of unsold produce I asked him how those prices were working out for him. All he could do was shrug - and grimace.

I wish that there was a way that we could do the same with the ammo industry.

In the meanwhile I have sited the location of three local national guard armories...
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #215 on: April 11, 2013, 12:46:17 PM »
Gander truck didn't come in, maybe tomorrow morning.  Even stopped in at those dicks at Dicks, they only get a weekly shipment and it didn't come in.  If the mfg's are holding out on Dicks I guess that figures and I can stop going there too.

Will try Gander & couple Wal Marts tomorrow.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #216 on: April 11, 2013, 07:09:17 PM »
Quote from: Predator Don on April 11, 2013, 12:21:44 PM
If anyone finds 22lr, buy enough for all of us. I will gladly pay for shipping and a profit....

This sucks. I have my new S & W and all the ammo I could scrounge was 100 rounds.....And I wouldn't have that but the dealer "found" 100 rounds when I declined to purchase without ammo.

 Did you buy the Smith M&P in .22?
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #217 on: April 11, 2013, 08:17:11 PM »
Quote from: Predator Don on April 11, 2013, 12:21:44 PM
If anyone finds 22lr, buy enough for all of us. I will gladly pay for shipping and a profit....

This sucks. I have my new S & W and all the ammo I could scrounge was 100 rounds.....And I wouldn't have that but the dealer "found" 100 rounds when I declined to purchase without ammo.

I pledge to make 500 rounds available for every three bricks I buy from now on. And yeah, you will have to pay for the brick and the shipping. I don't need profit. You guys can fight it out amongst yourselves as to who gets the first brick. (When I get back to CO the closest Walmart is an hour away so doing it there is time (and fuel) consuming...I am unlikely to do it there. Or, put another way, you are unlikely to voluntarily cover my expenses under such circumstances. But...if I do have the opportunity to make it happen in CO I will keep to the pledge.)

I got delayed leaving TX so maybe I will score three bricks yet. I will let you know.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #218 on: April 11, 2013, 08:19:24 PM »
Quote from: trapeze on April 11, 2013, 08:17:11 PM
Quote from: Predator Don on April 11, 2013, 12:21:44 PM
If anyone finds 22lr, buy enough for all of us. I will gladly pay for shipping and a profit....

This sucks. I have my new S & W and all the ammo I could scrounge was 100 rounds.....And I wouldn't have that but the dealer "found" 100 rounds when I declined to purchase without ammo.

I pledge to make 500 rounds available for every three bricks I buy from now on. And yeah, you will have to pay for the brick and the shipping. I don't need profit. You guys can fight it out amongst yourselves as to who gets the first brick.

I got delayed leaving TX so maybe I will score three bricks yet. I will let you know.



God bless us all, and pass the ammunition!
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #219 on: April 11, 2013, 08:49:51 PM »
Quote from: trapeze on April 11, 2013, 08:17:11 PM
Quote from: Predator Don on April 11, 2013, 12:21:44 PM
If anyone finds 22lr, buy enough for all of us. I will gladly pay for shipping and a profit....

This sucks. I have my new S & W and all the ammo I could scrounge was 100 rounds.....And I wouldn't have that but the dealer "found" 100 rounds when I declined to purchase without ammo.

I pledge to make 500 rounds available for every three bricks I buy from now on. And yeah, you will have to pay for the brick and the shipping. I don't need profit. You guys can fight it out amongst yourselves as to who gets the first brick. (When I get back to CO the closest Walmart is an hour away so doing it there is time (and fuel) consuming...I am unlikely to do it there. Or, put another way, you are unlikely to voluntarily cover my expenses under such circumstances. But...if I do have the opportunity to make it happen in CO I will keep to the pledge.)

I got delayed leaving TX so maybe I will score three bricks yet. I will let you know.


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