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Best Meplat Tool

I would like to know what is the best, most consistent results tool to use for trimming after pointing please?
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Also congrats on the new forum site Bryan and Berger
 
If you want your meplats the same diameter(which I believe is most important) you'll need to qualify your trimmer tool datum on the ogive.
Bob green's BGC will help with qualifying datums: http://greensrifles.com/New_Products.html as it lets you identify bullet noses that match in radius.
Then you'll need a meplat trimmer that takes datum off the nose. Something like Kevin Cram's: http://montourcountyrifles.com/
Or Hoover's: http://www.bullettipping.com/meplattrimmer_detail.asp
 
Whidden makes both a great pointing die, and meplat trimmer. Using two tools from the same company means they were engineered to work together.
 
The Whidden pointing die increased my X count considerably! Just got the Whidden pointing stuff in along with the Sinclair Ultimate trimmer. Will see how the entire process pans out. Doc, how much do you trim the meplats? Just enough to take the little burr off? Thanks for a great site!!
 
Personally I prefer indexing from the bullet base for consistent OAL. I know this flies in the face of the index-off-the-ogive crowd but I feel it allows for faster, more consistent bullet point. For the Berger bullets I am using I am seeing OAL out of the box of around +/- .003-.004". If I trim them all to the same OAL and then point them all to the same diameter meplat it seems that that would be consistent overall. Within the same lot of both Sierras and Bergers I have not found base-to-ogive measurements that differed enough to make much difference (+/- .002" from my measurements).
But then I am only one opinion.
 
Personally I prefer indexing from the bullet base for consistent OAL. I know this flies in the face of the index-off-the-ogive crowd but I feel it allows for faster, more consistent bullet point. For the Berger bullets I am using I am seeing OAL out of the box of around +/- .003-.004". If I trim them all to the same OAL and then point them all to the same diameter meplat it seems that that would be consistent overall. Within the same lot of both Sierras and Bergers I have not found base-to-ogive measurements that differed enough to make much difference (+/- .002" from my measurements).
But then I am only one opinion.

How do you measure meplat diameter to insure that they are all the same?
 

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