Sort until the cows come home! Guess what it’s not going to hurt a thing! Like
@ridgeway said if it makes you feel better, it will probably help.
For the record I shoot a lot of 600 Benchrest and a little 1000 yard Benchrest. It goes without saying these are my custom bullets.
For myself all I do is sort bullets in piles by overall length say within .003. I may shoot them like that or I may trim the meplats back to the shortest overall length in the batch. No sorting by ogive, no pointing bullets and no weighing of bullets.
Ogive sorting
I don’t sort by ogive because typically my bullet are +|- .001 either way. Regardless of differences in bearing surface the seater stem WILL seat all of them to the same spot. Had to test some bullets the other day and they were slightly shorter than usual. Seated some that I had on the loading table and seated some of the test batch. The difference between the two was .009 on bearing surface. Measured the
loaded rounds, One from each batch on my ogive checker, and they were seated to the same .001.
Pointing
I did a lot of experimenting with pointing. MY conclusion was the risk and possibly screwing up a bullet far exceeded the benefit of a slightly higher BC. I’m more concerned with the BC being the same from bullet to bullet and not worried about increasing it.
Weighing bullets in my opinion is not necessary. I see no loss in accuracy with bullets that vary by 3 tenths. But then again it won’t hurt anything either.
Now we are down to the prove it part! One target is nice but what about for the year?
My agg for 17 matches (136 targets) 2.270.
Shot the smallest group of the year .566
Shoot the smallest 2 Gun of the year 1.633 (8 Target). Potential record.
Shot the highest LG score 199 with 1.523 agg(Potential record).
Shot two Smallest LG aggs of the year.
Shot the 2 highest 2 Gun score Aggs of the year.
Won
5 LG Score matches
6 LG Group matches
7 LG overalls
2 HG Score
5 HG Group
3 HG overall
8 2 Gun Aggs
4 2 Gun Overall score
8 Overall 2 Guns. (The most in the IBS)
48 Wins
Now the 1000 yard guys will say that’s ok for 600 but not 1000. As far as 1000 yards Shot 1 match, the 1000 yard Nationals this year. Came in second in HG group. Would have been 4th in 2 Gun overall group (if they calculated it) so groups weren’t the problem.
That’s my take on sorting and those are my results.
Bart