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<blockquote data-quote="charliewhisky" data-source="post: 2846864" data-attributes="member: 26716"><p>First a disclaimer, Im not that experienced at long range shooting and I'm not that experienced at fine testing loads when reloading.</p><p>I do love to follow some of these discussions and they often make me wonder if I'm missing something important. This thread is one of those. It really seems to be a case of liking the rifle and choosing the best bullet and powder combination. </p><p>I don't really get the need to bring in other calibers for comparison, especially when you know the other caliber is tried and proven. An example: I wanted to shoot my 30-06 at 500 to 600 yds at a local range and didn't want to burn out the barrel with high loads. At the same time I had it in the back of my mind that it woud be nice to be able to use the selected round for any gamme animal in North America, even though that is not going to happen. I ended up using a 200gr ELD-x going 2772fps out of the barrel and I got prettty good at 500 to 600 yds. . For that imaginary Elk at 900 yds my bullet would impact at a velocity of 1631fps and an energy of 1182. Horady thinks, "In general, the ELD-X bullets will provide reliable and effective terminal performance up to velocities of approximately 1,600 feet per second."</p><p>This is a slow bullet by most of your standards. just saying</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="charliewhisky, post: 2846864, member: 26716"] First a disclaimer, Im not that experienced at long range shooting and I'm not that experienced at fine testing loads when reloading. I do love to follow some of these discussions and they often make me wonder if I'm missing something important. This thread is one of those. It really seems to be a case of liking the rifle and choosing the best bullet and powder combination. I don't really get the need to bring in other calibers for comparison, especially when you know the other caliber is tried and proven. An example: I wanted to shoot my 30-06 at 500 to 600 yds at a local range and didn't want to burn out the barrel with high loads. At the same time I had it in the back of my mind that it woud be nice to be able to use the selected round for any gamme animal in North America, even though that is not going to happen. I ended up using a 200gr ELD-x going 2772fps out of the barrel and I got prettty good at 500 to 600 yds. . For that imaginary Elk at 900 yds my bullet would impact at a velocity of 1631fps and an energy of 1182. Horady thinks, "In general, the ELD-X bullets will provide reliable and effective terminal performance up to velocities of approximately 1,600 feet per second." This is a slow bullet by most of your standards. just saying [/QUOTE]
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