The local Fleet Farm store regularly has Winchester Q3131 for $9.99/box
Unfortunately, you have to fight your way through the local scalpers when the doors open, like it's Black Friday. They're the ones who scarf it up, along with the 250ct boxes of 9mm and 45 ACP. By lunch time, they have it listed on Armslist or GB for 75-100% markup and the lemmings gladly pay that much for it. We can still get 525 bricks of 22 LR for about $19.00, but the same scalping happens with it also.
A local group of us try to buy it before the scalpers learn about it coming in. We then turn around and and sell it to the locals at cost or cost plus a gallon of gas for picking it up. It's a philanthropic endeavor, but it affords a warm feeling to help locals get some of the good prices and thwart the soul-less scalpers. I bet I've gone through 400 rounds of Q3131 in the past two weeks. I don't have a dog in the fight because I only shoot reloads. It just frosts me to see this reprehensible behavior "for the love of money". We are better than this!
Local ammo should be for the locals!
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