Acceptable weight variance for bullets

[sinawalli]

If you have a 100 bullets, what is the acceptable allowance for weight variance? 1 grain, 5 grains? Thanks!

 

[RePete]

Depends on the type (match or hunting).

You would expect a 1gr either side with match bullets and as much as 2 -3gr or more with hunting bullets.

 

[hoochie]

Depends on the type (match or hunting).

You would expect a 1gr either side with match bullets and as much as 2 -3gr or more with hunting bullets.

X2....
I would suggest that you weigh all the bullets, and put them into groups of exact weights. this will provide a much more accurate group of shots.

 

[Rick Teal]

It isn't as important as you might think, but a good rule-of-thumb is 2%.

Dave Crobin tells a story in one of his books of swaging a bunch of bullets, then sorting them all by weight, setting the ones that were closest aside for later loading. He woke up the next morning, loaded the bullets and went off to his match where he had the best days shooting of his life. He decided that he'd found the magic solution to accuracy.

When he got home he went back to his swaging bench, and something looked amiss. He weighed the bullets he'd "culled" and found that he'd mistakenly loaded the wrong bullets, and the uniform ones were left at home. He'd had his best day of shooting using bullets with the greatest range in weights.

He concluded that there were other factors that were much more important to accuracy than uniform weights - one of them is confidence in what you're shooting.

 

[CyaN1de]

I would expect tighter tolerances in Match ammo than 1grn spread...... I weighed some Sierra 69grn SMK .224's tonight and had .4grn spread over the 100.
I could see a 2 or 3grn spread in Hunting bullets as the boiler room of most game is usually quite a bit larger than an X-Ring or V-Bull.

Just my thoughts anyway

Richard