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Old 05-22-2012 | 12:57 PM
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ronlaughlin
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The calculation shows the velocity at 300 yard to be 1157 fps. This is just a tad faster than the speed of sound. Any distance further and this bullet will slow through the sound barrier, and probably lose any accuracy it has. It seems the sound barrier would cause buffeting of the bullet. Thus it seems that this bullet won't be accurate beyond this range when shot from this rifle using this load.

Since last summer i have been sighting in all my rifles at 100 yard. The ballistic calculation chart shows this bullet with this muzzle velocity will need to be 14.25" high at 100 yard to be zeroed at 300 yard. What i did to accomplish this hit, was turn the elevation dial of the scope 14.25 minute of angle up. This is just 3 clicks less than a full revolution of the dial. This was a good thing for this particular dial, because it has ball stops on it, and cannot be turned more than one revolution.

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