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i like the employees that are deaf.

walmart: can i help you
me: i need ammo
walmart: *grabs keys* which caliber?
me: blazer .40 sw
walmart: *opens cabinet* which caliber
me: blazer .40 sw
walmart: *starts to grab federal .22lr
me: *stare*
walmart: anything else?
me: i wanted B L A Z E R .40
walmart: which caliber?

I don't buy ammo unless it's for carry i roll my own at about 3.00 a box,any calibre including 44 magnum,and my gun range i have a membership at lets me pick up all the brass i need to reload Metro Valley Gun Range in North Edinburg Tx.

htxred wrote:i like the employees that are deaf.

walmart: can i help you
me: i need ammo
walmart: *grabs keys* which caliber?
me: blazer .40 sw
walmart: *opens cabinet* which caliber
me: blazer .40 sw
walmart: *starts to grab federal .22lr
me: *stare*
walmart: anything else?
me: i wanted B L A Z E R .40
walmart: which caliber?

Beuller??? Beuller??? Beuller???



I must be in dire need of bang bang stuff to have to put up with the eccentricities of WalMart anymore...

I went a while back just to see how much fun it is...And I did not get a warm and fuzzy when I had to have my hand held all the way to the front door...

Sam Walton must be rottissering in his grave more and more these days I guess...

stevie_d_64 wrote: I must be in dire need of bang bang stuff to have to put up with the eccentricities of WalMart anymore...

I went a while back just to see how much fun it is...And I did not get a warm and fuzzy when I had to have my hand held all the way to the front door...

Sam Walton must be rottissering in his grave more and more these days I guess...

Yet Wally world is the only national general goods retail store that we can buy guns and ammo at anymore. I try to support them just for that fact. I am not crazy about Walmart, and will avoid going in there, however I try to buy all my range ammo there and will buy ammo whenever I am forced to do a Wally world visit. Some stores are better than others. I never seem to have a problem buying ammo during my lunch hour at Wallys in Baytown, Although they often don't have anyone available in the Galveston store.

I used to be able to buy ammo at Monkeywards, Sears, Western Auto and even the 5 & 10 I would hate to lose the only one we have left. I suppose though it is inevitable.

WalMart is the only store I know of that sells ammo that you'll need on the way out to your car....

Liberty, some Ace Hardware stores in small towns sell ammo.

I remember when Marshall Field in downtown Chicago sold top-dollar hunting rifles and shotguns. Just a bit of trivia.

- Jim

seamusTX wrote:Liberty, some Ace Hardware stores in small towns sell ammo.

I remember when Marshall Field in downtown Chicago sold top-dollar hunting rifles and shotguns. Just a bit of trivia.

- Jim

I was thinking of Ace I see a few of them selling Shotgun shells and 22 ammo.

From A business point of View I never understood Walmart. They seem to sell out of a lot, especially popular handgun load. It doesn't make good business sense to keep a stock levels at a level where running out is a common event. I also don't understand why they don't sell defensive ammo. it seems to me the markup would be better on this stuff and there would be better profits. I really think that a lot of the disatisfaction we see in Walmart with ammo and guns is that the management doesn't really understand their product and customers.

htxred wrote:me: blazer .40 sw
walmart: *starts to grab federal .22lr
me: *stare*

I must be sort of lucky; most of the weekday employees here seem to know at least the brands and types they carry of major calibers (.22lr, .22wmr, 30-06, 12ga, .38Spl, .357Mag, 9mm, and the only non-major I buy is .243...except 7.62x54R, and I haven't even bothered to ask for that at WallyWorld) but the prices aren't nearly as impressive as what I find on here.

OTOH, in this town, there are a lot of merchants that don't mark stocked items up - they'll wait until they order it at higher cost and the new stock gets the new price. That can lead to some great deals if you manage to spot the dusty old box at the back of the shelf. Heck, I found some copper tubing the other day marked at about three-quarters of its scrap value. Unfortunately it was only one box.

Liberty wrote:From A business point of View I never understood Walmart. They seem to sell out of a lot, especially popular handgun load. It doesn't make good business sense to keep a stock levels at a level where running out is a common event.

I'm not sure about that. It costs money to maintain inventory. Wal-Mart probably has a trillion dollars in inventory.

If you're the only merchant in town that sells something, customers will be disappointed when you don't have it, but they'll have to come back another day. There's a chance that they'll buy some impulse item every time they come into the store.

- Jim

seamusTX wrote: I remember when Marshall Field in downtown Chicago sold top-dollar hunting rifles and shotguns. Just a bit of trivia.

- Jim

More trivia........
I remember when some Banks in the US would give you a very nice hunting rifle (can't remember which one) if you opened a Certificate of Deposit with them for a certain length of time! And as I recall, you did not have to be a resident of the State the Bank was in either!

AEA wrote:I remember when some Banks in the US would give you a very nice hunting rifle (can't remember which one) if you opened a Certificate of Deposit with them

That has happened as recently as about 1990. It was in Bowling for Columbine.

But, yeah, it was much more common in the 1960s. I also remember firearms in the Sears and Penney's mail-order catalogs. With prices like $20 at the low end.

- Jim

seamusTX wrote:Liberty, some Ace Hardware stores in small towns sell ammo.

I remember when Marshall Field in downtown Chicago sold top-dollar hunting rifles and shotguns. Just a bit of trivia.

- Jim

When was the last timie you were in a Gibson's?

There is one ini Kerrville. Lots of guns and ammo.

Anygun

anygunanywhere wrote:

seamusTX wrote:Liberty, some Ace Hardware stores in small towns sell ammo.

I remember when Marshall Field in downtown Chicago sold top-dollar hunting rifles and shotguns. Just a bit of trivia.

- Jim

When was the last timie you were in a Gibson's?

There is one ini Kerrville. Lots of guns and ammo.

Anygun

To be Honest I've never heard of them before? Are they a national chain?

anygunanywhere wrote:When was the last timie you were in a Gibson's?

I've never heard of them.

- Jim

Mithras61 wrote:

seamusTX wrote:

Mithras61 wrote:I'd go fishing more often, but I can't figure out how to shoot 'em!

Saddam Hussein and his buddies used to use automatic rifles.

- Jim

I've seen some write-ups that suggest that ammo breaks up when it passes the air-water barrier, and that shots fired sub-surface have a very short range (~200 ft. from a rifle). I guess it all depends on what you are shooting.

WAY off topic now, but there was a mythbusters episode where they shot various guns into water (a "decomissioned" swimming pool"). EVERYTHING they shot into the water (from 9mm to .50 rifle) fragmented within a few feet - apparently the water resistance was such that the bullet itself could not survive the transition into water from air at the speeds it was going.