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Velocity vs group size
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<blockquote data-quote="screech" data-source="post: 1346534" data-attributes="member: 5135"><p>I've always ran the best grouping, low es loads and never really cared much for if it was slow or fast I just figured it was what it was and if it took me another minute or two then so be it. Then I read an article and it showed a point of diminishing returns on accuracy vs percent chance of hitting a certain size object. If I remember right it was like a 10 inch circle at 700yrds. The difference between a 1 Moa and a .5 Moa gun hitting it was like 8 percent. I may have numbers wrong on article if someone else read it but I wasn't concentrating at the time real hard on it. It got me thinking if I should care more about velocity. So just as a for instance question, would you rather shoot a 3/8 Moa gun at 2900 vs a 3/4 Moa gun at 3150. With every thing other than group and velocity being equal. Or would you be better off having the superior ballistics in environmental cheating of the faster load. This is just hunting not competition. What do you guys do. Ran the numbers and it was like a 3 Moa elevation difference at 7-800 yards or something along those lines</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="screech, post: 1346534, member: 5135"] I've always ran the best grouping, low es loads and never really cared much for if it was slow or fast I just figured it was what it was and if it took me another minute or two then so be it. Then I read an article and it showed a point of diminishing returns on accuracy vs percent chance of hitting a certain size object. If I remember right it was like a 10 inch circle at 700yrds. The difference between a 1 Moa and a .5 Moa gun hitting it was like 8 percent. I may have numbers wrong on article if someone else read it but I wasn't concentrating at the time real hard on it. It got me thinking if I should care more about velocity. So just as a for instance question, would you rather shoot a 3/8 Moa gun at 2900 vs a 3/4 Moa gun at 3150. With every thing other than group and velocity being equal. Or would you be better off having the superior ballistics in environmental cheating of the faster load. This is just hunting not competition. What do you guys do. Ran the numbers and it was like a 3 Moa elevation difference at 7-800 yards or something along those lines [/QUOTE]
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