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What bullets have you thought enough of to stock up on to ensure availability for years to come?
I have not done much hoarding.
87gr .257 Speer Hot-Cor Spitzer SP
100gr .257 Nosler Partition SPS (old screw machined)
150gr .284 Nosler Solid Base SPBT
250gr .358 Hornady RN
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325, 350, 400 gr Barnes .411 "old" X (all discontinued)
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I don't worry about hoarding bullets, I worry about having the right molds for my rifles and getting my hands on every piece of scrap lead and lead/antimony/tin/arsenic wheelweight I can get my hands on. That's projectile insurance! Now for the primers, powders, and brass...
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Maybe hoarding was not the appropriate word for me to use. When a hunting bullet exhibits exceptional accuracy and terminal performance on big game in a specific rifle I tend to lay in a good supply. The bullets I listed represent that.
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I am not a hoarder, I just like looking at the stuff on the shelf....bullet porn.
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The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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I can't pass up a good deal, so I buy bullets when I stumble across them. So likely, when I leave the range for the last time, my widow will make out selling them all off....
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Tom
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130 gr Accubond 2'nds in .264
160 gr Accubond 2'nds in .284
And I really wish I had hoarded a whole bunch of the Nosler 210 gr jacketed hollow points 2'nds in .410 when they were available a while back.
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165 gr 30 cal nosler solid base bullets
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Having watched bullets steadily improve over the last several decades I have pretty much gotten over the bug to hoard.
However.... I do have some .277 145 gr A Frames tucked away for special hunts.
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Since I sort by weight I tend to buy a lot of bullets, normally somewhere between 500 to 1000 of each bullet and weight I use.
I try to never have less than 500 in hand for each combo.
My bride has a hard time understanding why I have so many bullets� but when you weigh and sort them each weight may only have 30+ bullets in it (depending on the manufacture and style).
So It�s not hording� but I have a LOT of bullets.
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