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<blockquote data-quote="goodgrouper" data-source="post: 111389" data-attributes="member: 2852"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p> Higher BC (heavier) virtually ALWAYS have longer time of flight, but will have less wind drift. </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ]</p><p></p><p></p><p>You may be off on another tangent here I didn't catch but if you are stating (and you're probably not) that higher bc bullets have longer time of flights compared to lighter faster bullets than I would like point out that that is only true to short distances. At some point downrange, the lighter and lower bc bullet will not get to a target as fast as the slower, heavier, higher bc bullet will.</p><p></p><p>Take for instance the 40 grain 22 caliber bullet at mv of 4400 and compare it to the 80 grain 22 caliber bullet at a mv of 3400 fps. Although the 40 grainer starts off 1000 fps faster at the muzzle, it is going slower than the other bullet at the 1000 yard target. Differences in t.o.f. are less than 1 second but are still in favor of the high bc bullet winning the race to the 1k target.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodgrouper, post: 111389, member: 2852"] [ QUOTE ] Higher BC (heavier) virtually ALWAYS have longer time of flight, but will have less wind drift. [/ QUOTE ] You may be off on another tangent here I didn't catch but if you are stating (and you're probably not) that higher bc bullets have longer time of flights compared to lighter faster bullets than I would like point out that that is only true to short distances. At some point downrange, the lighter and lower bc bullet will not get to a target as fast as the slower, heavier, higher bc bullet will. Take for instance the 40 grain 22 caliber bullet at mv of 4400 and compare it to the 80 grain 22 caliber bullet at a mv of 3400 fps. Although the 40 grainer starts off 1000 fps faster at the muzzle, it is going slower than the other bullet at the 1000 yard target. Differences in t.o.f. are less than 1 second but are still in favor of the high bc bullet winning the race to the 1k target. [/QUOTE]
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