Bullet Measurements?

[JFrank]

@DaveTooley thank you very much for the excellent post.
Much Appreciated
Jim

 

[DaveTooley]

Happy to help. We think in small individual spaces when in fact it's a big big world out there. The numbers are mind boggling.

 

[JFrank]

This from the company that makes most of the presses used in the industry. Some good videos.
http://www.waterburyfarrel.com/company/video-gallery#BulletAssemblyMachine

The first one kinda made dizzy

 

[dcali]

. . . now, ruining a die is a different topic . . . RG

I've only been at making bullets for a bit over a year or so now, but I feel like I've invented new ways to break stuff. No dies... yet.

 

[STS]

I've made bullets for about 45 years for my own consumption, and have sold some to close friends and a few other shooters. My records show that I've made about 275,000 which is less than 10% of the life of a good set of carbide dies. I didn't see any dimensional changes that I could measure. The commercial guys work on a whole different level and quite frankly I'm amazed at the level of quality that they produce given the numbers they make. I've been through both Hornady and Sierra and they are impressive operations. Thanks for the machinery posts Dave. Pretty cool to see that.

 

[johara1]

The Hornady A tip 110 is one the most uniform bullets I ever checked ever. That includes custom makers..... I don't know how they can do it OAL. are +- .001..... jim