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The Basics, Starting Out
Does energy = lethality?
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<blockquote data-quote="VLD Pilot" data-source="post: 1586771" data-attributes="member: 103947"><p>I'm no Tony Boyer. I do not compete. I did shoot 1000 competition some years back but since, just LR hunting and shooting steel. Ground hogs are about the only critters I kill beyond 1000 yards. Barrel length means nothing IF you know what your velocity is from whatever barely your toting. Sure a 30" barrel gets you free velocity beyond 26". It's a better way to get it than pushing pressure but either way, knowing where your shot will hit at those longest ranges takes hours of range time in alot of conditions. Match shooters get those kind of conditions very often. When I shot 1000 yds, many days we'd encounter 20-30 mph winds and not sustained. Here in the east, they are gusting which can be a match shooters nemesis. Western state winds are pretty steady and predictable. Guess my point was, shot placement Trump's bullet choice. A 6.5/140 grain bullet collides with an elks vital zone at 750 yards will be just as dead, just as fast as one hit with a 180 accubond from a 300 Weatherby mag. That's just plain fact. The guys pulling the trigger at all those football field distances have done the homework and range work behind those rifles to make that happen. I guess there are a few hail Mary hunters but on these forums, not so much. There's always a couple knuckle heads in every group of people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VLD Pilot, post: 1586771, member: 103947"] I'm no Tony Boyer. I do not compete. I did shoot 1000 competition some years back but since, just LR hunting and shooting steel. Ground hogs are about the only critters I kill beyond 1000 yards. Barrel length means nothing IF you know what your velocity is from whatever barely your toting. Sure a 30" barrel gets you free velocity beyond 26". It's a better way to get it than pushing pressure but either way, knowing where your shot will hit at those longest ranges takes hours of range time in alot of conditions. Match shooters get those kind of conditions very often. When I shot 1000 yds, many days we'd encounter 20-30 mph winds and not sustained. Here in the east, they are gusting which can be a match shooters nemesis. Western state winds are pretty steady and predictable. Guess my point was, shot placement Trump's bullet choice. A 6.5/140 grain bullet collides with an elks vital zone at 750 yards will be just as dead, just as fast as one hit with a 180 accubond from a 300 Weatherby mag. That's just plain fact. The guys pulling the trigger at all those football field distances have done the homework and range work behind those rifles to make that happen. I guess there are a few hail Mary hunters but on these forums, not so much. There's always a couple knuckle heads in every group of people. [/QUOTE]
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