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7mm STW
7mm stw with 195 Eol Berger load info.
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<blockquote data-quote="codyadams" data-source="post: 1506990" data-attributes="member: 87243"><p>With essentially any practical hunting cartridge, you will have to adjust your elevation turret (if you dial) to make a hit much past 450 yards, even with the flattest shooting of cartridges. Due to that fact, it causes me no physical pain to turn my wrist a little more to add a few more clicks on my elevation turret (as well as a few less on my windage turret) to drop that heavy for caliber projectile in there, since I'm already dialing, to deliver a shot with much less wind drift, much more impact velocity, and much more energy to a target, not to mention extend the practical range if my firearm. </p><p></p><p>BUT, I live in Wyoming, with really open country, and ever-present wind. The average shot distance this year of everyone that hunts in my immediate family was over 600 yards, with the farthest this year being a pronghorn at 980. The story would be much different if I lived somewhere where my MAX distance may be 600 yards, and the average more around 300. In that case, I would search for a load that would give me my absolute farthest hold-on-fur trajectory, and not be as concerned with wind drift and retained velocity/energy, because most any high power rifle load will have enough at those ranges to do the job. As with most things with firearms, it is very much dependent upon your intended use!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="codyadams, post: 1506990, member: 87243"] With essentially any practical hunting cartridge, you will have to adjust your elevation turret (if you dial) to make a hit much past 450 yards, even with the flattest shooting of cartridges. Due to that fact, it causes me no physical pain to turn my wrist a little more to add a few more clicks on my elevation turret (as well as a few less on my windage turret) to drop that heavy for caliber projectile in there, since I'm already dialing, to deliver a shot with much less wind drift, much more impact velocity, and much more energy to a target, not to mention extend the practical range if my firearm. BUT, I live in Wyoming, with really open country, and ever-present wind. The average shot distance this year of everyone that hunts in my immediate family was over 600 yards, with the farthest this year being a pronghorn at 980. The story would be much different if I lived somewhere where my MAX distance may be 600 yards, and the average more around 300. In that case, I would search for a load that would give me my absolute farthest hold-on-fur trajectory, and not be as concerned with wind drift and retained velocity/energy, because most any high power rifle load will have enough at those ranges to do the job. As with most things with firearms, it is very much dependent upon your intended use!! [/QUOTE]
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