Wait a couple weeks and the price will come down. Like the stack of .223/5.56 they have sitting there that can now be had for a more reasonable 40 cents a round and it is still stacked deep. I foresee a big ammo sale in their future as the orders they have been placing for the last year continue to come in.
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Having a hard time finding target 9mm... Any suggestions?
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Wait a couple weeks and the price will come down. Like the stack of .223/5.56 they have sitting there that can now be had for a more reasonable 40 cents a round and it is still stacked deep. I foresee a big ammo sale in their future as the orders they have been placing for the last year continue to come in.
dcmdon
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Remember folks, the price of ammo at the wholesale level is up about 10% over the last two years.
All the rest of the bump is dealers marking it up more, because they can. I'm not knocking the dealers, I'm just saying that as quantity demanded and quantity supplied get closer together, prices will come down.
All the rest of the bump is dealers marking it up more, because they can. I'm not knocking the dealers, I'm just saying that as quantity demanded and quantity supplied get closer together, prices will come down.
dcmdon
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Was that .223 brass or steel?
Brass, Shooters doesn't sell steel. Riley's had steel for $280 I believe.
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dcmdon
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Thats a great price.
Its actually, "normal". Think about it. People on gunbroker are trying to sell 1000 rounds of .22 LR for $230 shipped:
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=415216681
For $140 more you can get brass cased .223. You could sell 1000 pieces of .223 brass for $60.
Don
Its actually, "normal". Think about it. People on gunbroker are trying to sell 1000 rounds of .22 LR for $230 shipped:
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=415216681
For $140 more you can get brass cased .223. You could sell 1000 pieces of .223 brass for $60.
Don
I gave up on 9mm after spending an entire Saturday calling Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart and coming up with nothing. I am getting into reloading so I can have a steady supply when I need it.
dcmdon
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Like I've said to people in side conversations,
$500 gets you enough powder and primers to reload 10,000 rounds of 9mm.
Brass should be free if you have half a brain, and bullets are always available. At the height of the 2013 craziness, I waited 3 months for my favorite brand. Not great, but easy to plan for.
Don
$500 gets you enough powder and primers to reload 10,000 rounds of 9mm.
Brass should be free if you have half a brain, and bullets are always available. At the height of the 2013 craziness, I waited 3 months for my favorite brand. Not great, but easy to plan for.
Don
Looking on the weekends is your problem. I go to Walmart every weekday before 11am and doing that can not only get 9mm but can afford to be selective about what I get. I pass on Federal 50rnd boxes as it's too much and wait to see Winchester White Box 100 round value packs, Tula (brass or steel), or Federal 100 round packs if I feel like getting my hands really dirty reloading mags (that stuff is dirtier than Tula steel cased).
The trick is definitely just to go every day. Contrary to many rumors most Walmarts don't get shipments on the same day every week or anything like that. At mine I have the most luck in Tuesdays but sometimes it appears on other days. Weekends are pointless unless they get a lot as it would be bought out.
Walmart is the right place to be looking to get prices that aren't jacked up. You just need to commit to going often and should buy whatever you can get (not more than you need though!) when you find it to hold you over when there's a dry week or two. Dry weeks do happen. Last month my Walmart had mountains of all the stuff I like. Like at times as much as 8000-10000 rounds of 9mm in stock. This month it's been scarce so far.
dcmdon
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It also never hurts to make friends with the sporting goods dept manager.
The Manager at the Old Saybrook, CT Walmart would give me a heads up when they were getting stuff in. Nothing underhanded. But if I asked if they got a shipment in the night before, he'd let me know so I'd know if I should stick around for them to bring it out. The shipments come in overnight, but they don't bring it out to stock until they get fully staffed. If memory serves me right, thats around 10 am.
I reload all my centerfire stuff. But doiing this, i was able to load up on Federal 550 round value packs for about $18 ea.
Don
The Manager at the Old Saybrook, CT Walmart would give me a heads up when they were getting stuff in. Nothing underhanded. But if I asked if they got a shipment in the night before, he'd let me know so I'd know if I should stick around for them to bring it out. The shipments come in overnight, but they don't bring it out to stock until they get fully staffed. If memory serves me right, thats around 10 am.
I reload all my centerfire stuff. But doiing this, i was able to load up on Federal 550 round value packs for about $18 ea.
Don
Ya fair enough, but at mine the garden dept entrance is right by the ammo so it's in and out in 1 minute either way and I don't have to flock through the main entrance with... whatever you call Walmart shoppers (not human for the most part). Go on my lunch break every day unless I'm stocked up.
While I agree that on the weekend it'll be picked over, going during the weekend is honestly what most people are forced to do. I know for myself, I work long hours during the weekdays, and since I live in the city, I have to rent a car. I do rent a car every weekend (getting to the point where it might be cheaper to buy buy a car), but its tough to go during the week. This is primarily why I decided to just start reloading. The only reason I can see myself buying factory ammo is to get brand new brass, which I doubt I'll do since I can just pick it up at the range.
The Walmart I go to has a schedule of when they get trucks and it has been the same for the 2 years I have been getting ammo there. there are only 3 days they dont get a truck. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. A friendly sporting good guy will go check in the back for you
They normally do, I picked up the last of the 9mm they had last weekend. Just 2 boxes. Sorry guys!
Brass....
Shooters-Hooksett
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Yep recently I've started checking out Dick's in Keene, NH whenever I'm in Keene and they always have all the major calibers in stock. Not quite as good pricing as Walmart but at least it's consistently available.
I was in the Framingham Walmart yesterday. They had some 9 mm and tons of .223/5.56 including cans of Federal.
I don't really notice federal being any dirtier than the others, although Tula steel leaves some pretty good soot deposits behind but for the price it's barely worth complaining about.
Also, the Fed 50 ct boxes go for under $15, which is still cheaper than all but like a whopping 3 local gun shops in a 65 mile radius sell t for (the only market floor ones are Shooters Outpost, Collectible, and sometimes Rileys if they actually have ammo in stock, which most of the time they only have Blazer AL at some meh price) so if someone is hard up, it's still a good deal, just not quite as good as the 100 rnd val packs. (which basically save you like $1.50 ish/50).
-Mike
I think they were $199.00 (55 gr).
StevieP
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^^this
Riley has mucho ammo and good prices.
lasr week four seasons had 9mm...brass cased brands $19 for 50rds.
if you really want a stash of 9mm for range days, get yourself a crate of surplus 9mm FMJ on gunbroker. For very good price one can acquire box of 880 rounds to keep busy at range. Its not premium HP ammo, but works fine at range.
They seem to get pretty consistent deliveries now every friday morning. With 9mm being $14.99 to $16.99 it seems to go quick but always comes back.
Or find someone in a free state to get ammo from freedom munitions. Just over $12 a box for brass cased 9mm. Told my buddy to go this route who is in the Air Force out in Nebraska and bought a glock 17 last week.
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That store in Winchester NH had a ton of everything last time I was there
