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.
El Gato,
You ever get down around Houston? All of the Walmarts down this way seem to have plenty of ammo. I am running out of storage room. I can get you 5,000 .22lr for about $160 + tax
Right now I have stockpiled:
10,000 .22lr
3000 .45
3800 5.56
4000 9mm
and 700 .308