RE: " Playing The Field" --- Do Your Skills Transfer?
You' re right. Some folks shoot more on feel than others.
If I was going to push beyond 300 yards on out to where those " long range" folks were talking a few months ago (5/6/7/800 yards) where a " fine touch" is required, I' d probably gravitate to an " old faithful" especially since I don' t want to put $1,000 tactical scopes, bull barrels, and Jewel triggers on everything else; however, at 300 yards or less, with hunting rifles, and with Leupold glass across the board, it looks to me like..... the difference between " intimate" and " familiar" isn' t much!
223 - 050 gr - 3100 fps; +1.7 @ 100, 0 @ 200, -8.6 @ 300
308 - 150 gr - 2900 fps; +1.7 @ 100, 0 @ 200, -7.7 @ 300
338 - 225 gr - 2700 fps; +2.0 @ 100, 0 @ 200, -8.4 @ 300
375 - 270 gr - 2700 fps; +2.0 @ 100, 0 @ 200, -8.8 @ 300
416 - 325 gr - 2900 fps; +1.7 @ 100, 0 @ 200, -7.2 @ 300
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.................................... .3" diff... .0" diff...... 1.6" diff
Looks like these bullets all fly down the same string! Now add a critter the size of an elk and I do believe I am going to be other more important things to worry about than achieving 1.6" of intimacy at 300 yards.
Never Go Undergunned, Always Check The Sight In, Perform At Showtime,
EKM