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Just an FYI if anyone is interested. I found Sellier & Bellot .45ACP FMJ at Sportsman's Guide for $10.90 per 50 (I think it's just a bit higher if you don't belong to their "buyer's club"). I didn't see the ammo from browsing their Website, so it may be a catalog-only special thing: http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=334248. The S&B isn't the best in the world, and its primer is on the hard side, but all in all I put their .45ACP on par with Magtech, and it seems a little cleaner than Winchester WB. So I ordered two cases. UPS Ground shipping from Minnesota was $19.99, and I had a $5 off coupon. So I'm getting two cases at, net cost, 22.55 cents per round.

Jason73 wrote:''China will be a strong consumer of copper for years to come,'' Freeport Chief Executive Officer Richard Adkerson said yesterday in an interview in Santiago.

This is disheartening. I figure my .45ACP factory, FMJ, regular-shootin' ammo (not defensive rounds) costs me about 30 cents per shot, give or take a couple of pennies.

So let's do away with pennies. Our useless Lincolns (no besmirch meant to the past President) are alloys, but they still consume a huge volume of new-mint U.S. copper each year.

Not a new idea. But if we didn't have this carryover from the 19th century that serves now only as a rounding error in retail transactions, how much copper could we conserve for more important things...like bullets. (I'm only half joking...)