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  • nf1e
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2012
    • 2122
    #1

    Mystery solved.

    For months I have been trying to locate the source of a .127 ball bearing that appeared on my work bench. For any of you that have taken something apart and re-assembled only to find parts left over, you know the feeling I have been having. During that period of time I had worked on a bunch of SAI NM rear sights with the bearings and a few Savage bolt rifles that I took apart the bolts and put them back together. Being sure this freaking bearing came from one of those jobs, I went back over them all to no avail.
    By chance today while loading a few hundred Berger 150 fb bullets I found a duplicate of the mystery bearing in the bottom of the container I dump bullets into for loading. Source turned out to be from one of the 100 rnd Bullet boxes from Berger. I have no idea how they might have found their way into them, but they were sealed when I opened them and dumped into the container which I had just cleaned and dusted this morning so I know it wasn't there earlier. Whatta Hobby!

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    • barretcreek
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2013
      • 6065
      #2
      Ya might give Berger a call. Maybe they'll send you a free box.

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        • nf1e
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2012
          • 2122
          #3
          Worth a shot.

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            • lyman
              Administrator - OFC
              • Aug 2009
              • 11269
              #4
              betting they use the ball bearings to tumble the bullets to polish or clean

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                • JimF
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2009
                  • 1179
                  #5
                  Originally posted by lyman
                  betting they use the ball bearings to tumble the bullets to polish or clean
                  That would be my guess also.

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                    • fguffey
                      Senior Member
                      • May 2012
                      • 684
                      #6
                      No clue, but a dealer at the Dallas Market Hall gun show gave me two boxes of 9 MM ammo, the ammo was different. The bullets were sabot, meaning when the round was fired the steel ball never touched the rifling. I asked him why he was so generous, he said he shot one round from his 9MM, he said the steel ball hit everything metal in his shop; he said he does not understand how it missed him. He claimed the ammo was for practice.

                      F. Guffey
                      Last edited by fguffey; 07-18-2021, 08:29.

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                        • nf1e
                          Senior Member
                          • Nov 2012
                          • 2122
                          #7
                          Had a PM on another forum with a very good possible explanation that brought out a good belly laugh. " Judging by the size it could be a snowflake ball ". And all this time I thought snowflakes were balless bags of hot air.

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                            • lyman
                              Administrator - OFC
                              • Aug 2009
                              • 11269
                              #8
                              well since you got the balls, ,I guess one is?

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