Weight sort pistol bullets?

[Nipigon Jack]

How many guys weight sort their pistol bullets?

 

[1shot]

Not me.. Personally I'm simply not that good enough to notice in my groups even "if" my pistol bullets were plus/minus a grain or two. But then I don't compete in the precision side of handgun shooting either.

 

[Cleftwynd]

Heck, if it goes bang in a pistol it's good enough for me! Rifle, that's a different story.

 

[ultimate_monkey]

Waste of time for a pistol

 

[Nipigon Jack]

Well I sorted 1,000 into 10ths of a grain, a task that will likely never get repeated.

 

[nada]

sort to +/- .5 gr for 50yds or more , just load em for anything else.

 

[Soulfly]

Were you bored?

 

[Nipigon Jack]

Were you bored?

Bullseye

 

[nada]

i'm still looking for that 2" group @ 50

 

[Tex Critter]

I used to weigh my cast bullets and load them in lots + or - 1/2 grain. But now I just load them all if they pass the visual test.

 

[Chuckbuster]

What is this "sorting" thing of which you speak?

 

[Boomer]

Waste of time for a pistol

Well, that depends.

Revolver cartridges, and even more so pistol cartridges, have small powder volumes, so variations on powder and bullet weight as well as variations in seating depth can have pretty dramatic effects. Usually jacketed bullets tend to be pretty uniform for weight, but not so cast bullets which might vary several grains. If you are loading to maximum based on the advertised bullet weight, and you load a heavy one, you might experience a problem. So when I load cast bullet loads to maximum, I'll weigh the bullets to ensure that I don't mix in a heavy one; thus its a safety control rather than an accuracy enhancer.