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The Basics, Starting Out
Best bullet weight for 300rum
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<blockquote data-quote="Coyoter" data-source="post: 255162" data-attributes="member: 236"><p>As posted, it's not so much about flight time and drop as it is wind bucking ability. Drop is pretty easy to compensate for, just plug your distance and such into a ballistics program along with all the other required fields and put in your clicks. Windage is not an exact science though. It's a best guess based on wind speed and direction where you are and what speed and direction you think it is down range. The higher the BC, the less effect your miss-guess has on the impact point. For fun, check the impact difference between a 15 mph full value cross wind and a 12 mph cross wind from 2 O'clock. Run that test on several different bullets and you'll see what I mean. Lighter bullets can realize twice the effect of a heavier, high BC bullet.</p><p> All that said, I'm falling all over myself to take my new 208gr Hornady A-Max bullets and try them in my 300 Wby when the snow melts!</p><p></p><p>Coyoter</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coyoter, post: 255162, member: 236"] As posted, it's not so much about flight time and drop as it is wind bucking ability. Drop is pretty easy to compensate for, just plug your distance and such into a ballistics program along with all the other required fields and put in your clicks. Windage is not an exact science though. It's a best guess based on wind speed and direction where you are and what speed and direction you think it is down range. The higher the BC, the less effect your miss-guess has on the impact point. For fun, check the impact difference between a 15 mph full value cross wind and a 12 mph cross wind from 2 O'clock. Run that test on several different bullets and you'll see what I mean. Lighter bullets can realize twice the effect of a heavier, high BC bullet. All that said, I'm falling all over myself to take my new 208gr Hornady A-Max bullets and try them in my 300 Wby when the snow melts! Coyoter [/QUOTE]
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