Meplat Trimmer

Why Should I Meplat Trim?

• Smaller group sizes
• More consistent velocities
• Lower extreme spread

The Hoover Meplat Trimmer is the best tool on market for trimming meplats. It features a proprietary radiused bullet stop that will not damage the bullet and provides extreme repeatability. The Bullet is held by its OD and is stopped on the ogive by the radiused bullet stop for a square repeatable cut.

When uniforming bullets, you need the three major parts of the bullet to be the same: The boat tail or base of the bullet, the bearing surface length and the ogive.

When meplat trimming, you want to uniform the ogive length only. You can’t use the base of the bullet to reference from or you will not have uniform ogive lengths because of differences in bearing surface length. Even if you sort your bearing surface lengths to within .002” before trimming, a .002” difference in ogive length on a .308 6.8 caliber ogive with a meplat diameter of .070” will have a 5.5% difference in the meplat’s frontal area. So it is a must to reference off the ogive of the bullet for consistent meplat diameters.

Plastic body meplat trimmers that do reference off the ogive suffer from body flex that allows the bullet to be “shoved” in by the pressure being applied. This gives you inconsistent ogive lengths and meplat diameters.

After trimming your meplats with the Hoover Meplat Trimmer, you can sort your bullets by overall length because the ogive of the bullet is consistent with the rest of the bullets. The only difference will be in the bearing surface length. This process has been thoroughly tested and works flawlessly.