Bought some soft points and some of the tips seem uneven

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I just bought some Federal Fusion 165gr to test in my .308 and I noticed many of the bullets have uneven pieces of lead sticking off of the tip. I was wondering if I need to take a razor blade to the tips of some of them to make them more aerodynamic. I do know Federal has a process to make the weight of the core of the bullet evenly distributed so I don't know if this would matter or not for shots up to 300yds.
 
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I just bought some Federal Fusion 165gr to test in my .308 and I noticed many of the bullets have uneven pieces of lead sticking off of the tip. I was wondering if I need to take a razor blade to the tips of some of them to make them more aerodynamic. I do know Federal has a process to make the weight of the core of the bullet evenly distributed so I don't know if this would matter or not for shots up to 300yds.
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The bullets are fine, that just the extra lend from the bullet manufacturing process, you won’t see much if any differences at 300 yards.

you can rub it in a piece of paper and write your name like a pencil to clean them up.
 
Same thing for most of the fusions I've purchased. Still nailed a doe at 400 with my 270 last season using them, Shoot on with confidence!
 
That's not bad at all. Some of the Winchester .358 Win 200 gr soft points I have came with tips that are literally mushroomed above the copper jacket. Just a few of them. But some of them look really bad.
 
The tip of the bullet isn’t near as important for accuracy and coefficient as it’s base and the lead core weight concentricity.

Now if one is reloading projectiles with different length lead tips one would want to measure off bullet ogive. But it’s always a better practice to measure COAL from base to ogive.
 
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The tip of the bullet isn’t near as important for accuracy and coefficient as it’s base and the lead core weight concentricity.
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Effectively all of the tech development done in long range bullets for the last several years - a decade now maybe - would disagree here. Whether the uniformity of the A-Tip, Tubb’s Nose Ring, the non-deforming ELD tips, meplat trimmers, and bullet pointers... Profile and jacket matter, but tips aren’t negligible.

But these SP’s are hunting bullets, so the whole damned thing is much ado about nothing.
 
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