Please help me out a little more here. I sort base to ogive. Are you saying just sort'em all? I thought there could be other differences--such as diameter--between lots??Theyre still the same as ordering one lot or 5. You still gotta go thru em if you can shoot the difference
Please help me out a little more here. I sort base to ogive. Are you saying just sort'em all? I thought there could be other differences--such as diameter--between lots??
Yikes! They use different dies on bullets in the same box?
Talk about learning stuff you wish you didn't know. I recently bought a 6Br from a member here. He said it loved Sierra 107's, so I ordered a box of 100. Sorted them into three groups (plus one outlier cull) and sure enough they shoot good. So good that I haven't even tried the Bergers I usually use. The hollow point is completely closed up now. It sure looks slippery. Guess I'll sort these and give'em a go.
Thanks to all, 'specially mmcu.
8 at a minimum. Plus they just sit around until finally tumbling in huge concrete mixers. But the same boxes running down the line at the same time have the same lot numbers as they package them. All production bullets are packaged by lots not necessarily made AND packaged in lots.
8 at a minimum. Plus they just sit around until finally tumbling in huge concrete mixers. But the same boxes running down the line at the same time have the same lot numbers as they package them. All production bullets are packaged by lots not necessarily made AND packaged in lots.
This is a total contradiction of what was stated here a couple of years ago by Kevin Thomas, formerly Chief Ballistician (or some similar title) at Sierra.
See the following thread:
http://forum.accurateshooter.com/threads/lot-of-sierra-bullets.3931786/#post-37034735
could be just the day I spent there or a fabrication by one of my best friends that is a toolmaker there. either way all you have to do is sort them and you'll see. sort any brand and you'll see a pattern- don't just take somebodys word for it that's done it.
Talk about learning stuff you wish you didn't know. I recently bought a 6Br from a member here. He said it loved Sierra 107's, so I ordered a box of 100. Sorted them into three groups (plus one outlier cull) and sure enough they shoot good. So good that I haven't even tried the Bergers I usually use. The hollow point is completely closed up now. It sure looks slippery. Guess I'll sort these and give'em a go.
Thanks to all, 'specially mmcu.
good time for EricStecker to chime in here?
Has he been to the sierra factory?
for input on how Berger bullets are sorted and packed by lots?