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Most brilliant comment on that February 1, 2022 DGR cartridge ranking:

" fillup massengill is an uninformed douche! "

Nothing left for me to say to top that.
The Lottites are the ones beating their dead horse.
And that Lottite can't even keep his brass length correct.
Most likely he is a Democrat like the saboteurs at the Winchester ammo factory of yore.

Agree about the steel penetration being a useful test NOT for the "400-gr"/.458 Shock Hammer.

Hammer Bullets is now faced with a systemic problem that could affect all their bullets.
Whomever is supplying the copper rods being used has some spectrographic analysis to do.
That is reportedly the only way to get to the bottom of it.
400-gr samples and 403-gr samples need to be analyzed for the metallurgical variation.
With +/- 0.00005" tolerance on the diameters and similar on the length measures of bullets, what else is left ?

For now, I have fewer 400-grain varmint bullets than 403-grain big game bullets.
Not a bad problem for me, I can sort the bullets before sorting the dead meat.
Troubling for the copper rod supply.

To be fair on the Barnes TSX bullets, might need to measure 50 each of those too, instead of just 10 each.
Those bullets come from huge rolls of copper wire, and that wire must be pretty consistent.
And the hammer forging and Dremel-tooling of the bullets ain't bad either.