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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2613531" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>BC is just a number that trues up a ballistic calc to real drops. If it does any work in selling bullets it's to the same people who believe in window sticker gas mileage, the energy sticker on their fridge, and the promises in political campaign ads. I don't know why anyone bothers to get upset about what the actual results are, what the difference from printed is, etc. It's not an emotional thing to have a high BC number or not.</p><p></p><p>That said I appreciate the serious, actual work showing real results. To me it shows that each of us has to do our own work and there are no shortcuts out there.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That's an insane statement though. Actually shooting as far as you think you can shoot isn't a luxury, and if someone doesn't have to skill to shoot drops they for darn shoot don't have to skill to take the shot at an animal. About the only thing worse than blindly trusting printed BC is trusting FPS on a box of factory ammo <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤦♂️" title="Man facepalming :man_facepalming:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f926-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_facepalming:" /> </p><p></p><p>But all those average shooters will probably never get out of 300 yards where they can continue to use made-up numbers to feel good about their minute-of-gut-shot accuracy. If they feel like blaming the BC for their 150 yard miss, well that's just the shooting equivalent of "my fish was thiiiiiis long". Serious people will hear their BS and know it for what it is.</p><p><img src="https://media4.giphy.com/media/a3zqvrH40Cdhu/200.gif" alt="Jennifer Lawrence Reaction GIF" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2613531, member: 116181"] BC is just a number that trues up a ballistic calc to real drops. If it does any work in selling bullets it's to the same people who believe in window sticker gas mileage, the energy sticker on their fridge, and the promises in political campaign ads. I don't know why anyone bothers to get upset about what the actual results are, what the difference from printed is, etc. It's not an emotional thing to have a high BC number or not. That said I appreciate the serious, actual work showing real results. To me it shows that each of us has to do our own work and there are no shortcuts out there. That's an insane statement though. Actually shooting as far as you think you can shoot isn't a luxury, and if someone doesn't have to skill to shoot drops they for darn shoot don't have to skill to take the shot at an animal. About the only thing worse than blindly trusting printed BC is trusting FPS on a box of factory ammo 🤦♂️ But all those average shooters will probably never get out of 300 yards where they can continue to use made-up numbers to feel good about their minute-of-gut-shot accuracy. If they feel like blaming the BC for their 150 yard miss, well that's just the shooting equivalent of "my fish was thiiiiiis long". Serious people will hear their BS and know it for what it is. [IMG alt="Jennifer Lawrence Reaction GIF"]https://media4.giphy.com/media/a3zqvrH40Cdhu/200.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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