I should have asked Jake at the SHOT Show, but I was in sensory overload by the time I got to his booth, and he looked like I felt, which was exhausted. There are 12 miles of aisles at the show...............
Here's what he posted in the e-mail he sent:
A new bullet is born!!! Introducing the new 9mm 147 grain RMR Heavy Matchwinner! We are calling it the Heavy Match for short and it is about to become THE bullet for subsonic and heavy 9mm or .357 sig shooters. Click on the picture to be directed to the product listing on our website. This price is an introductory price. With the cost of copper and lead skyrocketing we don't know how much longer we will be able to maintain the current pricing on all of our RMR made jacketed bullets. So the time to buy is NOW! Also, I just want to point out that January is over. I hope that brings you as much joy as it does to me. Seriously, I hate January.
$53 for 500 shipped
$90 for 1,000 shipped
I know for a fact that metal prices are rising. I took 300 pounds of scrap brass to the recycler just before leaving for Las Vegas and the SHOT Show, and got $1.80 a pound for it, which is higher than it's been for several years. I would look for price increases from all the manufacturers pretty soon, since the raw material prices are rising at a pretty fast rate.
Hope this helps.
Fred