Your local Walmart doubled prices on ammo?
Funny, I bought two boxes of 12 ga. 6 shot for $4.96 each. That about the same price I paid for shotgun shell over 20 years ago.
The empty shelf has the same label, $19.96 for the bulk box of 9mm I always get. Same label, same shelf, same location as always - just a perpetually empty shelf. The good man at the Sporting Goods counter says they have a limit of 100 rnds of ammo per customer, per day. As things are, they are getting ammo in 3x a week, but it’s sold out within hours. I’ve just been unfortunate in that when I’m there, the 9mm is gone.
I do, however have a nice collection of .22 and 12 ga. shells to chose from. A singular small hole for varmits and a large grouping of small holes for personal defence.
WWB 9mm used to retail for under ten bucks ($9.99) a year ago. I still have about ten boxes with the tags still on.
Same thing for every Indiana and Michigan Wal-Mart I’ve vistied on my “ammo quests”.
Shotgun rounds haven’t jumped much, because there isn’t nearly the demand for it.
I’ve been unable to catch any new 9mm on the Wal-Mart shelves.
It does sell out quickly.
“Your local Walmart doubled prices on ammo?”
Until about 3 years ago, FMJ handgun and rifle ammo were a bargain. For example, Winchester 9MM 100 count “white box”, a very good target ammo, almost military grade, was in fact $10 a box at Walmart.
Then the prices moved up, mainly because of the price of components. One year ago, that same box would have cost about $14.
Today, if one can find it at all, that same box will cost about $18 to $20.
Shotgun shells, except for slugs and anything below 4, are still very much available and a bargain. Shells for target shooting seem especially cheap; and I am thinking of buying a sport shotgun just because the shells are so cheap [and I always wanted to give the sport a try ever since I watched the movie Second Hand Lions].