[sublimaze41]

I just wanted to post a fantastic deal that just came out. I would have posted it earlier but I wanted to secure some of the goodies.

Midway Reloading is having a HUGE sale on blemished bullets in a variety of calibers. Some of the bullets are cheaper then copper plated bullets. They have a limited supply so act quick!

Nice to see a sale like this! Bullet companies trying to make good?????

Post your deal if you take advantage. :)

[taliv]

heh, i bought 60 boxes of 451 hollow point earlier this AM. shipping on 207 lbs is teh suq.

i mentioned the deal in the glock vs 1911 thread

[taliv]

i just checked their site... of the nearly 200 boxes they had of .451, not a single one are left. 20,000 bullets in 2 hrs is not a bad sale! plenty of others still left though

[sublimaze41]

I cleaned up as well. Funny, just last week I told my wife THAT was my last gun related purchase for awhile. HEY!!! How did I know:evil:

[SILENTSOUL308]

Thanks for the heads up! just ordered 15 boxes of .224 cal BTHP's! what a deal!

[SILENTSOUL308]

"I cleaned up as well. Funny, just last week I told my wife THAT was my last gun related purchase for awhile. HEY!!! How did I know"


hahahahaha, me toooooooo! that must be a common response to the wives of reloaders!

[FieroCDSP]

Where's the link? Is that MidwayUSA?

[taliv]

yeah, just go to midwayusa.com and search for "blemished"

my wife was also freaking out.

[FieroCDSP]

WOW!!! wowee wow wow !!!!!

[brasskeeper]

awesome, thanks!

[FieroCDSP]

Hmph...I had issues a few times with errors. Seems the bullets are going so fast that one of them went out of stock while I was placing the order and caused the error. I phoned in and confirmed the order, so it's all good. Get them quick, Folks!!!!

[JG2000]

I've never ordered Blemished bullets what sort of quality are we talking about here? I ordered some already just wondering what i'm going to be getting :)

[Linear Thinker]

Unbelievable prices, much lower than I would get from a distributor with my FFL.
I just emptied Midway out on a few calibers.

[Jim Watson]

Yup, I bought enough 9mm 147 FMJBT to last me all next IDPA season. $5.16 a hundred, about half list price.

These are Hornady bullets; although they don't say so, the designs are distinctive.

I've bought them before, there used to be another outfit that got most of the blems but it looks like Midway is walmarting a lot of the smaller distributors. The blemishes are usually stains that look like water spots. Just occasionally there will be a little irregularity in the jacket turnover at the base, and I have seen a very few missing closure disks in the "encapsulated" bullets. Nothing to affect accuracy at IDPA ranges.

[sublimaze41]

I just had to go back and clip them for 1500 more .30. Thank You Midway!They have a great history with me so I know I will be satisfied.

[FieroCDSP]

I ended up only spending $110. I wish I had more money. Deals like this are far and few between.

[taliv]

yep, Jim. last bunch of hornady blemishes i bought were on the closeouts page of lock stock and barrel.

[FieroCDSP]

.......

[Joemyxplyx]

I just ordered mine. Thanks for the heads up.:)

[alohanole]

You guys are evil! I have made several $200+ orders to Midway recently...this thread made it a third.

It's more a sickness than a hobby! ;)

[mbpautz762]

thanks for the heads up! I just secured 2000 bullets which, for me at least, will last me a full 6 months! now we just need to find some 'blemished' gunpowder and I'll be set.

oh yeah, and it just figures that my $15 off $250 orders expired 3 days ago....

[Dave P]

Nice prices but the shipping seems really high: mine is 25$ for 2000 bullets.

[Asherdan]

Thanks for the heads up, the 300 and 350 grainer .458's for the 45-70 are a heckuva deal!

Gives me a great excuse to try H4198 w/ the 300g bullets.

[brasskeeper]

Yes I got 4 boxes of those 45 458 300 gr JHP. I have never shot jacketed bullets out of either of my 1895's but I thought I might give them a try.

