kart racer
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I'm loading 115 gr jhp from remington,9mm.rcbs dies,partner press.Why does the oal vary from say 1.113-1.117 on average?
+1What you are seeing in the OAL is a small variation in the profile of the bullet ogive and a small variation in the OAL of the bullet combined. No worries, that is actually pretty small and is insignificant.
Very likely, particularly if you're using surplus or pulled bullets, they aren't consistent.I'm using kinda cheap bulk bullets could this be the culprit?
I use Lee dies to reload 45 ACP and 223 and I can't see how bullet length variance would make any difference at all. Both die sets set the length against the tip of the bullet, so any bullet length variance would only affect how much bullet is within the case, not overall length. Maybe other dies size off the ogive but mine don't.
The Raniers are plated so I don't understand how there could be hollowness at the tip.