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Is it possible that the ogive could vary .030" on different lots of Bergers?
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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 432649" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>Thanks <strong>woods</strong>. The pictures help tell the story.</p><p></p><p>I've measured two different boxes of Berger bullets in the past. 100 - 210 grain VLD Hunting .308 bullets. And 100 - 168 grain VLD Hunting .284 bullets. None of the base of bullet to beginning of ogive measurements varied more than 0.003" in either box, and only two or three bullets from each box varied as much as 0.003". The rest were all within 0.002".</p><p></p><p>I believe I read where Berger replaced some of their bullet forming dies in some of their calibers recently (within the past 8 months) because the dies were beginning to wear out to the point that bullet to bullet dimensional consistency was not up to 'their standards'. If a person had a box of bullets from a Lot# manufactured before they switched over to their new dies, and a box of bullets with a Lot# from after the dies were replaced, I wouldn't be surprised to see differing measurements. But I would expect bullets within any given Lot# from Berger to be very uniform. Much more so than Nosler Ballistic Tips or Accubonds, which vary much more than Berger's, <em>dimensionally</em>, in my own measurements.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 432649, member: 4191"] Thanks [B]woods[/B]. The pictures help tell the story. I've measured two different boxes of Berger bullets in the past. 100 - 210 grain VLD Hunting .308 bullets. And 100 - 168 grain VLD Hunting .284 bullets. None of the base of bullet to beginning of ogive measurements varied more than 0.003" in either box, and only two or three bullets from each box varied as much as 0.003". The rest were all within 0.002". I believe I read where Berger replaced some of their bullet forming dies in some of their calibers recently (within the past 8 months) because the dies were beginning to wear out to the point that bullet to bullet dimensional consistency was not up to 'their standards'. If a person had a box of bullets from a Lot# manufactured before they switched over to their new dies, and a box of bullets with a Lot# from after the dies were replaced, I wouldn't be surprised to see differing measurements. But I would expect bullets within any given Lot# from Berger to be very uniform. Much more so than Nosler Ballistic Tips or Accubonds, which vary much more than Berger's, [I]dimensionally[/I], in my own measurements. [/QUOTE]
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