Good Evening
I am having a friendly discussion about bullet pointing with a fellow competitor and was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the matter.
We go about the process differently one person sorts by OAL batches them to the nearest 1,000th and point the similar bullets believing that this way keeps all of them the same
The other measures the bullets base to ojive and ojive to tip and batches them into different groups, the bullet is then trimmed to an avg OAL and pointed
What is causing the debate is that one is of the mind that measuring them to the same OAL will have the same bullet tip dia .060 and can then be pointed down to the same reduced dia.030
The other contends that no matter what length of bullet because the bullets are swaged on the same die the ogive radius will be the same and whether or not one bullet is 1.50 with a .050 point and another is 1.484 with a 0.60 dia point by trimming them both to 1.484 the meplat will be the same dia at the 1.484 length and pointing them will get the same reduced point .30 with a consistent OAL.
Where we seem to differ is the OAL of both bullets. With two different lengths they will have different finished dia and by trimming the bullet back to the shorter OAL the bullet will have the same dia. Were as the other believe even the longer OAL 1.50 bullet has the same meplat .dia as the short one which means pointing a trimmed 1.484 vs. a bullet that was 1.484 out of the box will have two different finished points.
1.50 length meplat dia .050 trimmed to 1.484 dia .060 vs.
1.50 length meplat dia .060 trimmed to 1.484 dia .070
1.484 out of box meplat dia .060
We are both willing to abandon our current methods if the other is proven to be correct.
We both have had success in competitions but are trying to better our game.
Your help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Trevor
I am having a friendly discussion about bullet pointing with a fellow competitor and was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the matter.
We go about the process differently one person sorts by OAL batches them to the nearest 1,000th and point the similar bullets believing that this way keeps all of them the same
The other measures the bullets base to ojive and ojive to tip and batches them into different groups, the bullet is then trimmed to an avg OAL and pointed
What is causing the debate is that one is of the mind that measuring them to the same OAL will have the same bullet tip dia .060 and can then be pointed down to the same reduced dia.030
The other contends that no matter what length of bullet because the bullets are swaged on the same die the ogive radius will be the same and whether or not one bullet is 1.50 with a .050 point and another is 1.484 with a 0.60 dia point by trimming them both to 1.484 the meplat will be the same dia at the 1.484 length and pointing them will get the same reduced point .30 with a consistent OAL.
Where we seem to differ is the OAL of both bullets. With two different lengths they will have different finished dia and by trimming the bullet back to the shorter OAL the bullet will have the same dia. Were as the other believe even the longer OAL 1.50 bullet has the same meplat .dia as the short one which means pointing a trimmed 1.484 vs. a bullet that was 1.484 out of the box will have two different finished points.
1.50 length meplat dia .050 trimmed to 1.484 dia .060 vs.
1.50 length meplat dia .060 trimmed to 1.484 dia .070
1.484 out of box meplat dia .060
We are both willing to abandon our current methods if the other is proven to be correct.
We both have had success in competitions but are trying to better our game.
Your help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Trevor