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This thread is an overview of the instructional books which are currently available from Applied Ballistics. All are written by Bryan Litz for the purpose of educating shooters on the science of accuracy.
Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting - Second Edition
This is the first book, and the reigning flagship of the Applied Ballistics library. It's basically a textbook which explains, in laymans terms, all of the elements of external ballistics. The book includes an appendix of measured performance data for 225 bullets. Note, this library is updated in a separate book called: Ballistic Performance of Rifle Bullets (read more about it below). Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting includes a CD with a ballistics solver for use on your PC.
Here is the table of contents, and sample excerpt from Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting:
http://www.appliedballisticsllc.com/index_files/AB_LongRangeShooting-Preview.pdf
Accuracy and Precision for Long Range Shooting
This book introduces the concept of Weapon Employment Zone (WEZ) analysis to small arms. Basically, WEZ analysis tells you what your hit percentage will be on a given target and uncertainty environment. Traditional ballistics can tell you your elevation and windage corrections for hitting a target, but WEZ analysis can tell you your chances of actually hitting a target given the real world uncertainties in: range, wind, rifle/shooter precision and muzzle velocity. The software program: "Applied Ballistics Analytics" was developed allows shooters to conduct their own WEZ analysis, like that described in Accuracy and Precision for Long Range Shooting.
Here's a sample excerpt from Accuracy and Precision for Long Range Shooting:
http://www.appliedballisticsllc.com/index_files/BookPromo.pdf
Modern Advancements in Long Range Shooting - Volume 1
The Modern Advancements series is planned as a series of Volumes which documents the ongoing live fire testing being conducted in the Applied Ballistics Laboratory. This first Volume presents the detailed results of testing conducted on the effects of twist rate. Learn how twist rate affects: Muzzle velocity, precision, BC for supersonic and transonic bullet flight, etc. In addition to presenting live fire ballistic test results, the Modern Advancements series also takes a look at industry trends and new developments that are enabling more successful long range shooting.
Here's a sample excerpt from Modern Advancements in Long Range Shooting - Volume 1:
http://appliedballisticsllc.com/Articles/MAiLRS_preview.pdf
Ballistic Performance of Rifle Bullets
Ongoing live fire testing in the Applied Ballistics Laboratory has generated a great deal of data on small arms bullets. Originally, this data was contained in the Appendix of 'Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting'. However, as the body of information grew to many hundreds of bullets, it became clear that a new book was required to contain the most up-to-date library of experimentally measured bullet data ever compiled. Ballistic Performance of Rifle Bullets is a reference book with data on 400 bullets from .224 to .408 caliber. Future editions are planned to expand the range of calibers from .172 to .510, and more in between.
Here's a sample of the book showing the table of contents where you can see all bullets contained in the book:
http://appliedballisticsllc.com/BulletDataFiles/TOC3.pdf
Here are some samples of the data that's provided for each of the 400 bullets:
Hornady GMX .284 caliber 139 grain
Berger .308 caliber 185 grain LRBT (Juggernaut)
Berger .308 caliber 215 grain Hybrid
Nosler .308 caliber 190 grain Long Range Accubond
Barnes .308 caliber 200 grain LRXBT
Hornady .338 caliber 285 grain BTHP Match
Cutting Edge .375 caliber 352 grain MTAC
Lehigh Defense .408 caliber 400 grain Match Solid
Putting Rounds on Target with Bryan Litz (DVD)
This 3-disk DVD set is a good instructional resource for long range shooters. In addition to covering material from the books, in this DVD series we take to the field and demonstrate exactly how to use ballsitic solvers and a knowledge of the fundamentals to actually put rounds on target. The focus is on the science, and assessing the accuracy of ballistic predictions. It's not magic, it's science.
Check out the video trailer:
All of these resources are available from the Applied Ballistics webstore: http://store.appliedballisticsllc.com/default.asp
$5 off coupon code for LongRangeHunting.com members.
Use the following code to get $5 off any book from the applied ballistics webstore linked above.
Coupon code: 5offAB4LRH
Kindle (eBook) versions of the books (except Ballistic Performance of Rifle Bullets) are available on Amazon.
