17 WSM Ammo Alert

[n4ue]

regal7.5, thanks for helpin' folks out!

The WMs around here, don't have the .17 WSM but they are getting back to normal, with the rest of the different calibers.
Yesterday morning, they were putting out .22 lr. Haven't seen .22 lr in WM for almost a year......

ron

[JG26_Irish]

Supply of 17 WSM seems to be getting better. I found it in two locations today and it was the only two places I bothered to look. Bud's in Lex had about 8 boxes of 25g (I bought 2), and my local Wally World had it for the first time in both 25g and 20g. Looked like 7-8 boxes of each. Yowsser. I also found 22lr, 22 WMR, and 17 HMR on the shelves at Buds (nothing at WM). It is funny that I have found centerfire ammo everywhere but rimfire has been scarce??

Irish

[outback andy]

I,m thinking they make more money on centerfire ammo so they are making that first then the rimfire..

[JG26_Irish]

I,m thinking they make more money on centerfire ammo so they are making that first then the rimfire..

If that was true, why only now has it become a scarce commodity? There seems to be something driving large numbers of the population to hoard small caliber ammo. I mean in a dire emergency, one could still hunt with 223. I just wonder what is going on? They have to be making money on rimfire ammo. With demand up (I assume), there should be a profit motive to meet the demand. If not by existing suppliers, then others would enter the market. Right? Or are our markets so !@#$ed up as to make market entry undesirable? I do not get it.

Irish

[n4ue]

Hi Irish. Went to the local County Fair last Sunday. The gf and I overheard a really loud redneck type, bragging he has 70,000 rounds of .22 lr 'stockpiled'. That's 140 bricks, yeah, right......
I "almost" told him that they sell it at Gander Mtn, WM, etc. I suppose he was one of those people trying to flip it and make some $.
Who the heck 'needs' 70,000 rounds?
Just stupid, IMHO. ha ha

ron

[Downunderimfire]

Prep'n for the Zombie PD apocalypse?

[JG26_Irish]

Hi Irish. Went to the local County Fair last Sunday. The gf and I overheard a really loud redneck type, bragging he has 70,000 rounds of .22 lr 'stockpiled'. That's 140 bricks, yeah, right......
I "almost" told him that they sell it at Gander Mtn, WM, etc. I suppose he was one of those people trying to flip it and make some $.
Who the heck 'needs' 70,000 rounds?
Just stupid, IMHO. ha ha

ron

Amazing. That would be over $10,000 tied up in ammo. Who can do that? I am a technology professional/engineer and cannot afford to do such things. Maybe I should invest my retirement funds into ammo?, lol. Come to think of it, if I had done that 15 yrs ago, it would have performed better than the market. Maybe our redneck friend is onto something. A terrorist attack proof and recession proof investment strategy. Not the greatest liquidity but...

Some of my close friends in WV say that when the local Walmart gets 22lr shipments there are people lined up to buy all of it and they take it straight to the flea markets and flip it for profit. It still seems that if such BS was raising primary demand for the stores, they would simply order more volume and the manufacturers would ramp up production to meet the demand. I am not seeing that kind of market response. Maybe the time delay is too long, maybe they do not believe the demand is sustainable. in my work, I work on ways to enhance production output without massive capital investments, by eliminating the constraints in the production lines. If I were Winchester/Remington/Federal/Lapua, et al, I would be working those techniques 24/7 to put out more ammo. If I were Walmart/Cabelas/GM, etc, I would be adding new suppliers such as RWS, Wolf, Lapua from overseas to fill in the gap. At least the 17WSM supply seems to be improving slightly here. Not sure if it is temporary or not yet. I have enough ammo to last the winter now but want to include my 17 WSM in a planned prairie dog hunt next year and we usually want 500 rds/gun for those trips. So, over time, I am hoping to stock up on the 20g variety. It has been harder to find here.

Irish

[n4ue]

Hi Irish, excellent response. When I was an Engineer with IBM/Lexmark, it would infuriate me when I would come up with a different way of doing repairs or writing manuals.
The response from the 'old farts' was "We CAN't do it that way!"
When I would ask "why not?" The answer was always"
"Because we've ALWAYS done it THIS way". Great answer, right? ha ha

I was at a nearby Academy Sporting Goods store today and picked up another 4 boxes of 20 gr. I bought 4 boxes 2 weeks ago. I bought 4 more today and they still had some left. They have never seen a gun......
The counter guy said that ammo was still left from their initial shipment several months ago......
Several lgs have the 25 gr, which I now realize my rifle prefers! ha ha

I sure would like to see a poll of which ammo different guns like...
May have to start a new thread.....

ron

[fla9-40]

I too was at Academy Sporting Goods store yesterday and they had around 20 boxes of 20gr and I asked the counter person what was the limit on these and he told me "none...buy them all if you want them" I guess that is true for 17 wsm and not all the others because there's still a 3 box limit per caliber!!

I've been reading another thread here on reviews on this rifle.....hope my new purchase does better then what I have read!
Will report back after a range trip in the next day or two.

[outback andy]

You can't go wrong with a 93 series, I have it in the .22 Mag and put a nice Boyds stock on it and I couldn't be more happy with it..

[Crockett]

Gander mountain has 25gr in stock, grabbed some this am.

[gsperaz]

Thanks Crockett, just ordered me a few boxes.

[wtkshooter]

Do you guys order online? What are the shipping costs?

[Crockett]

Do you guys order online? What are the shipping costs?

yes...shipping is free if you spend over $50 dollars @ Gander mountain.

[wtkshooter]

yes...shipping is free if you spend over $50 dollars @ Gander mountain.

Thank you Sir.

[rsh4364]

I found they were listed in centerfire section...

[Yankee]

^^Good call!

I looked in Rimfire, saw the 20gr and they were sold out.

For whatever reason the 25gr is in Centerfire.

Thanks for the info

[scope eye]

6 boxes on the way thanks guys.

Dean

[scope eye]

Well apparently I will not be getting they ammo after all, Gander MTM just sent me an email saying, they will not ship to MA, god I have got to get out of this state.

Dean

[Crockett]

Well apparently I will not be getting they ammo after all, Gander MTM just sent me an email saying, they will not ship to MA, god I have got to get out of this state.

Dean

you live in mass and didn't know that? I refuse to buy anything from bass pro since they decided to come to your libtard location!