Anyone have a Walmart sku number for these or a Walmart ammo tracker app that still works? I used to use the Brass Badger app but it no longer works.
Posted on 01/06/2017 5:53:20 AM PST by marktwain
Anyone have a Walmart sku number for these or a Walmart ammo tracker app that still works? I used to use the Brass Badger app but it no longer works.
Good news. I had not heard of any new plants being build. It’s a big investment to make if the shortages in recent years are only caused by people hoarding ammo.
I remember buying those PLUS getting a mail-in rebate for a few dollars.
I wonder about .380 that isn’t $2 a round.
Make America Great Again - with dirt cheap .22
There was a thread from 2012 on one of the ammo sites that stated Walmart had the 1600 round ammo boxes for $98.xx each and on the online ammo sellers now the same box people are trying to get upwards of $300 or $.19 a round LOL
great advice, especially in New York where you cannot get ammo shipped.
Mexico and India make .22, isn’t foreign ammo allowed in?
Aquila (from Mexico) has increased their production 70% in the last couple of years. All they can send goes to the U.S. market. It is part of the 25% increase I mentioned.
I have spent some time on an Indian gun online group. They routinely complain about the poor quality of Indian .22 ammunition, made only in Indian government factories. Expensive and poor quality is the consensus. Probably why we are not seeing it on the U.S. market.
There may be reasons we are not seeing Chinese .22 on the U.S. market.
I have seen lots of Russian, British, Italian, and Czech .22 on the U.S. market. Most foreign producers are pretty small potatoes compared to the U.S.
As far as I can tell, all the foreign manufacturers of .22 have been running 24/7 (as well as U.S. manufacturers) in an attempt to meet demand for the last three years. It has all been gobbled up by an insatiable U.S. market.
Now, we are finally seeing a possible drop in that demand, with a Trump Presidency.
I shoot Remington Gold in my .22s. It is not available here in east central Ohio. I can buy hit online, but as someone mentioned the shipping is so terribly high.
20 cents brass at Natchez. 19 cents steel at LAX Ammo.
Loading for just one rifle, you do not need to full length resize, just neck resize. It makes your brass last longer.
If you want blasting ammo for your Model 71, you could load cast bullets for it.
You could also take .358 jacketed bullets and run them through a Lee sizer, (lubricated) to reduce them to .348. It is not difficult to swage jacketed bullets down that much with an ordinary reloading press using the Lee sizer die. You start with a .339 lube/sizer and open the die up to the diameter you need, testing bullets as you get close. Lee will make you a custom die for only a few dollars more than the standard kit. $38 for a custom kit.
http://leeprecision.com/bullet-casting/lube-and-sizing-kit/
It is kind of an advanced technique for a beginner, but it works well and is not expensive.
Here is an article on the Model 71 and the .348 Winchester.
http://www.leverguns.com/articles/taylor/model71.htm
I may be able to help,,,,
In our area, little fishing/hunting stores camp out at WalMart when .22 is scheduled too arrive, and they buy it out before an hour is gone in the shipment day. This to me from the mouth of the clerk who works that department.
These hunting stores then repackage it and sell it in their shops. Obviously at multiple times their buying price.
It is not just little shops that have been doing it, but individuals as well. I have heard of it from multiple locations.
The market was short circuited by the manufacturers refusing to raise the prices to wholesalers to any appreciable level.
In a free market, manufactures charge what the market will bear, until supply and demand curves cross. If they are making lots of profit, manufactures increase production, and prices drop.
But with .22 ammunition, the manufacturers did not raise prices to reduce demand to producition levels, and neither did Walmart, creating the situation we have seen.
I picked up a bunch of .22 in Florida when visiting family. Cabellas had plenty.
thanks, great info.
Great photo,
Brings tears to my eyes.
My cutoff point was 8 cents for .22s.... I can remember paying 6 cents a round for 7.62x39....
Times, they are a changing.... :(
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