Source of cheap bowling pins?

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Machineguntony

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I have been looking for bowling pins. Around my city, the bowling alleys know that people look for these pins for recreational shooting purposes, so they charge stupid prices for them. Like $20 a pin.

On ebay, the prices after shipping are ridiculous.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-Brunswick...082?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f3f45804a

After shipping is $65 for five pins?! That's absurd. At that price, I could get a large supply of cheap clay bricks that disintegrate into little environmentally range friendly pieces (i.e., it won't make the range managers mad).

What do you guys pay for used pins? And where do you get them?
 
Thanks Mad.

Are bowling pins really heavy? I saw the $19.99 price tag, then when I went to check out, the shipping was twice the cost of the pins. $39 for shipping, and they don't have an option on their page to buy more than 10.

I buy huge amounts of very heavy lead for reloading, in the hundreds of pounds, and the shipping is not as high.

I'd love to mow down and spray fire some bowling pins, and see how many fall down. I'm going to make a video on the myth/reality of spray fire.
 
Back in the late 80's, early 90's, the couple of local alleys around me were about giving them away. Then the pin shoots caught on. So much for that. :rolleyes:

Are bowling pins really heavy?
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I didnt think so either, and figured Id get some for juggling. Boy did I ever build upper body strength, and fast (at ducking falling bowling pins.). The real juggling pins were a treat after I finally got to see some and try them. :D


If youre shooting them close, watch out for flying chunks coming back your way. ;)
 
free pins

The local bowling alley gave me a set of 10 used/damaged pins for free. The pins are in good enough condition to use as targets. It might be worth your time calling local lanes and asking if they have any used pins.
 
Back when I was really big into pin shooting I had over 1000 pins in my barn.
When the big pin matches died out I decided to sell my remaining pins I had not practiced on.

Sold one bunch to a gentleman in Texas for $1 a piece I think he took 550 of them, sold the remaining ones to a couple for the same price.
It sounds as if I may have sold mine to cheap.
 
Most shipping is calculated by weight AND size of package.
That is why bullets ship for less than these bowling pins.
They weigh about the same but the package is bigger and takes up more space.
 
I could probably turn you a pin that would be safer and biodegradable for $20 a piece. Lighter for shipping.

I have one from a childhood birthday party I am planning to shoot up in the near future.
 
With a little effort, something very like bowling pins can be home made for very little cost.
They wouldn't do for a genuine pin match, but they will do for practice and plinking.
If there's a lumber yard nearby, buy some of their scraps of a suitable size.
Glue and screw these scraps together for enough thickness.
Then cut the shape with your trusty jigsaw and paint.
Or just paste a picture of a bowling pin on the front.
If you're as lazy as me, hang them from something in the normal pin match arrangement, so you don't have to walk down and reset them.
Won't even need a table.
 
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