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Bullet ogive differences
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<blockquote data-quote="fishingstockwell" data-source="post: 1208396" data-attributes="member: 96590"><p>Hi Veezer,</p><p></p><p>I measure a lot of my bullets and commonly find that some lot numbers are not as consistent. Typically the variance is in the front of the bullet, from the tip to the O-give. I recently posted a question about what consistencies were most important to accuracy, and overwhelmingly I was told not to worry about the tip to o-give measurement. The most important factors are the consistency of the base to o-give and the weight variance. </p><p></p><p>I don't believe that I have ever seen a variance of .030 in a bullet's base to ogive measurement. I just measured a random sample of some 215 Berger Hybrids and some 212 ELD-X bullets. The variance of the base to o-give on the bergers was .001 and the variance on the eld-x bullets was .0025. </p><p></p><p>Hopefully the 300 bullets with the same lot number will not have nearly the same variance. When you buy new bullets, it isn't not a big deal if they have different measurements than the 300 you have now, so long as they are consistent and your are seating your bullets to the same measurement from the base of the case to the o-give of the bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishingstockwell, post: 1208396, member: 96590"] Hi Veezer, I measure a lot of my bullets and commonly find that some lot numbers are not as consistent. Typically the variance is in the front of the bullet, from the tip to the O-give. I recently posted a question about what consistencies were most important to accuracy, and overwhelmingly I was told not to worry about the tip to o-give measurement. The most important factors are the consistency of the base to o-give and the weight variance. I don't believe that I have ever seen a variance of .030 in a bullet's base to ogive measurement. I just measured a random sample of some 215 Berger Hybrids and some 212 ELD-X bullets. The variance of the base to o-give on the bergers was .001 and the variance on the eld-x bullets was .0025. Hopefully the 300 bullets with the same lot number will not have nearly the same variance. When you buy new bullets, it isn't not a big deal if they have different measurements than the 300 you have now, so long as they are consistent and your are seating your bullets to the same measurement from the base of the case to the o-give of the bullet. [/QUOTE]
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