Thread: Cheap Bullets
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Old October 1, 2002, 09:05 AM   #1
Boo586
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Cheap Bullets

Cheap Bullets!!

I was loading up some 158 grain jacketed hollowpoints made by Star yesterday and I set my seating depth like usaual to the middle of the cannelure and went to seating the bullets. After I got the first ten seated I inspected the catridges and in some of them the bullet was seated past the canelure. What the H E double hockey stick? I decided to measure the length of some of the bullets and low and behold, the length of the bullets varied as much as 0.015 inches. The Star bullets have an exposed lead hollow point and this has to be why the bullets vary in length so much because when I measured some Hornandy XTP's and Speer Gold Dots and those ony varied in length by 0.003 inches. Huge Difference.

I guess I should not use these loads as accuracy loads that's for sure. Has anyone else had this problem with JHP bullets that have an exposed lead nose? Even the chead cast bullets that I shoot only vary by 0.005 inch in length.

Just thought I would share this information.

Good Shooting!!

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