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Had to make a run to WallyWorld tonight, and stopped by the ammo counter. This is a different store than the one where the wife picked me up a 100 rd. box of .45 ACP.

Anyway, I check the ammo counter, and I see they have some 100 rd. boxes of the Federal .223 in 55 gr. FMJ for just under $40. Cool - that's about going rate when you figure in shipping, etc. But then I see a strange box next to it. It's a 200 rd. value-pack box of Federal Power Shok for $76 and change, but I can't see the caliber. When I finally get a clerk over, I ask to see it, and it's also .223, in 50 gr. JHP.

Based on the prices I've seen lately, that seemed pretty competitive. I picked up two boxes. I can find a lot of dealers selling Power Shok .223, but none have the 50 gr. JHP. Just wondering if anyone's shot any of this or has heard from someone who has.

On a side note, there was a shitload of 12 gauge in bird, buck, and slug. The only 9mm and .40 was the Winchester target stuff, but they did have 3 x 100 rd. boxes of the Remington UMC in .45 ACP JHP.

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Wal Mart is hard to beat for price. Can't say about that 5.56 aka .223 ammo, don't own anything that will shoot it, but it sounds like good stuff. As for the .22 cal, .380, 9mm, .40 S&W, .45 ACP, .38 spl, .308, and 12ga, yes, I buy all those at Wal Mart. While they don't have the selection you'll find at a gun show, the price is usually better for the regular stuff.

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I was at wally world last night , got 4 boxes of 12ga 400 more rounds , price went up from 21.58 to 22.58 here

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I pick up boxes of 9mm everytime I go. :coolbeer:

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same here exact same price increase...i have been buying the federal 4 box cases for sporting clays shooting since they have had a mail in gift program on the back for the past year(i think it expires 12/31) ...i have got a couple of nice shirts,knives,hats...well worth the effort if you shoot a lot, I live close to the Fioochi plant and at least here we can get very good priceing on very good ammo from them.

location...within 100 miles of Wal-marts home office

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I picked up a batch of that same ammo passing thru WM but have never shot it, if you shoot it let us know how it shoots

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Your avatar isn't exactly a 9mm. Speaking of your new avatar, is that yours? If so those are very nice looking grips, got a bigger picture?

The pistol looks a whole lot like my S&W--

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...1911-sized.jpg

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Sheeeet... ammo is the only reason I ever go to Walmart.

I always feel like I'm going to catch something walking through that place...

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T

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Oh, I thought ch'yall were talkin' about this Wally World:


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I hate buying at WalMart.
Seems almost un american.

Just sucks that their prices ar so low for so many things.

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The walmart near me is the only place in town you can buy ammo inside and have a halfway decent chance of having to use it in the parking lot on your way back to your car.

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Word to the wise ..........Lose that Patriotism hang up REAL QUICK.

BE CLEAR:THIS IS WAR ........ WE NEED TO ARM OURSELVES TO THE FRICKEN TEETH ANYWAY WE CAN PERIOD END OF STORY.

Use their tools AGAINST THEM.

Because you better believe they use our tools AGAINST US.



T

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+100 TA... STOCK UP NOW. Be it Wally World/ On Line or Wherever. Ya' Might Need it sooner than later...

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I was in Wally's yesterday looking for some .308. Didn't see any so I asked. The guy said they had sold a lot of that caliber this year, and were presently sold out. I find this about every where I look, even on the hunting ammo, not just the FMJ mil-surp stuff. Somebody must be watching daily and cleaning them out every time they get in a new supply.

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Our walmart is usualy slim pickings and the only hand gun ammo i ever see there in anythng above .380 is Winchester White Box, Remington UMC or Blazer Brass.

I get the Winchest WB when we go to the bring your own ammo ranges. Its dirty stuff and not 100% reliable, but at 28 bucks for 100 rounds, there isnt much cheaper out there.

unfortunatley also the only JHP .45 ammo they have is winchester, but its slightly better quality than the WWB. I might pick up some of the blazer brass for 14.98 a brick of 50.