[Walkalong]

Bought a few boxes. Thanks for the tip. :)

[putteral]

I agree I thought shipping was a little high. What happened to usps flat rate deal? I was going to order 400 bullets and they wanted $14 for shipping. I can get 3000 cast lead bullets delivered for $10

[taliv]

i wrote them an email this morning after they charged me $80 for shipping!
they said flat rate and freight wasn't an option. i have no idea why it isn't.

here's a portion of the text
Dear Mr. <taliv>,

Thank you for your email. Currently we do not offer UPS Freight as a shipping method. UPS Ground is the cheapest method of shipping we currently offer to ship 207lbs of product. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

heh


anyways, i just got my midway eblast email that advertises up to 50% off blemished bullets. i searched on "blemished" again and this morning, it was two pages of results (about 130 matches) and now it's 1 page (about 80 matches)

[Walkalong]

I ordered a total of 1100 bullets.

.32, .41, & .44 Caliber.

Shipping was &13 and change.

[achildofthesky]

I just snagged a metric bunch for 7mm, 45-70, 44 mag and 30-06 along with a few other reloading items. Shipping was a very reasonable $20. Again thank you for the tip.

[sublimaze41]

Well,
I just had to hit them up one more time. Boy do I have some explaining to do!!!! Since the start of this thread Midway's supply has been decimated! Like was previously mentioned, deals like this don't come around very often.


I spent more than I should have but much less then I wanted.

[dpart77]

Got 1000 124gr 9mm for IPSC. Great deal!

[strat81]

2000 9mm 124gr (XTPs!)
3000 M43 124gr Spitzers
Would've got some 224 but they were down to ~30gr varmint bullets. Nicey nice! However, shipping was almost $44 dollars (almost 10% of the final cost!)

Oh, and let me be the first to say, in 6 months (heck, 1 month), we'll all be screaming that we should've bought more.

[wcwhitey]

Saw the thread at work, got excited, by the time I got home there was squat left that I could use. Oh well thats how it goes. Bill

[Barr]

2800 bullets later and 22 dollars in shipping. I just ordered from MidwayUSA a week ago. I ordered enough bullets to last another year or two.

[BsChoy]

WOW you guys are crazy reloading fools huh!!! lol I got on in time to order a couple hundred of 140 grainers for my swede and some for my 30 cal to...next time i will order BIGGER

[gipperdog]

I picked up 500 of the .30 cal 180's (looked like Hornadys) & 500 of the polymer tipped 7mm's 154 grainers (again looked like Hornadys).

[esheato]

I stocked up on .411" .405 Winchester bullets even though I'm not in the country!

Ed

[Master Blaster]

I ordered 1000 124 gr 9mm jhp (look like XTP), 800 180gr .44mag, and 200 of the 168 polymer tip .308, and it was $24 for shipping, they really ought to look into USPS flat rate for bullets. My caster sends me 2200 200 LSWC cast bullets for $9 it used to be $7 thats a 70Lb flast rate box via USPS.

[PotatoJudge]

Picked up some 180grn 30 cal what looks like interlocks. Only got 300 and wishing I'd ordered more even though I've got a pretty good supply already. Thanks for the tip. About $10 for shipping with a set of scope rings thrown in.

[rbernie]

2000 of the Hornady 115gr 6.8SPC HPBT for just over $250 shipped to my door. These things have been unavailable for months, and they are great bullets.

O' happy day... :)

[Eagle103]

Yup. The selection is pretty weak now. I started an order on 200 bullets of a weight I didn't really need along with a can of Kroil to make it $25 and they wanted over $12 shipping so I backed out. Someone can PM just me next time this comes around.:D

[trickyasafox]

i picked up just over a k- 125 bucks after shipping. great deal. . .passed it on to cast boolits as well.

[ArchAngelCD]

DAM, no 38/357 bullets and only 180gr 30-06 but nothing in a BT round. The 9mm aren't that bad but I like 124gr better than 147gr. I guess I saw this thread too late.

How often does midway do this?

[PTK]

I put in a huge order as well, only to get an e-mail that the blemished bullets were out of stock. Dang!

Good find, though. I'll have to check now and then to see if they have any more in.

