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<blockquote data-quote="Eric Stecker" data-source="post: 244714" data-attributes="member: 8908"><p>Regarding the 338 cal bullets we are gaining ground. We have three major challenges with the 338 cal. The first major challenge is the bullet design. We havn't made bullets larger than 30 cal so this is new territory for us. Fortunately, this is where Bryan comes into the picture. He completed designs for three different shapes in two different weights and we are very excited about their potential. </p><p> </p><p>The second is to produce all the tooling as none of this tooling is shared from other calibers. At this point 90% of the tooling is received and will soon be tested.</p><p> </p><p>The third major challenge is that we learned the machines we use now do not have enough stroke. To resolve this we are building a new machine. The good news is that we are not reinventing the wheel as this new machine is similar in many ways to our current machines just bigger. The bad news is that building a custom machine from the ground up is no small task. </p><p> </p><p>We are about 40% complete with this machine. Once it is assembled the debugging process is impossible to schedule. We are working every day on the 338 cal project. I estimate that bullets will be coming of the machine in the summer of 2009.</p><p> </p><p>Regarding the heavier 30 cal bullets, we have the same stroke length problem as we do for the 338 cal. Once the 338 cal machine is running well we will immediately go to work on making the heavier 30 cal. By that time designs and tooling should be ready to go. Don't hold me to this but we should have all these bullets in your loading rooms by the end of 2009 at the latest.</p><p> </p><p>Regards,</p><p>Eric</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eric Stecker, post: 244714, member: 8908"] Regarding the 338 cal bullets we are gaining ground. We have three major challenges with the 338 cal. The first major challenge is the bullet design. We havn't made bullets larger than 30 cal so this is new territory for us. Fortunately, this is where Bryan comes into the picture. He completed designs for three different shapes in two different weights and we are very excited about their potential. The second is to produce all the tooling as none of this tooling is shared from other calibers. At this point 90% of the tooling is received and will soon be tested. The third major challenge is that we learned the machines we use now do not have enough stroke. To resolve this we are building a new machine. The good news is that we are not reinventing the wheel as this new machine is similar in many ways to our current machines just bigger. The bad news is that building a custom machine from the ground up is no small task. We are about 40% complete with this machine. Once it is assembled the debugging process is impossible to schedule. We are working every day on the 338 cal project. I estimate that bullets will be coming of the machine in the summer of 2009. Regarding the heavier 30 cal bullets, we have the same stroke length problem as we do for the 338 cal. Once the 338 cal machine is running well we will immediately go to work on making the heavier 30 cal. By that time designs and tooling should be ready to go. Don't hold me to this but we should have all these bullets in your loading rooms by the end of 2009 at the latest. Regards, Eric [/QUOTE]
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