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This is all for Roy.
Here he is putting an RWS round into his rifle, preparing to stalk a deer, but not just any
RWS round.
This is one which which I am in Germany personally to watch being made.
There is a lot more to it than brass, lead and powder.
It's a 42 acre site and it is absolutely enormous and I am a bit tired of walking.
There is really only way to get around here and that is to get on your bike.
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We are now on our way to see where they make the cases.
So I am in a room with the first of many secrets that we are going to see today and to explain
them is Hannes Dikhoff.
What kind of metal is this?
This is a brass material it is copper and zinc, with 30% zinc here.
That basically goes into our brass high quality RWS cases and I think within the next hours
we will show you how we transfer this material here which is pretty nice here into a neat
little cartridge later on used for hunting.
It's not just new metal.
This stuff is expensive.
They recycle here, too
Let's get back on the case - literally and continue the process with case making.
This operation sees the case pulled, stretched - lubricated - warmed, massaged, warmed again,
relaxed - trimmed and buffed.
You treat it like a beautiful woman.
Absolutely.
Talk me through the process.
Well besides starting from the cup when it goes in and has the first draw there, it gets
washed, it gets beaten.
It gets a second pull.
It gets washed in soap?
Yes, it gets washed in soap.
You have to get all the material which comes from the heat treatment off of the case again.
So it is smooth for the next step.
Anyway we have to relax the material during every step that we do with that case.
So in the end it feels better than most women are.
And here are the box of bullets that will be used by Roy to shoot his deer.
I am going to write 'Roy's deer'.
Now we have Roy's bullets, we have to check they work..and that is going to require more
cycling.
Pedal power is essential for checking targets in this particular indoor range - it's 500
metres long!
There are only two in Germany one is ours and one is a military one and it is a unique
place.
It has bullets in really extreme conditions and take all the side winds and all the other
factors out so you can really see what performance the bullet at a distance delivers.
We are going up the bullet drop a bit.
While I continue to get a work-out, Roy can now head out after his deer with his new bullets.
We've got a sika spiker right where we want him.
It's a 120 metre shot but as RUAG executive Matthias Vogel explains, ammunition is a way
to bring you closer to your quarry.
When you look at the history of hunting in general the distance between the animal and
the hunter grows more and more.
We start with a stone and then we build up by some spear, then go to bow hunting, then
arrows and then rifles, then rifles with scopes.
So the distance between the animal and hunter becomes even bigger and I think this is a
great challenge for ammunition and bullet development.
Back in the UK and after the days, weeks and years of development and rigorous testing
it comes down to this moment...
Roy has a deer in his sights.
Roy shoots and the young sika pricket drops.
The slow-mo picks up the silver Evolution bullet just as it reaches the animal.
The force from the RWS round is clear.
The sika dropped spot on so there was no running on.
It will be quite interesting when we go back to the larder and do the gralloch and just
see exactly what happened there.
Definitely impressed so far.
No issue with that.
Sika are lovely-looking animals and this healthy young male will soon be in the larder.
No food miles here.
Back in the yard we gralloch the deer and Roy can study the vital organs.
They were saying at the factory that the round should give up all of its energy about ten
centimetres into the body and that would have been pretty much spot on for the heart there.
The sweet spot for this bullet should be when it reaches the heart - and that's just the
way it plays out giving a neat exit wound and good meat preservation.
What a result for Roy.
But what about me?
How am I going to smuggle all that bullet shmuck, that shiny jewellery, that tom, out
of the RWS factory?
This has been Fieldsports Britain from the RWS factory in Germany, where I have got an
accomplice.
Run for it Katharina...