Bulk Order of Taipans SN 40g, 45g and/or 50g.

[Chrispy]

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

Chrispy

[Gadge]

Apologies for the thread necro, but Malcolm has this up on his website now:

"News Flash - The time has come, the Walrus said, to speak of many things - but the only one of interest to shooters

is that the time has come to close the factory door and hang up my draw press - all 6 of them. Over the

past several years I have genuinely intended to crank a few out but just haven't been able to make it happen.

About every couple of months I get an inquiry from interested parties who offer to buy me out. I am amenable to this,

it would be great if in fact it would happen, nothing I would like better than to see the plant up and running once again.

The big problem is that I have yet to be approached by someone who is capable of running it, there is no point selling it

someone only to have them lose their shirt. What it will take is someone with high end tool making experience or with

access to someone who has and shed space of 500 square meters. In our best year with a staff of 6 we produced 1.2 million

jacketed bullets plus 5 million lead bullets. That was by no means peak capacity.

In the interim I will continue to sell whatever stock that is remaining, the choice is limited at this stage, the popular

calibre/weights were sold out long ago. The jacketed bullet page from now on will only display what is currently available -

I am endeavouring to cut out all those emails which start out "When are you going to make . . . ."

http://www.bulletmaker.com/Bults/Jret.htm
Anyone interested in going splits on a $250 order of .224 50 gn HP's? Or even the seconds bulk packs...

[Seddo]

I'd be keen to try them, even if they are just used to blast things.

[Gadge]

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.

[Seddo]

I'm happy either way, I'm only going to use them in a pump 223 at distances from 5-50m.

[Gadge]

Order info in; $339 total inc GST, with delivery to my address. Edit to add: for 1 box of 2000 'second quality' .224 50gr HP's.

Sounds good to me; I'll do the funds transfer as in-branch cash tomorrow, is the current plan.

[trevort]

too slow again

[Gadge]

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'.

Taipan 'seconds'

[Seddo]

Nice

[Gadge]

Just FYI,
I sold on some of these to johno1, and he check weighed a few;

I weighed 15 last night and everyone was bang on 50 gr and I mean bang on.

[Seddo]

I haven't loaded any yet

[johno1]

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

Johno

[Gadge]

Taipan Bullets newsflash, from their website: [Edit: https://www.bulletmaker.com/ ]

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.

[Camel]

Might be hope for a good 100gn 25cal soft point.

[trevort]

Gadge how did they shoot?


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