Do you weigh your bullets?

[ballman6711]

I weigh a few from each new batch I get to verify they are correct. After that I'm good, close enough is good enough for me and my shooting.

chris

 

[cfullgraf]

I dabbled with weighing cases and bullets for a while and sorted by minimal weight differences.

For my shooting, I never saw a difference or improvements in grouping.

I do not weigh bullets any more except to verify I got what I bought once in a while.

I’m sure the precision shooters would see a difference.

 

[AJC1]

I dabbled with weighing cases and bullets for a while and sorted by minimal weight differences.

For my shooting, I never saw a difference or improvements in grouping.

I do not weigh bullets any more except to verify I got what I bought once in a while.

I’m sure the precision shooters would see a difference.

Weighing cases matters when a manufacturer makes two distinct weight classes. Norma and ppu definatly do in 308.... a 175 milspec case and a 168 grain sporting case...

 

[Nature Boy]

I don’t sort bullets by weight or measurements. I load them as they come from the box

 

[hdwhit]

I once bought a batch of 500 mixed-weight bullets, so I had to weigh each of them. Fortunately for me, my wife had just bought an electronic scale to weigh her food, so I used it to weigh and sort the bullets.

Otherwise, l trust the seller unless I am buying from a seller dealing in "pulled" or otherwise secondary market bullets.

 

[JFrank]

I don’t sort bullets by weight or measurements. I load them as they come from the box

Weight is written on the box, I find Bergers to be very consistent in base to ogive and base to seater stem. Oal will vary a few thousand . Vapor trails are near perfect

 

[Nature Boy]

Weight is written on the box, I find Bergers to be very consistent in base to ogive and base to seater stem. Oal will vary a few thousand . Vapor trails are near perfect

I tried Bart’s Hammers once but couldn’t shoot the difference between them and Bergers

 

[Targa]

I cast my bullets so yeh, I weigh a handful of them to see what they dropped at for load data purposes.

 

[JFrank]

I tried Bart’s Hammers once but couldn’t shoot the difference between them and Bergers

Bergers 108 have a higher BC also.

 

[Chuck R.]

For cast bullets in long range blackpowder target rifles, yes. Relatively small variations can make a difference at 600+ yards, and cast bullets can occasionally be way out.

For everything else, no. Factory jacketed bullets are really good now, and the odds of finding one so far off that you'd notice it on the target are vanishing small. And assuming any kind of reasonable hunting range, just, no.

I did the same when I competed with BPCRs and used wheel weights, segregated them by taking the center of the bell curve, and then shot in ascending order. It worked pretty well, I won quite a few matches and placed in others.

When I switched to 20-1 and a Paul Jones mold, the weight variances just weren't as extreme and I then shot them in the order they were cast. Same accuracy as the individual weighed bullets.

Factory bullets.. I just load and shoot.

 

[DukeConnor]

One time. I foolishly purchased a lot of mixed pulled .223 bullets from American reloading. What a nightmare. Must of had 20 different weights and styles of bullets.
Never again.

 

[irishlad]

Weight is written on the box, I find Bergers to be very consistent in base to ogive and base to seater stem. Oal will vary a few thousand . Vapor trails are near perfect

Bergers 108 have a higher BC also.

I just started buying Berger, I've found them to be more consitent than the Hornady bullets I was using. I still use Hornady BTHPs for under 300 yards.

 

[Chuck R.]

Weight is written on the box, I find Bergers to be very consistent in base to ogive and base to seater stem. Oal will vary a few thousand . Vapor trails are near perfect

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[ParallelCode]

I will typically check bullet weight only when first opening a box or bag. I once ordered a few bags of 55gr FMJ, but one bag was actually filled with 62gr.

 

[ballman6711]

I will typically check bullet weight only when first opening a box or bag. I once ordered a few bags of 55gr FMJ, but one bag was actually filled with 62gr.

This is why I weigh a few when I get a new batch. Sometimes humans make mistakes. I don't weigh a lot of them, 3-4 is all I need to make sure I got what I paid for.

chris