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Awesome! I appreciate the explanation and the update! Thank you for taking the time to explain. And yes, I've never seen them really shoot inaccurate, more of an OCD thing haha. But every little bit helps. Consistency is king for sure. Looking forward to seeing even more consistent bullets from you guys!
I agree with you, never has affected accuracy for me. Although you approach it with a hunting frame of mind and I also agree with your post earlier about them needing some work. Now I've hunted with trimmed meplats and also with just tips cleaned with a wire drill. The trimmed bullets are much more violent, and I'd only do that if I was shooting a larger and heavier caliber bullet. If shooting something say below 180gr I'd leave the tip alone and just clean it with a wire drill. This is partial to even if the expansion is quick and violent, you still have a large chunk of lead coming through to wreck stuff in a less than ideal situation.
I think the point is that despite your level of accuracy, your chance of missing because of the wind is FAR greater than because of your group sizes. He wasn't trying to convince people they don't need accuracy, but that legit practice in field conditions is more important. Sitting at a bench shooting bug hole groups at 100 yards, and thinking you're going to go in the field, with zero field practice and wind calling, never setting up a stable position in the mountains, laying on rocks and at steep angle with adrenaline pumping, and think your tiny group rifle is going to make up for it, isn't going to work.
You need to practice and log your first shots so you know your cold bore weather it be high, low or left or right. It will be the same every time. Unless you have one of those guns that doesn't move at all.
I had played with the Berger's and the tips for 1000 yd matches. If I squared the tips I lost coefficient. I tried squaring and re tipping and still coefficient was not as good. So I tested shooting squared tips, squared tips and repointed and then took the saber tooth tips and just repointed them a little more and had better groupings with the saber tooth tip's repointed. Matter of fact I shot 2 matches and shot 4" 10 groups with saber tooth bullets just pointed a little more. Take it for whatever it is worth.
What are you referring to as saber tooth bullets? The LRHT's?
I've got those no shift rifles
perks of them fancy customs by quality gunsmiths. I have a really humbling spot to practice. Lots of switch and blind wind, shooting across canyon with a curving valley. Really helps me dial in my "bad wind call" yardage for hunting. On those calm days it's easy, but those windy days are real! 
I think he meant the snaggle tooth tips of the Bergers, if you point those you've basically got the LRHT line anyway now. Might as well just run those.
Ohhhh that makes sense lol. The LRHT's generally shoot pretty well too!
The main key is being realistic about where you fall on that continuum. I take my 308 to 1100yds on steel and feel good about my accuracy. 500 is my max when shooting at game animals.
Drawn copper jackets certainly aren't a precise operation like say lathe turned copper.
Yet, but at 50fps it's about 14" @ 1000yd or so. How many people really get their ES & SD really down. 30fps is about 8" @ 1000yds. Bottomline is know your load and it's going out where you want it on a cold shot. After that it's petty easy. Wind becomes the hardest to figure. I don't reload to do it quickly, I reload to get bullet placement. Yes the range time is improvement too. That really learning how you bullet flys through the air. Before range finders were worth anything. I came up with tragets size tha used the animal size from top of back to bottom belly. I used a duplex scope. 2x7 or 8. On full powder I could determine it the animal was 300, 400 and 500yds out. ES & SD don't make much difference @ 500yds anyway. No twisting the nobes, just where to hold the crosshairs at those ranges. My rifle POI would be about 3" lower from top of back in each 100 yardage change to 500yds. With the rifle it's learning to stabilize it and don't jeck the trigger. Cool Hand Luke!
