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<blockquote data-quote="ajhardle" data-source="post: 665504" data-attributes="member: 49861"><p>An even better choice is to buy a barrel with a smaller hole poked through it. As long as you can stuff nearly as much powder behind the smaller diameter bullet, with a similar shape, it will have less wind drift. (for instance, a .284 v 6.5x.284, or 7rum v .338lapua). Run it through your ballistic calculators. Assuming similar energy, meaning smaller bullets go faster, the smaller diameter always win. Scale it down as much as you want, the smaller wins out to a range beyond most people have any business shooting at. Depending on case size, that range can easily exceed 2000 and even 3000 yards. There is a cost of barrel wear.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ajhardle, post: 665504, member: 49861"] An even better choice is to buy a barrel with a smaller hole poked through it. As long as you can stuff nearly as much powder behind the smaller diameter bullet, with a similar shape, it will have less wind drift. (for instance, a .284 v 6.5x.284, or 7rum v .338lapua). Run it through your ballistic calculators. Assuming similar energy, meaning smaller bullets go faster, the smaller diameter always win. Scale it down as much as you want, the smaller wins out to a range beyond most people have any business shooting at. Depending on case size, that range can easily exceed 2000 and even 3000 yards. There is a cost of barrel wear. [/QUOTE]
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