best way to sort your bullets ?

[rebs]

shooting 223 cal 69, 77 and 80 grain bullets. Is it better to sort by weight or base to o give ?

 

[Bc'z]

BBTO

 

[natdscott]

The BEST way is to just shoot good bullets. It sounds as though you are shooting Sierra, so that's a good first step.

If you don't mind my asking: why do you think you need to sort, and what kind of shooting are you doing?

 

[Rsadams]

Ogive and of course weight , I shoot matchkings myself and you will find some difference in weight especially... Now I just weight sort and get the kind of results that are fine for me... I also weight sort brass AFTER all work is done to them... These two things seemed to make the biggest difference without spending a ton of time....

 

[Ned Ludd]

I sort by OAL for the purpose of pointing the bullets. To help you decide what dimension is best for you to use as a sorting parameter, grab 10 to 15 bullets from a box, weigh them, measure them BTO and OAL, record the numbers, and see which measurement has greater variance. You could easily accomplish this in just a few minutes and the measurement with the greatest total variance (%) is where I'd start sorting.

 

[DngBat7]

Don’t know if this overkill for .223, but ogive to seating stem measurement. Made my distance to lands exact each time. Oddly, after using, even Berger’s had a variance in length from the same lot

http://greensrifles.com/site/mobile?url=http://greensrifles.com/New_Products.html#2784

 

[Longtrain]

A lot depends on your shooting discipline, the more accuracy you want the more work you may have to do to glean that accuracy.

I used to shoot JLK’s and found them amazingly uniform, unfortunately, they may not be available any longer.

I shot Sierra’s at long range for a while, they shot well but the LTO was all over the place. Weight was also a small factor. I have shot other brands, but they have all given way to Berger

Now, I only shoot Berger’s now in competition, their weight is pretty uniform and the LTO is usually within a couple of thousandths within a given batch. Consistent sizing of your brass, uniform neck tension, very accurate powder weight and a primer that gives you a low SD along with a decent bullet loaded to a proven jump/jam, will make you a happy shooter.

 

[JMayo]

I Sort by weight, then when loading I sort that weight by ogive.
Then the longest and the shortest aren't side by side.

 

[rebs]

The BEST way is to just shoot good bullets. It sounds as though you are shooting Sierra, so that's a good first step.

If you don't mind my asking: why do you think you need to sort, and what kind of shooting are you doing?

Thank you for the replies
shooting F class 300 yds and looking for the best accuracy I can get

 

[David Christian]

Thank you for the replies
shooting F class 300 yds and looking for the best accuracy I can get

If you are shooting good bullets from the same lot, you don’t need to sort them unless you plan to tip them. If tipping, Base to Tip is the right measurement.

Sorting by weight or ogive are both a waste of time.

 

[JohnHenry]

Don’t know if this overkill for .223, but ogive to seating stem measurement. Made my distance to lands exact each time. Oddly, after using, even Berger’s had a variance in length from the same lot

http://greensrifles.com/site/mobile?url=http://greensrifles.com/New_Products.html#2784

+1 on Bob Green's Bullet Comparator.
http://greensrifles.com/New_Products.html

 

[BenPerfected]

If you are shooting good bullets from the same lot, you don’t need to sort them unless you plan to tip them. If tipping, Base to Tip is the right measurement.

Sorting by weight or ogive are both a waste of time.

IMO, there is such thing as wasting time if you are shooting, working on your reloading bench, reading the wind, measuring the results & posting on AS.
Ben

 

[ChrisA]

Once I find the right bullet, I sort by price

 

[natdscott]

Thank you for the replies
shooting F class 300 yds and looking for the best accuracy I can get

The last match I shot at 300 was a 200-14X on the MR63. Being that I am a service rifle sling shooter, that would have probably equated to about a 198-10x for your targets. The CORE of the group was right at a half dollar, for about 15 of the 20 rounds.

My educated opinion is that that is approximately the accuracy of the package, and the rest was on me for stupidity on trigger control, or tension in my shoulder.

The bullets were box-standard 77 SMK, sorted by OAL only, and I "quick-weighed" the powder into +/- about 0.03 grains. Not as anal-retentive as I am about the LR ammo, but I HAVE seen slgihtly tighter groups and higher X-Counts at 300-and-out by following those couple fast techniques.

 

[corsair4360]

Depends upon your expectations. If you are a shortrange benchrest shooter then minutiae matters and any detail is not left to chance.... If you are hunting then bullet performance means alot...

 

[coldboreshot]

Once I find the right bullet, I sort by price

Tenth's of a dollar have a greater impact than thousand's of an inch.