For me, the lesson to be learned here is the need for the good shooter to take the time to make sure that all parts of the reloading process are consistent. Esp. with mass produced products. One would imagine that these companies have multiple machines that are within a certain tolerance, but not identical. I have noticed in several of the larger matches that many of the higher finishers are shooting custom made bullets but as Surrell mentioned all of that comes at a cost. Approx. two years ago a fellow mentioned a certain bullet that he had had real good success with and I ordered a box of 500. He had suggested that there was no need to even measure them but out of curiosity I got out the calipers and began to measure a few random bullets. What I found out was that the box of 500 had two different sized bullets that were .011 different from base to ojive. They were all one or the other but there were definitely two different sub groups that I think maybe were made on two different machines. Anyways, it never hurts to check for consistency. WWE
