So I am fairly new at reloading for precision and just looking to finalize a load and load up a bunch for some varmint and target shooting I am looking to do over the next couple months. I have narrowed it down to hornady's 73gr eld-m and noslers 77gr bthp. Both shoot to the same accuracy, about 1/2-3/4 moa with a SD of sub 10. The node I am going with puts the 77gr at 2670fps, and the 73gr at 2700fps.
I am using hornady's 4dof and its accurate to 300 yards with both using whatever data hornady input from the doppler.
with a 100 yard zero this is what the 4dof spits out for each.
300 yards, 15mph wind full value from 9oclock:
73gr eld---------> 1.05mrad elevation, 1.15 windage
77gr bthp ------> 1.13mrad elevation, 1.30 windage
That's from my last time out shooting that load and it was pretty spot on. If I was to bank on the 4dof being accurate further out with the data I am giving it, then 600yards would look like this:
73gr eld--------> 4.51 elevation, 2.73 windage
77gr bthp------> 4.85 elevation, 3.04 windage
Being a novice at this I look at those numbers and it seems at face value like the eld is the clear cut choice here right? Is there something I am overlooking? Energy means little to nothing to me as a vast majority of shooting will either be target, squirrel or coyote's.
I am using hornady's 4dof and its accurate to 300 yards with both using whatever data hornady input from the doppler.
with a 100 yard zero this is what the 4dof spits out for each.
300 yards, 15mph wind full value from 9oclock:
73gr eld---------> 1.05mrad elevation, 1.15 windage
77gr bthp ------> 1.13mrad elevation, 1.30 windage
That's from my last time out shooting that load and it was pretty spot on. If I was to bank on the 4dof being accurate further out with the data I am giving it, then 600yards would look like this:
73gr eld--------> 4.51 elevation, 2.73 windage
77gr bthp------> 4.85 elevation, 3.04 windage
Being a novice at this I look at those numbers and it seems at face value like the eld is the clear cut choice here right? Is there something I am overlooking? Energy means little to nothing to me as a vast majority of shooting will either be target, squirrel or coyote's.
