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Originally Posted by hrdwareguy
How do you tell which round is the 51st round since the serial numbers are on the inside? Also, what about the ones that are tossed out for quality control reasons. Lets say out of 1001, you test fire one and throw out 2 for quality reasons. You are now down to 998. How do you know which 2 serial numbers you need to remake? How do you know which bullets go in which box since the serial numbers are on the inside?
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I can see a couple of solutions. Assuming that the bullets are sold in sets of 50, manufacture them in sets of 51. If one out of a set needs to be discarded for quality control purposes, you still have a full set of 50. This gives you an extra 20 for test firing out of every 1000, and only increases the manufacturing cost by 2%.
Solution 2: Sell boxes of 49 or 48 bullets, clearly marked as 49 or 48.
In either case, no remarking of bullets would be necessary.
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My point is it would be more efficient and less costly to have a balistics and spent shell database then a database of every bullet made and sold. Less costly from a production stand point and less costly from a purchasing stand point.
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Certainly it would be less costly. That doesn't make it a better system.