Looks like that cost of lead bullets has come back down.

Lasercast 170 grain 30-30 bullets were up to $60 per 500. Now
Cabelas has em for $46.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0012705213468a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH_all&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&Ntt=lasercast&Ntk=Products&sort=all&Go.y=10&_D%3AhasJS=+&N=0&_D%3Asort=+&Nty=1&hasJS=true&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form1&Go.x=20&_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1