[taliv]

How often does midway do this?

first time i've ever seen them do it, although as was previously mentioned, others have had blem sales before

[Walkalong]

I go an email that my little order of 1100 bullets has shipped. Be here tomorrow. :D

[ninja45]

I started ordering at work but cannot decide (and it was quitting time), how much of the .45 250 grainers I wanted so I said, I'll order when I get home. Biggest mistake of the day! When I got home (a span of about 15 minutes drive from work) I jumped on the computer with broadband connections and when to the blemished section of MidwayUSA.

I was able to order 300 .32 and 500 9mm, the .45 250 gr were GONE!

Oh well, hindsight....50/50 (hey I'm older now).

Ninja45

[sargenv]

I picked up 500 41 cal JHP's. Had I had more money available I'd have probably gotten 1000. I can hardly wait to load em up for the 657 I won at the IRC this year. :) Brass is primed and just waiting for bullets... woo hoo!

[FieroCDSP]

I bet they're happy to have that bunch of bays in the warehouse cleared. Jeeze that was a nice set of prices. I'm already wishing I had been dumb and ordered more than just a thousand or so.

[ArchAngelCD]

I would have bout the 147gr 9mm bullets but they weren't cheap enough to make me order 147gr when I like to shoot 124gr bullets. The sale was $6.99/100 which works out to $34.95. I can get 124gr Winchester FMJ bullets for $42.49/500. Don't get me wrong, saving $7.50 on 500 bullets isn't bad but they weren't the weight I wanted.

[silverlance]

WELL GUYS -
if you missed out on the blemished deal...

midway has Hornady 308 150 grain FMJBT for 112.00 / 1000 right now. that's really a very good price. i just bought a case. it will keep my tikka t3 tactical fed well and cheap for quite some time. and all i use is a little LCL kit...

[Linear Thinker]

Looks like Midway is shipping the small "Blemished" orders first. My 17K bullet order is still "Processing" after 2 days. Never seen that before with Midway, they have always shipped my orders the same day as placed.
They must be overwhelmed! Their warehouse guys are probably out sick with hernias.
LT

[taliv]

they may have strained their backs. i only ordered 6000 and weight was 207 lbs. after 17k your UPS guy is going to hate you.

[strat81]

My order hasn't shipped yet either.

[Linear Thinker]

Taliv, he already does. He used to mutter things under his breath about my ancestry and my sex life, now he just glares.
LT

[alohanole]

My order of ~2500 shipped yesterday. The UPS man and I have become quite good friends lately! He just says "another one from Midway!" as he taps on his tablet to update the delivery status.

[trickyasafox]

mine shipped- but i didn't get the email till a day or so later. check the tracking number i think that the emails are just running slow.

[putteral]

Has anyone received their order yet? How badly blemished are they. Mine are arriving Monday.

[Canuck-IL]

Received the blemished 9mm 124gr FMJs today ... all had perfect coloration despite the warning on the web site that that was the common issue with them.

I'm po'd ... 99% of them have a copper base - like a plated bullet...except there's a ring around it that is the size of what the lead base should be. The effect of the base is to make the bullets .592 long rather than the .558 they should be.

I've written them and am awaiting an answer - first time I've encountered deceptive advertising from Midway .... damned if I paid to ship them here and then I'm going to pay to ship them back!
/Bryan

[taliv]

mine just came in the mail. identical to the hornady XTPs i normally buy. So far, i've seen no discoloration. The blemishes I've seen are where one of the edges of the HP is kind of mushed in maybe 1mm, and I saw several bullet with a sort of circular dent on the base. Definitely nothing that will be noticeable my practice or local competitions.

I'm extremely pleased.

[Walkalong]

Mine came today as well. Mine look like XTP's as well, but I was hard pressed to se the blemishes. Some of the .41's had slight dents in the base.

