What does it mean for a caliber to be flat shooting?
Certain calibers such as the 300 Winchester Magnum are often called flat shooting.
What does that mean and why would a hunter care that the caliber is flat shooting when selecting a rifle to go hunting with?
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Certain calibers such as the 300 Winchester Magnum are often called flat shooting.
What does that mean and why would a hunter care that the caliber is flat shooting when selecting a rifle to go hunting with?
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Certain calibers such as the 300 Winchester Magnum are often called flat shooting.
What does that mean and why would a hunter care that the caliber is flat shooting when selecting a rifle to go hunting with?
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Certain calibers such as the 300 Winchester Magnum are often called flat shooting.
What does that mean and why would a hunter care that the caliber is flat shooting when selecting a rifle to go hunting with?
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Bullets follow a parabolic arc as seen below,
Image Source
As you can see the yellow line is a bullet fired from a longer barrel which results in a higher velocity and thus less drop over distance. In this case the yellow line is a flatter shooting rifle.
Cartridges that are regarded as flatter shooting have one or both of two things going for them, they are traveling at a much higher velocity to start with and or have a better ballistic coefficient resulting in less drag.
See for example 6.5 Creedmore vs. 308 Winchester.
Source
The reason that this matters is that with a flatter shooting cartridge you don't have to get the range to the animal as accurately because the bullet is dropping less. This leads to the concept of point-blank-range as fully explained here
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The ~3 inch long flip up sight on a bolt-action Springfield goes to 3000 yards. Iron sighting at that distance is all but impossible, and for most people even with a scope. So you engage at under 1000, ideally less than 600, where you can basically ignore bullet drop.
answered 7 hours ago
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I'm not an expert, but I'm really quite certain that at 600 or 1000 yards you can most certainly not ignore bullet drop. Did you by any chance mix up your order of magnitude and mean 300/100/60 yards?
– fgysin
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The reason for the 3 K sight on the 03 Springfield was for volley fire. Basically say a platoon of soldiers firing at a group of enemy soldiers. They could be quite deadley
@ 3K yards.
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Bullets follow a parabolic arc as seen below,
Image Source
As you can see the yellow line is a bullet fired from a longer barrel which results in a higher velocity and thus less drop over distance. In this case the yellow line is a flatter shooting rifle.
Cartridges that are regarded as flatter shooting have one or both of two things going for them, they are traveling at a much higher velocity to start with and or have a better ballistic coefficient resulting in less drag.
See for example 6.5 Creedmore vs. 308 Winchester.
Source
The reason that this matters is that with a flatter shooting cartridge you don't have to get the range to the animal as accurately because the bullet is dropping less. This leads to the concept of point-blank-range as fully explained here
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Bullets follow a parabolic arc as seen below,
Image Source
As you can see the yellow line is a bullet fired from a longer barrel which results in a higher velocity and thus less drop over distance. In this case the yellow line is a flatter shooting rifle.
Cartridges that are regarded as flatter shooting have one or both of two things going for them, they are traveling at a much higher velocity to start with and or have a better ballistic coefficient resulting in less drag.
See for example 6.5 Creedmore vs. 308 Winchester.
Source
The reason that this matters is that with a flatter shooting cartridge you don't have to get the range to the animal as accurately because the bullet is dropping less. This leads to the concept of point-blank-range as fully explained here
answered 16 hours ago
Charlie BrumbaughCharlie Brumbaugh
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Bullets follow a parabolic arc as seen below,
Image Source
As you can see the yellow line is a bullet fired from a longer barrel which results in a higher velocity and thus less drop over distance. In this case the yellow line is a flatter shooting rifle.
Cartridges that are regarded as flatter shooting have one or both of two things going for them, they are traveling at a much higher velocity to start with and or have a better ballistic coefficient resulting in less drag.
See for example 6.5 Creedmore vs. 308 Winchester.
