Rainier Bullets from Midway

[Quickdraw McGraw]

I usually order Rainier bullets from Midway for the price they are a pretty good bullet. I use 230 gr RN in my 45 acp. I got their September flyer in the mail the other day and saw that if you buy 2,000 of them for $200.99 you get free freight. Came home from work and jumped on computer decided to order before prices increase. Site says "Out of Stock No Backorder".

So I get looking around cause I'm all set to buy before prices go up and I find 1,000 of them on sale for $74.99 - regularily $94.99 but they are marked "Out of Stock Backorder OK". Means they'll ship them when they get them from Rainier.

I figure that's still a pretty decent price so I put 2 of them in my cart and proceed to checkout. I figure shipping will be horrible but to my surprise it was only $42.04 to my zipcode (Imler, PA).

So after it is all said and done I got 2,000 for $192.02 with shipping. That's $8.97 less than the 2,000 with free shipping? Go figure.

If anyone is looking to get some Rainier's before prices go up jump on it. Not a bad price at all!

 

[Kimber1911_06238]

get some berry's plated bullets from their website...their prices are virtually the same and free shipping

 

[Walkalong]

I like the Berry's 230 Gr much better than the Ranier 230 Gr. If Midway has the Ranier 200 Gr. SWC in stock (2000 with free freight) that is a great bullet and a good deal. Nope - Out of stock. Buy some Berry's, you will like them.

 

[RustyFN]

You can buy 230 grain RN from Berry's for $83 per 1,000 with free shipping. They will charge a extra lead surcharge but it's not a lot.
Rusty

 

[Quickdraw McGraw]

Lead Surcharge

You can buy 230 grain RN from Berry's for $83 per 1,000 with free shipping. They will charge a extra lead surcharge but it's not a lot.
Rusty

Rusty they must have jacked up the surcharge, on 1,000 its now $36 for 230 gr RN, it's $1.00 a lb. Put 4 of these in the cart and see. Not sure what it was before but its bull#$%* now! http://www.berrysmfg.com/57.php

Surcharge makes Midway look like the bargain of the century!

QM

 

[philbo]

You can buy 230 grain RN from Berry's for $83 per 1,000 with free shipping. They will charge a extra lead surcharge but it's not a lot. Rusty

The lead surcharge from Berry's has gotten out of hand IMHO.

I've been ordering from Berry's from Cabela's because their cheaper than direct from the manufacturer:

230 RN plated per 1,000 from Berry's is $84.94 +$33 surcharge = $117.94

Same bullet from Cabela's is $83.96 + $8.95 shipping = $92.91 per thousand.

I'd much rather pay the shipping than the inflated lead surcharge. The way Berry's is doing business, I can't afford their free shipping!
Midway and Rainer are similar, especially when you can catch a sale.

 

[Walkalong]

The lead surcharge from Berry's has gotten out of hand IMHO.

Yep, I was shocked the last time I checked it. X-Treme got my order that time. Call them. They are not always updated on their price list online, but are real friendly and nice to talk to.

 

[evan price]

Local shop has Rainier 230-gr .45 RNs for $95.99/1000 in stock. $35.99 for 500 9mm 125-gr HPs.

I saw Midway's "sale price" and then added shipping, figured they might have them in stock ???someday???, then discovered that adding in S&H from Midway made it just the same as pulling it off the shelf at my local gunshop. That way THEY warehouse them for me and I don't have to buy 5000 at a time.

What totally sucks is that two boxes of 1000 will fit inside a USPS flat-rate Priority Mail box for $8.95 shipping. Why charge $42 for S&H??? Because it's a way to boost your profitability. Hell, Century only charged me like $15 freight to ship 2700 rounds of 8mm to me. I bet Midway ships a lot more stuff than CAI.

Primers are just as bad when you ad the Haz-Mat fee plus S&H. I might as well buy WIN primers for $25/k locally instead of getting them from Midway.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

Buying from Cabela's seems to be the most economic for me also. Given the flat shipping costs of 8.95$, I try to buy almost all of my bullets from Cabela's over paying midways shipping costs. While I know that Cabela's is much more expensive, when you subtract off say 45$ shipping and add the 8.95$ for Cabela's I routinely save about 10$ per thousand delivered bullets.

 

[socal44]

I'm not seeing a flat rate shipping cost of 8.95 at the Cabelas web site. How and where did you?

 

[RustyFN]

Thanks for the heads up about the surcharge, I was not aware it got so high. I know Grafs offers free shipping but I haven't checked their prices.
Rusty

 

[LotI]

What totally sucks is that two boxes of 1000 will fit inside a USPS flat-rate Priority Mail box for $8.95 shipping. Why charge $42 for S&H??? Because it's a way to boost your profitability. Hell, Century only charged me like $15 freight to ship 2700 rounds of 8mm to me. I bet Midway ships a lot more stuff than CAI.

I asked Midway about this last time I orded 2k lead .38 bullets. The explaination was that they have to pre-package them this way and would only do that for popular bullets. They had the Speer bullets in a flat rate box but not the Remingtons so I paid ~$20 for UPS shipping.

btw...get a C&R FFL You'll save the application fee on the 2000 quantity

 

[Peter M. Eick]

I am in Houston, TX. I just look at my invoices. Most are 8.95 per shipment.