A good Ontario source for 303 cal (.311 / .312) bullets

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G'day - please humour me, I tried searching and I checked all the sponsor websites. I even had a friend drive down to epps to come back empty handed.

Does anyone have a good source for 303 bullets?

I'd like to get a few boxes of:
Hornady #3130G .312 174gr bthp,
Sierra #2315 .311 174 bthp

My local shop has got me a couple boxes of the hornady 174gr .3105" bthp but it was a long wait and I'm not sure I can persuade the guy to order me in different stuff!

If anyone is interested, the .3105 174gr bullets in front of 41gr imr4350 3.075 coal, shot just fine out of my faz no4 mk1. No signs of tumbling or anything like that. No real groups to report, but I'm working on bedding the stock and properly securing the scope. Regardless, knocks over propane tanks at 200m with every shot. The bore on this rifle is in great shape although I haven't got around to slugging the barrel to be sure of dimensions.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
 
a .314" bullet mold is a good investment but wheel weights are getting hard to find so alloy is not easy to come by anymore

right now good luck finding any bullets for odd ball sizes with all the buying down south makers have switched to the cals that are common .308,9mm,.223,.40,.45 ect we don't get resupplied until they get resupplied
 
Yes, they certainly do seem to be rare as hen's teeth. I have all sorts of easy access to wheel weights, but I think it would be just as hard if not harder to get a bullet mold, lube, pots n pans, etc etc.
 
The Lee moulds from Titan are only .312" I believe. A tad small for most Enfields since you want 1-2 thou over slug diameter which is often .311-.312" on it's own. I ordered a custom .314" 200gr mould from Accurate Molds and it was shipped within a week. They cut the moulds to order. I ordered a 170gr .311" RNFP tumble lube design mould from them for a Micro Groove rifled 30-30 this past weekend and it was shipped today.

Even if you buy retail bags of lead alloy shot for reloading shotshells for casting (which there isn't a shortage of as far as I know) at $50/25lbs it still only comes out to $.05 a bullet or some such to cast.
 
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The Lee moulds from Titan are only .312" I believe. A tad small for most Enfields since you want 1-2 thou over slug diameter which is often .311-.312" on it's own. I ordered a custom .314" 200gr mould from Accurate Molds and it was shipped within a week. They cut the moulds to order. I ordered a 170gr .311" RNFP tumble lube design mould from them for a Micro Groove rifled 30-30 this past weekend and it was shipped today.

Even if you buy retail bags of lead alloy shot for reloading shotshells for casting (which there isn't a shortage of as far as I know) at $50/25lbs it still only comes out to $.05 a bullet or some such to cast.
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my lee enfield slugs at .314"-.315" close to the chamber I ordered a mold for .316" bullets. but most will do ok with a .314" cast. as for shot being a good alloy it all depends on the shot you want to hard stuff as it has more antimony
 
I know what you mean about loose bores. My No.1 Mk.3 slugs .315" but my P14 slugs .312" so the .314" bullets are perfect for it and that's what I bought the mould for. My Enfield is a total beater so I'm not that concerned with loading accurate ammo for it. The .314" bullets work in the .315" bore at lower velocities (under 1500fps or so) but tumble when faster than that.

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It may be possible to find jacketed .311-.312" bullets in some smaller shops. One shop I went to once had a lot of the old style Hornady boxes of less common calibres like .312", 8mm, 9.3mm, and others. The bigger stores turn over stock a lot faster so are more likely to get hit by shortages sooner.
 
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