I spoke this morning with Joe, the owner of Precision Delta in Mississippi. What a great guy. He almost had me convinced to move to Mississippi! They make some great bullets for reloading. I had sent him a note and asked him if he would consider making their 230 grain .45 FMJ bullets in a flat point profile instead of the round nose. Joe called me to talk about it. He sounded like he would very much consider it. However, he was trying to figure out if there was a market for them. He said his machine makes 60,000 bullets a day! He would have to take it off line for about a day to re-tool it for the flat points. He sells the 230 grain round nose bullets for $137 per thousand so that would cost him over $8000 in lost revenue to make the transition. He didn’t say what he would want for the flat points but I am assuming it would be close to what he sells the round noses for. I would love to tell him that there is definitely a market among the 450b crowd. I would definitely buy 4,000 bullets and was wondering if any of you would be interested and, if so, about how many you would consider buying. I’m not taking an order here, I’m just trying to gauge interest so I can give some feedback to Joe. By the way, I bought a cannelure tool from Corbin for a little over $150. That allows me to use this same bullet in my 45 acp, 454 Cassul, 45 Colt, 460 S&W mag, and now in the 450b! Very cool!
So, if you would be interested in buying some 230 grain .45 FMJ flat point bullets, give me an idea of about how many (in units of 1000) so I can let Joe know what kind of interest there is for this. If I can prove to him there is a market, I think he'll start making them.
Thanks,
Woody