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<blockquote data-quote="Gone Ballistic" data-source="post: 1725064" data-attributes="member: 26477"><p>Quite frankly the aerodynamic engineers employed by the bullet manufacturing industry are constantly trying to build the best bullet as it gets them a greater share of the market. If you are reload your bullets you are foolish to be glued to a bullet manufacturing company. You owe it to your rifle to get the most accurate loads for the yardage perimeter you want to shoot. Almost all bullets made today are lethal when shot placement is excellent. Most shooters rarely find ranges of over a thousand yards for practicing shooting regularly. I have talked with several shooters who believe if they can shoot great groups at 600 yards they are zeroed in perfectly beyond by ballistics calculations. After shooting a target at 3528 yards working up in 300 yd. increments let me assure you that they are not! And then you have to account for windage and half a dozen other things. </p><p>The folks at "Gunwerks" used the 7mm Rem Mag for their standard long range caliber and still do because of the superb ballistics coefficients that are available for this caliber. The. 280 Nosler, 7mmSTW and many others were derived by the accuracy of this bullet. Now the new kid is the 6.5mm coming out in every wildcatter's dream for speeding up the ballistics. Sadly the most overlooked caliber is the .308. We should have had bullets in the 230-240gr. weight for comparable long range bullets long ago for comparable performance of the 7mm. Maybe some manufacturing companies will get it done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gone Ballistic, post: 1725064, member: 26477"] Quite frankly the aerodynamic engineers employed by the bullet manufacturing industry are constantly trying to build the best bullet as it gets them a greater share of the market. If you are reload your bullets you are foolish to be glued to a bullet manufacturing company. You owe it to your rifle to get the most accurate loads for the yardage perimeter you want to shoot. Almost all bullets made today are lethal when shot placement is excellent. Most shooters rarely find ranges of over a thousand yards for practicing shooting regularly. I have talked with several shooters who believe if they can shoot great groups at 600 yards they are zeroed in perfectly beyond by ballistics calculations. After shooting a target at 3528 yards working up in 300 yd. increments let me assure you that they are not! And then you have to account for windage and half a dozen other things. The folks at "Gunwerks" used the 7mm Rem Mag for their standard long range caliber and still do because of the superb ballistics coefficients that are available for this caliber. The. 280 Nosler, 7mmSTW and many others were derived by the accuracy of this bullet. Now the new kid is the 6.5mm coming out in every wildcatter's dream for speeding up the ballistics. Sadly the most overlooked caliber is the .308. We should have had bullets in the 230-240gr. weight for comparable long range bullets long ago for comparable performance of the 7mm. Maybe some manufacturing companies will get it done. [/QUOTE]
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