I am no expert by any means, so maybe I have a dumb question...but anyway;
I have been working up 130 grain loads in .270 WSM and have tried a lot of different powder brands and charges previously - all with Hornady 130 SP...and now recently, with a different bullets. (Hunting loads).
Last time out I wanted to see if some different bullets would perform better, or worse.
I shot some 130 Nosler Partitions and some 130Speer BT Spitzers, along with some of the (known)130 Hornady SPs..
I achieved really poor accuracy with the Speer BT spitzers. Meanwhile the Nosler Partitions shot about the same as the Hornady SPs with same charges of same powder. (Re-19). The wildness of the Speers surprised me because I was very careful on seating depth on all so they were all the same amount off the lands (as close as possible anyway).
Last night I grabbed 10 bullets from each box and weighed them on my (PACT) scale. The Hornadys were very uniform being mostly 130.0 a couple 129.9 and one @ 130.1. Same for the Noslers.
The Speer bullets varied from .4 under to .6 over. Gee, I only tried 10 random bullets out of a box. That seems like a lot of difference to me...(you can see where I am going with this).
Like I said.. I am no expert...but would this weight differential be a factor enough to account for the inaccuracy I experienced with those Speer 130s?
I have been working up 130 grain loads in .270 WSM and have tried a lot of different powder brands and charges previously - all with Hornady 130 SP...and now recently, with a different bullets. (Hunting loads).
Last time out I wanted to see if some different bullets would perform better, or worse.
I shot some 130 Nosler Partitions and some 130Speer BT Spitzers, along with some of the (known)130 Hornady SPs..
I achieved really poor accuracy with the Speer BT spitzers. Meanwhile the Nosler Partitions shot about the same as the Hornady SPs with same charges of same powder. (Re-19). The wildness of the Speers surprised me because I was very careful on seating depth on all so they were all the same amount off the lands (as close as possible anyway).
Last night I grabbed 10 bullets from each box and weighed them on my (PACT) scale. The Hornadys were very uniform being mostly 130.0 a couple 129.9 and one @ 130.1. Same for the Noslers.
The Speer bullets varied from .4 under to .6 over. Gee, I only tried 10 random bullets out of a box. That seems like a lot of difference to me...(you can see where I am going with this).
Like I said.. I am no expert...but would this weight differential be a factor enough to account for the inaccuracy I experienced with those Speer 130s?