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Post by deadon on Apr 10, 2010 14:22:46 GMT -5
Hey 6mm and 243 guys, check out Precision Ballistics LLC. Sorry about no linc  |
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Post by minst7877 on Apr 10, 2010 15:50:09 GMT -5
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Post by rossman40 on Apr 11, 2010 23:14:14 GMT -5
As a guy once told me, Walt Berger didn't make a lot of money making bullets, but he made a fortune making the J4 jackets that everyone else used.
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Post by cfvickers on Apr 12, 2010 20:27:16 GMT -5
But his son in law is making a killing making bullets now with Walt's name on it. You can now email walt any time you want at the technical data customer service email on their site. He answers most of the mail himself. If he doesn't his daughter, I think, does. their hunting bullets are selling like wild fire right now and I heard of a guy the other day trying to get 150.00 for a box of 115 grain .257s at a gun show. Absolutely ridiculous. When Mack's Prairie Wings has them in stock I can get them for 32.99 per hundred. Of course they have been on backorder for 4 months and that is from the factory. It seems like they were having a die problem of some variety last time I checked.
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Post by rossman40 on Apr 12, 2010 23:50:41 GMT -5
Someone told me it was his grandson that is running the company. But Walt sold out in 2001 to a company called Spiveco which actually was the company making the J4 jackets. Walt just sold them. Something about there was 4 people in on the super uniform deep drawn cup. One guy went to another blanking company, one guy went to Sierra bullets, one guy went to what is now Spiveco and Walt. I think Walt will be around answering questions just to pass the time. He will hold no secrets and will show anybody how to make a bullet with a hand press. Walt dumped a lot of his profits coming up with a machine that could do it better then by hand. There was a local machine company that was involved for a time, supposedly the early machines were one of a kind and pretty temperamental. Just in the last few years Berger has gotten better dies then ever before and tolerances are even 30% tighter then in the past.
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Post by cfvickers on Apr 13, 2010 22:16:22 GMT -5
It is one or the other. I though I read somewhere that it was his daughters husband. Could be wrong though. I am sure the whole family is involved one way or another, as it comes across.
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Post by rossman40 on Apr 14, 2010 12:55:55 GMT -5
I think if you look at a lot of companies where you had a man and a vision and when the man leaves so does the direction. Just for example, if Tony Knight stayed at the helm of Knight where would they be now? Not that it always happens, a lot of people thought after Joyce Hornady was killed in a accident that would be pretty much the end of the company. Then when Steve was named the boss he would run the company into the ground. When Fred Barnes sold Barnes bullets it faltered and it wasn't till Randy Brooks bought it and got Fred to show him the ropes that he got on the ball. Now it will be interesting to see what happens with Remington at the helm.
Berger is lucky in that they have someone in charge that knows what the goal is and shares Walt's values. I think Spiveco is letting Berger do it's thing instead of riding the brand name. Hopefully Berger will keep on being a standard of the industry.
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