Whidden Pointing Die Set

The idea of pointing the tips of match bullets is to increase BC and uniformity. Different bullets will benefit from this process more or less than others. The BC increase has been measured between 2% and 8% for a variety of long range bullets. Many shooters ask: “Is the benefit of pointing bullets worth it in terms of time and money?” To address that question, consider the situation depicted in the following image. Consider a bullet that’s deflected 10.5″ by a 1.5 mph gust. For a shooter centered up in the X-ring (conventional prone target), missing that 1.5 mph wind gust results in the bullet landing just outside the 20″ 10-ring for a 9. Now consider a bullet that’s pointed and has a 5% higher BC. In the same 1.5 mph gust, the bullet is now only deflected 9.5″ and still catches a 10. F-class and Benchrest group shooters can decide how much that 1″ difference in wind deflection means to their results. The above example only addresses the advantage of increasing BC. Pointing bullet tips also increases uniformity as well (more or less depending on how uniform the bullets are to begin with, out-of-the-box). Bullet pointing has been in common practice for a number of years now with no identifiable downside.

So what is the burden of this performance increase? Of course there’s the initial cost of the tool. After that, using the tool is fairly quick and easy, taking less than 10 minutes to point a box of 100 bullets.