My local gun pusher sells Ultramax - has been for years, and I've burned a ton of it (.45ACP, 9mm, .40S&W, mostly).
Quality is at least as good as the stuff I just started turning out.
Ultramax also does some "white box" which seem to be identical in every respect, but aren't as pretty. Never any issues with this stuff, either.
Seem to be a little more expensive than I'm really happy with, but my club range requires lead only, and they always seem to have it in stock.
Or at least did before the latest crunch.
Mike at Mastercast decided to get out of the reloading business. It's really a mom & pop operation, although there are employees, and I'm not counting the two beagles and what is supposed to be a Shepherd, but probably could be saddled.... He wants to spend more time with Kate.... Claims to be getting old, too, but he's three years younger than I am
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Mike just had a triple bypass, too, and is basically shut down last time I checked the website. A "get well" note wasn't answered, but he's probably up to his oxygen canula in e-mail at this point. I live about 30 minutes away, so I'm going to try to get over there RSN. Long boring story #1: We're using my late mother's car for my wife to drive to work, and the license expired last week. Trying to bash the transfer through Probate so I can get it back on the road.
Meantime, it sits, and Sherri drives my car. I don't get out much anyway, but having the other car in the garage reminds me of the time my grandmother was babysitting me and my two little sisters, and we had to take a cab to a movie, even though I was sixteen. I didn't have a license yet, but dad's work car was in the garage, and I knew how to drive it just fine. (Grandmother never got a driver's license, so we couldn't do the "licensed driver" thing.)
I did luck out on one thing. About the tenth of October, after thinking about it for more than 40 years, I bought a Dillon RL650B from Mike (Mastercast) and enough supplies for a thousand .45's or so. I was able to get more primers last time down there, but only a handful of bullets and no powder. No idea what's available right now. I scrounged some different powder and way different bullets last week at (of all places) my local gun pusher's. It'll hold me for a bit. The powder's "close enough" - Winchester WST instead of my usual 231 (Mike's "normal" load), but the bullets are just plain strange. Probably not intended for .45ACP, but they work well enough when set back into the case quite a ways.
Two of my buddies, many years ago, joined me in buying the necessary goodies to reload, and I'd already started casting when somebody's mother or wife decided that she didn't want gunpowder in the basement.... No idea where all that stuff went. (Single stage press.) I could use the furnace now....
Anyway, Mastercast still sells supplies, and if you find any of their stuff on the shelf someplace, it's fine, IMHO.
Regards,