Feel free to post any questions or reviews of these materials on this thread.
Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting - Second Edition
This is the first book, and the reigning flagship of the Applied Ballistics library. It's basically a textbook which explains, in laymans terms, all of the elements of external ballistics. The book includes an appendix of measured performance data for 225 bullets. Note, this library is updated in a separate book called: Ballistic Performance of Rifle Bullets (read more about it below). Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting includes a CD with a ballistics solver for use on your PC.
Here is the table of contents, and sample excerpt from Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting:
http://www.appliedballisticsllc.com/index_files/AB_LongRangeShooting-Preview.pdf
Accuracy and Precision for Long Range Shooting
This book introduces the concept of Weapon Employment Zone (WEZ) analysis to small arms. Basically, WEZ analysis tells you what your hit percentage will be on a given target and uncertainty environment. Traditional ballistics can tell you your elevation and windage corrections for hitting a target, but WEZ analysis can tell you your chances of actually hitting a target given the real world uncertainties in: range, wind, rifle/shooter precision and muzzle velocity. The software program: "Applied Ballistics Analytics" was developed allows shooters to conduct their own WEZ analysis, like that described in Accuracy and Precision for Long Range Shooting.
Here's a sample excerpt from Accuracy and Precision for Long Range Shooting:
http://www.appliedballisticsllc.com/index_files/BookPromo.pdf
Modern Advancements in Long Range Shooting - Volume 1
The Modern Advancements series is planned as a series of Volumes which documents the ongoing live fire testing being conducted in the Applied Ballistics Laboratory. This first Volume presents the detailed results of testing conducted on the effects of twist rate. Learn how twist rate affects: Muzzle velocity, precision, BC for supersonic and transonic bullet flight, etc. In addition to presenting live fire ballistic test results, the Modern Advancements series also takes a look at industry trends and new developments that are enabling more successful long range shooting.
Here's a sample excerpt from Modern Advancements in Long Range Shooting - Volume 1:
http://appliedballisticsllc.com/Articles/MAiLRS_preview.pdf
Ballistic Performance of Rifle Bullets
Ongoing live fire testing in the Applied Ballistics Laboratory has generated a great deal of data on small arms bullets. Originally, this data was contained in the Appendix of 'Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting'. However, as the body of information grew to many hundreds of bullets, it became clear that a new book was required to contain the most up-to-date library of experimentally measured bullet data ever compiled. Ballistic Performance of Rifle Bullets is a reference book with data on 400 bullets from .224 to .408 caliber. Future editions are planned to expand the range of calibers from .172 to .510, and more in between.
Here's a sample of the book showing the table of contents where you can see all bullets contained in the book:
http://appliedballisticsllc.com/BulletDataFiles/TOC3.pdf
Here are some samples of the data that's provided for each of the 400 bullets:
Hornady GMX .284 caliber 139 grain
Berger .308 caliber 185 grain LRBT (Juggernaut)
Berger .308 caliber 215 grain Hybrid
Nosler .308 caliber 190 grain Long Range Accubond
Barnes .308 caliber 200 grain LRXBT
Hornady .338 caliber 285 grain BTHP Match
Cutting Edge .375 caliber 352 grain MTAC
Lehigh Defense .408 caliber 400 grain Match Solid
Putting Rounds on Target with Bryan Litz (DVD)
This 3-disk DVD set is a good instructional resource for long range shooters. In addition to covering material from the books, in this DVD series we take to the field and demonstrate exactly how to use ballsitic solvers and a knowledge of the fundamentals to actually put rounds on target. The focus is on the science, and assessing the accuracy of ballistic predictions. It's not magic, it's science.
Check out the video trailer:
All of these resources are available from the Applied Ballistics webstore: http://store.appliedballisticsllc.com/default.asp
$5 off coupon code for LongRangeHunting.com members.
Use the following code to get $5 off any book from the applied ballistics webstore linked above.
Coupon code: 5offAB4LRH
Kindle (eBook) versions of the books (except Ballistic Performance of Rifle Bullets) are available on Amazon.
Feel free to post any questions or reviews of these materials on this thread.
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