Originally Posted by Blacktailer

If I had lots of 264's laying around, I would agree. But my point was who is calculating BC's and are some factories being generous on their numbers? How is BC measured? Is it calculated or is it tested? Who is doing the testing and do they have a dog in the hunt? Most of us remember the optimistic velocity figures quoted by manufacturers and gun scribes. When Chronographs became a common item, those figures needed to be adjusted. I just wonder if the figures are real.


The Hornady bullets I used in my examples have had their B.C. measured/verified with Doppler radar.


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