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Gentlemen, in the interests of science, I decided to do something that has been long overdue, and to actually weight some premium quality bullets to see how much they actually did weigh.
To do this I used my trusty Lyman electronic digital scales - accurate to within 1/10th of a grain [that is to say, 1/70000th of a pound].
Using my normal set-up - positioning the scale on a one-inth thick piece of glass and leaving it there for an hour before commencing weighing, I opened up a brand-new box of 155gr Lapua Scenar match bullets, and got started.
The results were pretty interesting - in THIS box, there were
10 bullets @154.60gr
21 bullets @154.70gr
58 bullets @154.80gr
11 bullets @154.90
and 0 bullets at 155gr.
Not a single one.
I'll be weighing every bullet in the other nine boxes, and making up a 'to use in order' selection, as I have done with this lot.
I'm not going to buy any other bullets for the time being, but there are others that claim to be accurate with regard to weight. We'll see.
tac
To do this I used my trusty Lyman electronic digital scales - accurate to within 1/10th of a grain [that is to say, 1/70000th of a pound].
Using my normal set-up - positioning the scale on a one-inth thick piece of glass and leaving it there for an hour before commencing weighing, I opened up a brand-new box of 155gr Lapua Scenar match bullets, and got started.
The results were pretty interesting - in THIS box, there were
10 bullets @154.60gr
21 bullets @154.70gr
58 bullets @154.80gr
11 bullets @154.90
and 0 bullets at 155gr.
Not a single one.
I'll be weighing every bullet in the other nine boxes, and making up a 'to use in order' selection, as I have done with this lot.
I'm not going to buy any other bullets for the time being, but there are others that claim to be accurate with regard to weight. We'll see.
tac