Originally Posted by Jordan Smith
Originally Posted by jwp475
Originally Posted by Jordan Smith
Originally Posted by Hesp
It has been my experience that higher BC long range bullets are harder to get to shoot accurately. My Barnes 6.5 120gr TSX/TTSx, excellent accuracy. Try the 6.5 127 LRX & accuracy is dismal. Same results with Nosler . Great accuracy with their 6.5 140 gr AB bullet, but terrible results with their 142gr LRAB. Have had similar results with other so called long range bullets. It appears there is less surface contact between the bullet & the rifling.. Which results in less stability.

That's certainly not been my experience.

The bearing surface doesn't directly impact stability.



Bullet length impacts stability. The longer the bullet the faster the twist rate needs to be.






Well, yeah. But we’re not talking about bullet OAL, rather the length of the bearing surface, on which stability does not directly depend.


That's what I said.


I got banned on another web site for a debate that happened on this site. That's a first