ORIGINAL: Don Fischer
Try the figures I gave you above, I'll bet they are awful close. With the figure's Winchester gave you, you have a 100 yd zero and50 fps more velocity, that won't make much difference over 300 yds.
The price of that ammo, I sure hope you have a lot of money or are taking up reloading! 30-06 ammo cost's about 1/4 the price and kill's animals only a bit less dead. I hadn't realized that stuff cost that much!
If you can find someone with a cronograph, you'll probally find out the vevocity Winchester gives is not quite right. To many different thing's effecting it.
You were speaking of .30-06 ammo being 1/4 the cost of 300 WSM lead me to this question... I was looking at that balistics chart on the Winchester page and I noticed that with either the Accubond, Ballistic Silvertip, and XP3 barely differ in almost every aspect. Is this really going to make a difference when hunting? It seems like they would all work the same to me? Should I just save $10 and buy the Ballistic Silvertips? My whole idea of using the XP3 was that I could use tem on whitetails and Elk both...