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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 665514" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>This post made my head go "tilt" all five times I read it.</p><p> </p><p>I then went ove to my favorite handy ballitics calculator to compare a couple of extremes and see how the numbers shook out.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hornady.com/cgi-bin/ball10.cgi?firearm=Long&desc=32gr+.204&wght=32&coef=.210&vel=4400&sight=1.5&temp=59&barom=29.53&zero=0&wspd=10&calcbutton=Calculate" target="_blank">Ballistics Calculator v1.0</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hornady.com/cgi-bin/ball10.cgi?firearm=Long&desc=208+Amax&wght=208&coef=.650&vel=3000&sight=1.5&temp=59&barom=29.53&zero=0&wspd=10&calcbutton=Calculate" target="_blank">Ballistics Calculator v1.0</a></p><p> </p><p>I get 56" wind drift at 1000 with the 208gr Amax at 3000FPS and 179" wind drift with the .32gr 4000fps .204 which is about what I expected which would be the opposite of what you are asserting above if I'm reading it correctly.</p><p> </p><p>That's 10 Feet more wind drift with the smaller, faster, lower BC bullet.</p><p> </p><p>High BC bullets resist wind effects far better than Lower BC bullets, even when the lower BC bullet is traveling at much higher velocity.</p><p> </p><p>Even using a direct apples to apples example with the 165gr Amax at 3,400fps you get a wind drift of 71.7 which is 25% Higher than with the same exact bullet in 208gr's.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hornady.com/cgi-bin/ball10.cgi?firearm=Long&desc=165+Amax&wght=165&coef=.475&vel=3400&sight=1.5&temp=59&barom=29.53&zero=0&wspd=10&calcbutton=Calculate" target="_blank">Ballistics Calculator v1.0</a></p><p> </p><p>You also run into the fact that there are limits on just how fast any bullets can be pushed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 665514, member: 30902"] This post made my head go "tilt" all five times I read it. I then went ove to my favorite handy ballitics calculator to compare a couple of extremes and see how the numbers shook out. [URL="http://www.hornady.com/cgi-bin/ball10.cgi?firearm=Long&desc=32gr+.204&wght=32&coef=.210&vel=4400&sight=1.5&temp=59&barom=29.53&zero=0&wspd=10&calcbutton=Calculate"]Ballistics Calculator v1.0[/URL] [URL="http://www.hornady.com/cgi-bin/ball10.cgi?firearm=Long&desc=208+Amax&wght=208&coef=.650&vel=3000&sight=1.5&temp=59&barom=29.53&zero=0&wspd=10&calcbutton=Calculate"]Ballistics Calculator v1.0[/URL] I get 56" wind drift at 1000 with the 208gr Amax at 3000FPS and 179" wind drift with the .32gr 4000fps .204 which is about what I expected which would be the opposite of what you are asserting above if I'm reading it correctly. That's 10 Feet more wind drift with the smaller, faster, lower BC bullet. High BC bullets resist wind effects far better than Lower BC bullets, even when the lower BC bullet is traveling at much higher velocity. Even using a direct apples to apples example with the 165gr Amax at 3,400fps you get a wind drift of 71.7 which is 25% Higher than with the same exact bullet in 208gr's. [URL="http://www.hornady.com/cgi-bin/ball10.cgi?firearm=Long&desc=165+Amax&wght=165&coef=.475&vel=3400&sight=1.5&temp=59&barom=29.53&zero=0&wspd=10&calcbutton=Calculate"]Ballistics Calculator v1.0[/URL] You also run into the fact that there are limits on just how fast any bullets can be pushed. [/QUOTE]
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