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Ron, I read all the posts here and have looked thru the list of bullets you have tested, and was wondering, would you have an idea, or possibly know, with the 50 gr charges you used for the down range testing, what the range would actually be, or close to it? Would these tests you ran be for 150 yd performance, 200 maybe? Just curious. Thanks for all the work you did in putting this together. very informative.
"Even though you use a calculator makes no difference , rifle must be shot to confirm the dope"....
45-70 posted this in another thread just a while ago and I think it pretty much pertains to what Ron's testing shows here with the two powder charges he's settled on for his testing. There are too many variables between guns and the components used in the guns to just say "this will work". I had a similar thought and actually took boxes stuffed with wet newspaper to the range and walked them out to 100 yards, then shot into them using the bullets I was planning to hunt with [a .451 250 grain XTP and a .429 250 grain XPB Barnes. Both bullets did what I wanted using the wet papers using the indentical 77 weighed grains of BH209. I needed two fair sized boxes of wet paper, back-to-back, to capture the bullets.
Everyone likes shortcuts. I know I do. Yet there are instances where guessing is just not the answer, especially if you're planning on hunting.