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34 ft of holdover at final target! That's higher than my 2 story house.

Hoot

I was trying to wrap my head around it.

I've read stories about the old buffalo hunters shooting 6-700 yards and that was with open sights!!

This year I have been shooting with my 450 BM out to 300 yards....but I'am not using factory ammo but pushing very close to 3000 fps a very big difference compared to factory ammo.....

I feel 300 yards is the maximum distance with my "Hot Rod" loads with factory loads 250 yards is a long shot I have made several 200 yard shots over the years at factory velocity at bucks....

coyote wacker wrote:This year I have been shooting with my 450 BM out to 300 yards....but I'am not using factory ammo but pushing very close to 3000 fps a very big difference compared to factory ammo.....

I feel 300 yards is the maximum distance with my "Hot Rod" loads with factory loads 250 yards is a long shot I have made several 200 yard shots over the years at factory velocity at bucks....

300 is where you'll start to see the poor bullet BC's start to show their ugly heads. 250 yards is easily doable with just about any pistol bullet when you sight in for maximum point blank range. I use 3" as the vital size date point entry to simulate a smaller target zone. This graph shows a 250gn FTX at 2200 fps (pretty standard factory load, nothing supped up). Max PBR is 107 yards and rezero is at 178 yds. Basically, if you hold dead center on a vital zone shot, you'll be good out to 206 yards without compensating for any hold over. Still only 10" drop at 250 yards. Goes downhill fast after that! I routinely shoot my 405 gn cast sub loads out to 153 yards( backyard range).