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3200fps is a low end threshold that many varmint hunters prefer there ammo to be at or faster for their rifles flattest trajectory and to achieved a higher energy stat. Speculating I am: "Anything less than 3200. Equals a 30wcf's down range performance." To be quite honest there is {not} one center-fire big game cartridge in this residence that has a velocity less than 3200 at muzzle. "Then again load those cartridges your comfortable with >their using." Last edited by Sure Shot Mc Gee; October 29, 2018 at 09:40 AM. |
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I’m a big fan of light and fast but I’ve loaded a fair variety of bullets weights in a fair variety of guns. 35gr .22-250 over 4,500fps, the powder charge outweighs the bullet... 139gr 7mm-08 with Trail Boss in a 15” Pro Hunter... rainbow trajectory but quite accurate at 100... and quite a few in between. .30-06, .270WSM, .243, .204Ruger, etc
I’m no expert, to be sure, but I can say one thing with reasonable certainty... neither bullet weight (presuming appropriate weight/twist) nor velocity are directly correlated with accuracy. I see a lot of guys talking about how best accuracy is often under max load... well yeah... max load is a single data point, with perhaps 50 reasonable points (0.1gr increments) below it... in that case, the odds are about 2% that the best accuracy will be “max”. Should a reloader decide, at their own discretion and risk, to exceed that “max” load, there is every chance that they will find “most accurate” at some higher data point. There’s nothing magical about “slower”. It’s just statistics.
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