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Old February 4, 2012, 06:12 AM   #4
warningshot
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38 spl. shooters often can not find their 'zero's' (bullet path intersects line of sight) as easily with the "Heavies" as they can with the 140 to 160 grain loads.

Example: Using a B27 targer at 7 yrds or 15 yrds or 25 yrds, most 38 spl. shooters quickly discover 'Kentucy Windage', better known as Hold-Over, without ever needing the Zero concept explained. With the 110s or less and or the 160s or more, the shooter(s) are often totally lost to the concept of zero.

Is this scientific? No. Is this what happens on the range, alot...Yes.

In the old old olden-days, Bonnie & Clyde era, those old boys were shooting something 38... 38s&w, 38 long colt, 38 long, and they often reported posetively on their 38 whatevers, and...and...the 38 whatevers, as I recall, used a heavy bullet for that particular 38 whatever. By the mid 1950s all those 38 whatevers were standardized with the new and powerful 38 Special.
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