Those of you that take the long shots out west... are you using flat base or boat tail bullets to bring home the meat? I assume you would be using 30 cal's or 7mm's because of ballistic coeffecient, but I wonder what works for you?
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Those of you that take the long shots out west... are you using flat base or boat tail bullets to bring home the meat? I assume you would be using 30 cal's or 7mm's because of ballistic coeffecient, but I wonder what works for you?
Not out west, but take an occasional long shot at targets. You can't beat barnes for very, very high BC. But for better BC, boattails are it.
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RE: bullets for long reach
it would be safe to say the top choices in calibers are between 6mm and 30 cal. I personally would favor boattail bullets but have used flat base bullets too.
my meat getters are a 6mm rem , 308 win and 30-06. but looking at getting a 300 win mag. with my 308's I generally use 150 - 165 grain bullets same with the '06 I use a 85 grain sierra BTHP gameking in the 6mm but recently started playing with 58 grain v-max's for yotes and varmints.
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At distances inside of 1/4 mile or so, the boattail isn't anywhere near as important as the front end of the bullet. Having said that, however, most of my long range bullets have a boattail. For no other reason, they start easier when bullet seating. Once the bullet falls below the speed of sound (which is way beyond the range any responsible rifle hunter should shoot), the boattail really helps the bullet slip through the air.
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RE: bullets for long reach
Wow---If I remember some of my high school physics, I think the speed of sound is about 1320 fps. For a rifle shootig around 3000 fps at the muzzle, depending on bullet weight, that could be a little further than most could feel comfortable connecting with-----
For long range shooting the heavy for caliber high BC bullets will outrun the regular bullets everytime, and do it with less wind drift. My advise is shoot the highest BC longest bullet your barrel will stabilize. My 7mm Allen Mag fires a 200 gr wildcat (BC of .9) at 3360 fps, and has shot a 1 7/8"s group at 660 yds, off a bipod.
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