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August 11, 2010
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I wrote to Garret Cartriges about buying some bullets without the rest of the cartridge because their bullets sounded like a good product. They wouldn't sell bullets alone. Fair enough. So I asked if they would recomend bullets of similar quality. Mr. Garrett wrote back:
Hi Jerry,
We hand-cast our own bullets in-shop quite
simply because there are no commercially cast bullets that we trust for
use against big game. If there were commercially cast bullets that met
our quality standards, we would by them in a heart-beat and save
ourselves all the time and labor required to hand-cast our own. If you
do an internet search for cast bullets you will find some, but I cannot
recommend any as I don't find them to be satisfactory. I'd sell you
some if I could, but we are kept very busy casting enough bullets to
satisfy the demand for our Hammerhead Ammo. Sorry I can't be of more
help. Thanks for your interest!
Best
regards, Randy Garrett
http://www.GarrettCartridges.com
Hmm. So other bullet makers are producing bullets of insufficient quality for the taking of big game. Well, I'll just have to pass that assertion along to those other makers and see what they have to say about it.
I'm writing to Penn Bullets, Montana Bulletworks, Oregon Trail, and Belt Mountain. I'll send them the above statements and request comment form them. This should be fun.
If anyone can think of other bullet makers to notify of their inferiority, please post.
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May 2, 2009
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Reminds me of an old shooting buddy... I was at his house doing a little reloading one day and saw some really shiny 45 ACP bullets with pointy tips. I picked one up and asked what they were... 
He said he was experimenting with some new CCW type ammo. He wanted penetration so he was looking for a better alloy mix... Nothing on the market that met his fancy...
He was melting down old pieces of Pewter from thrift stores, Goodwill's, etc and casting them. The pointy tip was achieved by running a drill into the nose of the bullet mold...
he was testing them by shooting into old concrete lamppost (the kind they have in shopping mall parking lots).. results were impressive to say the least.
No idea how fast he was shooting these things, but I remember all his guns had heavy springs in them.
I may have one of his pointy 9mm molds somewhere...
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December 28, 2010
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Hmm. So other bullet makers are producing bullets of insufficient quality for the taking of big game. Well, I'll just have to pass that assertion along to those other makers and see what they have to say about it.
He was referring to cast bullets. I'm not sure I "get" why somebody would be adamant about taking their game with cast vs any of the jacketed hollow, soft, whatever bullets available. Cleaning lead is a royal PITA...
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February 22, 2009
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Cast bullets, with the correct load, perform as well as jacketed and won't lead the barrel- all part of the fun of rolling your own!
On the ocaisson that I have the lube/ velocity/ alloy mix wrong I just clean w/ my Outers Foul-Out System- no problem at all and slick as a whistle w/ no elbow grease...
Try it, you'll like it!
Technically, the glass is always full; half liquid, half air....
November 14, 2009
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Interesting, Give you something to think about.
Happyness is a Hot DW and a pile of used brass!!! Rich
December 28, 2010
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rwsem said:
Cast bullets, with the correct load, perform as well as jacketed and won't lead the barrel- all part of the fun of rolling your own!
I get pretty much the same results by leaving the Redline Ballistics cast boolits underneath the boxes of moly coated and plated bullets I'm using. No leading. 😀
Having said that, I think I need to start stockpiling ingots and lube for the inevitable day when Gov. Moonbeam and his cohorts outlaw selling of lead of any sort in the People's Republik.
February 11, 2010
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JesusDillinger said :
"Hmm. So other bullet makers are producing bullets of insufficient quality for the taking of big game. Well, I'll just have to pass that assertion along to those other makers and see what they have to say about it.
I'm writing to Penn Bullets, Montana Bulletworks, Oregon Trail, and Belt Mountain. I'll send them the above statements and request comment form them. This should be fun."
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February 22, 2009
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I get pretty much the same results by leaving the Redline Ballistics cast boolits underneath the boxes of moly coated and plated bullets I'm using. No leading. 😀
I'll PM my addy so you can send those cast bullets to a lead-head....
Technically, the glass is always full; half liquid, half air....
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