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thins a few thousandths of an inch from that jacket. The jacket reaches the spot an<br />
point almost to the jacket end, where it is instant before the core, which drops inside.<br />
slightly thickened at the end where the lead The first plunger pushes the core into the<br />
is exposed.<br />
jacket and, too fast for the eye to follow,<br />
Indeed, the finished bullet with its simple the six successive plungers stamp the core<br />
curved shape gives no hint of the complex and jacket solidly together and swedge the<br />
factors built into its design by the speedy, outside contour to final form.<br />
giant presses in the Sierra factory. These The bullet is drawn to its spitzer, pointed<br />
finishing presses completely mystify the ob- shape. In the case of boattails or "taper<br />
server by their speed, uncanny accuracy, and heel" bullets, the base is compressed. The<br />
automatic operation. Each press is set up final operation if in a soft point type exwith<br />
dies and plungers for a single caliber. trudes and trims the lead point to exact<br />
The lead core material, made in the form of ' length, with a tolerance of 1/1000th of an<br />
round wire, feeds from a large spool mounted inch.<br />
to the left of the machine. A cutter snips So fast does the entire process happen<br />
off each core slug to exact length. These that the individual operations are just a<br />
feed down through a tube to the die mount. blur of moving, automatic machinery. At<br />
At the same instant, dropping through an- one side of the champing monster is the<br />
other tube and seeming to appear magically coil of wire, and above it a hopper holding<br />
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