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From what I understand 150g bt bullets shoot best from our M14's. Am I forced to buy the Hornaday 100 packs for 30 bucks a box or is there some sort of bulk resource where I can stock up. Thanks in advance
 
bigcoupee said:
From what I understand 150g bt bullets shoot best from our M14's. Am I forced to buy the Hornaday 100 packs for 30 bucks a box or is there some sort of bulk resource where I can stock up. Thanks in advance
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Mystic Precision sells PRVI 150gr FMJs for 225$/1000.
That's about the cheapest Jacketed 308 I've found.
Plated bullets just won't cut it at .308 pressures and speeds, unfortunately
 
308 bulk

There's a couple of dealers here that have them in bulk (Henry Nierychio for one). I posted an ad looking for some and a cgn'r sold me 1000 for $200. Not sure what brand but they work good.
 
bigcoupee said:
From what I understand 150g bt bullets shoot best from our M14's. Am I forced to buy the Hornaday 100 packs for 30 bucks a box or is there some sort of bulk resource where I can stock up. Thanks in advance
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I don't know where you live, but I have bought 100 packs of Remington 150 grn FMJ's for around $20 a bag.
 
Any gun shop will sell you as many bullets as you want. 1,000 may be a special order thing though. Special order stuff usually requires the money up front too.
 
sunray said:
Any gun shop will sell you as many bullets as you want. 1,000 may be a special order thing though. Special order stuff usually requires the money up front too.
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Henry has a nice stock of components. I calculated it out, that even if I bought brass every time, it still came way under the cost of commerical .308.
 
There are some good options in this thread. However, it would be nice if an asian company, like Norinco, would sell bulk reloading supplies like 30 cal 150 bullets. I don't think that an import permit is needed for this. Also there could be a manufacture in Russia or somewhere like that, that would be able to sell components cheaply. I've tried looking, but haven't been able to find anything, but maybe someone else can.
 
NavyCuda said:
Henry has a nice stock of components. I calculated it out, that even if I bought brass every time, it still came way under the cost of commerical .308.
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My M14 brass (Lake City Match 1969) are on their 8th go round. A few crack here and there but nothing crazy. I started out with 100 pieces and I'm down to 60 or 70 now?
 
Henrys price is even better than the local shops bulk deal.

You can also shoot cast boolits out of your M14, and yes it will cycle the gun and can be done with minimal to no leading.
 
archie_james_c said:
My M14 brass (Lake City Match 1969) are on their 8th go round. A few crack here and there but nothing crazy. I started out with 100 pieces and I'm down to 60 or 70 now?
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That's what I want. I was going to anneal them too, but right now my headspace is too far out to get that many uses out of my brass.
 
valtro12 said:
There are some good options in this thread. However, it would be nice if an asian company, like Norinco, would sell bulk reloading supplies like 30 cal 150 bullets. I don't think that an import permit is needed for this. Also there could be a manufacture in Russia or somewhere like that, that would be able to sell components cheaply. I've tried looking, but haven't been able to find anything, but maybe someone else can.
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You will probably find that some of the dealers mentioned here do bring in offshore components when they can find them (and get them into the country.)

The good old days of buying powder at $12 a pound and bullets at $11/100 is long gone, unfortunately.
 
Casting your own is the way to go. NEI makes paper patch moulds for those who don't want to get into the sizing and lubing end of things. Years back, I bought a PP mould for my M1 rfile in .30/'06 and these bullets worked dandy. I used scrap computer labels for the patch and they were very easy to apply. The only reason I gave it up was I could get just as good performance from my Garand with my regular .30/30 cast bullets.
A further advantage of paper patch bullets, is that you can use most any alloy, and wheel weights are still sort of available.
The gas system of the M-14 style of rifle is even more accomodating than that of the M-1 rifle.
 
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