This is why im contemplating a 9mm for the range, and a .45 for defence.

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All you need is some brass, primers, a few pounds of 4064, and a few boxes of Sierras (or whatever), and you can do a lot of shooting. You can shoot the same brass 15-20 times.

All you guys worried about ammo availability need to start laying in some supplies.

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About Wal-Mart. I find the same china junk other places as I do there. While looking for a good metal yard stick for doing lay out work on sheet metal in my home shop, I checked Lowe's and Wal-Mart. both had a couple different types to choose from, but I ended up buying a piece of flat stock aluminum figuring I could do with out the inch marks and just use a tape for a measuring stick. Painted on inch marks don't stand the test of use around sheet metal. I am resisting the urge to buy anything not made in America. Ammo, would be the exception. I will be checking Gander Mt today for some hunting ammo in .308 Win.

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You're right of course, and I do have all the components I need to reload. I use a different powder than 4064 but I've lots of powder. Guess I'm lazy! :sleep:

When I see a box of 20 rds going for $40 I know i can build the same thing or better for under $10, I kind of back off. :thumpdown

Actually I wanted to get some .308 cases that weren't mil-surp brass for reloading later, after firing them in my bolt gun. You understand, fire formed and neck sized in bolt guns, of course.:emotions16:

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Ditto for most of the posts thus far...

I too, visit WalMart only for ammo, and tonight was no different than my last visit.

No .308!

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Made that trip to Gander Mt yesterday. I found only 6 boxes of .308 on their shelf. At $30 for the cheapest I only bought 1 box. Gun powder was also in short supply, picked up another pound of H380 no Varget, no IMR4064, no IMR4895, got lots of that also lots of IMR3031. They had lots of primers but no .308 brass and some .30 caliber bullets.

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"Anyway, I check the ammo counter, and I see they have some 100 rd. boxes of the Federal .223 in 55 gr. FMJ for just under $40. Cool - that's about going rate when you figure in shipping, etc. But then I see a strange box next to it. It's a 200 rd. value-pack box of Federal Power Shok for $76 and change, but I can't see the caliber. When I finally get a clerk over, I ask to see it, and it's also .223, in 50 gr. JHP.

Based on the prices I've seen lately, that seemed pretty competitive. I picked up two boxes. I can find a lot of dealers selling Power Shok .223, but none have the 50 gr. JHP. Just wondering if anyone's shot any of this or has heard from someone who has."

I just picked a box of this up over the weekend as well. Anyone have any first hand experience with this out of an AR or Mini 14?

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I shot it. 50 gr. JHP works fine. Stay away from the "fragible" .223 ammo that Wally World sometimes carries. The Fragible will stovepipe.

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Thanks my friend.....:coolbeer:

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Ditto. Appreciate the feedback. Now if they'd only get more....

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Update: Went in to the WallyWorld closest to me to see if they'd gotten in any more of those 200 rd. Powr Shok value packs in .223 JHP.

Side note - the Saturday before Christmas, about 7 p.m., and the parking lot is about 1/3 full. No real lines at the registers, about half the registers are open, it's clear sailing down all the aisles. But our local rag says the local economy's fine (of course, the editor's daddy is bankrolling her ass, so she wouldn't know anyway....)

Back on-topic: The price sticker where the 200 rd. Powr Shok boxes were had been removed, so I guess that was a one-time good deal. They still had some 100 rd. packs of Federal .223 55 gr. FMJ available, and the price was still just south of $40 (unchanged). I was going to get a box of that until I spotted a lone 100 rd. brick of the Remington UMC in .40 JHP - it had been about three weeks since I'd seen one of those.

So I told the clerk I'd take the 100 rds of .40. As he was ringing up the sale, he said, "Man, it's been crazy. We just got 10 of these in yesterday, and this is the last box." Yep, crazy indeed....

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Dont know where your at ...but here...every walmart is parking lot full packed out...its so bad its best to plan to drive around the streets that pass a walmart...

