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Post by BozoWise on Nov 13, 2003 13:49:04 GMT -5
"I shot a bullet into the air.... where it fell... I do not care!  Now I know where that bullet hole came from in Deadeyes roof  |
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Post by CoonDawg on Nov 13, 2003 20:25:22 GMT -5
Allen does that include airfare to shoot with you ;D
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Post by texasshooter on Nov 24, 2003 10:44:56 GMT -5
Sorry I missed your post requesting a drop table. I have been traveling a lot lately and I haven't had as much time to read the TPP board. Anyway, I have a couple of addtional pieces of information that I need before I can get that drop table to you. I sent you two messages.
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Mohawk
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Post by Mohawk on Nov 26, 2003 5:18:20 GMT -5
Gents,
Holy cow! I didn't know there were any public ranges in Texas with 1,000-yard stretches! I guess I should've been spending more time here over the past several months!
Still, all the forementioned locales are a good distance from Houston, which is where I'm located. But seein' as how I'm all about the long range thing, I might just have to make some overnight road trips. Currently, I do the overwhelmingly majority of my training at American Shooting Centers in Houston (where there are stretches going out a little ways past 600 yards) and on the East Texas spread of the family of one of my close friends (where I can shoot out to 1,000 yards). Unfortunately, it's just about as big a production to go and shoot at the latter locale -- which is only 2 hours from downtown Houston -- as it would be to drive to Mineral Wells seein' as how I can't just go up there anytime I want. My friend Bill has to feel like indulging me in the affair and that's not always the case since he's a shotgunner (clays and dove) rather than a rifleman. But I love to shoot up there when I can (about once a month)! This past summer I scored a five shot group (from a prone position) with a new rifle in .300 WSM that measured just under 8". Needless to say, it was a personal best for me at that distance. And needless to say, I'd never seen the conditions more ideal (e.g. virtually zero air movement)!
So gentlemen, how long a drive is it to Mineral Wells from downtown Houston?
Best,
Dave
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Mohawk
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Post by Mohawk on Nov 26, 2003 6:00:12 GMT -5
Fostech,
I ran that calibre .22 load of yours -- assuming certain mean atmospheric variables for our state from Oct. thru Feb. and a wind velocity of 5mph moving at 90 degree angle to the trajectory of your bullet -- and the program generated the following:
Drop (inches) Windage (inches)
200 yds: - 1.9 2.2
300 yds: - 8.3 5.4
400 yds: - 20.9 10.3
500 yds: - 42.2 17.4
600 yds: - 75.7 27.4
700 yds: - 126.7 40.6
800 yds: - 202.2 57.2
900 yds: - 309.2 76.5
1000 yds: - 454.2 98.0
This is pretty remarkable when you consider that at a distance of 600 yards, this little 53-gr bullet, with it's 0.224 ballistic coefficient, will drop only 25 inches more than a calibre .308 projectile that has better than twice the B.C. and over three times the mass. Of course, this is also assuming an initial velocity of 3,700 fps in the 53-gr MK versus 3,325 in the 167-gr Scenar. Shows ya just how compensatory velocity can be!
Best,
Dave
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Post by Dead Eye on Nov 26, 2003 10:49:50 GMT -5
Ok now  I know who fired that shot into the air just lucky I have a real hard head. Long rang 270 Weatherby Mag. ;D Laters Dead Eye |
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Post by ICMCumin on Nov 30, 2003 20:49:35 GMT -5
Hey Dead Eye - read where the KKK fired a shot into the air at one of their initiation rites and it hit one of their inductees in the head. Guess they should win some kind of Darwin award or something for that stunt.  |
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