Hey you bullet manufacturers

20 April 2008, 06:41

Would someone please buy out the rights to the Northfork line.....a lot of us sure miss them!

20 April 2008, 07:20

Winchester 69

I was thinking that Hornady might be a good candidate, their not having a premium, limited-expansion bullet. We don't know, though, what the production process is for the North Forks, and it would certainly influence whether mass production is feasible.

20 April 2008, 07:46

ireload2

Sierra is another company that is behind the curve without a controlled expansion bullet. I guess Sierra's business is good without premium bullets but I think they are letting Hornady outgrow them.....

20 April 2008, 08:10

CMcDermott

Isn't Sierra owned by Blount Industries and Speer is still owned by Omark Industries? Both are now small divisions is very large holding companies, I don't think that we will see either do anything as daring as introduce a new bullet design, or even buying an old already successful bullet design. Hornady is still run by the Hornady family, not big business MBA's.

20 April 2008, 08:55

Macifej

No company is going to buy what they can easily get for free.

20 April 2008, 09:05

Winchester 69

quote:
Originally posted by CMcDermott:
Isn't Sierra owned by Blount Industries...?

Blount owned RCBS/Speer (Omark). They sold out to Lehman Bros., who subsequently re-sold to ATK.

The following excerpt from Omark's website tells the story.

"In 1983, Red Blount of Blount International went to Japan to learn how successful manufacturing companies operated. On that trip Blount asked a Japanese expert which American company had most successfully adopted Japanese manufacturing techniques. The answer was Omark Industries of Portland, Oregon. In January 1985 Blount acquired Omark, the world's leading manufacturer of saw chain and timber harvesting equipment.

"On August 19, 1999, Blount International, Inc. Blount (NYSE, BLT) and Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking Partners II L.P. and its affiliated co-investors the Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking Fund jointly announce the closing of the merger of Blount with an entity wholly owned by the Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking Fund."

The referenced "Japanese manufacturing techniques" were originally developed by Walter Shewhart, adopted by Western Electric, and outlined in their Statistical Quality Control Handbook, originally authored by Shewhart. What made it attractive to the Japanese was that they were of the impression that it was a generally accepted American practice. Edwards Deming tutored the Japanese executives in the methods, and the rest is history. Accounting practices won't allow implementation in this country; exportation of industry with the resulting economic decline are higher priorities.
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20 April 2008, 10:22

ireload2

quote:
Originally posted by Winchester 69:
quote:
Originally posted by CMcDermott:
Isn't Sierra owned by Blount Industries...?

Blount owned RCBS/Speer (Omark). They sold out to Lehman Bros., who subsequently re-sold to ATK.

The following excerpt from Omark's website tells the story.

"In 1983, Red Blount of Blount International went to Japan to learn how successful manufacturing companies operated. On that trip Blount asked a Japanese expert which American company had most successfully adopted Japanese manufacturing techniques. The answer was Omark Industries of Portland, Oregon. In January 1985 Blount acquired Omark, the world's leading manufacturer of saw chain and timber harvesting equipment.

"On August 19, 1999, Blount International, Inc. Blount (NYSE, BLT) and Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking Partners II L.P. and its affiliated co-investors the Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking Fund jointly announce the closing of the merger of Blount with an entity wholly owned by the Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking Fund."

The referenced "Japanese manufacturing techniques" were originally developed by Walter Shewhart, adopted by Western Electric, and outlined in their Statistical Quality Control Handbook, originally authored by Shewhart. What made it attractive to the Japanese was that they were of the impression that it was a generally accepted American practice. Edwards Deming tutored the Japanese executives in the methods, and the rest is history. Accounting practices won't allow implementation in this country; exportation of industry with the resulting economic decline are higher priorities.
_________________
Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

The average manufacturing wage (all benefits included) in China is $.47/hr. Many of the US manufacturing industries were poorly managed and had union workers that priced themselves out of a job.

20 April 2008, 10:54

Winchester 69

quote:
Originally posted by ireload2:
The average manufacturing wage (all benefits included) in China is $.47/hr. Many of the US manufacturing industries were poorly managed and had union workers that priced themselves out of a job.

Luddites and Robber Barons aside, the utilization of jumbo jets in an energy-sensitive economic environment to take advantage of slave labor half way around the world really doesn't define comparative advantage. We seem to be the only country in the world that embraces free trade to the detriment of our standard of living and our own defense. Everyone else has retained tariff barriers to protect their economies, their standards of living. Even South American countries have the VAT, similar to European countries.