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Florida Panhandle. You know, where there's big industry like tourism, home building, charter fishing, etc. I mean really, why bother with dirty factories that actually make stuff?

I also forgot to mention the military bases. Huge Naval Air Station to the west, one huge and one medium Air Force base to the east. If it weren't for them, the parking lots would be empty, because those are the only folks left with money to spend....

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I frequently buy Winchester whitebox handgun ammunition at Walmart. I particularly like cash and carry. Privacy is always worth something.
Take care,
Mod1

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I always thought you guys had a vacum to suck up retire's money's from all the other states.

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:rofl: Used to. More true in central and south FL than here though. Seems we've had a population decrease statewide as the real estate boom drove up the prices of everything else. The folks on fixed incomes got squeezed pretty hard in Miami, Lauderdale, Tampa/St. Pete, etc.

Knew a couple personally that moved to Port St. Lucie, and lasted about two years before moving back north. Too damned hot....

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Bought a 100 round box of Winchester whitebox 38 Special ammunition tonight at Wallyworld for $28.97 plus tax. I beleive that is about $4 a box cheaper than Ammunitiontogo. We use these rounds exclusively for range shooting. I'm saving my 357 rounds for other targets.

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I'm seeing one or maybe two boxes of .223 at Wal-Mart at any given time here.

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I went to the local wal-mart to return some unwanted x-mas gifts so I could convert them to ammo and there was plenty of .223 and 7.62X39. Several calibers were way overpriced. I ended up getting some .223 and 9mm even though I own nothing that would fire those calibers. I figure I'll either end up with something that fires it or can barter with it later. They were definitely overpriced or plain out of the stuff I do currently shoot. They were really wiped out on a lot of stuff, actually. I was informed that wal-mart does not ever carry 7.62X54r.

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7.62X54r = strictly mil-surp I thought?

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http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/ItemL...aspx?catid=607

Not so sure about that, but I am new to the market for this caliber and could be a complete idiot concerning it.

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I've shot the 50 JHP from wally had no issues. havent shot anything other than targets so I dunno about its effectiveness.

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Ahhhh - I didn't know that - S&B and Winchester....

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do you guys know you can order guns at wally world http://www.walmart.com/guns

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cool story...


I just got back from China Mart..
I was looking for some cheap 9mm JHP - they didn't have any out. Usually they have those 100rnd value pack UMC/REM Hollowpoint packs...

So the clerk offers to go check the vault in the back. after about a 10 min wait - she returns w/ 4 boxes of 134gr Hydrashocks... (sweet!)
She said she really had to hunt for these... they were "buried in the back" They must have been in there for some time because they were the hard plastic case..--- (old packaging)

=The best part is I asked - How much??? 12.50 a box:565:



I just bought a couple boxes yesterday at Academy for $22 and change.

OH and wally world had 15 round valu packs of 3" 00 buck for 12.50.

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last night i got 10 boxes of slugs 12ga 2.17 a box , got all they had yahoooooooo http://www.walmart.com/guns

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next time you are at walmart an ask if you can order guns from them you can , they have a catalog you can shop from http://www.walmart.com/guns

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Ordering in three simple steps:

Print this page (please be sure to print the Wal-Mart Item #, which is found at the bottom of the Web page)
Go to the Sporting Goods Department at your local Wal-Mart store
Show the printout to a Sporting Goods associate to have them special order your selected item Ordering in three simple steps:

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I love that 00 Buck value pack - they usually only have one in stock when I'm there.

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Yeah - That's very near a buy 2 get one free deal at todays prices....

Buckshot being about a buck-and quarter a round roughly (9 bits gramps would say)


Think I'll go hunt up a few more boxes...

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I don't mess with the 3" - I just get the 2 3/4". Those value packs are $9.47. Like you said, JJ, it's like 3 for the price of two versus the 5 packs. :ok:

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I buy 40 SW 100 round FMJ Winchester plinkers for 28 a box at Wally World. 22's also. Other rounds I buy in quantity and look for deals.

Oh yeah, 12 ga. shotgun sometimes.