tangodown
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That's why I'm doing my due diligence... But, From the response's I've had on this forum and other forums... I think I can do OK... A little more investment upfront in automation. But, it will work out in the wash...
What great feedback! I want to address the question of Cost/Price. It's not my intention to get rich at the expense of a few. Pricing will be more than reasonable. I will try to provide Military Discounts to Retired and Active Duty members of our Armed Forces. I'll even do Firefighter and Law Enforcement too. But, I'm not up to that point yet. Right now I'm at the stage known as Due Diligence.
Yes, I think there is room for another bullet maker. I will make bullets that are unlike anything on the market currently. And, I will offer them at a reasonable price. I will start out producing a dozen or so key items where there appears to be demand and go from there.
All Copper - No Problem; Partitions - No Problem; Plastic Nose Tips - no problem; Consistent Metplats - no problem; Bonded Bullets - no problem; Secant Ogives - no problem; Tangent Ogives - no problem ... Combinations of the above - no problem. Am I going to select a price point that allows me to recoup my investment in machines and dies - of course, I am a capitalist - It's my intent to produce excellent bullets at a reasonable price for you guys - the consumer/customer so we both win.
I will also produce bullets in small quantities for selected folks to try the bullets out - and get them "right" before I start cranking out projectiles.
I'm using my own money to fund this venture so I need to get the business model right the first time
My observation would be to concentrate (at first) on calibers that are the most common like (for instance) 308 Winchester, 300 Remington Ultra Magnum, 223 Remington and calibers where you can produce quantities of projectiles, offer them at competitive pricing and pay for the infrastructure and then branch off into specials because if you start out with niche projectiles, you'll one, struggle with your capital investment, two, price yourself uncompetitive and three, never grow because all you'll produce is specials.
I think to "get it right" the first time, you'll need a ballistic engineer/ballistician and even then, coming up with something new that works right the first time is a long shot. I get the feeling Berger went through a lot of R&D/trial and error to come with their hybrids.... especially with the 300 gr 338.
I would think you would want a similar design as the hybrid. Not sure if a bullet shape can be patented but if it is then you have to come up with something similar but different.
If you could insert a tungsten core into the tail and shank of a ULD bullet that had an expandable lead core nose, you could increase the sectional density of in the same shape and increase weight and BC of a particular shaped bullet.
I.e., if you took the shape of a 308 215 hybrid, which requires a 10" twist, and put a tungsten core in it and increase the weight to say 225 gr, you could theoretically stabilize that bullet in an 11" twist. The bullet CG would change which might require a slight modification of the shape. Likewise you could do the same with the 230 gr which is the heaviest of that shape that can be stabilized in a 10" twist. A denser core would enable you to offer a bullet with higher weight/SD and BC in a 10" twist. On top of that, the tungsten core would make an excellent terminal projectile. Something to think about...
When you open the "start a new thread" option, there should be an option for a poll at the bottom.
Tungsten can get pretty spendy, remember the MRX bullets from Barnes?
Yup, but how spendy are CEB's ?