Author Topic: Cost of conicals (Read 641 times)

ksbackwoods · « **on:** February 26, 2005, 03:44:20 AM »

Does any one else think they charge way too much for conicals?
I've seen .50 cal conicals at Wallyworld for $14.00 for 20!
You can buy loaded centerfire rifle ammo for that.
I'm sure glad I got into casting my own a couple years ago. I bought a Lee combo mould that throws 1 ball and 1 REAL slug at a time for $16.00 and I can make as many as I want.

quigleysharps4570 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 26, 2005, 05:32:00 AM »

They are proud of those store bought bullets thats for sure. Like you, I cast my own. It would grieve me to have to buy any. What are you shooting that REAL bullet out of? I shoot a Lyman GPR that really likes them.

ksbackwoods · « **Reply #2 on:** February 26, 2005, 03:20:56 PM »

The only muzzleloader I have so far is a traditions kentucky in .50.
I got it cheap from a store that special ordered it for some one and then backed out on em. I was surprised how well the REAL slugs shot out of a slow twist rifle, about 2-3 inch groups at 100 yards off a bench. I know thats nothing to brag about but it's good enough for deer hunting which I'm hoping to try this fall. It will be my first muzzleloader deer hunt.

quigleysharps4570 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 26, 2005, 03:40:46 PM »

Hope you do well this fall. My first muzzleloader was a Kentucky that I'd put together from a kit in 1975. She was a fine shooter. What area of the woods are you in ksbackwoods?

ksbackwoods · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2005, 01:28:10 AM »

I'm up in northeast Kansas , about 20 miles west of Topeka.
Do you cast your's out of pure lead?
I've got alot more wheel weights than I do pure lead so I mix them about 50/50 to make them go farther. I can tell they are a little harder but they seem to shoot pretty good that way.

quigleysharps4570 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 27, 2005, 04:24:30 AM »

Pretty country up in that neck of the woods. My youngest sister lived and went to college up at Manhattan. So I prowled around up in there from time to time. I cast mine from pure, never have tried mixing it. Tell you what I did do "once" with the REAL, tried casting a few out of WW's. :-) Won't do that again. Real pretty bullets but had to run them in with a mallet.

lonewolf7396 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 27, 2005, 05:29:05 AM »

ksbackwoods: There is a guy in FLA, that I purchase my conicals from called Black Jack Hill 50 rounds for about $11.00 bucks that includes shipping .He has a site on E Bay sell everything from REALS , Minnie's,and Round balls

ksbackwoods · « **Reply #7 on:** February 28, 2005, 12:37:46 AM »

wow, that's a pretty good price Lonewolf.