Current MBC wait time?

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Since MBC is no longer delivering bullets the week before you place your order, what's the current wait time? I just ordered another 2000 to feed the Dillon I'm ordering after the 1st of the month.

J.
 
I ordered 3,000 a couple months back and received them in about 3 weeks if I recall correctly. That was when they had a 5-6 week lead time notice up on their web site, so I was very pleasantly surprised.
 
I think they shortened wait time to 4 weeks on website.
However, I ordered popular 45ACP bullets last week and they were in a mail same day. I guess it depends.
 
I placed an order in March. It shipped in July. I did order 4 different types of bullets, and maybe one of them was a low-volume type that held everything up.

On the plus side, the bullets are pretty good.
 
Yep another thread on here has brad's Facebook reply stating things are better and almost ready to move into the new facility soon. Some retirement job they decided on there.:rolleyes:
 
I have to say, I have been really impressed with how they run their business. I always try to under promise and over deliver, but they have it down to a science.
 
Update:

Order shipped. Website said wait was 2-4 weeks, it took 3 days.

Gotta love MBC. Looks like they'll be back to knowing what you want before you do pretty soon.

J.
 
I ordered 1k .358 158 gr SWC match on Monday of this week, received them yesterday. The bullets look great. I'll be a return customer.
 
They put out an update on facebook yesterday:
Ok, Facebook friends, it looks like we're enough above water now that I'll have a little bit of time for Facebook again. Gotta say, this has been a difficult past few months. Our construction project suffered unbelievable delays but is now on track for completion in about a month, new machines are beginning to trickle in (2 new casting machine, 2 new lubrisizers, four 4 new Howell collators.) The personnel situation has been been made relatively stable, thankfully, and we've made a couple of moves so that we have a layer of management in place now that takes a large piece of my burden away. We're bottlenecked right now on logistics, which is getting the product packaged and shipped but are making big strides there. We're drilling down hard now on our wholesale orders and trying to get at least one big one out the door every week and our retail backlog has gone from an amazing high of 1943 outstanding orders to (at this moment) 75 (which is only one big shipping day's worth.) The retail backlog of 335,000 9mm Parabellum bullets is now down 3500 (7 boxes.) Heck, the biggest outstanding item right now is 28 boxes of Bullseye #1 and that's only one day's worth of production. So the retail side is fully back under control and we're back now to shipping about half of the daily orders out on the same day, which is something we have not been able to do since November of last year. Looking back now (I was discussing this with Jo Ann last night) I just do not know how we managed to handle the volume and the associated stress and panic that beseiged us for the past 8 months, what with 50-60 orders coming in every day, a ridiculously thin work force, the incessant "WHERE'S MY ORDER?? telephone calls and emails, and the ungodly hours we were having to work seven days a week only to find ourselves falling further and further behind.

So this is nice. It's beginning to look like we're back and very shortly we're going to have our nice new 4200 square foot main facility operational with 17 Bullet Masters and 15 LubeMasters that will provide the capacity to produce 250,000 bullets every day in a single shift without breaking a sweat.

I'm thinking that once we're at that point, it might be time to take a day or two off.

Anyhow, I'm back here and looking forward to Facebooking again, so don't be a stranger!
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They have been pretty quiet recently. It's good to see them getting caught up.
 
What is the difference between MBC bullets and those from SNS casting?
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Hard to say. The bullets from SNS might be very similar to some of the models Brad & Joanne sell. SNS doesn't say what the hardness of their various bullets is, and they don't seem to offer different choices of hardness. In the end, one lead bullet is just like another -- if it actually made to the same standards and of the same alloy. :)

I'm sure they have lots of satisfied customers. You might be able to email them and find out what hardness they're casting, and if they'll do custom runs if you want something different.
 
What is the difference between MBC bullets and those from SNS casting?
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I have used SNS bullets before they are good quality. They only offer a single hardness though, at least thats all they used to offer. I also prefer the customer service that I get from Brad and Joann at Missouri Bullet.

Its all a matter of personal preference really.
 
thanks sam and ljnowell for the info. looks like I'll be researching the various pros and cons of bullets hardness.

v-fib
 
thanks sam and ljnowell for the info. looks like I'll be researching the various pros and cons of bullets hardness.

v-fib
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V-fib, I would recommend you read this from the missouri Bullet page:
http://missouribullet.com/technical.php

I have shot their 12bhn bullets to very high velocity in 45 colt. Levels that people would insist you needed a much higher bhn. The fact is, if the bullet fits the barrel/throats and is the hardness to obturate(sometimes softer is better than harder for that, as explained in article above) you do not need 20bhn bullets.
 
Delivered today, ordered on the 27th. Exactly one week with a holiday weekend in between.

That's spectacular.

-J.
 
Looks like it's almost time to stock up for the winter reloading season.
 
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