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Old November 5, 2011, 10:27 AM   #13
mehavey
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Supersonic = Mach-1 ~ 1,130fps at sealevel STP

The reason you don't want drop below s/s in precison shooting is that dropping through the shockzone perterbs flight. You either want to be definitely sonic or definitively supersonic -- but not "trans"sonic right at the target. (Then you don't know what's going to happen.)

Here's the exterior ballistic for an AMax starting at 2,300:



(If you bump muzzle velocity up to 2,550, you push that remaining 1,200fps/supersonic velocity out to 1,000 yards)
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