Bulk bullets
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A box of target shotshells from WalMart?
No kidding dude, you gotta ask good questions (ie: add some information) if you want good answers.
Some good places to start would be to put up the caliber, or calibers, the types of bullets, etc., otherwise you get no answers at all. NFG pointing you at the mass supplier of cast lead pistol bullets if you need FMJ , or softpoint jacketed rifle bullets in only one caliber, now, is it?
Cheers
Trev
- Location
- Alta/Sask Border Country
...presumably you're looking for complete, fireable rounds, not just the projectiles, right?
Aim projectiles, seeing as your in Kitchener 
One of their guys might just make his way to Waterloo every now and again.
http://www.aimprojectiles.com/About/default.asp
Check em out
One of their guys might just make his way to Waterloo every now and again.http://www.aimprojectiles.com/About/default.asp
Check em out
Yeah he's crazy! I'm waiting for when they are 20% cheaper than last year
Sarcasm...aint it great.
I am looking into the feasibility of starting a small reloading business.
I would like to start small with 35000
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Ahhh. It would be tough to make a profit when competing against factory ammo, or worse, if competing against surplus military ammo, once your time is taken into account. You might be better to try marketing high quality niche ammo, like long range match or hunting ammo, or personal defense handgun ammo, that you could charge a good buck for, rather than just trying to produce bulk ammo to the lowest common denominator. Commercial ammo manufacturing is a big dollar investment proposition.
Yeah he's crazy! I'm waiting for when they are 20% cheaper than last year
Wish I'd sunk every penny I had into AE .223 Rem @ $5.99 a box.
rnbra-shooter
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- New Brunswick
I am guessing that you are not looking at getting 35K of each bullet, rather, an order of a variety of different common bullets, totalling 35K+?
You're probably (just barely) at the level where it makes sense to talk to the bullet makers directly. 35K bullets at 30-ish cents each is ~$10K.
A $10K order might be big enough to pay for the various costs, e.g. export paperwork from the US ($200? $500?), shipping a ~1000lb pallet of bullets ($500 to a US address? $1500 to a Canaidian address?), etc. You'd pretty much have to buy all your bullets from one manufacturer, otherwise you'd have two smaller orders and the overhead costs of an order would really hurt.
I would suggest you consider importing the bullets yourself, since you're reasonably near the US border. You'd have to arrange a US shipping address. Apply to CCRA for an "importer account", it's a simple sub-account ("RM0001") addition to your business number (income tax, GST/HST etc). Self-brokering an importation of your own into Canada is pretty straightforward, and can easily pay for the savings in paid-brokerage costs and vastly increased shipping charges for cross-border shipments.
Business-wise, be sure to choose ammo to produce that you have some sort of advantage at. Plinker-grade .223 is probably what you *don't* want to be making. Choose your markets where you'll be able to do well in, don't feel obliged to spread yourself thinly.
