I bought a bunch of those factory second blue tips (120s) a while back. Went to load some for the 7-08 the other night and compared the base to ogive length of the blue tips to the red tips I'd been using, using a comparator.
They weren't the same length, just FYI.
I am very aware of it. You'll see similar differences in lot-to-lot comparisons of standard Nosler bullets and from other manufacturers as well. It drives me nuts, but this batch generated the same velocity, provided the same accuracy, performed identically in test medium and gave the same POI as the red-tipped bullets from my previous loads.