[FieroCDSP]

Mine arrived today also. My UPS guy has got to hate me. Every other month or so he's dropping off a 20lb+ box of bullets. I've only found one 9mm bullet so far that is lacking the bottom part of the jacket. Half off of Midway's prices for XTP's that are in great shape??!!?! I did the numbers from hornaday's prices. $300+ in bullets for only $103... It's obscene. I feel like I need to wash my hands. But I like it :evil:

[rob4570]

just ordered, thanks for the heads up. get yours while they last

[brasskeeper]

Mine came today. I ordered 45 cal 350 grain .458 for the 45/70. Some of them the jacket is distorted at the tip but my main worry is that when I miked the bullet they are coming up 0.455-.0456. Anybody else have a problem with diameter?

[BsChoy]

My 6.5 140 grainers came today...just like the reg bullets i get from hornady...no diff...love this deal

[sublimaze41]

Just got 2/3 of my order today and man am I happy! I just wished I had bought twice the amount. I got 700 bullets in .44 @ 180 grains. Looks just like Hornady XTP to me. To tell you the truth I am hard pressed to find many blemishes at all. The 30 cal ballistic tips look fantastic....... bought 700......should have bought 2,000.

It kills me to see posts barking about bullet irregularities. Was this not a blemished sale? Did the prices not reflect the fact you were not getting perfect bullets.

[Master Blaster]

I also received my bullets today, 800 of the 180gr .44 bullets XTPs for sure, 1000 of the 9mm 124 xtp, 200 168 baltip BTHPmatch.

They all looked perfect to me except for a little bit of dirt from the tumbling process that wipes off easily, and only on maybe every 10th bullet. Thats normal for the full price ones in hornady boxes as well.

They look normal to me, so maybe they are just a Manufacturers over-run sold to midway in bulk without the factory packaging and midway can't say they are perfect and sell them for 1/2 price.

[Canuck-IL]

It kills me to see posts barking about bullet irregularities. Was this not a blemished sale? Did the prices not reflect the fact you were not getting perfect bullets.
I assume the quote relates to my post. It rather depends upon what the word 'blemish' means - by common understanding, it should mean cosmetic issues and/or a generally lower quality product. However, it should not mean a DIFFERENT bullet.

What I received were totally copper encased 9mm, 124gr ... not plated, wherein the covering is maybe .002, but FMJs that had an .04 solid copper base. That makes them NOT a FMJ (exposed lead base) - therefore, not the bullets I ordered - hardly a mere blemish. The copper base also rendered them, on average, .04 too long.

That sort of issue is not an irregularity - that's a shipment that would require a different, and unusual, powder load and OAL....so arguably, not even safe.

BTW, Midway agreed with me.
/B

[brasskeeper]

It kills me to see posts barking about bullet irregularities. Was this not a blemished sale? Did the prices not reflect the fact you were not getting perfect bullets.

What kills me is being judged.


As to my bullet problems:

From midway

These blemished bullets are bulk-packed factory seconds from major manufacturers. For most bullets, the blemish consists of slight discolorations in the jacket. Hurry, at these prices they definitely won't last long!

"slight discolorations" do not cover bullet diameter nor jacket deformity.

[rbernie]

BTW, Midway agreed with me.Of course they did - they have excellent customer service. That doesn't validate (or invalidate) your perspective. It just means that they are traditionally very gracious in their returns.

At any rate, I received my 2000 Hornady 115gr HPBT 6.8SPC bullets yesterday, and they are perfect.

[Canuck-IL]

Eventually gracious - it required more than one explanation of a reasonable interpretation of the term "blemish."
/B

[sublimaze41]

blem·ished, blem·ish·ing, blem·ish·es
To mar or impair by a flaw.

n. An imperfection that mars or impairs; a flaw or defect.


[Middle English blemisshen, from Old French blesmir, blemir, blemiss-, to make pale, of Germanic origin; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.]



I probably saved 60% or more on my order. I was prepared for some defects a-la-blemished. I got none in 1,300 ballistic tip .30 bulltets. Had 20% not been to my liking I would have still been satisfied. Midway has a classic return policy and I am sure they made good on what problem you may have had. Personally I expect 100% from new premium bullets. Again I could not be more pleased with my purchase. Of course it is my general disposition to be happy, your mileage may vary.:)

[Master Blaster]

Cannuck-IL
The FMJ bullets IIRC were .356 which told me from the description that they were HAP (hornady action pistol ) bullets, not ordinary FMJ. They are very good bullets made for competition, better than fmj.

http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpage.exe/showproduct?saleitemid=479560&t=11082005

Hap are made just like an XTP with a copper jacket that is open on the top rather than the base. They are longer than regular 9mm bullets to ensure more reliable feeding. They can also be used in .38 super.

