I ordered some of the new JLK 140 gr VLD 6.5mm bullets. I previously posted about the JLK 130 gr. 6.5mm bullets, and their incredible consistency, as well as phenomenal accuracy. I haven't shot the 140 gr. yet, but I measured them for weight and consistency of BTO. OAL varied by a max of 10 thousandths (these measurements are all on a 10 bullet sample), but that number would have been 6 thou except for one outlier. 5 of the 10 were within +/- 0.001". Weight was 139.9 gr to 140.1 gr, with 6 of the 10 sample bullets being within 0.05 gr of perfect. Bullet base-to-ogive extreme spread was 0.001". Again, these numbers are off the charts by comparison with other bullets. I checked the ogive consistency by doing bullet base-to-ogive measurements on 5 different datum lines, and every one of them was +/- 0.0005" for the 10 sample bullets. The 5th datum line is the seating stem on my Forster Benchrest seating die, and is the loaded cartridge BTO. This translates into (hopefully) incredible consistency in ballistic coefficient over long ranges. I cannot quantify the value of this consistency, but I've never seen anything that compares.
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