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[thatguy]

What load are you using in the data calculator? Factory? Handloads? Bullet FPS and weight?

I very easily could have been doing something wrong - I was just trying to figure out how high to sight in at 75 yds, so the drop was <3" at around 250 yds..


I was using information on the Hornady factory 250 gr, the coefficient/fps were listed on the hornady website.. the only variable that I i sorta had to guess on with the height over bore for an AR..

[Texas Sheepdawg]

Just wondering for a 300 yd kill - what are ppl sighting the guns for? How high at what distance?

From looking at a ballistic calculator to keep the bullet within +/-3" you could go out to about 250 yds and then it dropped like a brick.. My thought was that at +/- 3" that would allow some human error to keep within a kill zone at that distance

Brian

What load are you using in the data calculator? Factory? Handloads? Bullet FPS and weight?

[Jim in Houston]

The Hornady website shows a 3.4" drop at 200 yards and 25.5" at 300, so a 250 yard shot will probably be outside of the + or - 3" criteria. See http://www.hornady.com/store/450-Bushmaster-250-gr-FTX-LEVERevolution. Hornady also has their ballistic calculator at http://www.hornady.com/ballistics-resource/ballistics-calculator, so you can change parameters and see if you can come up with something else.

There is a post on another thread, where Mr. Rowdy describes sighting in his long range shot - http://www.450bushmaster.net/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=10741&p=28232&hilit=mil+dot+scope#p28232.

[thatguy]

Just wondering for a 300 yd kill - what are ppl sighting the guns for? How high at what distance?

From looking at a ballistic calculator to keep the bullet within +/-3" you could go out to about 250 yds and then it dropped like a brick.. My thought was that at +/- 3" that would allow some human error to keep within a kill zone at that distance

Brian

[MrRowdy]

Put my whitetail down at 300.

[kottke_35]

Welcome aboard. There have been records of people making almost 3 hundred yard kills this year.

B.

[Texas Sheepdawg]

Welcome to the forum. Lots of Indiana folks here...!

[deerhunter1110]

New to here looking in to the 450b as it will be legal here in indiana this year.Can any one tell me the distances they are getting out of factory ammo,and handloading thanks.