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Is there an OGIVE comparison for different brands of bullets?

I am looking for a comparison chart for different .224 diameter bullets. I have started a chart with about six different style bullets, but this is getting expensive. I have measured my chamber and know exactly where my rifling starts, but of course in order to get the overall length I need , the cartridge won't fit though my magazine.
I have found that the Barnes "Varminator" bullet (50 gr.) HPFB has such a long OGive , that I can load it up to .005 jump and it will still fit through my mag. I think a tangent shape is what I need.
Is there a chart that will show all the dimensions of the bullet, or do I have to go to each individual bullet supplier?
 
Go to each bullet supplier.
Also, by the time you finish your chart, several manufacturers will, without notice, have made changes to the ogive/meplat of their bullet.
Then you have manufacturing variations due to different swaging dies and variations in pressure at the the swage press causing day-to-day variations.
 
Been a while since I looked at the Applied Ballistics hardcover library books but IIRC, one book has all of that dimensional info on different makes of bullets.
 
Go to each bullet supplier.
Also, by the time you finish your chart, several manufacturers will, without notice, have made changes to the ogive/meplat of their bullet......

Add to that differences in lot numbers that can be .002-.004 off on the bullets. Not sure it's worth the effort if best accuracy is your thing. If it's for hunting, a dead animal won't know the difference and it's close enough except perhaps if you load to the max length for a magazine, in which case you'll have to recheck your OAL setting to make sure they fit.

Alex
 
I am trying to develop an extremely accurate hunting load and have found the Barnes Varminator (HPFB) allows me my .005 jump yet will still go through my magazine. Just looking for another source. I'll check each bullet manufacturer. Thanks
 
You do realize, the more jump, the shorter the COAL? There is nothing that says you can't jump more than .005" and develop a very precise/accurate load. I have a load worked up with the 80.5 Fullbore 0.224 cal bullet for a particular bolt gun with zero freebore. As a result, when the bullets are seated at ~.015" - .020" off the lands, they are quite far down in the case. Nonetheless, this load shoots with phenomenal precision and is just short enough to fit in an AICS mag.

If you have something like the Hornady OAL gauge, (Stoney Point tool), all you need to do is seat each bullet at just barely "touching" the lands, then measure COAL. This will give you a very good idea of which bullets will be close to fitting in your mag OAL at touching. If a bullet is hanging out an extra 1/4" or more from the mag at "touching", that might not be your best choice. However, any of the bullets that look reasonably close (by eye) to fitting in your mag when seated at "touching" will be reasonable candidates for your purpose. There is no way to know exactly where a given bullet will tune in terms of seating depth. That is really why you're not going to find any chart like the type you described. People determine empirically where their bullet of choice needs to be seated. For many tangent ogive bullets, this may commonly be anywhere between "touching" and /025" to .030" off the lands, possibly even more. Once you have a good idea of COAL for the bullets seated at "touching", then you'll know exactly how much each COAL would have to be shortened in order to fit in your mag (if it doesn't already fit as is). That will give you a good idea of how much you'd need to change the seating depth in order to shorten COAL enough to feed reliably from your mag. You can then make a very good estimate of what will likely work, and what won't, based on available bullet measurements. It's really not that difficult.

Bullets can have more than one seating depth at which they shoot well. If you were to test seating depth over a wide enough range, I would expect the tune to come in, go out, and come back in again, in a cyclic pattern. We don't normally test seating depth over this wide of a range because pressure will increase dramatically as the base of the bullet moves further down in the neck and uses up effective case volume. However, you can certainly seat a bullet a fair ways down in the neck and still develop a load that shoots very well. Take apart and FGMM 77 gr cartridge some time and see just how far down in the case the bullet is seated. The key is that you use a reduced charge weight well below MAX pressure so that it never goes over as you move the bullet further in during your seating depth testing.
 

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