Tazman

That is to funny because I realized I hadn't even mentioned the bullet weight!

I have heard great things about 165 grain silver tips, the other info I will have to provide Monday. Of course by then I may have already found out sighting the gun in.

Tazman

Guys one more quick question, I will be hunting for a week this year where there is a possibility of not only taking white tail, but elk and black bear, what would be a good round to fit all three without a huge amount of overkill on the white tail?

bigcountry

I suggest the accubonds. And 165 to 180gr at that.

bigcountry

Running infinity, with 168gr Silvertip winchester and assuming 2800fps, here is what i got with 100 yards zero with 1.5" scope hieght.

Distance Path Velocity
0 -1.5" 2800
100 0 2607
200 -3.62" 2423
300 -13.17" 2246
400 -29.62" 2077
500 -54.15" 1915

tbonecpa

Go to theFederal cartridge site and download their interactive ballistic tables. It takes into account temperature, windage, elevation, and different sight indistances. The other cool thing is you can print out the stats on your cartridge in landscape mode, cutout just the table, and shipping tape it to your stock for your trip.Covering the piece of paper with shipping tape pretty much water proofs it too. You will have bullet drop as well as windage results right where you need them. It would be a shame to makea mistake onsomething you can prepare for ahead of time. The only down side is that you eliminated a lot of the excuses as to why you missed.

Oh yeah, I second the Accubond vote, especially in 180 gr.

Ark City Larry

I would sight it in 1.7 to 3" high at 100.....................

Rebel Hog

Hey Taz, here you go partner!

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Briman

Ballistics charts are useless unless you have a chronograph to measure the true velocity. Ballistics printed on ammo boxes tend to be optimistic and/or only good for the test gun that was used to get those numbers.

With a typical load zeroed at 100 yards, here's a pretty rough estimate of your trajectory assuming that you are shooting at ~2800 fps give or take.

50 yards -1"
100 yards 0
200 yards -4"
300 yards -14"

The highpower rule of thumb is: zeroed at 100...
up 2 minutes to 200
up 3minutes from 200 to 300

Remember this for most non magnum cartridges and you'll be pretty close.

stubblejumper

Be aware that trajectory charts are only a rough estimate of point of impact.Even if you have chronographed your rifle and know the exact velocity for that load in your rifle,the charts could easily be out enough to make the difference between a clean kill and a miss or worse yet a wounded animal.

Tazman

Thanks for all the info guys, I bought it Friday, right now I can tell you it shoots sweet and straight, the figures you all have posted seem about right, but I have not properly bench shot it yet, hopefully I will find out today or tomorrow. Thanks for all the help.