+1 on Bryan's book. I have a list of many of his suggested BCs in my documents. I have had several e-mail conversations with him and he is a great guy, very helpful and knowledgeable.
Recently I had a chance to visit a range with fixed steel targets at 300 meters, 385 meters and 500 meters. It is a silhoutte range. What a joy to paint the steel black and see the hits from the bench. I was able to shoot 6 different rifles at those targets. I can confirm that Bryan's BCs were very precise for quite a variety of bullets I use except one. I'll list the BCs of bullets I use down the page. I use the JBM program which includes MOA comeups which made using the turrets very easy.
The 200 gr accubond, 115 .257 Berger VLD, 125 nosler bt, 180 Berger 7mm VLD performed as predicted by Mr. Litz.
The one exception was the 150 nosler Ballistic tip. It's down range performance was what Nosler suggested .498. I actually used the G7 standard, I did some simple math and it is .254
The 150 nos bt worked with that G7 BC with a 7 rem mag and a 284 win. Both rifles are using moly coated bullets which might have caused the higher BC.
Mr. Litz uses chronographs not mathematical formulas to calculate BCs. He recommends using the G7 standard for boattails. read about it:
http://02b0516.netsolhost.com/blog1/?p=62Not every program can utilize a G7 standard. JBM does:
http://www.jbmballistics.com/Here is some data on barometric pressure and some BCs recommended by Mr. Litz.
Barometric pressure must be adjusted for the elevation with the JBM program:
Barometric pressure adjustments
2500ft 27.32
2550 27.07
3000 26.82
4000 25.84
5000 24.90
8000 22.23
Some BCs taken from Bryan's book or figured out with simple math:
257:
115 Berger VLD .466 (G1) .239 (G7)
.284:
168 Brg VLD .617 (G1) 316 (G7)
180 Brg VLD .659 (G1) 337 (G7)
175 SMK .310 (G7)
150 nosler bt .447 (G1) .229 (G7) or if Nosler BC is used .498(G1) .254(G7)
150 nosler E-tip .451(G1) .231 (G7)
162 A-max .599 (g1) .307 (G7)
160 Accubond .244 (G7)
.270:
130 nosler bt .427 (G1) .218 (G7)
.308:
165 sierra gameking .213 (G7)
165 nos bt .444 (G1) .227 (G7)
180 Accubond .481 (G1) .246 (G7)
200 Accubond .273 (G7) done mathematically by Bryan Litz
Hope this helps some. Get Mr. Litz's book for other BCs and lots more!!