BATTLING BEARING SURFACE

There’s a marked change in progress in the rifle bullet industry, and one that’s not going away. Our bullets are growing longer, ogives are flattening out, and the notable shift away from lead-core designs has our traditional bullet weights growing in length. The higher ballistic coefficient of the longer bullet is so important to long-range shooters that entire families of cartridges have been designed around the bullet instead of vice versa.

For the reloader, all of this can pose some issues, in both the practical application of these bullets as well as the choice of bullet weight/type for your given cartridge. The bearing surface of these longer