Buying Bullets

[StephenPerry]

Buying Bullets
This Thread is more for the 1st year shooter but old shooters need a refresher too. I am talking 22 & 6 bullets here. Somebody might add any info on the larger BR bullets.
In buying bullets for benchrest forget any bullet you would not shoot on your record target. That means set aside your Sierra's, Hornady's, Nosler's, bullets with no name on the box.
My suggestion if you are in your first year of BR with a new barrel is buy a 500 pk of any bullets a vendor like Bruno sells. Any will do. You need to make a commitment and 500 won't last long. If you know you are going to shoot a 100/200 yd range try and shoot 200 as much or more than 100. Do load development at 200 and it will work at 100 as well.
When you get the 500 pack down to 100 ask yourself did you do your best to make those bullets shoot. If you feel you did and your competition got you in the top 10 a few times you might consider staying with that bullet. If you felt that you did all the load development you knew how and aggs weren't coming around buy 500 of another maker. Probably by 2 different bullets you will settle on one.
Keep up the faith most quit in the first couple years. Everybody can find their niche in benchrest. Even the Champions have their own problems.
Stephen Perry

 

[StephenPerry]

Why Wait
Most vendors have a large selection of bullets at the shoots they sell at. Larger shoots like the Super Shoot, Cactus, Most Regionals, some State shoots if the vendor shoots there he usually brings his store. In addition to Bruno you can buy from Hoehn, Kinneman, Kelbly, Allied and others at the Shoot. They all sell Gentner, Bart, Bruno, Fowler, Euber and other bullets.
But yes if you order direct you will probably be put on a list.
This is why I always see shooters buying 500 and 1000 packs at the Shoots to hold them over till they see the next vendor. Prices are competitive since you will not be paying tax and shipping for the most part. Support your vendors.
Stephen Perry

 

[vmthtr]

Am I glad a friend makes my 30 cal bullets and I can get them just about anytime. 6 MM is another story.

Mike

 

[overbore]

6.5 Bergers in 140 gr flavor only come in boxes of 100 but I am trying, through Powder Valley, to get bulk packs started so that we may have one lot number to select from. Any help along these lines will help the F class shooters. Many thx. Overbore

 

[JER]

It's a good thing that a box of Lapuas or Sierras bought whenever and loaded with a minimum of care are more than good enough for my sport of choice.

I've never even heard of most of the bullets y'all look for.

 

[Preacher]

I always used Sierra or Nosler bullets for years until I got my hands on some Fowler flat base 66 grainers for a new 1st time 20 inch 6br on a XP frame.
That 6br was so much fun to load for, and shoot I now have 5 of them just to torment groundhogs with 'O)
Well needless to say the next time I ran out of bullets I called in a 2000 bullet order to Jeff Fowler, and I had them in a few weeks.
I weighed and ran those first few bullets over every kind of contraption I own to find a bad one and never did. Now I don't even bother to fool with them except for doing the ogive thing
and that probably isn't even worth the time spent because I rarely toss one out of the batch.
When I run the normal bullets from anyone over my Verne Junke spinner I end up tossing a lot of them into the fouler box because they are out of balance 'O,
The price for most of the custom bullets are close to the price of the big bullet makers, and shoot so very much better it's worth the extra money spent.