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Old June 19, 2011, 10:37 AM   #18
Adamantium
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I think people are way over thinking this. Different ammo has different points of impact. 14 inches and 35 yards doesn't sound any more extreme than UMC hardball compared to my reloads in my gun.

Just to illustrate my point using a ballistic calculator a Hornady 230 grain FMJ traveling at 825fps will drop 3.45 inches at 35 yards. If I reduce that to 500fps it drops 9.07 inches, a change of 5.62 inches. Well shy of 14 inches. To account for a 14 inch drop in trajectory you would have to drop the velocity to around 350-360 fps.
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