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Model Citizen
Join Date: May 2007
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A fitted bullet to a manufactured rifle with a hexagonal bore in the 1850's, '60's.
It's always slightly unreal to learn how smart people in all centuries have shaped our planet.
What must have been the process to first hold the barrel and then draw and twist a cutter (or a series of cutters) or dies in a repeatable way and maintain tolerances?
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