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Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:
For benchrest competition, sorting bullets into lots of .1 grain can definitely improve accuracy...but it takes a benchrest rifle, benchrest loading equipment, a benchrest SHOOTER, (and benchrest group-measuring equipment) to see it.

For highpower rifle competition, silhouette competition, or hunting, I believe weighing bullets is an absolute waste of time.

I agree.

I make our Walterhog bullets on a CNC lathe, starting with a nominal weight of 300 grains.

The rods we use come in 4 meter lengths ( about 13 feet). They come from an electrical supplier, as they are intended for earthing rods.

I have found that different lots vary by weight in the finished bullets.

Depending on the lot of copper, my finished bullets weigh from 299 grains to 305 grains.

What I do is sort them into lots as follows.

299.0-300.0
300.1-301.0
301.1-302.0
302.1-303.0
303.1-304.0
304.1-305.0

Sometimes we get rods that have some sort of fault in them - I will find one and post a photo.

Any time the weight is less than 298 I know there is something wrong, and we use that rod to make pistol bullets for plinking.