Hornady 52gr, 68gr, 75gr match hpbt bullets

[kingfamous]

How far can I expect to be avle to shoot these bullets? Paper punching. 20" AR 1:8

 

[17874]

With a 75 grain you should be safe out to 800 or a little further if you can read the wind alright.

 

[Genius.]

I have a 18" barrel and am shooting the 68's out to 900 yards.

I am shooting a steel silhouette and am hitting steel continuously.

I'd like to try 1000 but my scope is out of adjustment and I'm holding over as high as I can.

 

[Greg Langelius *]

I you're o/o elevation adjustment, try a temporary shim cut from a soda can under the rear edge of the scope base to see if it brings your scope's optical axis down to where the target is back within your adjustment range. If it works, use the shim to set the slope for glass bedding the base. If not, try two shims. This is very hard to make work with a two piece base system.

My 16" 1:9" Bull Upper has a BDC reticle with aiming dots for distances out to 500yd with Mil-Spec ammo; and I figure that's a reasonable limit. My 24" 1:8" bull upper shoots HDY 75gr HPBTM well, and I haven't tried to find its limits yet, but I suspect it's gonna be a 'fur piece'.

Greg

 

[kingfamous]

Im looking for the limits of the bullet itself before they start falling off.

 

[jkonzal]

Run your gun/load info on a Ballistics Calculator and see what you get. That will tell you what you need to know.
Try this:

Ballistics Calculator | Applied Ballistics, LLC

 

[Kirkd]

Run your gun/load info on a Ballistics Calculator and see what you get. That will tell you what you need to know.
Try this:

Ballistics Calculator | Applied Ballistics, LLC

^^^^ this. You'll need your muzzle velocity. And I mean yours, bot what the reloading book says. You loose velocity with shorter barrels. You'll also need to enter other things such as bullet weight, length, b.c., etc


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