Another Aussie Icon closes

[CINDERS]

Malcolm is pretty cut and dried as a person it is a sad loss to our country but he is getting on and has earned himself a good retirement a small operator whom made excellent projectiles. Those who used his 170gn .312 FBHP 303 projectiles know that they were better than the SMK's I used them and they were brilliant 1/2 - 3/4 MOA with open sights was not uncommon from my rifles at 100M.

Thanks Malcolm for your services to the shooters of Australia.

Taipan Jacketed Bullets

Manufactured by Malcolm Bone, , Gympie 4570

All inquiries by Email please.

News Flash - The time has come, the Walrus said, to speak of many things - but the only one of interest to shooters is that the time has come to close the factory door and hang up my draw press - all 6 of them. Over the past several years I have genuinely intended to crank a few out but just haven't been able to make it happen.

About every couple of months I get an inquiry from interested parties who offer to buy me out. I am amenable to this, it would be great if in fact it would happen, nothing I would like better than to see the plant up and running once again.

The big problem is that I have yet to be approached by someone who is capable of running it, there is no point selling it someone only to have them lose their shirt. What it will take is someone with high end tool making experience or with access to someone who has and shed space of 500 square meters. In our best year with a staff of 6 we produced 1.2 million jacketed bullets plus 5 million lead bullets. That was by no means peak capacity.

In the interim I will continue to sell whatever stock that is remaining, the choice is limited at this stage, the popular
calibre/weights were sold out long ago. The jacketed bullet page from now on will only display what is currently available -

I am endeavouring to cut out all those emails which start out "When are you going to make . . . ."

Information

Warning: This is a relatively older thread This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current.

[Aussie48]

Yes sadly when his tool maker/fitter passed on that was the end of the manufacturing side, best 303 projectiles around, still have 500 left but they won't last long.

Dick

[mike1967]

I stashed away quiet a few thousand of the old Taipan FBHP 303 projies when they were about $18 per hundred. They will see me out!