Frontier Bullets Rating

[Bucksnort1]

About one year ago at a gun show, I got a smoking deal on 250 each, 245 grain, plated, semi-wad cutter bullets manufactured by Frontier Bullets in South Africa. I didn't know anything about Frontier and I didn't inspect the bullets but that didn't make any difference because of the price. I felt I could not go wrong paying $15 for 250 bullets.

Here's the skinny on these bullets. This morning, I loaded 50 with specs for all lead semi-wad cutter bullets. All went well except eight of the seated bullets were lose. On four of them, I was able to turn the bullets by hand to a point where the crimping finally grabbed the bullet. On the other four, I had to re-size, re-bell, re-charge then seat the bullets to the cannelure and add a crimp. These four are now ready, I guess.

I measured the diameter of the bullets and found differences which adds to this problem. Also, plating is not as smooth as Berry's plated bullets and I'm guessing the cast bullet, without plating, is not a high quality bullet.

Considering the price, these bullets are still a good deal and are good for plinking; however, unless I get another smoking deal, I will not buy Frontier bullets again.

 

[Gster]

I have used Frontier bullets in my .40SW and had no issues.

 

[Bucksnort1]

Gster,

I expect I'll have no issues. Thanks for the reply.

 

[Sevens]

I agree with the points you've made. That is a most excellent price and would suck me in also. And a lot of my shooting is on steel plates where fine accuracy is always a benefit (in many ways) but it is NOT a dealbreaker the way it is when I'm on an indoor range shooting for small groups on paper.

I have a box of Frontier that I am eating through right now (.38cal 125gr) and I am also not impressed with them... but tens of thousands of Berry's and Xtreme has spoiled me a bit in my expectations of a plated bullet. For certain, I have seen worse than Frontier, but these are not a top-tier bullet.

I suppose...
My post is not a scalding review of Frontier, but when put up against a Berry's or Xtreme, my post should be taken as a glowing review of Berry's and Xtreme, as they are far higher in quality, in every way.

 

[pete2]

Some times you get what you pay for. I've had very good luck with Berry's, Everglades and The Bulletworks plated bullets. I did get some malformed ones from Berry's but will order from them again if they have what I need in stock at the right price.