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So im kind of confused. Bart I hear and agree with everything you are saying but as one person commented before, they thought given the BT and FB at a far range the FB would hold less of a grouping. Besides the obvious drop, would wind resistance not affect the FB because of the streamline capabilities. Even if there is no wind, would there not be resistance in the air on matter how minimal. For instance, an object cutting through water, depending on the streamline capabilities would slow it down but could it slightly change direction? I am unsure but is there not always resistance... besides gravity of course.
Sorry if this is completely wrong, its been a long time since physics in college, im just trying to brainstorm if the poster could in someway be correct. Also could this be tested if you found a way to take a 1000yrd shot indoors, say the largest airport hanger. Would that not eliminate wind?
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In theory? "maybe"...... But most of us dont shoot in theory, we shoot in real life, right?
And of course in real life you have to take real life variables into account.... Even pretending we have an imaginary "windless day" there are variable which can, (and always do), cause the BT's groups to open up less at long range. Seemingly innocuous things like varying terrain that changes from grass to sand and back is going to have an effect, since the air will be warmer over the sand than the grass, which in itself would still lend uniformity to groups, except that its not just warmer, but rising, which means its being replaced, with air from over the grass, which then needs to be replaced, etc.... so, you have swirling air, even on a windless day.... unfortunately for this particular "theory", its not going to swirl uniformly, so each and every bullet has a different pattern of air density to go through. Thats going to affect every shot, but as we know, its going to affect the boat tail bullets
less, and the FB bullets
more, so the FB bullets groups will always open up more than BT bullets groups, even on a mythical "windless" day.
BTW, the largest hanger in the world is something under 400 yards, and even if one were built 1000 yards long, its going to have windows, which means its going to have temperature variations along the flight path.....