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Hitting a softball at 1000 yds
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<blockquote data-quote="Joe-boy" data-source="post: 1872485" data-attributes="member: 113266"><p>I don't know a lot about long range shooting to be honest, but even I can understand this is complete ********.</p><p></p><p>Let me demonstrate. Let's assume you and your rifle are perfectly accurate. I mean in still conditions you are able to shoot 100 rounds through a hole the same size than your bullet at 1000 yards. That's pretty impressive to me. In addition to that, let's assume you are using a 300 gr .338 Lapua Scenar bullet with BC G1 of 0.736 and you shoot it at 847 m/s (2,780 ft/s). A softball has a diameter of 3,5 inches, so if you aim dead center, you have about 1,75 inches of margin for error per side.</p><p></p><p>Run some numbers in the ballistic app and you'll notice that if you under- or overestimate the effective side wind by 0,1 m/s or 0,22 miles per hour you will still scratch the softball. Anything more than and you will miss. And this is assuming you and the rifle are perfectly accurate. </p><p></p><p>Another way to estimate this is that if your v0 is off by 6 ft/s you'll miss.</p><p></p><p>Or how about the scope adjustments? My scopes have either 1/4 MOA or 0.1 MRAD clicks. 1/4 of MOA is about 2.5 inches at 1000 yards and 0.1 MRAD is about 3,5 inches. So your scope click is about the same size than the target and it might be possible you cannot even center your scope accurately enough to aim at the center. Doesn't make it any easier...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joe-boy, post: 1872485, member: 113266"] I don't know a lot about long range shooting to be honest, but even I can understand this is complete ********. Let me demonstrate. Let's assume you and your rifle are perfectly accurate. I mean in still conditions you are able to shoot 100 rounds through a hole the same size than your bullet at 1000 yards. That's pretty impressive to me. In addition to that, let's assume you are using a 300 gr .338 Lapua Scenar bullet with BC G1 of 0.736 and you shoot it at 847 m/s (2,780 ft/s). A softball has a diameter of 3,5 inches, so if you aim dead center, you have about 1,75 inches of margin for error per side. Run some numbers in the ballistic app and you'll notice that if you under- or overestimate the effective side wind by 0,1 m/s or 0,22 miles per hour you will still scratch the softball. Anything more than and you will miss. And this is assuming you and the rifle are perfectly accurate. Another way to estimate this is that if your v0 is off by 6 ft/s you'll miss. Or how about the scope adjustments? My scopes have either 1/4 MOA or 0.1 MRAD clicks. 1/4 of MOA is about 2.5 inches at 1000 yards and 0.1 MRAD is about 3,5 inches. So your scope click is about the same size than the target and it might be possible you cannot even center your scope accurately enough to aim at the center. Doesn't make it any easier... [/QUOTE]
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