Source
The reason that this matters is that with a flatter shooting cartridge you don't have to get the range to the animal as accurately because the bullet is dropping less. This leads to the concept of point-blank-range as fully explained here
answered 16 hours ago
Charlie BrumbaughCharlie Brumbaugh
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Bullets follow a parabolic arc as seen below,
Image Source
As you can see the yellow line is a bullet fired from a longer barrel which results in a higher velocity and thus less drop over distance. In this case the yellow line is a flatter shooting rifle.
Cartridges that are regarded as flatter shooting have one or both of two things going for them, they are traveling at a much higher velocity to start with and or have a better ballistic coefficient resulting in less drag.
See for example 6.5 Creedmore vs. 308 Winchester.
Source
The reason that this matters is that with a flatter shooting cartridge you don't have to get the range to the animal as accurately because the bullet is dropping less. This leads to the concept of point-blank-range as fully explained here
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The ~3 inch long flip up sight on a bolt-action Springfield goes to 3000 yards. Iron sighting at that distance is all but impossible, and for most people even with a scope. So you engage at under 1000, ideally less than 600, where you can basically ignore bullet drop.
answered 7 hours ago
MazuraMazura
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I'm not an expert, but I'm really quite certain that at 600 or 1000 yards you can most certainly not ignore bullet drop. Did you by any chance mix up your order of magnitude and mean 300/100/60 yards?
– fgysin
34 mins ago
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The ~3 inch long flip up sight on a bolt-action Springfield goes to 3000 yards. Iron sighting at that distance is all but impossible, and for most people even with a scope. So you engage at under 1000, ideally less than 600, where you can basically ignore bullet drop.
answered 7 hours ago
MazuraMazura
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I'm not an expert, but I'm really quite certain that at 600 or 1000 yards you can most certainly not ignore bullet drop. Did you by any chance mix up your order of magnitude and mean 300/100/60 yards?
– fgysin
34 mins ago
add a comment |
The ~3 inch long flip up sight on a bolt-action Springfield goes to 3000 yards. Iron sighting at that distance is all but impossible, and for most people even with a scope. So you engage at under 1000, ideally less than 600, where you can basically ignore bullet drop.
answered 7 hours ago
MazuraMazura
1835
The ~3 inch long flip up sight on a bolt-action Springfield goes to 3000 yards. Iron sighting at that distance is all but impossible, and for most people even with a scope. So you engage at under 1000, ideally less than 600, where you can basically ignore bullet drop.
answered 7 hours ago
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I'm not an expert, but I'm really quite certain that at 600 or 1000 yards you can most certainly not ignore bullet drop. Did you by any chance mix up your order of magnitude and mean 300/100/60 yards?
– fgysin
34 mins ago
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I'm not an expert, but I'm really quite certain that at 600 or 1000 yards you can most certainly not ignore bullet drop. Did you by any chance mix up your order of magnitude and mean 300/100/60 yards?
– fgysin
34 mins ago
I'm not an expert, but I'm really quite certain that at 600 or 1000 yards you can most certainly not ignore bullet drop. Did you by any chance mix up your order of magnitude and mean 300/100/60 yards?
– fgysin
34 mins ago
I'm not an expert, but I'm really quite certain that at 600 or 1000 yards you can most certainly not ignore bullet drop. Did you by any chance mix up your order of magnitude and mean 300/100/60 yards?
– fgysin
34 mins ago
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The reason for the 3 K sight on the 03 Springfield was for volley fire. Basically say a platoon of soldiers firing at a group of enemy soldiers. They could be quite deadley
@ 3K yards.
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The reason for the 3 K sight on the 03 Springfield was for volley fire. Basically say a platoon of soldiers firing at a group of enemy soldiers. They could be quite deadley
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The reason for the 3 K sight on the 03 Springfield was for volley fire. Basically say a platoon of soldiers firing at a group of enemy soldiers. They could be quite deadley
@ 3K yards.
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The reason for the 3 K sight on the 03 Springfield was for volley fire. Basically say a platoon of soldiers firing at a group of enemy soldiers. They could be quite deadley
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