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Berger Bullets' Move To The G7 Standard BC By Bryan Litz
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<blockquote data-quote="BryanLitz" data-source="post: 305206" data-attributes="member: 7848"><p>Hi Kevin,</p><p></p><p>As always, thank you for your support and clarification.</p><p></p><p>I went back and re-read the part about how/why we were stuck with G1 exclusively for so long; I may not have been entirely clear and I apologize for that. I agree with you that marketing is not the <em>original reason</em> for bullet makers using G1. I was just saying that marketing is a big part of the reason it has been and will be difficult to move to a different standard (because no-one wants to see their BC's numbers go down, for any reason).</p><p></p><p>We are in agreement, I just wasn't clear in my original piece. Thanks for setting it straight.</p><p></p><p>Regarding the idea of using many different drag standards...</p><p></p><p>It took me a little while to find it, but below is my answer to another shooter who asked about using G5 instead of G7. My response to him is pretty much the same as my response to your suggestion of using many different standards.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The entire thread can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f22/applied-ballistics-lr-shooting-s-44624/" target="_blank">http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f22/applied-ballistics-lr-shooting-s-44624/</a></p><p></p><p>There's nothing wrong with using the most fitting standard in each case, and if a shooter is skillful enough to do it without getting them mixed up, has good enough data to support a match to one standard over the others, and understands that a BC referenced to a unique standard is not comparable to any other BC.</p><p></p><p>In my mind, referencing all long range bullets to the G7 standard exclusively is a solution that's easy to apply, removes <em>most</em> of the velocity variation of BC's, and maintains the ability to compare bullets by BC. It's not <em>wrong</em> to reference BC's to other (better) fitting standards, but in my opinion, that approach is too complicated for general consumption by the shooting public. The accuracy gained is just not worth the added complexity (again, this is arguable, and is only my opinion).</p><p></p><p>Thanks again for your valuable input.</p><p></p><p>-Bryan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BryanLitz, post: 305206, member: 7848"] Hi Kevin, As always, thank you for your support and clarification. I went back and re-read the part about how/why we were stuck with G1 exclusively for so long; I may not have been entirely clear and I apologize for that. I agree with you that marketing is not the [I]original reason[/I] for bullet makers using G1. I was just saying that marketing is a big part of the reason it has been and will be difficult to move to a different standard (because no-one wants to see their BC's numbers go down, for any reason). We are in agreement, I just wasn't clear in my original piece. Thanks for setting it straight. Regarding the idea of using many different drag standards... It took me a little while to find it, but below is my answer to another shooter who asked about using G5 instead of G7. My response to him is pretty much the same as my response to your suggestion of using many different standards. The entire thread can be found here: [url]http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f22/applied-ballistics-lr-shooting-s-44624/[/url] There's nothing wrong with using the most fitting standard in each case, and if a shooter is skillful enough to do it without getting them mixed up, has good enough data to support a match to one standard over the others, and understands that a BC referenced to a unique standard is not comparable to any other BC. In my mind, referencing all long range bullets to the G7 standard exclusively is a solution that's easy to apply, removes [i]most[/i] of the velocity variation of BC's, and maintains the ability to compare bullets by BC. It's not [i]wrong[/i] to reference BC's to other (better) fitting standards, but in my opinion, that approach is too complicated for general consumption by the shooting public. The accuracy gained is just not worth the added complexity (again, this is arguable, and is only my opinion). Thanks again for your valuable input. -Bryan [/QUOTE]
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