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October 30, 2016, 08:03 AM | #1 |
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copper jacket deforming ?
I am loading some Midsouth Shooters 55 gr varmint nightmare premium hp's and found that a few of them were deformed by the seating die. They have a slight ring mark around the ogive. Is this going to effect accuracy ? Is the jacket too thin or is this a problem with my seating die ?
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October 30, 2016, 10:47 AM | #2 |
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Probably just a "misfit" of the seating stem to the ogive. You can polish the stem where it meets the bullet of just shoot 'em. Unless the bullets are deformed rather than just marked, there should be no problems.
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October 30, 2016, 10:49 AM | #3 |
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Rebs is it just some light surface marking? Or is it definitely gouged into the jacket (run a very thin feeler gauge over it and if it catches and hangs, its gouged). I've had the seating plug leave some light marks on projectiles before, but it was just light surface marking. They shot fine and were accurate, holding slightly less than 1moa being bulk hornady rounds... Which is about as good of accuracy as can be expected from bulk rounds.
If it is a deep gouge, I would take the seating die apart and inspect it. Even copper washed bullets should keep that thin plating intact from the seating process |
October 30, 2016, 11:14 AM | #4 |
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Rebs, if you have a recovered bullet from the berm of your range, compare the depth of the rifling marks to the seating mark on your bullet. Rifling marks are too shallow to affect ballistics because they are shallower than the air boundary layer that forms over the flying bullet. If your nose deformity is shallower than a rifling groove, you are good to go. The exception would be if the deformation bent the tip of the bullet and introduced runout. That would move the center of gravity of the bullet off its longitudinal axis, which opens groups up.
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October 30, 2016, 02:31 PM | #5 |
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They are not gouged, just marked with a very slight indentation. The jacket is not cut and no lead core is exposed
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October 30, 2016, 06:02 PM | #6 |
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A while back, I pulled a bunch (100's) of 223 bullets. I used an RCBS collet type puller, and it left some significant dents around the upper third of the bullet. I loaded them up, intending for them to be plinker rounds for the grandkids, then used some for foulers. They shot very well, and pretty much as well as the indented bullets. I can't really say they shot worse.
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October 31, 2016, 08:58 AM | #7 |
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Usually, as long as the bullet is not deformed at the base or, for a boattail, at the shoulder of the boattail coming off the bearing surface, it will still shoot OK. I have some pulled M2 Ball bullets that have pretty severe and irregular bearing surface narrowing due to an over-deep (IMHO) factory collet type crimp. They still shoot about 2.5 moa. 2 moa for some, if you sort the bases to get ones made by the same machinery. If you shoot well, it's still reliable minute of enemy soldier for hundreds of yards.
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I shot those bullets today at 100 yds, they grouped under one inch. So,the marks in them made no difference. A few of them had something stuck in the hollow point and that didn't make any difference either. I cannot tell which is more accurate these or the Hornady soft points, it's a toss up.
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November 2, 2016, 01:10 PM | #9 |
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"...going to effect accuracy?..." No. The only part of the bullet that matters is the base. You may have the wrong seating plug installed, but that really makes no difference.
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November 2, 2016, 06:48 PM | #10 |
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As mikld said, that slight ring around the ogive circumference is usually caused by the somewhat sharp edge of the seating stem and the mouth of the stem could be smoothed out if desired. That is somewhat of a common occurrence and hardly of any concern.
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