Gunnie wrote:Hey guys, bugger I missed this.
Is there going to be another? Are there more guys looking to pick up bulk Taipan pills and missed this also?
I'd like to get some 40's for my Hornet and the 170gn 303HP. These 303 pills work a treat but I can't get them from my usual haunts.
I'd be interested in 310 125's and 312 150's if you are? I could stretch to the 170's as well
G'day Seddo,
I still have some stocks of a few larger calibre Taipans, from .277 116gr HP through .308 150gr to .375 300 & 350gr RNSN and .429 200 & 240gr JHP.
Always found them to be excellent for accuracy, at least by minute-of-animal standards - I ain't a regular paper puncher.
Taipan jackets tend to be on the thin side, and are quite soft, due to being annealed post drawing/pre ogive forming.
So those 50gn HP's will be pretty close in performance to say, the corresponding Speer TNT varmint bullet - which just cost me $30/100 on special from Rebel Gunworks.
So the initial .224 50gr purchase options [ex freight] look like being 14x100 packs @ $257 odd, or a 2000 bulk box of 'seconds' @ $300. I've heard that Malcolm's seconds do have staining blemishes, but are otherwise faultless.
Well, they've landed today.
Malcolm must be a bit anal-retentive on QA or something - I've had 'first quality' bullets from US makers that looked far worse than these 'seconds'.
They did indeed, look a good bullet and great value. Just told the young smart arse " you might have my rifle son but ive got your bullets" Its a stand off at the moment
The news of the day is that Taipan is undergoing a resurrection. An enterprising young guy, James, arrived on the scene with the ability to take it on, over the next few months we are cranking up the machinery and getting back into production. Not full scale though, maybe half a million bullets, enough to pass on the tricks of the trade before all the machinery moves to a new home.
The new production prices have to reflect current costs so will be nowhere near the give-away prices that have been used over the past several years. As of Feb '19 we have the popular HBWC up and running, .314" dia now and .357" in a couple of weeks. As soon as machine replacement parts arrive there will be .277" jacketed bullets followed by 303 and 308 calibers. When they are available for delivery they will be added to their respective price lists. Some new bullets such as 204 caliber are on the drawing board.
For the moment, he still has the cheap 2000 bulk packs of 50gr .224HP seconds available, too.
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