Thread: Bullet weight sorting

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Don't know about scraping the bottom of your bullets. I was told never to touch the bottom as this was the most likely to effect accuracy!
Case in point being two bullets. One with a small dent to the head and the one with a small scratch across the base. The second one was the flyer. You can try this. I have never bothered as there are so many factors that come into play in the accuracy game.
But I'm always very careful when seating the bullet not to scratch/scrape the base.
Is it doable if your a true bench rest shooter? Yes/No?

@Sideshow

Yes, not touch the sides of the bottom, was talking more of rotating something like a rounded, sharpened screwdriver around in the exposed lead base. But it seems a no-no based on experience of some.

Saw someone was selling a glorified pencil sharpener to trim the meplat sharp on FMJs. Trimming them all sharp (blunt vs sharp does make a difference far down range, so you can't leave the heavier ones blunt tipped), and then trim further back as per weight requirement would seem the way to go then.

The nagging doubt at the back of my brain somewhere...is the consistency of the scales used by @Dermastor. He needs to be really certain on that one before taking that pencil sharpener to his projectiles.