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Toured the Hornady factory today.

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20nickels:
We all know about their reloading equipment but I was most interested in the heavy bullet making machinery and the process they used. If you have any questions I'll do my best to answer them. I recommend it if you are ever in the area.  I toured in a large group prearranged. You would have to contact them on their touring info.
It was quite the process from casting 300# ingots and then churning out lead wire at the needed diameter in a 700 ton press. The wire squirts out very hot. Jackets are cupped from large spooled sheets of copper and then sent to the rows and rows of large presses along with the cores cut from the spools of lead wire.
Big game mounts from all around the globe fill the main lobby and offices. Final stop takes you past Steve H's office where a .50 Cal. Browning rests on a tripod as a reminder to get back to work! My father enjoyed it as well.

bk09:
That would be a neat tour. I would have a problem keeping my hands off stuff...

metaldoc:
As a Hornady dealer back in 1969 I was given a personal tour of the place by Joyce Hornady himself.  Haven't been back since...  bet it would be like stepping through a time warp. 

66bigblock:
Reminds me of touring the Weavers potato chip factory in Lincoln on a field trip when I was in 3rd grade.  The first question everybody asked was:

Did they give out any samples???


66BigBlock

20nickels:

--- Quote from: bradkoll on January 18, 2012, 02:59:07 PM ---That would be a neat tour. I would have a problem keeping my hands off stuff...

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Don't go then.  Molten lead is hot and large presses will eat your hands.  LOL

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