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<blockquote data-quote="Topshot" data-source="post: 357161" data-attributes="member: 13285"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Well Sherlock, you may be onto something there!</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Those new secant ogive .338 calibre Bergers may need to get a run over this distance when I get hold of some.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Below is a photo of both the recovered projectiles. Hornady left and the Sierra right. You can see the shape of the bullets although the Hornady has its secant ogive ground down a bit by gravel rash. The Hornady was found laying on top of the ground at the base of the target while I had to dig out the Sierra.</span></span></p><p><img src="http://members.optusnet.com.au/~wadcutter/mypic42.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">One problem that I didn't mention with shooting at this range was with adjusting for elevation. Looking at the impact point from 2285 yards the impact may appear 2 MOA low in the scope. But the actual impact point may be 10 yards in front of the target. As the bullet is coming down at a very steep angle, the true point where the bullet would pass directly under the target, might actually be 5 MOA low.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">This is why I had a lot of trouble adjusting for elevation. I would adjust up 2 MOA and the apparent point of impact would not appear to change by that amount. The next three shots would land closer to the target but still be low. I did not think about this effect until after but it is something that I sure will take into account, next time I do any extreme range shooting.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Topshot, post: 357161, member: 13285"] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Well Sherlock, you may be onto something there![/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Those new secant ogive .338 calibre Bergers may need to get a run over this distance when I get hold of some.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Below is a photo of both the recovered projectiles. Hornady left and the Sierra right. You can see the shape of the bullets although the Hornady has its secant ogive ground down a bit by gravel rash. The Hornady was found laying on top of the ground at the base of the target while I had to dig out the Sierra.[/SIZE][/FONT] [IMG]http://members.optusnet.com.au/~wadcutter/mypic42.jpg[/IMG] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]One problem that I didn't mention with shooting at this range was with adjusting for elevation. Looking at the impact point from 2285 yards the impact may appear 2 MOA low in the scope. But the actual impact point may be 10 yards in front of the target. As the bullet is coming down at a very steep angle, the true point where the bullet would pass directly under the target, might actually be 5 MOA low.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]This is why I had a lot of trouble adjusting for elevation. I would adjust up 2 MOA and the apparent point of impact would not appear to change by that amount. The next three shots would land closer to the target but still be low. I did not think about this effect until after but it is something that I sure will take into account, next time I do any extreme range shooting.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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