So you have a need to shed velocity faster than you have to? Your connecting the dots that aren't there on your last paragraph. You would think a guy that pumped one in the guts and lost it due to the wind would see the light.. some guys are hard learners..
While I could use a higher B.C. bullet I would have to trade off other features that I value more highly. This is exactly what you do when you choose the AB over higher B.C. bullets. The dots are there, you just can't see them or refuse to admit that you do.
While an inch or two difference in wind drift can make a difference, it is possible but doubtful that the elk I shot in the liver (based on the very dark blood trail) would have suffered a different fate if I had used an AB instead of a NF bullet.
What trades off would that be? Certainly there are a variety of bullets that will do the dames things as a North Fork, yet aren't shaped like a brick. And the liver is directly behind the diaphragm. A fee inches. might have got you that elk.
