Help with a bullet collection?

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I have been slowly working on my bullet collection for the last several years, i think its time to give it a bit of a boost.


What i have:
20mm vulcan
.50 beowulf
.50 ae
.45 lc
.45 acp
.45 gap
.44 mag
.44 Russian
.41 rem mag
.40 s&w
.38 special
.357 mag
.357 sig
10mm
9mm
.380
.32 auto
.30 carbine
.25 auto
.22 mag
.22 lr

30-06
.303 british
.270 win
.308
6.5 carcano
.243 win
7.62x39
.223
22 250
25-35 win
7mm rem mag
7mm-08 rem
7mm wsm
30-30 win
300 savage
300 wsm
219 zipper
5.45x39
.458 socom

8 ga
12 ga
20 ga
.410



I realize my list has pretty large gaps in it. I am looking for anything i do not have. Im not looking for empties or brass, either loaded rounds (reloads are fine) or rounds that look live.


Obviously im not looking for handouts. I will pay per round as well as cover shipping. Not looking for the most rare, ancient obsolete cartridges here, just looking for a fairly complete collection without breaking the bank.


So watcha got? The more the better so i dont waste a bunch of money on shipping costs.
 
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You need some .17 stuff and maybe the 2mm Kolibri. You can get most stuff at the range if you see someone shooting it and ask for just one bullet. Maybe even give them a little cash for it.
 
Yeah, like i said my list has pretty large holes in it.

Thats how i have gotten to where im at for the most part. Just asking random gun people what they had and if i could bum a round. :D
 
You do mean cartridge collection? I don't see any 25-20? That shouldn't be hard to find. or maybe the 8mm Mauser?

I assume you are looking for loaded examples?
 
I can't quite help you out with obtaining the bullets, because I shoot them and they are hardly avaliable anymore. I've actually run out of lots of some of these. Anyway heres some suggestions you can research or maybe find, that I think are really cool.

-.348 Winchester - Only made for 1 gun which didn't last very long (Winchester model 71)
-.32 or .35 Remington - Some of Remingtons odd autoloader cartridges from early 1900's.
-.218 Bee - Have a Browning in this caliber but its a pretty old Winchester varmint round.
-.44-40, .32-20, .25-20, .38-55, Older Cowboy rounds. Some used in SAAs & Winchester, & Marlin levers.
-.444 Marlin - Another one like the .348 above, they made a model 444 in .444, its not all that rare but it was eventually turned into the .450 marlin.
-.38 Super - Older autoloader round
-28 Gauge - great gauge for Quail, very seldom seen or used.
-Older shotgun length shells like 2 1/2'' 12 ga, or 2 9/16'' 12ga. Used in older & early smokeless powder shotguns.


I'll put some more down when I think of them, but you can do some research and these are some really nice rounds for a collection.
 
Some not un-common (and some very common) cartridges that you're missing

.50 BMG
.45-70
.32-20
16 gauge
.22 short
.22 long
.270 win mag
.375 H&H
8mm Mauser
 
I have a cartridge collection (not a bullet collection) as well, but my focus is on unusual chamberings such as large caliber rim fires and obsolete rounds rather than the common “Wall-Mart calibers” Most of them have been scrounged from gun shows but I did find a trove of loose rounds in the back of an ancient ammunition shelf at the local hardware store that had been there since before WWII when they quit selling sporting ammunition due to supply shortages. The owner did not know much about them and GAVE me a handful of antique rounds. Some of which are still being produced but these are over 65 years old and some are even loaded with black powder.

Off the top of my head, some of what I have:

.44 rim fire
.41 rim fire short and long
.38 rim fire
.32 rim fire
Various short .22 BB and CB caps
.401 Remington self loading
.44 Colt
.38-40
.44-40 (black powder gallery load with round ball)
.348 Winchester
.44 Russian
.32 extra short rim fire
.378 Winchester
.32-20
 
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450 marlin, 480 ruger, 500 s&w mag, 338 winchester mag, 445 supermag. I could help you out with all those. PM me if interested.
 
Thanks for the replies guys.

I am very aware that i am missing a great deal of cartridges... I listed what i currently have instead of what i am missing just because there are so many popular rounds that i dont have, let alone obsolete cartridges.

If anyone has anything not on my list that they wouldn't mind selling for a reasonable amount shoot me a pm or post up here.


Im sending pm to the people who have offered up rounds.

Thanks again!
 
32 Colt short
32 Colt long
32 S&W shorl
32 S&W long
32 H&R mag
327 Federal
7.62 Nagant
7.62 x 25
 
I can help with
35 Remington
32 Short
32 H&R
32 H&R MAG
44 SPL
32 Winchester SPL
8 MM Mauser
45-70 GOV
45-90
.22 Short
7 MM Mag
300 Win MAG
33 Win out of 45-70 brass
22 Hornet

Also I will look for any others I may have not on your list. PM me if interested
 
Put "oldammo.com" into your search engine. It will put you into the cartridge collectors exchange. Guys last name is Hildebran and he lives here in Tallahassee. I think he is a computer guy and cartridge collector. Anyhow, his site lists what he has and how much the prices are. As far as I know he has just about anything that's out there in the world and links to other collector organizations.
 
I also collect cartridges...most of mine are empty brass though. Although I have found some live rounds dropped at the range.

Nothing I have is as rare as the stuff Owen Sparks lists above, except maybe the 37mm M17 shell. I was always told it was from the nose cannon of a P39 Airocobra. After some research though, it appears to be from an anti-aircraft gun.

Other than that I have
.22 short
.22 long
.22 LR
.22 WMR
5mm Remington
.17 HMR
.25 ACP
.32 Auto
.32 S&W long
7.62 Tokarev
.380
.9mmx19
.357 SIG
.38 Special
.357 Magnum
.30 Carbine
.40 S&W
.45 ACP
.44 Magnum
.45 Colt
5.7x28
5.45x39
7.62x39
.223 and 5.56x45
.22-250
.30-30
.243
.308
7.62x54
.303 British
7x57
8x57
.270
.30-06
.50 BMG
37mm
 
one nobody has mentioned would be 6.5 and 7.7mm Jap...i used to have some of the latter but its gone missing over the last couple years
 
For no apparant reason large obsolete rim fire cartridiges interest me even though they never were very practical. I just don't see common everyday rounds as collectable. I like oddball stuff like the .45 Magnum, 357 Maximum or the .41 AE.
 
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