Pleasant Supprise from Berger.

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Patrick Kennedy
I found that I am in love with the new Beger column bullets, and I had to order another 500. To my supprise when I opened one of the boxes of bullets there was a sticker that said "****Winner****" I found out that I won a free Berger bullets hat. WOW !!!!!!! All I can say is this floored me, I didn't know that they offered prizes in their box of bullets.This is just the icing on the cake.

Eric Stecker and the Berger bullets family are the best !!!!!
Thank you guys!!!
 
Eric Stecker and the Berger bullets family are the best !!!!!
Thank you guys!!!

A truly balanced bullet (core length to jacket length) is a real eye opener..! Buwets that go to SLEEP..!

cale
 
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Hmmmm. I bought two thousand in 1000 pack boxes and didn't get no hats. Wait a minute, I didn't open the boxes to peek. I'm a dunce.
 
Berger Bullets have always been there in support of Benchrest shooting. They're waiting on your call right now.
 
Many years ago when you called Berger with a question you would speak to Walt Berger .
I called one day and he was setting up bullet dies.

But even then he came to the phone right away before finishing that job.

Eric and everyone else at Berger now is the same way.


Glenn
 
Same thing different story. Had a problem making bullets and Walt spent about two hours on the phone with me explaining in minute detail how he made bullets. Told me to call him back and let him know when I found/fixed my problem so he could help others.

As a distant "aside", the problem was denting in the bullets after about a hundred through the pointing die. My son was doing the pointing. I would set up the die, make sure it was making perfect points and then turn it over to him for the mundane task of working the handle. After about a hundred they would start looking real bad with dents and creases. Puzzled, I would work with the darn thing for a while and it would begin making good bullets. Turn it back to him and in a bit...dents and creases. Turns out, his hands sweat and it took about a hundred to build up water in the die. The fix was to cut the fingers off a latex glove and stretch those on his fingers. Voila!
 
I would set up the die, make sure it was making perfect points and then turn it over to him for the mundane task of working the handle.
An awful lot of bullet makers do this. It's probably all right as long as the handle-puller is consistent, and both capable & willing to learn.

For example, Jef Fowler sipped whiskey while the handle was being pulled -- because he didn't pull it. Believe Clay Spenser's daughter put herself through school making Spenser bullets. The 103 6mm is an awfully good bullet, and I know more than one long-range shooter who worried when she got married. Fortunately, the family's still at it...

On the other hand, R.G. Robinett pulls the point-up handle himself. Believe he'll let Donna seat cores, but he insists on doing the pointup operation. His reason is, you can feel things through the handle in pointing up, so a BIBs bullet that doesn't "feel right" when pointed doesn't make it into the box.

Doesn't mean it takes the name behind the bullets to do a good job. That's where the "willing & capable of learning" comes in. Best is to find a smart person with a tolerance for repetitive tasks. I always figured the best pointer would be, say, a musician with great sensitivity in their hands who was borderline compulsive (the "borderline" part keeps them out of the hospital).

What's special about Berger as a large-scale manufacturer (at least as of 2005) was that they developed some sensing apparatus for the hydraulic presses. It may or may not rival the feel" of a long-time bullet maker, couldn't say. But the "capable of repetitive tasks" part is down pat.
 
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