Walmart used to be a great source of spoon food, and they probably still are for long spoons. It's a darn shame that they stopped selling the hand-spoon food.

We seem to have lots of everything here in NZ. Maybe we should reverse-export it back to you guys.

I have owned rifles (more like carbines, actually) chambered in .357 mag, .44 mag, and .45 Colt. I have owned pistols chambered in .223, .30-30, .35 Remington, and .45-70 (all T/C Contenders). There are carbines available in 9mm, .45 ACP, etc. And still plenty of single shot pistols available in any number of "rifle" calibers. Not to mention old timers like the .44-40, .38-40, .32-20, which were introduced as rifle rounds but quickly found their way into revolvers.

Oh well, it's their store. Come to think of it, I have never personally darkened the door of a Walmart in my entire life. Not because of their stance on "pistol ammo", but for a lot of other ethical reasons. This new knowledge just adds to the list.

On a cheerier note, Midway had both small pistol and rifle magnum primers today. I have plenty of the former (using them with W-W 296 in .357 mag loads), so I didn't buy any. I cannot think of a use for the latter - I'm not aware of any small rifle primed calibers that would ever use a powder requiring a magnum primer. None have the case capacity nor use slow enough powders to require the extra spark. At least nothing I have ever reloaded.

I received an email the other day informing me that one of the online ammo vendors had 9mm in stock!... for $33 per box of 50.

Ammo is starting to show back up in Academy - bought 4 boxes of 9mm CCI Blazer FMJ at $14 each (50 rounds)

Still can find 380 though.... well at least not at stupid prices.

That's a very good price. Still, no hollow point .45, no .40 at all.

9mm is coming way down, well under $500/case now and I get email alerts about it daily. I'm still very well stocked, but it's nice to see prices coming down and availability going up.

The Midway primers are sold out but they were still a bit high in price.

Rural King locally no longer has a limit on the number of boxes you can buy. The problem is, you need to rob a bank to buy very much. A box of 50 Norma 9mm is now $24. I don't recall the other mfg's but all 9mm is above $20 per box. I saw some .380 on the shelf but it was $30 per box.

Welp Wolf 762x39 was back down to 31c/rnd and now thanks to biden even the corrosive yugo x39 is 60c/rnd

Midsouth, Powder Valley, and Grafs have all had various powders in stock, including Black Powder but I've not been able to find .310" bullets in the past 3 months other than 60 cent each super special Barnes etc.

Dunhams and Academy have 9 mm 115 grn target for about $24.
.380 is hard to find and $30 is a decent price in today's market.
The real surprise is .22LR has disappeared! When I see it, its $10-12 for a box of 50! Nope.

Anyone know anything about the brand Norma or Sierra?

I have shot limited qty's of Norma but it seemed alright .

Would you trust it for Self Defense ammo?

Norma, based in Sweden, produces some of the highest quality ammunition and reloading components available.

Sierra does not produce loaded ammunition. They only make bullets as reloading components. They make some of the highest quality bullets on the market. I only shoot cast bullets out of my handguns, but in rifles, I use Sierras in the .223, .220 Swift, 7mm Remington Magnum, .308, .30-'06, and .375 H&H Magnum. Fantastic bullets.

Note that the Norma branded 22 rimfire stuff is actually made by RWS, and is the same as Geco

Rural King has .22 in abundance. It's all Norma and it's 6.99 per box. I walked in the door the other day and was greeted in the center aisle by a pallet full of Norma .22 ammo. My friend says Norma is good stuff.

Yes they do. I saw Sierra brand 9mm ammo on shelves at Academy.
https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/sierra-sports-master-9mm-luger-jhp-ammunition

Starting to show up on shelves. But still dramatically overpriced.

While on this very subject. Thanks Jeff. I followed your advice regarding handloading for the .223. It shoots like a laser. Even better than with the purchased handloads that I can no longer buy. I think the secret was in the neck sizing advice you gave. I used the dillion 550b but measured the powder on the trickler. and fed it into stage two of the progressive press.

Wow! - Learn something new every day. For my entire life, Sierra had only provided component bullets. No primers, no brass, no powder, no reloading equipment - bullets and only bullets. I wonder how long they have been in the ammo business, and what made them decide to enter it. I wonder what else they produce.