View Full Version : Looking for advice on where to purchase .45 bullets
BigBubbaDaddy
09-25-2014, 9:11 AM
Hi guys.
I have been reloading for about 6 years now, mainly for my 1911 on a Dillon 550.
50% of the time I have used Bear Creek molly coated bullets, 50% of the time I've used bullets I cast out of wheel weights using Lee molds.
I recently picked up a Glock in .45 and want to load for it. Glock's riffling does not go well with lead so I find myself needing jacketed bullets and have no idea where the best (read cheapest) place to source them is.
Anyone out there have a good reliable and inexpensive vendor you could point me to?
Thanks in advance!
robinfly6
09-25-2014, 9:49 AM
This is where I shop. Great customer service and super fast shipping.
http://www.shop.rmrbullets.com/45_c14.htm
Mike402
09-25-2014, 9:53 AM
Hi guys.
I have been reloading for about 6 years now, mainly for my 1911 on a Dillon 550.
50% of the time I have used Bear Creek molly coated bullets, 50% of the time I've used bullets I cast out of wheel weights using Lee molds.
I recently picked up a Glock in .45 and want to load for it. Glock's riffling does not go well with lead so I find myself needing jacketed bullets and have no idea where the best (read cheapest) place to source them is.
Anyone out there have a good reliable and inexpensive vendor you could point me to?
Thanks in advance!
I have had great luck w/ the Rainier 200gr RN in my P220. Midway has them on clearance right now for $115 for 1000 bullets. I just ordered 5,000 so I'm set for a while. Hard to beat 11.5 cents a round for .45acp non pulled copper plated bullets.
tylenol9999
09-25-2014, 9:56 AM
I have been using http://www.xtremebullets.com/45-s/48048.htm
CAL.BAR
09-25-2014, 9:57 AM
Rocky Mountain Reloading is where I get them. Great prices and service.
KahrGuy9
09-25-2014, 9:59 AM
Well actually you can run moly lead bulles, and it will pickup some lead in a .45acp but not nearly as much as a 9mm because of the velocity difference. another option is just to buy an aftermarket cut rifled barrel, like LoneWolf for about $100.
Jacketed bullets are expensive, Montana Gold is the best
https://montanagoldbullet.com/
Coated bullets work well in Glock OEM barrels also
http://www.bayoubullets.net/
BigBubbaDaddy
09-25-2014, 10:05 AM
Thanks for all the replies guys, much appreciated.
sofbak
09-25-2014, 10:06 AM
Best results I have gotten from a p220 and an SA 1911 target are these nosler's
http://www.midwayusa.com/product/687007/nosler-sporting-handgun-bullets-45-caliber-451-diameter-230-grain-full-metal-jacket-box-of-250?cm_vc=ProductFinding
On sale now for a decent price........
ElDub1950
09-25-2014, 10:15 AM
I have been using http://www.xtremebullets.com/45-s/48048.htm
Me too
fyrstomper
09-25-2014, 10:17 AM
Fortune cookie45 lc on YouTube has a good video on shooting lead through a glock 21
BigBubbaDaddy
09-25-2014, 12:01 PM
Thanks Fyrstomper, just subscribed to his channel.
I have been using http://www.xtremebullets.com/45-s/48048.htm
I get them from here also. I also get them from SNS Casting.
___M|9||___
09-25-2014, 12:47 PM
Just get some xtreme bullets for the range, can't beat the price, goodluck!
MongooseV8
09-25-2014, 1:32 PM
Zero jacketed bullets for about the same price as plated. You can get them at powdervalley sometimes.
SNS casting coated bullets are the best I have found. The most accurate and consistent I have used. This was shot at 15 yards offhand using the 200g. lswc plated bullet for a Glock. Great stuff.
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z463/carcrazysammy69/glock41_zps9d87901c.jpg
1) Try some lead bullets in your gun, inspect the barrel after every 25-50 shots, and clean the barrel if you need to. You can try the VERY HARD commercial and your own much less hard lead and compare. Inexpensive and very accurate lead bullets are available from mastercastbullets.com and Missouri Bullets. My favorite coated bullets are the swaged moly-koted Precision Bullets. Very accurate and consistent in weight and dimensions. You can do an internet search for lead bullets and Glock and see what others have found.
2) You can use plated bullets, as long as absolute accuracy is not important. "Best Buy" is often X-treme, but their prices have been fluctuating a lot lately.
4) Zero are the best "least expensive" jacketed bullets. If you buy some, buy in bulk. Montana Bullets have really gone up in price over the last 6-9 months. PowderValley tries very hard to keep prices down on Zero Bullets, but supplies have not been good for about 3 years.
Using 230gn as the example bullet:
If they were in stock, Powder Valley prices show Zero .45 185gn JHP (a very accurate bullet) running $247/2000 (just over 12 cents/bullet) and .45 230gn FMJ are $226/2000 (just over 11 cents/bullet)--compare to at least 20 cents a bullet for the "big brands."
From Roze Distribution you can get (in-stock) Zero 230gn FMJ for 240.50/2000 ($120.25/1000 if you order 2000-9,999, or 12 cents/bullet).
Montana Gold is running about 18-20 cents/bullet in bulk right now, which means they are up there with Win, Speer, Rem, etc.
Even Precision Delta Bullets has priced their 230gn FMJ bullets at 13-14 cents/bullet, depending on quantity.
X-treme shows .45 230gn plated bullets for $59.52/500 (12 cents a bullet).
