Posted on 12/28/2018 5:05:37 AM PST by w1n1
Thanks for the heads-up.
My first really accurate pistol was a Colt Woodsman. I traded in an H&R 49er at Jimmy’s Pawn in Ft. Walton Bch. The owner who everyone called “Jick” was easy to deal with.
I would line up empty 12 gauge shotgun shells at maybe 70 yards. Using my car for a rest, I could hit them about as often as not. I could not do better with a rifle.
I made the mistake of challenging Daddy to a shootout, me with the Colt and him with his Marlin model 99. I was always the best shot in my group of friends but Daddy was something else.
He always embarrassed me. Now that I think about it, he was maybe the best off hand shot I ever knew. He was a combat veteran of WWII and of course had the “expert” with a rifle medal. I bet he could have scored “super expert” if there was such a thing.
Agreed that you loose too much velocity from a short barrel, but a 2) inch 338 indeed stabilizes a 250 or even a 300 grain VLD. Stability is a function of the bullets length, the twist rate and muzzle velocity.
Bullets drop like a rainbow because of time of flight. Provided they fly far enough, all bullets eventually drop like a rainbow REGARDLESS OF VELOCITY because acceleration due to gravity increases with the square of the time of flight.
g = G*M/R^2
The standard twist for the AI 338 won't support anything much longer than a 250-gr Lapua Scenar bullet. And the 250-gr Scenar is preferable to the 300-gr Lockbase anyway because it shows better stability in the transonic transition than the Lockbase.
Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison was shooting an AI 338 and the 250-gr Lapua Scenar in 2009 in Afghanistan when he killed a Taliban from 2707 yards (laser ranged).
And the 168-gr SMK is known to have a design flaw that makes its stability questionable beyond 600-800 yards.
Correct.
And if you dead-drop a bullet from precisely 6ft, it will hit the ground at the same time as a bullet shot at 3,000fps perfectly parallel to flat ground.
So velocity determines HOW FAR the bullet traveled before it dropped that 6ft.
The Ballistic Coefficient of the bullet determines how fast it loses velocity.
The “drop speed” cannot continuously accelerate as there is a finite speed for falling objects. Somebody dropped something off Pisa to prove that.
Unless you want to compute curvature and rotation of the earth for that extra millimeter over 10,000 meters.
Or so.
Glass greatly increases the range, but need to always calculate the range.
Xmas present is (going to be) laser range finder.
And how many recreational shooters do you think have that ability? My guess is that they's be outnumbered.........
Doping the wind and shooting between heartbeats becomes more useful after that, and also larger calibers for the less shift due to said wind.
That does not describe the recreational shooter I mentioned does it?
I am friends with a boatload of recreational shooters, and each one, to a man and woman, can hit the paper plate taped to the backboard, at 400 yards, iron sights.
Many of them quite tight.
Hell, glass is plainly cheating!
I would not bet on the misses missing much.
Perhaps you refer to spray and prayers? close eyes and trigger squeezers?
.LOL.
reality...with the price of cartridges, both store bought or self reload, taking one's time to send one makes sense, and is practiced much more often than banging away at a target 50 yards away.
I do not know anyone in my web that pulls the trigger without careful thought as to where they would like the bullethole to be placed.
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