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What is your hit probability on a 10" target at 1000 yards? First shot.
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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2801568" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>Yes, you're making perfect sense.</p><p></p><p>It's a big part of the argument supporting hunting with large magnums, because higher-BC and heavier bullets going faster always work better against the wind and give you an edge against all the variables you described.</p><p></p><p>I'm in the camp of terminal ballistics is simply a matter of the bullet arriving going fast enough to expand correctly and don't get into energy levels or anything like that. Yet I'm still a fan of big boomers because of how much more leeway they give in the ballistic portion of a shot. That's why I'm planning to go hunting with some light field artillery next year in the form of a 300 LIMP <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /> 3000+ FPS from a 245gn Berger is going to leave a mark...</p><p></p><p></p><p>This is the same reason match shooters can hit high percentages of first rounds. They're in a place where so many variables are controlled and they've shot so many times they're only working against one variable (wind) and not environment, range, ammo, recoil, fatigue, etc. When the wind is something they've worked against before (same amount at same location) they can guess it pretty darn good.</p><p></p><p>I shoot at a range where around 1100 yards a cut opens in the tree line and wind values almost double to stay on target at the next yard line. It might be unfair the new guys at a match who don't know what's going to happen to watch them miss big rolling out 100 more yards, but hey if you ain't first you're last, right?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2801568, member: 116181"] Yes, you're making perfect sense. It's a big part of the argument supporting hunting with large magnums, because higher-BC and heavier bullets going faster always work better against the wind and give you an edge against all the variables you described. I'm in the camp of terminal ballistics is simply a matter of the bullet arriving going fast enough to expand correctly and don't get into energy levels or anything like that. Yet I'm still a fan of big boomers because of how much more leeway they give in the ballistic portion of a shot. That's why I'm planning to go hunting with some light field artillery next year in the form of a 300 LIMP 🤣 3000+ FPS from a 245gn Berger is going to leave a mark... This is the same reason match shooters can hit high percentages of first rounds. They're in a place where so many variables are controlled and they've shot so many times they're only working against one variable (wind) and not environment, range, ammo, recoil, fatigue, etc. When the wind is something they've worked against before (same amount at same location) they can guess it pretty darn good. I shoot at a range where around 1100 yards a cut opens in the tree line and wind values almost double to stay on target at the next yard line. It might be unfair the new guys at a match who don't know what's going to happen to watch them miss big rolling out 100 more yards, but hey if you ain't first you're last, right? [/QUOTE]
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