Thanks for sharing guys.
I never considered the factory seconds before...but these are desperate times LOL
All I care is that they shoot and mushroom like they are supposed to
They do, and and I've been using them since the 1980s. The only difference is cosmetic flaws, picked out by workers who watch all Nosler bullets go by on a conveyor belt, with a magnifying glass. The only ones I've been able to see the "blemishes" on were some 200-grain .30 caliber Partitions that had traces of what looked like soot on the jacket, but they shot the same way "firsts" shoot in my NULA .30-06, three shots in half an inch at 100 yards.
