I think a lot of the Remington & Winchester bullets are out sourced now so it has changed since when everything was made in house and the bulk or 2nds could be used to pass along the savings. Now that they are 2nd party the price sort of gets set with less flexibility. Speer has until recently kept their prices very reasonable, sometimes they were even less than blems or seconds. The old Speer Hot Cores always performed well for me.

I am in the too many bullets too little time camp probably permanently.

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