#15 Postby DenisA » Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:53 pm
Tim, sorry about the jest, but my post is mostly serious.
I've thought about this topic a lot in the past and read so many different opinions on it.
I figure that if we put so much time and effort in to uniforming internal ballistics, why not put the same amount in to uniforming external ballistics. It seems naïve that we would precisely tune, prepare and assemble primer, brass and powder only to finalise it with seating an assumption. Once the bullet has left the muzzle, the only thing we can control through all the variables of the environment is how similar one bullet is to the last.
Personally I believe that weight sorting is the most important thing. If for nothing else, to make sure that there isn't something like a 168gn pill in the 180's. I haven't come across this yet, but I've heard it happen lots of times. At my level of shooting it wouldn't matter, but at the pointy end, 1 point dropped can lose a Queens. I have come across many Berger bullets in all calibres that were 2gn +/- of their spec.
Everything else I do in bullet uniforming is because I feel better doing it and I don't want to become relaxed and negligent in my reloading. I prefer to be on the mound knowing I've done everything I can up until that point.
Having said all that, I'm fairly convinced that what I do is mostly unnecessary because I know some great shooters, always with runs on the board, who seat bullets straight from the box.................. Well that's what they've told me anyway.
)with the projectiles, lets hear what you think matters most.
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