ORIGINAL: gleason.chapman
ORIGINAL: saxman1
I fell pray to the advertising hype(which I am prone to do) and bought the Nikon Omega BDC scope for my Encore and picked up some SW 250's per the scope reccomendation for the BDC and 150grn charge.
I have yet to try it.I knew less then than I do now and that seems like allot of shoulder punisment.
Scott,
We all are learing. I bought my Savage with the same ideas in mind as you did your Encore(shoot 200 yards, aero type head bullets--less cleaning). You really only get about and extra 25 yards with a higher BC bullet, and if we had just done the ballistics on the bullets we had, we could have done that. However it is fun to learn about these bullet design theories and why they do what the do. John Nosler when he invented the Nosler Partition started a whole new ballgame:
See this and see below:
