Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Inflated BC? Specifically the 150gr etip?

Kman-my curious side has me wanting to ask so I will but how far off are you planning to use this bullet?

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Dober

That was a good demonstration of just how easy it can be to fine tune a load's BC based or real world conditions and drop data. Even with such demonstrations, I expect the technique will remain one of the best kept secrets among long range hunters.

That was a nice demonstration, a lot more sophisticated than my plugging numbers until the ballistic program reflected my data. Just goes to show, one cannot always rely on marketing hype. That's another reason why one needs to go to the range and shoot each distance involved when having a yardage turret made for a certain load. They'll go by the advertised B.C. and the finished product may not be right, probably won't be.

DF

No need to test every range unless you think your turret is crap, and if you do, get a better one. Just zero at some range like 200 yards and then see what drop you get at two more ranges such as 300 and 400 yards or longer if that's what you intend to shoot at. From my prior post you see it's easy to find the BC that gives you the right drop at one other range. The magic of Dr. Oehler's software is that you can use drop at a third range to test that BC or discover other factors like small changes in MV that give a match. Every time you click or drag a slider control all the numbers and graphs update instantly, you just click-in the solution. No other software that I know of figures head and tail winds into BC, yet I run into both most of the time when I'm shooting. Once you have the real BC worked out you can figure your drop at any other range under any other conditions. Unless you're 12 and rich you don't have enough time or ammo to test all that at the range.

Unfortunately, MacLorry is right, this technique and many others might as well be a secret because the required software is beyond the means for most of those reading this blog.

Thanks for the credit, but the "sliders" and easy solution were entirely the invention Richard Larson who has labored on "Ballistic Explorer" for many decades.

Ken O