Originally Posted by
sona
respectively out at 200 yards and with 0 at 100 yards those loads will be slowing down so badly that they will be anywhere from 4.8 to 7.5 inches low at 200 yards. This is with handloads and it would be impossible to buy any factory loads that would replicate close to those levels.
Not quite. Hornady 160gr FTX Leverevolution. Lets not use a 100yd zero. Lets use 3" high at 100yds. Well within the kill zone. At 200yds it would still be .020 high. It would also have 1300fpe. More than enough for a bull elk.
Why shoot at 200yds? Be a hunter instead of a shooter, and get closer.