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<blockquote data-quote="del2les" data-source="post: 2501594" data-attributes="member: 9299"><p>Somewhat have to disagree. Here in the "windy West", several cartridge and bullet loads may drift 3-6 inches at 300, and if the conditions are a little more windy, even more. A light, fast 223 or 243 bullet will completely miss P-dogs, Marmots, etc, and may cause a gut shot coyote instead of a kill. Similar may happen with Pronghorn. Of course with P-dogs and similar size, an inch or two is a miss.</p><p></p><p>We shoot a lot of small varmints in windy conditions and between 300-800 yards, and there is no wind drift comparison between say a 223 or 22-250 with 50-55gr bullets vs my 75-80gr bullets/loads in either. Same for all those NM 600 yard slow prone and 600yd F-Class courses. High BC's dominate, and that is why we began using them so many decades ago. To better handle the changes in wind drift, even shorter 200-300yd BR shooters went to higher BC bullets and calibers like the 6x45, 6BR, 6PPC, 7BR, 308, etc. Not to mention the longer BR shoots from 300 to 1,000 yds.</p><p></p><p>As for larger game in the "windy West", I have witnessed good calm weather shooters miss and make poor hits at very acceptable ranges, but their bullet BC of choice was not the best for tackling these, often, unpredictable winds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="del2les, post: 2501594, member: 9299"] Somewhat have to disagree. Here in the "windy West", several cartridge and bullet loads may drift 3-6 inches at 300, and if the conditions are a little more windy, even more. A light, fast 223 or 243 bullet will completely miss P-dogs, Marmots, etc, and may cause a gut shot coyote instead of a kill. Similar may happen with Pronghorn. Of course with P-dogs and similar size, an inch or two is a miss. We shoot a lot of small varmints in windy conditions and between 300-800 yards, and there is no wind drift comparison between say a 223 or 22-250 with 50-55gr bullets vs my 75-80gr bullets/loads in either. Same for all those NM 600 yard slow prone and 600yd F-Class courses. High BC's dominate, and that is why we began using them so many decades ago. To better handle the changes in wind drift, even shorter 200-300yd BR shooters went to higher BC bullets and calibers like the 6x45, 6BR, 6PPC, 7BR, 308, etc. Not to mention the longer BR shoots from 300 to 1,000 yds. As for larger game in the "windy West", I have witnessed good calm weather shooters miss and make poor hits at very acceptable ranges, but their bullet BC of choice was not the best for tackling these, often, unpredictable winds. [/QUOTE]
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