I'm thinking and shopping now for the second trip. Got my trailer all sussed out and will have one trip under my belt already by September to prove out all the trailer tricks.
The pic above is Federal pulled 150 grain 7mm bullets, $80 for 500 bullets. Likely the bullets will be mixed source over time, but some of the 500 will likely be Speer Mag Tips and some will be Trophy Bonded Bear Claws. I bet I can polish up the entire lot then weight then length sort them to get like with like.
Both bullets are good for a 7mm rem mag (that's what they were taken off of) and both bullets were considered premium bullets in their era. Both have been replaced by fancier, newer candidates. I have a 7 rem mag with a long eye on it, but I prefer my much lighter handier short action 7mm-08 for carrying in the woods.
Trophy Bonded Bear Claws will be for the 7mm Mag (the partition like construction holds together at 3,000+ fps hyperspeed impacts after the softpoint front part completely explodes in the lung cavity the remaining solid shank continues out the other side of the animal for a good blood trail). This bullet was originally called "Safari grade" and was used for dangerous game animals and really big stuff like elk and moose. It was developed to one-up the Nosler Partition bullet ..... and like the Partition was "good for any speed any distance".
The Mag Tips and the other cup and core styles will go into the 7mm-08 as they will only be going 2,700 fps out of that rifle. With this gun, standard opening bullets is all you need as the speeds are just about always cup and core range. You simply can't get to the hyperspeed arenas with the 7mm-08 unless you use very very light bullets, so the Mag Tips will be fine for that gun.
Notice I searched for and found the "same" 150 grain bullet weight that is "top end" for the 7mm-08 and "middle of the road" for the 7mm Rem Mag so I can use the same bullet in both quite happily.
You can still buy blem plain jane cup and core bullets and such occasionally at this same $16 per hundred general price range, but the going prices of blem bullets have doubled and tripled in the last year alone (supply and demand has taken most good bullets "out of stock" as blems most all of the time now-a-days as they sell out well before they tarnish up good due to Obama).
So the best deals generally are "obsolete" bullet styles like this one, not that they suddenly quit working or being world class and all -- they are just out of fad at the moment. Bullets are the man equivalent of women's stylish shoes, they all walk fine but the current style counts too.
Girls .... did you know that right now multi-colored plastic tip toed shoes are in and last year's small square tip toes (the kind that don't batter up in the magazine) are definitely out?
They are so 1970's tacky ugly, really now ....
But, did you also know ..... that the plastic tip toe shoes everyone loves so much right now do batter up in the magazine, occasionally (rarely) break off completely and the loose tip jams up in the magazine and
plastic tips are always over half evaporated by hyperspeed air friction before the long flying bullet ever reaches the 300 yard target?
And that most deer are actually shot between 70 and 120 yards? Elk between 100 yards and 250 yards?
That most hunt clubs would immediately end your membership if you took a shot at a game animal at over 350 yards (it's in their by-laws as unsportman-like conduct)?
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