I read the article and nothing interesting or surprising here. Any shooter can check there muzzle velocity and run it through a ballistics computer and get the same information. Just no meat and potatoes in the article. He got the muzzle velocity of six bullets at the same pressure and then used that velocity in a ballistics program to calculate velocity and wind drift at 1000 yards using the manufacturers listed BC. Results are as anticipated with any ballistics program. No actual testing here. If he had verified the calculations it would have helped his article. As is he is just a guy who checked his velocity and ran that through a ballistics calculator with listed bc's. He should have checked the results of actual 1000 yard testing with each bullet to verify actual bc and results. Then he would have had an article. I am sure he is a nice guy. He just doesn't know how to write an article.
The entire article is flawed because he used weight of the bullets as his determing factor and base for his article. BC is the determining factor and not weight. One thing he said is good for a beginner. BC's are like diamonds, they are forever. If beginners are interested in shooting beyond 1000 yards look at only the highest bc bullets in your caliber. Run those through a ballistics program at your anticipated velocity for your cartridge. Then make a decision. Some specialty bullet makers have high bc bullets that are lighter than other bullets at the same bc and can be driven at very high velocities. Then you have the best of both worlds. BC is the key and not weight.
Then as hunters go from beginner to gaining experience they will begin to learn how to pick the best bullet for the anticipated range they intend to aquire a target. By including some lighter high bc specialty bullets into consideration the shooter can get a specific bullet to best fit their personal hunting situations. They will learn performance is a combination of velocity and ballistic coefficient. Weight is not in the equation in some cartridge/bullet and hunting situations. In some smaller calibers at long range weight can be critical because of the affect of sectional density and mass on a live target. This can depend on bullet construction.
One example of this is the testing of the 225 grain .64 bc 338 caliber bullet in numerous 338 cartridges over the past year. I have a thread under rifles, bullets, barrels and ballistics that gives some good info on this subject with actual testing and can allow anyone to plug data into a ballistics calculator and see if this bullet would help them in their style of hunting at the ranges they most expect to aquire a target. With a velocity increase of around 500 fps over the 300 grain bullets and a solid .64 bc ballistics can be sensational to beyond where most guys would shoot at an animal.
Also the testing I have begun on the 260 grain .76 bc Cutting Edge bullet. On average I am shooting this bullet 250-300 fps faster than 300 grain bullets in the 338 cartridges I have tested it in so far. Hunters just need to run the numbers and see if bullets such as these would help in their situations. There are several others I have tested in other calibers that also gave excellent results. There are other specialty bullet makers however I can not comment on them because I have not tested them in the field. As I do I will report on those also.