[dpart77]

I'm confused. Just what makes these bullets "too long to use" for 9mm. I bought 1000 of them and I am loading them with universal clays, will I have a problem? What COL should I be looking for?

[Canuck-IL]

Master Blaster
Actually, they weren't open at either end...I opened 4 of the 15 boxes and each had either 1 or 2 regular FMJs, normal weight and length. The other 98 or 99 were a solid round nose design (not the squared off HAP style) with a .04 solid copper base and thereby, .04 longer than the FMJs.

HAPs would have been a nice surprise - not what I ordered but certainly useful and, at that price, a great deal.

dpart77 - too long if you're already loading at the limit of mag capacity w a substantial load.

sublimemaze41 - I notice the definition does not include substitution of a different product.

Anyway, I'm glad so many folks were pleasantly surprised with the bullets they received at a good price...not everything works out for everyone, all the time - c'est la vie.
/B

[Asherdan]

...not everything works out for everyone, all the time - c'est la vie.

Classy way to wrap it up.

I got a few hundred of the .458 300g HP for the 45-70. They spec out fine and after using up 50 for load dev I should wind up with 7 boxes of hunting ammo. That'll last a loooong time and make for some very dead deer and pig all at about $7.50 a box my cost. Nice deal.

[ojibweindian]

I just bought 10 boxes of 150 grain 7mm flat-base spire point bullets for $116. 1000 Core-Lokts would have set me back $188. That's a savings of $62!

I'll be set for the next few years :D

[brasskeeper]

IIRC

What does that mean?

[hapi]

if i recall correctly

[brasskeeper]

thanks hapi :)

[sublimaze41]

One additional bonus nobody mentioned.........Blue plastic boxes out the wazooo.

My wife still lacks appreciation for the money I saved us... I mean me.

[strat81]

w00t! Mine came today: 3k x39 123gr SP and 2k 9mm 124gr JHPs. Yes, the blue boxes are awesome, but, I don't know what I'll do with them when I'm done. I mic'd and weighed both and both seem to be true to their descriptions. The jackets look... spotty? Grainy? Kinda like someone sneezed on them. Wouldn't surprise me if they tumble back to 'perfection.'

The JHPs look like XTPs without the score lines XTPs have for expansion. I'm not sure if that makes these HAP bullets or not; I couldn't find HAP on Hornady's website as loaded ammo or components. But they are open tip (exposed lead), jacketed base.

I'm happy.

[Hutch]

I miss reading this forum for just a few silly days, and now look at me. Bereft. They currently only have 15 matches for the "blemish" search, none of which are of interest to me. Waahhhh..

[Barr]

I just received my order yesterday. I opened up one of every kind of bullet and weighted several bullets at random. What I saw impressed me very much. All the bullets were within a half grain if not .1 or .2 grains. Only a handful of the bullets I looked at looked slightly spotted or discolored. I will definitely look out for this same sale next year if they do it.

[SSN Vet]

THAT was my last gun related purchase for awhile

I've spoken those exact words in the past.....and lived to regret it.:uhoh:

I've been reduced to "pre-spending" my Christmas money.....:o

but if I'm clever....I get to pre-spend it more than once...:p

[ojibweindian]

Does anybody know who the manufacturer is? Called Midway, and the CSR said that to sell the bullets at that price, they weren't allowed to tell me who the manf. was.

[strat81]

Does anybody know who the manufacturer is? Called Midway, and the CSR said that to sell the bullets at that price, they weren't allowed to tell me who the manf. was.
My pistol bullets look strongly like Hornady XTPs.

[pinkymingeo]

I got some 10mm 200jhp's, and compared with XTPs I had on hand. Exactly the same. They're XTPs.