11-17-2020, 02:55 PM
Thumbs up to American Reloading - fast shipping as bullets arrived yesterday. They are nice and shiny and it would be real hard to tell that they are pulls to someone who didn't know it with the naked eye. They will require individual inspection as I found one had a protrusion on its bearing surface.
Now the bad news. They might be "95 gr SMKs" as they put on their listing, but they aren't 95 gr Sierra Match Kings. That's a 95 grain Tipped Match King on the left (identical to an SMK plus the tip) and one of the bullets I received on the right:
But there's good news! After scouring the world wide web, I'm pretty confident that these are 95 grain Berger Classic Hybrid Hunters. The weights are extremely consistent, the points look like the quality of Berger, the lengths are 1.06x vs 1.069" stated by Berger, the boat tail and bearing surface lengths appear to be Berger's dimensions (I can't get too accurate with calipers).
Does anyone have any of these on their shelf who can get a measurement with a Hornady bullet comparator? Berger website says they are 0.587" base to ogive. With the 3-24 insert on a Hornady bullet comparator I am getting 0.605-0.608 and 0.610-0.612 (I'm guessing there's 2 different lots in my big box o' bullets). That would jive with the Berger measurement since the datum point will be a little narrower.
Not disappointed at all if they are Berger's since they're for practice and the G7 of .223 vs Sierra's G7 of .232 will work just fine.
Now the bad news. They might be "95 gr SMKs" as they put on their listing, but they aren't 95 gr Sierra Match Kings. That's a 95 grain Tipped Match King on the left (identical to an SMK plus the tip) and one of the bullets I received on the right:
But there's good news! After scouring the world wide web, I'm pretty confident that these are 95 grain Berger Classic Hybrid Hunters. The weights are extremely consistent, the points look like the quality of Berger, the lengths are 1.06x vs 1.069" stated by Berger, the boat tail and bearing surface lengths appear to be Berger's dimensions (I can't get too accurate with calipers).
Does anyone have any of these on their shelf who can get a measurement with a Hornady bullet comparator? Berger website says they are 0.587" base to ogive. With the 3-24 insert on a Hornady bullet comparator I am getting 0.605-0.608 and 0.610-0.612 (I'm guessing there's 2 different lots in my big box o' bullets). That would jive with the Berger measurement since the datum point will be a little narrower.
Not disappointed at all if they are Berger's since they're for practice and the G7 of .223 vs Sierra's G7 of .232 will work just fine.