I was reloading with Hornady 143 gr ELD-X for load development. I measure to the ogive with a comparator for my overall length. Call it a little lazy but once I get my length and they are consistent for a few rounds I just load them up. Have been having issues periodically with fliers so this time I was double checking everything. Turned out that about 13% of my reloads were seating at a different depth. There was a max .012 difference shortest to longest. Measured the remaining 15 unused bullets in the box and the base to ogive max spread was .002. But the max overall length base to tip was .011 for 1 of the 15 bullets. Is this reasonable? Did I maybe get a screwed up lot? I still have 2 or 3 boxes, 100 rounds each. Hate to think I need to measure each of them before loading. I hunt with my guns and the longest shot I have ever taken was 500 yards. I still like to get my rifles shooting as accurately as I can and like working on the loads. This particular rifle is a 6.5-06AI Shoots great until the flier shows up. Even then it's still good for a hunting rifle but I want it better.
