Yep, Walmart has a lot of 12 gauge general purpose shells for ~$22/100. Lots of .22LR out there too. Bargain!
What WalMart are you shopping at that has .22 LR? At the WalMart, south Austin TX, that I visited last Sunday, the ammo shelves looked like it had been attacked by a swarm of lead and brass eating locusts, with termites coming by to cleam up the boxes. The only .22 they had was shorts and a few boxes of magnums. No LR. No handgun ammo, except maybe a box of .44 magnum or somesuch. No .223/5.56. No .308/7.62, No 7.62 of any sort, including 30-06 and .30 Carbine. Shotgun shells they had. No buckshot or slugs though. Just target and upland game loads, no shot larger than #6, that I saw, maybe the turkey hunters cleaned all the larger stuff out?
It was pretty much the same story, although not quite so bad for the shotshells, at the Gander Mountain store in far north Texas, that I went to a month or so ago. I bought a case of Remington shotgun shells, as that is my traditional Christmas gift to my brother's son, who is trapshooter.
“. Lots of .22LR out there too. Bargain!”
Where are you finding .22LR?
We get a pittance here. Ammo shelves empty.
Yup. And since my main go-to longarm is a 12 gauge shotgun, I’m happy. :D
And stocking up. Some shotgun shell is better than *no* shotgun shell.