Average price for factory cast boolits.

[Saint]

I'm a little curious what people are paying on average for factory cast bullets. I can get a box of 500 hard cast .429 240gr SWCBB for 38 and some change. I am going to shoot myself out of a home with all of the reloading I am doing and I want to make sure I am getting the best price. Thanks.

[ole 5 hole group]

I think you would be hard pressed to find that bullet cheaper. You would have to be getting free lead to sell it any cheaper.

[Saint]

Thats kind of what I thought. I suspect that the place I have been getting them is clearancing them. Does anyone else know what the normal cost is for this brand. They are made here in utah by Bumblebee Bullets.

[waco]

i have not even thought about buying anything that wasnt powder, or lead in sometime. cost too much.
my guess would be around $55

[casterofboolits]

$38 and change? I would advise you to buy a bunch if you're not going to cast your own. You're probably saving $15.00 plus shipping.

[bigdog454]

Gun show 2 weeks ago, 500 for $35.00
BD

[Saint]

So I went back today to pick up a couple more boxes and it seems they actually got more in so i guess they just sell really cheap. Good to know because this takes my reloading costs down significantly. I have the materials to cast these myself but I cant find a local source for lead and I have had way too many bad experiences with shipping to order it. For the most part if I cant get it locally then I find another way. Any one from the Salt Lake area know of a local source for lead. I used to get it from Gallensons but I got a bad batch from them once so I am hesitant. I think it was zinc contaminated because I couldnt get it to cast for %+?#.

[GSP7]

Shopping for Kieth style lyman or rcbs mold bullets, most places want over $100 buck plus for 5 hunert. Found a guy in montana that uses flat rate shipping $64 to my door lyman #429421 500 bullets. Thats by far the cheapest ive found out of maybe 10 sellers

[Kraschenbirn]

Shopping for Kieth style lyman or rcbs mold bullets, most places want over $100 buck plus for 5 hunert. Found a guy in montana that uses flat rate shipping $64 to my door lyman #429421 500 bullets. Thats by far the cheapest ive found out of maybe 10 sellers

Hmmm...I've got an unopened box (500) of "hard-cast" Bull-X 240 gr SWCs under my reloading bench. Anyone interested in a site benefit auction?

Bill

[Kirk Miller]

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[S391]

I can get 500 230 gr RN .45 ACP bullets for $40 + a few bucks for shipping.

[jameslovesjammie]

Local hard cast for a similar bullet at our LGS is $45-50 / 500.

[GSP7]

Hmmm...I've got an unopened box (500) of "hard-cast" Bull-X 240 gr SWCs under my reloading bench. Anyone interested in a site benefit auction?

Bill

Ive read and heard of Bull-x bullets, but what do they look like and whats the skinny on them?

Oh, what size are they?

P.S. Just found out Bull-X went out of business years ago

[Kraschenbirn]

Ive read and heard of Bull-x bullets, but what do they look like and whats the skinny on them?

Oh, what size are they?

P.S. Just found out Bull-X went out of business years ago

The original owner of Bull-X is a long-time friend and shooting buddy. In the late 1990s, while he was the process of selling Bull-X...which was, at that time, the second-largest manufacturer of CBs in the U.S...I went by the plant and picked up something like 50,000 CBs in assorted styles of .38s, .44s, and .45s. Last time I counted, I still had a couple thousand each of .38 WCs, .45 RNs, & .45 TCs in their original cartons, but only a single unopened box of the .44 SWCs.

To answer your question about the "skinny" on the Bull-X CBs in question, they're .240 gr. Keith-style SWCs (Magma 44-240 SWC BB), sized .429, and lubed with Thompson "Blue Angel." For their "Hard Cast", Bull-X used a proprietary alloy (I don't recall the exact mix) of virgin metals running around 20 Bhn. Bull-X also ran a line of "soft" CBs...Pb, Sn, and just a touch of Sb...for the cowboy action shooters, too. (btw...back then, Bull-X was providing ALL the CBs for Winchester-Western's "Cowboy Loads" factory ammo.)

Unfortunately, after my friend sold the business, it only took a about three or four years for the new owner to flush it down the tubes. Corner-cutting, lousey QC, late deliveries, poor equipment maintenance...all the classic symptoms of "under-financed" and "over-extended." IMO, most of the problem was the new owner, himself. While he did shoot a little, he was strictly a "Sunday Afternoon Plinker" who didn't reload - and never really understood the mindset of his customers.

Bill

[songdog53]

Good price on 44 boolits....but miss all the fun smelting and casting.