Bulletworks...

[stilly]

Anyone bought from bulletworks before?

I thought I would place a small order with them and try them out.

So yeah, my post man is gonna hate me.

[tonyjr]

Try asking for a small sample pack - a little cheaper and not about 80 pills left after a ladder .

[stilly]

Yeah, **** I should have done that.

I am out about $860 if these do NOT look nice.

[JackEllis]

In that case I'm crossin' mah fingers fer yeh.

[pennstater]

Ohhh, big lay out there stilly. Hope they work. Damn.

[Chief-7700]

If it's Bulletworks out of Breckenridge Texas they are great bullets! I have an open account with Mitch and have ordered around 10,000 200 grain LSWC in .45ACP.
Chief

[stilly]

If it's Bulletworks out of Breckenridge Texas they are great bullets! I have an open account with Mitch and have ordered around 10,000 200 grain LSWC in .45ACP.
Chief

No. not them, these guys are out of AR:

https://www.thebulletworks.net/

My 4 boxes are beat to hell, kinda, but everything looks intact. Damn I never realized what a PITA that was to move, BUT, I also learned that those damn folding hand carts LIE about lifting 250lbs... Mine felt like it was gonna snap. And it DID flex a bit.I will look in the morning and see if the handle is canted back.

[tonyjr]

stilly
I use the little furnisher movers from harbor freight . they go on sale at least once a month .
Home Depot has 2 X4 sheets of plywood - screw 2 of movers together - mine are used mostly for potting soil .
Great for moving 5 gallon bottles of water - I have 5 of them and when down to 2 - refill [ we are in earth quake country . ]

[stilly]

stilly
I use the little furnisher movers from harbor freight . they go on sale at least once a month .
Home Depot has 2 X4 sheets of plywood - screw 2 of movers together - mine are used mostly for potting soil .
Great for moving 5 gallon bottles of water - I have 5 of them and when down to 2 - refill [ we are in earth quake country . ]

Hey now THAT is a good idea.

I will even up it.

Attach a large chain loop to the wooden frame underneath and give it about 8' or so and now you can pull it everywhere. Those movers only cost about $8.00 too.

Thanks for the idea.

[tonyjr]

I screwed 2 3/4 inch pipe clamps to hold 2 1/2 inch nipples screwed into 1/2 inch T . Screw a 3 foot piece of 1/2 pipe into either end as a handle .
I ended making 2 more , my wife uses one for garden tools [ L brackets that hold another piece of plywood 2 foot long - 8 foot 2X4 cut into 4 pieces ] She gave one away . When nephews and nieces showed up with parents - they ended up making quite a few .

[stilly]

They arrived in a few days after I paid for them.

The LARGE FLAT RATE boxes were beat to hell. I was wondering how they were not leaking.

I opened them and there were inner boxes with flaps folded over, not really a way to contain, but not bad. I unfolded the flaps and found three LITTLE boxes, each labeled 1000 9mm 115gr.

SOME of the little boxes were beat to hell and opened a bit (but not leaking) and others looked good. The cardboard was a thickish corrugated cardboard.
There was room to move around inside the large box space. And believe me, SOME of these DID move around.


I removed all of the little boxes and lined them up on the workhorses. Not one box was leaking but several should have been and a couple had no more rigid integrity left at all.

I took one of the boxes with most of the integrity loss and put it on the reloading bench and cut the tape on it. Inside was a woven SANDBAG that was bright orange, tied in a sandbag fashion, but it came untied after working on the knot for about 15 seconds. I pulled the sandbag out of the box and looked inside.

Inside the sandbag were loose 9mm 115gr bullets.

I weighed about 20 to check the consistency and found them to be 114.68gr - 115.22gr.

I did not Mic them yet, but I am REALLY liking what I saw. So far Bulletworks gets an A+ from me.

AND, to top it off, I was expecting to see truncated cones, but they actually ARE RNFP. (The image on the site kinda shows a drawing of a TC pill). I wanted RNFP.

This was only on ONE box though. One nice shiny lot of pills.

I like their thinking with loading them into the boxes. Not too heavy for folks to move around, engineered crumple zones and a strong bag to contain the pills, AND when I am finished loading I can easily use the bags to hold completed ammo.

So far this is a win win... AND, at $215/3k the price was the best around. Photos later maybe if I remember.

[tonyjr]

At 1st reading about them they were going on my ignorance list .
Glad you are happy .
That is a lot of pills , not conceding January is coming fast . I will be going t Reno later this month fr a wedding and will stock up then .
Iam are worried about primers and older than pills .

[scotty99]

Do some accuracy testing with them. I couldn't get their 147s to group under about 5" no matter what I did. Great company to deal with, but in months of trying I could not make them shoot straight. Hope your guns like them better than mine did.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

[tonyjr]

Maybe 30-35 years ago , I was casting 45's in Mexico .
The pils were key holing , turning into shot shell and you could figure if you could hit with a rock O K . If farther than you could throw , forget it .
Back then I could only get wheel weights , lead from copper wire , lead bars for fender work and solder .
My point is they may have lumpy lead [ impure ] .
Stilly posted he measured a few and were O K . Try running thru a sizing die - they may not have .

[stilly]

Maybe 30-35 years ago , I was casting 45's in Mexico .
The pils were key holing , turning into shot shell and you could figure if you could hit with a rock O K . If farther than you could throw , forget it .
Back then I could only get wheel weights , lead from copper wire , lead bars for fender work and solder .
My point is they may have lumpy lead [ impure ] .
Stilly posted he measured a few and were O K . Try running thru a sizing die - they may not have .

I will mic a few of them. I suspect .355

IF they are .355 I have no sizing die that will fit. I have .356,.357, .358...

No .355 since .355 is for J-words.

I already have my load:

9mm Load LAdder

Powder: CFE Pistol 5.1gr then bump to 5.2gr
COAL: Blue Sharpie = 1.110, Green Sharpie = 1.120, Red Sharpie = 1.130
Primer: SPP MAG
Brass: Mixed

I have a **** ton of spp mag primers. I gotta use them up. My main concern is length so I know that hot/max is 5.4gr, so I figure 5.1 to 5.2 to start and about 15 at each length so I can shoot them outta my pt-92, G-17, and P320.