Guys i have an opportunity to pick up Speer bulk bullets at $140.00 per thousand which is about as good as it gets price wise here in Alberta in either 50 or 55 grain, or I suppose I could get one of each. I plan on loading for 222, 223,22-250. Is one of these choices better than another. I'm leaning towards the 50 grain as there is a chance that I may try some of the Blue Dot data that Seafire has so nicely provided to all of us. Other powders I have are Varget and Win 748.
Thanks Greg

before you go out & buy a thousand bullets go get a box or better if you can borrow a few from a friend and try them. i haven't had very good luck with speer over the years. some have been really excellent and some pretty mediocre

Greg,

The 50 grain TNT speers are tack drivers for accuracy, as is their 52 grain HP...

the 50 and 55 grain Speers are not typically as accurate...

check out to see if Midway USA will ship their Dog Town Bullets into Canada, or Natchez will ship their bulk bullkets to Canada..

I myself, order Hornady 55 grain SP, in bulk from Graf and Sons... these bullets are very accurate, and I got 2000 delivered on the door step here in Oregon for $140.00....

I am sure importing is the major obstacle, and of course the Customs Guys...

Except for Politicians I find no logic in anything being any more expensive to you Canucks than it is Americans, when being shipped here within North America...

but as usual.. government screws up life for everyone, so they can justify their existance..

All i want these to be is Minute of Gopher. I know that some speer bullets are better than others. Problem we face in Canada is pricing. 50 grain Sierra bullets are more than $20.00 per 100.
I have tried every single shop in the USA that you fellows suggested to me some months ago, and only Sinclair will ship to Canada, but only 900 projectiles per order. So a bullet that starts being $12.55 per hundred, by the time you add order handling fee, postage, tax and brokerage, gets pretty close to $19.00 per 100 by the time they get to me.
That is why I thought these Speer bulk packs look so attractive.
Thanks Guys

Greg,

I'd still go with those Speers if that is what is available.. I have used them plenty myself...

your point of minute of gopher, I can at least say that they will surely be that.. their accuracy is not as consistent as the TNT and the 52 gr HP...

But the cost you mention for the Sierras is pretty much what they are on the shelf down this way any more.. Speer's prices have jumped quite a bit also lately.. so I'd pick up those you mentioned now, before they go up also..

I've had good enough luck with them, shooting blue dot.. 14 grains of it for the 50 grainers. and 13.5 for the 55 grainers...

I was hoping it didn't come across that they were virtually useless...

I understand availability.. around here right now.. I pick up small caliber primers in what they are available on the shelf in... be it small pistol, small rifle or small pistol or rifle magnum... all will work with Blue Dot, without any change to point of impact...

so stock up and go out and have fun...

Seafire I found some of the TNT bullets you spoke so highly of and bought them there were also some 52 grainers as well.
Thanks Greg