Bullet Base-to-Ogive Sorting Tool from Sinclair

[RampedRaptor]

Hello all,

I've recently been upgrading and adding some equipment to my reloading room. I was thinking about adding a tool to sort bullets and was wondering if the sinclair is still well reguarded these days?

Any opinions or suggestions are welcomed

Thanks

 

[RampedRaptor]

No replies yet does not give me warm fuzzies about the product

 

[tenring]

I use the Davidson base and nosepieces on my caliper. Sinclair has these.

 

[willbas]

I use one but do not get the Digital Indicator it drifts a lot. I measured my bullets on three different days and got three different readings with the dial indicator no change. keep the your bullet comparators and base clean.

 

[mgunderson]

I am happy with mine and happy with the service from sinclair.

 

[Pvt.Donut]

I don't have the Sinclair Bullet Sorter but I do have a number of other Sinclair tools and they all work great. Lifetime warranty so worst case, you don't like it and can send it back for a full refund.

 

[RampedRaptor]

Thanks for the replies. The product looks to be what I'm needing but I didn't know if you guys knew of another product that does a better job

 

[Liven The Dream]

The Stony Point And Sinclair work for me.

 

[Linko]

Bob Green for 6mm

 

[RampedRaptor]

This is for 6mm.

 

[RampedRaptor]

This is for 6mm.

What does the bob green comparator do that the Sinclair doesn't that warrants the large price difference?

 

[Steve Ladino]

Hello all,

I've recently been upgrading and adding some equipment to my reloading room. I was thinking about adding a tool to sort bullets and was wondering if the sinclair is still well reguarded these days?

Any opinions or suggestions are welcomed

Thanks

Simple theory needs only simple tools in this case, ie: Hornady , Sinclair are just fine.

 

[rkittine]

I am new to all of this, but was told that the Bearing Surface variation is more important than Base to Ogive. So I bought the Mark King Comparator that measures bearing surface variations.

Bob

 

[Endyo]

What does the bob green comparator do that the Sinclair doesn't that warrants the large price difference?

The Sinclair tool measures bullet base to "ogive". Using ogive as a relative term here at it probably does not actually contact the bullet at the actual ogive, but higher up on the nose of the bullet.

The Bob Green tool measures the difference between the actual ogive and where the bullet seating stem contacts the nose of the bullet. Some argue that this measurement point is more critical to provide consistent bullet seating depth.

In other words it offers a different measurement so bullets are sat more consistently. I don't know if this is true in practice or not.

 

[Endyo]

For reference:

http://forum.accurateshooter.com/threads/bob-green-comparator-and-bullet-sorting.3842014/

 

[RampedRaptor]

Thanks Endyo for the link and explanation. After additional reading, the topic is found to be have appealing sides (like most reloading practices). There appears to be more evidence or atleast better debaters that discuss the seating stem to ogive is of larger importance (BGC).

I don't think I've ever seen a used bob green comparator for sale. I do need to think for awhile and determine if I truely need a 250 dollar item to sort my bullets? That's a substantial amount of money (to me) for this kind of tool.

The Sinclair is much more affordable and would still more than likely improve the consistency of my reloads. I just need to determine if the the BGC is worth it for me.

 

[Endyo]

Thanks Endyo for the link and explanation. After additional reading, the topic is found to be have appealing sides (like most reloading practices). There appears to be more evidence or atleast better debaters that discuss the seating stem to ogive is of larger importance (BGC).

I don't think I've ever seen a used bob green comparator for sale. I do need to think for awhile and determine if I truely need a 250 dollar item to sort my bullets? That's a substantial amount of money (to me) for this kind of tool.

The Sinclair is much more affordable and would still more than likely improve the consistency of my reloads. I just need to determine if the the BGC is worth it for me.

Sure. I don't think the Sinclair is a bad tool. I've used a comparator and calipers at one time.

I stopped bullet sorting. I may get the BGT eventually. I talked to him he is very knowledgeable and nice.

 

[KenOath]

The Sinclair tool is good enough to cull any bullet that is smaller or larger than the average length in any one batch of bullets, I set my gauge to zero and keep everything that is less than 1 1/2 thou either side of the zero ( 3thou overall) the rest are foulers and sighters.
Bryan Litz also has stated if he was to bullet sort one way it would be base to ogive. Not sure which tool he would use to measure though?

Cheers Rushty

 

[piotrjub]

I use zeiss stand with indicator ( 0,002mm ~ 0,0001") and SINCLAIR bullet comparator.

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[Linko]

Bob Green uses the Wilson VLD seater stem and the ID of his comparitor body matches the ID of his caliper adapter body so the stoney point more closly matches the bullet comparitor. I bought both tools from Bob. I am quite happy. Wish I had the remote control Adam Sandler had in the movie Click, so I could fast forward the bullet comparing process!!

I find less adjusting of the seating die when I use sorted bullets so its a trade off of where you spend the time while at the bench.