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Check in the photo gallery for the picture I just uploaded. I got some old 100 grain Western Cartridge Company bullets from a friend a while back. The box says "250 Savage", "Luballoy", and "100 grain OPE" (open point expanding. They are round-nose hollow point bullets. I guess Western wanted to make sure they stabilized in a 1 in 14" twist barrel. I haven't shot any yet.

Those are interesting. By the time you figger out the load you'll run outa bullets! Ask me how I know...

I just picked up some soft point with an open tip similar to yours but Hornady made and more spire point than round. Actually got a bunch of old 250 bullets with this purchase including Herters, Hornady, Speer, Sierra, Remington. Others I can't remember. Same boat here no more than 300 of any one kind and less in most.

A common failing of employing any of those old discontinued bullets, in any caliber. I have a secret stash of old discontinued Speer 165 grain .30 round nosers that are steadily dwindling with no hope of replenishment, and I'll curse god in his heavens the day they run out. Ditto Speer .228 70 grain RN's.

Maybe we could make an old bullet pool for swapping

I've got a few old Hornady 358 200 grain round nose if anybody needs them.

If someone is a collector of old bullets, he can have those old Western bullets. I have more "stuff" than I will ever use.

I don't collect bullets but I REALLY like shooting deer and chucks with bullets that were used by shooters and hunters when I was much younger. The trouble is a mentality has developed that animals don't die unless they are killed with a premium bullet. I can understand "premium" for dangerous game but deer and chucks are far from dangerous. At any rate, these are a cross section of bullets I use for hunting. When working up a load, I also use these. Once I find the sweet spot, I switch to any bullet I have in that particular weight and blast away. I really don't care where on the target the bullet hits as long as they are consistent. I practice trigger squeeze and off hand hold. I save my hunting bullets for just that. At my age I will never run out.

Nice assortment! I see a couple of my old favorites in there.

Those 100 grain .25 Normas were my all time favorite for use in my Mannlicher-Schoenauer .257 Roberts.

A man with four boxes of Speer 165 RN .30's is a man of the world! (I'm down to two.)

I see 5 boxes.

Ah! The glare on the 5th one threw me!

Neat compilation of 190's too. I weathered a dispute with a guy on a cartridge collector's forum who didn't believe me when I told him those 190 Silvertips were the go-to's for .303 Savage. He had proudly pictured several boxes he found someplace. He couldn't get it through his head that .303 Savage has always been .308" (except for that brief time at its intro as we know). He insisted that .303 Savage = .311" bullets. No amount of correction got through to him. I bet he's still walking around muttering about a clueless idiot out there someplace. Oh well.

How do those 87 grain Normas stack up against Speer 87's in old Savages?

On a sad note, this batch of items came from a fellow that recently passed away. Along with the old bullets was brass, dies, 1899/99 stocks, barrels, receivers, and parts, and ammo, as well as the guns that fired them, which I hope to be able to buy a few of as well, if there's any money left!

Sorting thru this brought back memories of my dads passing in 1999. Kind of tough going thru everything if you know what I mean. You feel like you begin to get to know something about a fella when you see what he collected and what his passion was. When my dad passed his things were disbursed among family that might be interested in one or two of his guns, or sold at an estate sale mom had. When it was all over it's like dad was gone and most of what he valued was gone to strangers. I told the sellers, the man's sons, that I was very touched going thru their fathers supplies and that I felt like I knew a little about him from interactions before he passed and now after sorting his supplies.

Anyway, enough blubbering, all this to say, if you don't shoot them, some azzhole like me will end up with them. I suggest we all pass penniless, w/o any bullets, powder, primers, or ammo left, with a sheitload of worn out guns that are good for nothing but melting down. Save our heirs the trouble of disposing of our sheit. These are just the 25 caliber bullets and some of the brass.






Hard to see so I made a list. Make me an offer on anything you need to supplement your dwindling stash. I especially won't shoot the small quantity items.

Nosler
100 gr Partition <100
85 gr ballistic tip <20

Sierra
90 gr HPBT <50
87 gr spitzer 100 +/-
100 gr spitzer BT 100 +/-

Hornady
75 gr HP 300 +/-
117 SST 100
100 gr spire point 100 +/-
75 gr spire HP 200 +/-
60 gr FP 100 +/-
117 gr RN 400 +/-
87 gr spire pt 400 +/-
60 gr spire pt <20

Herters
100 gr semi pointed 300 +/-

Speer
75 gr Soft Point FN 300 +/-
60 gr spire point 100

Norma
120 gr soft point pointed 100 +/-

Barnes
100 gr XFB 50 +/-

Remington
86 gr soft point 100 +/-
87 gr power lokt HP 50 +/-

Midway
100 gr pointed soft point 100 +/-

Green Bay cast bullets
weights unknown <100