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6.5 Creedmoor: Maximum Lethal Range for Whitetail
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<blockquote data-quote="JASmith" data-source="post: 1973021" data-attributes="member: 24844"><p>The first criteria for max ethical range is "Will the bullet reliably open on impact?" Bullet manufacturers typically publish a minimum recommended impact velocity. Your ballistic calculator will tell you the range where this no longer happens for your rifle and load.</p><p></p><p>The second is "Can you hit the vital zone?" The MERC tables shown above help a lot to ferret that out. I personally lean toward keeping the range short enough that I don't have to worry about a 10 or 20 percent chance of missing the vital zone, so look more closely at the 90% and higher.</p><p></p><p>All of this is contingent on your bullet being heavy enough for its construction to create an adequate wound channel. This chart and tool are based on depth of penetration and width of cut. The criteria can be traced back to mesolithic archer-hunters and is valid even today with modern hunting bullets: <a href="http://shootersnotes.com/ideal-bullet-weight-2/ideal-bullet-weight/" target="_blank">Ideal Bullet Weight</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JASmith, post: 1973021, member: 24844"] The first criteria for max ethical range is "Will the bullet reliably open on impact?" Bullet manufacturers typically publish a minimum recommended impact velocity. Your ballistic calculator will tell you the range where this no longer happens for your rifle and load. The second is "Can you hit the vital zone?" The MERC tables shown above help a lot to ferret that out. I personally lean toward keeping the range short enough that I don't have to worry about a 10 or 20 percent chance of missing the vital zone, so look more closely at the 90% and higher. All of this is contingent on your bullet being heavy enough for its construction to create an adequate wound channel. This chart and tool are based on depth of penetration and width of cut. The criteria can be traced back to mesolithic archer-hunters and is valid even today with modern hunting bullets: [URL='http://shootersnotes.com/ideal-bullet-weight-2/ideal-bullet-weight/']Ideal Bullet Weight[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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