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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 2614948" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>If I remember right Steve has been trying to get his hands on some higher end equipment for getting tighter BC numbers, I don't think it's something not on their mind BUT I think their putting money/time into what is important to their business which is quite obviously not modeled around BC but terminal performance which is where they are spending their precious R&D dollars.</p><p>I've shot some screamer BC bullets that frankly sucked a big one when they landed, ya they were fun to shoot but when you open up a rib cage and see more luck in the kill than bullet performance it takes the edge off that. Do I like a BC number I just pick it off the menu in AB, sure but frankly now that we have such excellent chronographs figuring out the BC doesn't even make me think twice especially when it's plain as day on the we site their calculated or drops, I know what that means, same thing as it has for 20 years. Eventually each company has been able to push resources to refine many aspects of their bullets and marketing, I spent a number of years shooting a lot of bullets to figure out the trajectory when even a decent velocity had to be figured out from many shots and conditions, I'm OK shooting maybe 10-20 rounds to tune a BC now days.</p><p></p><p>I can't count the times I've adjusted the BC on the same Berger bullets and BC is a huge part of their marketing, over time everyone refine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 2614948, member: 13632"] If I remember right Steve has been trying to get his hands on some higher end equipment for getting tighter BC numbers, I don't think it's something not on their mind BUT I think their putting money/time into what is important to their business which is quite obviously not modeled around BC but terminal performance which is where they are spending their precious R&D dollars. I've shot some screamer BC bullets that frankly sucked a big one when they landed, ya they were fun to shoot but when you open up a rib cage and see more luck in the kill than bullet performance it takes the edge off that. Do I like a BC number I just pick it off the menu in AB, sure but frankly now that we have such excellent chronographs figuring out the BC doesn't even make me think twice especially when it's plain as day on the we site their calculated or drops, I know what that means, same thing as it has for 20 years. Eventually each company has been able to push resources to refine many aspects of their bullets and marketing, I spent a number of years shooting a lot of bullets to figure out the trajectory when even a decent velocity had to be figured out from many shots and conditions, I'm OK shooting maybe 10-20 rounds to tune a BC now days. I can't count the times I've adjusted the BC on the same Berger bullets and BC is a huge part of their marketing, over time everyone refine. [/QUOTE]
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