anyone having problem with nosler bullets ????????????

[trgtsnpr]

i was loading today with nosler 168 gr custom competition started checking o jive had a difference of 0-.019 in a box of 100is this normal please help thanks bill

 

[mshelton]

I had a problem where my question mark key got stuck once.

 

[Shynloco]

i was loading today with nosler 168 gr custom competition started checking o jive had a difference of 0-.019 in a box of 100is this normal please help thanks bill

I've been seeing, with more regularity, that even Berger and Sierra have ojive differences that are remarkable. So I now measure bullets, something I'd not done in the past, and then load and shoot them in the groups. I just sorted a box of Sierra's (85gr) last week and came up with four distinct groups. Three of the groups were .010 apart and the remaining few were all over the place and beyond the majority three groups. Bergers are showing up that same way, but not nearly as bad. I haven't checked my Nosler Comps, but now I will. IMHO, it's the results of these companies having more machines making bullets and then at packaging, they are mixing the bullets together. Whether that's factual or not, I can't say, but I'm no longer trusting these guys as much as I used to and sorting bullets by ojive to make it easier and more consistent when loading and shooting.

Alex

 

[rox]

i was loading today with nosler 168 gr custom competition started checking o jive had a difference of 0-.019 in a box of 100is this normal

No problem with my Noslers. I just measured 50 x .30 CC 168, then 50 x .30 CC 155. Both had very tight spreads, as I have come to expect. For comparison I measured the equivalent Sierras (2200 and 2155); both were considerably worse, no real surprise. My Sierra 2200 are quite old - probably from the '80s or '90s, while the 2155 are from the last few years.


Nosler CC 168 Bullet Base to Ogive, 50 samples

Min	0.630
Max	0.632
ES	0.002
SD	0.0006

Nosler CC 155 Bullet Base to Ogive, 50 samples

Min	0.577
Max	0.579
ES	0.002
SD	0.0006

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[22BRGUY]

I just finished measuring a box of Nosler CC"s of 107 6mm's. The spread was .015. They seemed to be pretty evenly divided in numbers in all 15 categories. Bergers were .005 spread....much better.

 

[rox]

Wow! Mine were incredibly consistent (nearly an order of magnitude smaller SD than the equivalent Sierra, and all within 0.001" of mean).

Are yours recent production? The batch numbers on the boxes I measured gave the manufacturing dates as October and November 2013.

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[jonbearman]

How much of a spread is reasonable? I am thinking maybe .002 thou?

 

[Eddie Harren]

Depends on how many different point up dies they use.

 

[rox]

Depends on how many different point up dies they use.

Do pointing dies affect the ogive? I thought they were more concerned with the meplat?
And surely different pointing dies aren't going to affect an individual batch, when batches are unique to a specific press?

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[M14AMU]

Nope! AccuBonds hit everything I shoot at!

 

[Eddie Harren]

rox, the point up die forms the ogive.

 

[rminut]

the only problem I have with them is when I point the rifle in the 9 ring I get a 9. every other bullet does the same thing. seems to me if you want perfect bullets, pay the price. nosler's are the least expensive match bullet I know of and they don't need to be perfect to shoot X's out to 600 or even 800 yards.

 

[abishai]

How do they shoot ? Sooner or later , we all have to get on the line and leave the loading bench behind

 

[Cody Richardson]

I had a lot of 1k that measured from .308 to .303, I thought my barrel had went to shit when I went from an X to a 5 at 11' o'clock and then and miss out the bottom....