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Recruits have to buy their own ammo ? Now that sounds a bit sad for the department.

Well that sucks. I got a $100 gift card for cabelas for Xmas. Guess I'll be sure to call ahead before I go.

atxgun wrote:Well that sucks. I got a $100 gift card for cabelas for Xmas. Guess I'll be sure to call ahead before I go.

Sure wish that I called ahead...I went there and left empty handed...

Was at a Wal-mart in west Houston this weekend. I was looking for 9mm, the only ones they had were 4 boxes of Winchester White Box (100). I bought 3. They had only 1 Remington Mega-pack box of .45, so I bought that too. I really need to stock up.

TexasVet wrote:Recruits have to buy their own ammo ? Now that sounds a bit sad for the department.

I doubt if it is a departmental academy. Most of the regional academies have the recruits buy their own ammo since the tuition fees would not cover it (1500 tuition, 2000 rounds of ammo for North Central Texas Academy). The trainees we hire and send to the academy get their ammo from us, but a non-sponsored cadet would have to buy it himself.

srothstein wrote:

TexasVet wrote:Recruits have to buy their own ammo ? Now that sounds a bit sad for the department.

I doubt if it is a departmental academy. Most of the regional academies have the recruits buy their own ammo since the tuition fees would not cover it (1500 tuition, 2000 rounds of ammo for North Central Texas Academy). The trainees we hire and send to the academy get their ammo from us, but a non-sponsored cadet would have to buy it himself.

Seems along the lines of college students needing to buy their own textbooks.

longhorn_92 wrote:

atxgun wrote:Well that sucks. I got a $100 gift card for cabelas for Xmas. Guess I'll be sure to call ahead before I go.

Sure wish that I called ahead...I went there and left empty handed...

It's a long drive home when doing it empty handed...

Hit the local WalMart in Ft. Worth. Bought one of the two boxes of 45's left. Didn't see any 9mm. Clerk didn't know when they would be restocking.

Hit several Wal-Marts in the Clear Lake area on saturday. Looking for 9mm.
One store had a few boxes of 9mm brass Blazer. All others out of 9mm.
A couple of stores had a handful of .45acp WWWB. One store had green /white box remington .45acp
Just about all the stores had 40S&W.
22LR, shotgun, hunting rifle ammo available at most all stores. Some were well picked over tho.
Same answer at all locations: "Its flying off the shelves" and "No idea of when we'll get more".

Luggo1 wrote:Another check of Wal-Mart and Academy here in Lubbock today.

No 9mm at WM. Some WWB .45 acp in the 100rd value pk for $29.87 (the normal price for quite a while). Plenty of .38 spec, some .40

Small amount of .45 and .40 in Blazer brass

Academy had 5 boxes of WWB 9mm 50 rounders for 12.80 per box. Tiger steel cased in 9mm for $8.87 per 50 (had 6 boxes)..

I actually need some 9mm for a class this week too....ridiculous

100 rounds for 30 bucks? Thats cheap.. Gander Mountain here is getting 24 bucks for 50 rounds of Blazer Brass.. Other than Gold Dot ammo ( 49 bucks on up for 20 rounds ) thats really all they have for .45 ammo.. Gander has gone out of sight on prices.. 550 rounds of the cheapest .22 ammo is 24 bucks, at Academy it's 13 bucks for Federal... 64 bucks for 20 rounds of Winchester Silvertip 180 gr. 30-06 ammo, it's 25 at Academy