Thanks for the responses everybody. Definitely gives me something to chew on, and perhaps tinker with just a bit come spring.
Originally I picked up one of the older meplat uniformers sold by Tubb for .22 cal, but I never really used it. Later, when Doug Giraud came out with a meplat uniformer for his motorized case trimmer I figured I was in heaven. It made the task incredibly quick and given the snaggle-toothed meplats I was seeing on some SMKs at the time, a lot easier. Some time ago I happened to measure a handful of 6mm S107MKs and as per usual, they varied about 20-30 thou in overall length. Just for giggles, I buzzed them all in the meplat uniformer, and measured again... they still varied maybe 15-20 thou in OAL. That was kind of disappointing - I didn't expect them to be perfect, but that was a bit more than I expected.
When I got my Whidden pointing die set up, it came with a holder for use with a Wilson case trimmer, and at first I trimmed, pointed, and then took just a whisker off the tip (this was with Berger 6mm 105 VLDs), and those bullets were pretty much perfect every way I could measure - and shot accordingly. Later someone suggested that it probably wasn't necessary to trim at all if I was pointing (I think the Whidden die instructions mention something like this), so I tried just pointing. As it turned out, about that point I was moving from the tail end of one 100ct box of B105VLDs, to one of the new 'bulk' 500ct boxes. The meplats on those were(are) all raggedity looking - kind of like a SMK sometimes does. They didn't point up worth a darn. I'd had to adjust the pointing die considerably to begin with (the bullets were as much as 20 thou longer on average), and the ragged meplats tended to 'fold' up during pointing. When I attempted to trim afterwards, the cutter on the Wilson trimmer would catch on the folds and rip them open - not what I was looking for. I tried trimming, then pointing, then trimming again to get those bullets looking half-ways decent but it was a lot more work than I think it was worth.
Sometime there after I got a pretty good deal on a used SSS/Tubb bullet comparator stand with a couple caliber sleeves (.22 & 6mm). I haven't done much with sorting vs. pointing vs. trimming yet... but given that I had two different ways available to trim meplats - by length with the Whidden holder on a Wilson trimmer, or by ogive on my Giraud trimmer... I was curious what others were using. Doesn't sound like a whole lot of folks have tried the Wilson style trimming.
Monte