Berry's plated .45 230gn RN bullets from Powder Valley are $59/500 (12 cents/bullet)
Mastercastbullets.com has their excellent .45 230gn L-RN bullets for $90/1000 (9 cents/bullet).
Precision Bullets has their .45 230gn RNF swaged moly-koted bullets for $199/2000 (10 cents/bullet)
Bayou Bullets has their coated .45 230gn L-RN bullets for $201/2000 (10 cents/bullet).
Thus, if it was me, I wouldn't even consider a plated bullet and would order as many thousands of Zero bullets from Roze as I could afford while they are in-stock.
BigBubbaDaddy
09-25-2014, 2:43 PM
Thanks again to all for the info, really appreciate all the posts.
followingc
09-25-2014, 9:04 PM
I have had great luck with these 230g FMJ Armscor bullets from Widener's at 13.4ยข post-paid:
https://www.wideners.com/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=100001468&dir=278|281|1082|1150
I've loaded up 400 so far and found quality to be excellent.
stilly
09-26-2014, 9:01 AM
SNS casting coated bullets are the best I have found. The most accurate and consistent I have used. This was shot at 15 yards offhand using the 200g. lswc plated bullet for a Glock. Great stuff.
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z463/carcrazysammy69/glock41_zps9d87901c.jpg
That is good **** for a glock at 15 yards, if we ever meet face to face remind me that this was your photo so that I do not say anything to piss you off that day...
OP: Cast are gonna be the cheapest and I use Xtreme bullets, but certainly check into all of the ones mentioned here in the thread. Prices fluctuate and sometimes some have sales but I love plated 230gr from Xtreme of course now that I PC I would rather pick up cast bare lead with no lube... (or pure lead and make my own.)
BTW OP, how do you like that 550? Is it a 550B or just a 550? I have had time to look at the SD and the 550/550B lately since I got a copy of the blue press the other day... I am not thrilled about the priming, so I think the BL was maybe what looked better to me, but the whole idea of having a progressive without auto index or the ability to have a bullet feeder kinda defeats the purpose for me... ESPECIALLY a blue one.
dodgeit101
09-26-2014, 9:30 AM
What's wrong with shooting lead? I don't see any problems with it and no need to get a new barrel. I'm just using Hi-Tek coated bullets, less smoke.
stilly
09-26-2014, 10:35 AM
What's wrong with shooting lead? I don't see any problems with it and no need to get a new barrel. I'm just using Hi-Tek coated bullets, less smoke.
Coated bullets are not LEAD bullets.
Once they are coated they are considered coated.
Apparently Glocks are made lead free and anytime LEAD actually touches a glock barrel it sticks to it, in fact if you lay a glock barrel down on a 6lb 8oz lead ingot, the barrel will pull up all of the lead around it to form another perfectly formed GLOCK. Yes, a brand new gun, sadly it weighs a lot though. But this is why you do not put lead in a glock barrel. It just pulls all of it to stick to the insides. AND if you coat a lead ingot and then place a glock on it, nothing happens. I know because I saw it on you-tube... It is my understanding that coated bullets have no issues in glock barrels, I have shot them out of mine as well. I am happy with what we have here.
dodgeit101
09-26-2014, 10:55 AM
That's interesting. Good to know. I always considered Coated Bullets as lead but now i know. Thanks.
stilly
09-26-2014, 12:54 PM
That's interesting. Good to know. I always considered Coated Bullets as lead but now i know. Thanks.
WELL, technically they ARE lead, but I have been under the assumption that we call the bullets what they look like, so if they LOOK plated (and are) then we call them plated even though the majority of them are gonna be LEAD inside, it is the plating we see. Perhaps it is a "Given" that bullets are made of lead, but if that is ALL they are, then that is all you can ever call them. But as soon as you modify them, they get upgraded...
Same with Jacketed, Coated, Powder Coated...
I guess it is like the english language thing. Easy to understand if you grew up with it, but just getting in it will take a few questions and mispronounciations before you sound like a native... ;)
That is how I view it anyways. AND then there is the whole bullets/boolits sub culture...
Trainman
09-26-2014, 7:52 PM
Continue casting your own, just buy a Harbor Freight powder coat machine($69) and a toaster oven($25). Powder coated bullets require no lube and u can push them at plated speeds.
http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag434/kurtcberg/9F67F725-AE12-4A20-A8B6-C39FA1E64901_zps8vwq2ypz.jpg (http://s1374.photobucket.com/user/kurtcberg/media/9F67F725-AE12-4A20-A8B6-C39FA1E64901_zps8vwq2ypz.jpg.html)
JagerDog
09-26-2014, 8:58 PM
Zero jacketed bullets for about the same price as plated. You can get them at powdervalley sometimes.
Precision Delta as well.
stilly
09-27-2014, 12:03 AM
Continue casting your own, just buy a Harbor Freight powder coat machine($69) and a toaster oven($25). Powder coated bullets require no lube and u can push them at plated speeds.
http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag434/kurtcberg/9F67F725-AE12-4A20-A8B6-C39FA1E64901_zps8vwq2ypz.jpg (http://s1374.photobucket.com/user/kurtcberg/media/9F67F725-AE12-4A20-A8B6-C39FA1E64901_zps8vwq2ypz.jpg.html)
Nice pic.
Is that actual hardwood flooring? Maybe something along the lines of butter walnut or something? The thin slats from the 50s?
Oh yeah, I mean, what powder brand is that? Tiger Drylac or something else? Those look nice and heavy coated.
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