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Best/cheapest way is to buy a mold and cast them yourself. Otherwise you would be paying $8-12+ for 50 around here (more if S&H is involved).
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this is where I get that caliber. Afraid it 's not cheap. think the price is better that TOW though.
http://www.thegunworks.com/custprodgun.cfm?ProductID=62&do=detail&Cat2Option=yes
http://www.thegunworks.com/custprodgun.cfm?ProductID=62&do=detail&Cat2Option=yes
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You might try Eddie May. He resides in Chatsworth, Ga and he has been my sole provider in lead projectiles for some time now. His prices are just about as cheap as you can get. If you search the forums, I'm sure his address and contact info will pop up. If not, send me a PM and I will provide his contact info. I've been very pleased with the quality of his roundballs.
Jeff
Jeff
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I found this with a search:
Eddie May Cast Round Balls
159 Ridley Rd.
Chatsworth, GA. 30705
706-581-8225
“Best Quality Round Balls, Minnie, Rifle Bullets and Modern Cast Bullets”
Please Call or Write to place Order
(he doesn't use Email or have a website)
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Black Hand said:
This is just about the first time that I've EVER seen shooting stuff in the USA priced as dear as it is in UK.
amazing.
tac
smoothshooter
50 Cal.
I also recommend getting a mold and making them yourself. It's easy, kind of fun, and you will save a lot of money in the long run, unless you only shoot 10 to 20 shots per year. And, it's one less thing you are dependent on someone else for.
I have always been puzzled why some people are so reluctant to make their own. I started making bullets when I was 11 years old with no supervision for an original .31 caliber percussion squirrel rifle with the original mold that had been in our family since the 1880's. I used an old table spoon I swiped from my mother and a small rectangular heavy gauge metal pan.The kitchen stove was the heat source.
Some shooters act like it is some mysterious black art or something. Not much to it actually, as long as you follow a few very basic safety precautions.
I have always been puzzled why some people are so reluctant to make their own. I started making bullets when I was 11 years old with no supervision for an original .31 caliber percussion squirrel rifle with the original mold that had been in our family since the 1880's. I used an old table spoon I swiped from my mother and a small rectangular heavy gauge metal pan.The kitchen stove was the heat source.
Some shooters act like it is some mysterious black art or something. Not much to it actually, as long as you follow a few very basic safety precautions.
Jim C
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They're gonna be pricey no matter where you get them, then on top of it the shipping charges will give you a coronary as well. If I were shooting something that big I'd take these other guys advice and invest in some basic casting equipment.
That, IMO, is an odd thing to say. 
It's better to have to wade thru hundreds of thousands of bits of information with a question, only to find that 99.999999% of it is useless, than it is to ask people knowledgeable of the questions answer for help? :hmm:
I guess we all have different ideas of what "fun" is.
Long ago, I was told by a professor at the University I attended, "It is more important to know where to find the answers than to try to memorize them."
IMO, the Muzzleloading Forum is the place to find the answers so logically, it is the place to ask the question.
It's better to have to wade thru hundreds of thousands of bits of information with a question, only to find that 99.999999% of it is useless, than it is to ask people knowledgeable of the questions answer for help? :hmm:
I guess we all have different ideas of what "fun" is.
Long ago, I was told by a professor at the University I attended, "It is more important to know where to find the answers than to try to memorize them."
IMO, the Muzzleloading Forum is the place to find the answers so logically, it is the place to ask the question.
Well, I don't know about other folks but I WAS researching for info when I found this forum and glad I did, now I have one stop to ask questions instead of wasted time with Google or wasting powder only to be discouraged and give up on the hobby as many do I'm sure, so when someone ask I'll certainly help if I can, without being a complete a$$ too 😉Richard Eames said:
:thumbsup: +1
+ 2 I've learned from others mistakes and realize that I won't live long enough to make them all myself. :grin:
I do have to admit that I have a puzzle-solver type of personality and will expend sometimes entirely too much time trying to figure something out before asking for help. Part of that is I "need" to know why it works. With fly-fishing I definitely had a mentor, whether he ever acknowledges that or not. With muzzleloading, the forum ended up being the place to turn to until I found a mentor, and I still turn to it now.
I've certainly learned a lot from folks here on the forum that I never would have had the chance to meet and talk to personally. I think we all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us and I'm not ashamed to say I do so.
Twisted_1in66 :thumbsup:
I've certainly learned a lot from folks here on the forum that I never would have had the chance to meet and talk to personally. I think we all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us and I'm not ashamed to say I do so.
Twisted_1in66 :thumbsup:
+3. It's often hard enough finding time to get to the range. Where is the edification in spending time searching out a source of roundballs, when the answers can be had here, and then some.
We all joined the Forum to learn more, and share information. Often, a post here will set me on a search for more information, so I can try something new, or make a repair that I never would have tried otherwise.
It is a privilege to be among so many folks who have more knowledge, skills and experience than I
have in the "Black Arts". I do not hesitate to ask, and will as quickly offer my help to someone wanting information.
We all joined the Forum to learn more, and share information. Often, a post here will set me on a search for more information, so I can try something new, or make a repair that I never would have tried otherwise.
It is a privilege to be among so many folks who have more knowledge, skills and experience than I
have in the "Black Arts". I do not hesitate to ask, and will as quickly offer my help to someone wanting information.
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