.22 Ammunition in WalMart, 5 Cents a Round

By Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)-

Is the .22 bubble finally bursting? I have, with many others, been watching WalMart for .22 ammunition. It is a good indicator that demand may be saturating, and prices dropping. For two years, the availability of .22 long rifle ammunition in WalMart stores has been very spotty. They have had a “3 boxes per customer limit” for most of that period. When .22 ammunition comes in, it is snapped up by the first few customers; then the shelves are bare until the next shipment, which usually happens a week or more later.

On September 30th, in a Dallas WalMart near the North boundary, off of Marsh Lane, I spotted these boxes of Blazer .22 Long Rifle, at $2.47 for a box of 50. That is less than 5 cents a round, starting to approach pre-bubble levels.

Appropriately, there were 22 boxes of Blazer on the shelf, and a few boxes of .22 shotshells above them.

Suspecting that I might have come across one of those rare moments when the shipments were just put on the shelf, I asked a nearby associate about the presence of …Read the Rest

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