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The Basics, Starting Out
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<blockquote data-quote="rustyshackleford" data-source="post: 2567978" data-attributes="member: 59526"><p>I'd reclassify velocities. 1800-2400 is slow, 2400-2800 is medium, 2800-3100 is high, and anything over 3100 is in that hyper velocity to me. So 416 rem mag is slow, 30-06 with 180's is upper medium, 7 mag with 175's is high, and 257 wby is hyper. I tend to think 2700-2950 or so is about optimal for general purpose because from 0-500 you'll get proper bullet performance assuming it's got a good BC. Meaning it will hold together at the muzzle and it will hit at 2000 ft/sec or above at 500 and still give good performance. As far as the Barnes "fully" expanding at 1600 I don't believe that. There is a channel on YouTube who has shot the 127 LRX into water jugs and after 300 yards expansion dropped noticeably. I think at 500 it was at or above 2k ft/sec and it expanded but not much.</p><p></p><p>Found it but realize it's a 127 from a 270 wsm so it may have crossed over from hyper velocity to Mach-Jesus speeds</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rustyshackleford, post: 2567978, member: 59526"] I’d reclassify velocities. 1800-2400 is slow, 2400-2800 is medium, 2800-3100 is high, and anything over 3100 is in that hyper velocity to me. So 416 rem mag is slow, 30-06 with 180’s is upper medium, 7 mag with 175’s is high, and 257 wby is hyper. I tend to think 2700-2950 or so is about optimal for general purpose because from 0-500 you’ll get proper bullet performance assuming it’s got a good BC. Meaning it will hold together at the muzzle and it will hit at 2000 ft/sec or above at 500 and still give good performance. As far as the Barnes “fully” expanding at 1600 I don’t believe that. There is a channel on YouTube who has shot the 127 LRX into water jugs and after 300 yards expansion dropped noticeably. I think at 500 it was at or above 2k ft/sec and it expanded but not much. Found it but realize it’s a 127 from a 270 wsm so it may have crossed over from hyper velocity to Mach-Jesus speeds [/QUOTE]
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