The cost of bullets

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The cost of bullets

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YIKES!! 300 and 350 grain .458 jacketed bullets are nearly $1.00 each at most available sources. I'm gonna have to use my stock very carefully. :shock:
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It is only money! (or so I tell the wife... and not so successfully I might add! :lol: )
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All the more reason to cast your own. I buy maybe 2 or 3 boxes of jacteded bullets a year. Cast for most every firearm I own with the exception of some seldom used rifles, 338 Mag, 375 H&H etc.
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Post by GANJIRO »

Have you considered moving up to the 405 grain Remington JSPs? Most sources still list them at under $20.00 per 100.
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I've thought of it Ji, but my not being a fan of such heavy bullets has so far kept me from buying some of those. I'm gonna have to rethink that.
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another vote for casting.I cast for all my rifles but the 223's.ditto for my handguns.
the ranch dog 350 gr lfngc(45/70) shoots tighter groups than that jacketed stuff anyways :lol: :lol: .
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I normally use the Barnes Originals, but have not ever shot HPs because of their destructive tendencies. I do have a large supply of 300 gr Laser Cast to use, too.

I prob'ly will never get into casting bullets, either. It just doesn't interest me enough to take the time to do it. Store bought lead bullets are still cheap enough for me.
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Mike, I practice with the bulk rem 300 and hunt with Nosler or Speer 300 gr. The Rem load shoots within 2 inches at 100 and I leave it sighted for the Noslers.
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cost is right a $2.67 for a box of 20 :D
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Pete, where'd you get the plastic case?
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That IS a nifty box. Where's a fellow get those?
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Bullets heck.. I can't even get lead. I had a never ending source of soft lead as well as reclaimed shot. One dried up and the skyrocketing prices killed off the free shot.

I cast up a bunch of bullets tonight. At 650grs a piece... the pot don't stay full long. :cry:
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I have been stashing lead now for years.I knew there might come a day...
about 10 years back I ran into a guy that bought a building that was a old print shop and picked up 400 lb's of linotype for .25 a lb


the boxes I got off a guy in GA that was giving up on reloading a few years back.
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MFG barrys then 111 / 45/70.
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Pete, where'd you get the plastic case?
MFG barrys then 111 / 45/70.
I recognised the name Barry's= Berry's. go to the site below.


http://www.berrysmfg.com/categories/33-0.php
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MTM makes a similar box.
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