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Max effictive range of factory bullets?
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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Eichele" data-source="post: 328007" data-attributes="member: 1007"><p>MCR offers good insight as usual.</p><p></p><p>As he siad, max potential can be found with tailored ammo. </p><p></p><p>That doesnt meen that factory loads cant work at 800 yards. In fact, my longest kill was done using factory ammo. This was just under 800 yards. It was a new rifle and I had a hunt coming up and did not have time to work up a load AND gather true BC info, drop tests etc.....So I found some factory ammo the rifle liked (solid 1/2 MOA) and dialed it in out to 900 yards, went hunting and the end result was a one shot kill at 763 yards in 2002. With all of that said, I worked up several loads after that hunt. They all were much better loads than the factory loads. This was with accuracy and terminal performance in mind. That rifle and handloads went on to take nearly 20 big game animals out to as far as 600 yards by 2008 since that first kill in 2002.</p><p></p><p>Handloads that are tailored to a given rifle is almost always better than factory but in many cases factory ammo can work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Eichele, post: 328007, member: 1007"] MCR offers good insight as usual. As he siad, max potential can be found with tailored ammo. That doesnt meen that factory loads cant work at 800 yards. In fact, my longest kill was done using factory ammo. This was just under 800 yards. It was a new rifle and I had a hunt coming up and did not have time to work up a load AND gather true BC info, drop tests etc.....So I found some factory ammo the rifle liked (solid 1/2 MOA) and dialed it in out to 900 yards, went hunting and the end result was a one shot kill at 763 yards in 2002. With all of that said, I worked up several loads after that hunt. They all were much better loads than the factory loads. This was with accuracy and terminal performance in mind. That rifle and handloads went on to take nearly 20 big game animals out to as far as 600 yards by 2008 since that first kill in 2002. Handloads that are tailored to a given rifle is almost always better than factory but in many cases factory ammo can work. [/QUOTE]
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