 HSM Bulk Ammo
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Anyone have any experience using HSM bulk ammo you can get thru Cabelas? Min order is 300 rds, so I don't want to risk $275 on junk.
I'd be using in Ruger Bisley .44
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Re: HSM Bulk Ammo
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03/22/2010 8:33 PM
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I uses it in my 454's and yet to have an issue with it, it all goes BOOM after I pull the trigger, I've purchased about 600 rounds so far.
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Re: HSM Bulk Ammo
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03/22/2010 8:52 PM
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$10/100 for powder
$4/100 for primers
$25/100 for jacketed bullets
$25/100 for brass....one time initial investment for fairness....although will not last forever....we'll take it into account.
......and rough estimates off the top of my head....
$64/100 rounds to reload your own the first time.
$39/100 rounds on the second loading, and thereafter if not counting buying the brass each time.
looks like it's time to take up handloading your own ammo! you'd still have $ left to purchase a reasonable reloading tooling setup.(LEE kit)
roughly, for that $275....you could buy an excellent brand new RCBS rock chucker kit....or even search out "used" single pieces for more savings.
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Re: HSM Bulk Ammo
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03/22/2010 8:53 PM
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Not used it myself, but everything I have heard to date has been good.
I reload for everything myself.
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03/22/2010 10:49 PM
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$10/100 for powder
$4/100 for primers
$25/100 for jacketed bullets
$25/100 for brass....one time initial investment for fairness....although will not last forever....we'll take it into account.
......and rough estimates off the top of my head....
$64/100 rounds to reload your own the first time.
$39/100 rounds on the second loading, and thereafter if not counting buying the brass each time.
looks like it's time to take up handloading your own ammo! you'd still have $ left to purchase a reasonable reloading tooling setup.(LEE kit)
roughly, for that $275....you could buy an excellent brand new RCBS rock chucker kit....or even search out "used" single pieces for more savings. Now you've spoiled my evil plan! 
I figure, if the stuff is worth shooting and isn't a crud-maker, it might make good reload press fodder! I guess I should have asked about the resultant brass in my original post, huh?
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Re: HSM Bulk Ammo
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03/22/2010 10:50 PM
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I uses it in my 454's and yet to have an issue with it, it all goes BOOM after I pull the trigger, I've purchased about 600 rounds so far. BOOM is good....accurate is better. Any thoughts on that side of the equation?
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Re: HSM Bulk Ammo
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03/22/2010 11:00 PM
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HSM is the group that does the Ammo for, Best Of The West if I am correct.
Pretty accurate!
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03/22/2010 11:47 PM
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HSM is the group that does the Ammo for, Best Of The West if I am correct.
Pretty accurate! Interesting...they make 240 gr SWC's and 240 gr JSP's....wonder how mr. whitetail would react to those? My original price was wrong BTW, $215/300; not that much better, but still cheap'ish. May have to try a batch.
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Re: HSM Bulk Ammo
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03/23/2010 1:12 AM
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I bought 300 rounds just to try. I got the 240 gr. JHP. I figured if they shot well I'd use them on whitetail. They didn't perform well (to my standards) out of my Bisley Hunter, so I just use them for plinking and reload the brass with 300gr MBW WFNGC.
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03/23/2010 1:36 AM
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I think Like Dan
Lee Kit $100
1000 Primers $45
1 lb 2400
Berry cast Bullets $28 /250
I have 200 rounds or so of brass you can have to start for $35 shipped
Buy one box of 240 XTPs and you are in buisness
If it jams force it! If it breaks it needed replacing anyway.
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Re: HSM Bulk Ammo
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03/23/2010 2:09 AM
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I'm doing 3 inch groups at 70 yards with iron sights on my Raging Bull, getting in the 1.5" on my scoped SRH, I recently got a chrono so when I get that in use I'll keep you posted.
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Re: HSM Bulk Ammo
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03/23/2010 2:10 AM
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i'm not dan!  i'm much older and prettier than dan.   
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03/23/2010 2:19 AM
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OOOPS! I hope you are not permanently scared.
I will try to do better next time :-)
If it jams force it! If it breaks it needed replacing anyway.
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03/23/2010 11:58 AM
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I think Like Dan
Lee Kit $100
1000 Primers $45
1 lb 2400
Berry cast Bullets $28 /250
I have 200 rounds or so of brass you can have to start for $35 shipped
Buy one box of 240 XTPs and you are in buisness I have no doubt that I'll begin reloading again, but I have to have brass, and may as well get some shooting out of the deal! SA revolvers are a new'ish thing to me (I've only shot snubbies and a 7 1/2" Seville .357 with .38 +P), and a magnum is a really new thing to me, so I grabbed some BVAC light loads with SWC bullets to start (~885 fps). Then I got some white box at ~1180 fps and a couple of boxes of Hornady with 180 XTP's at a robust 1550 fps, just for kicks (pun, pun, here comes the pun). That'll give me 240 rounds of practice ammo and some decent brass to work with going forward. H20BUG, I PM'd you re: the brass.
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Re: HSM Bulk Ammo
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03/24/2010 12:15 PM
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Is this the reloading kit ya'll are talking about? http://tinyurl.com/ylqzhy7
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03/24/2010 2:11 PM
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That is the best for the $$ IMO
If it jams force it! If it breaks it needed replacing anyway.
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03/25/2010 4:17 AM
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Rod, too.
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03/25/2010 12:27 PM
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Does the "Breech Lock" feature sort of work like the "Lock-n-Load" feature from Hornady?
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Re: HSM Bulk Ammo
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03/30/2010 12:01 PM
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15 20 yrs ago used hsm ammo that i got for next to nothing in a 357 sp101. wouldnt knock over popers, winchester would. it dose give you brass though.
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03/30/2010 12:44 PM
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Well, I just ordered a Lee 4-hole Turret Press kit and a 4 die set for 44 mag and a powder trickler. Mid-South had all in stock and the best price and shipping choices.
You guys have given me the FEVER! Also got my HSM ammo and dry box from Cabela's, so I have plenty of press fodder too!
While I wait for the press to show up, I'll head to the local gun shop(s) for primers, bullets and powder.
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