More On Long-Range Rifle Shooting

By John Farnam

By John Farnam

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- More on long-range rifles:

In military sniping, our goal is to “manufacture casualties” at long range. Instant fatalities are usually not indicated, nor necessary. Head-shots apply for the most part only to law-enforcement sniping, most of the time at 50m or less.

A 55gr .223 bullet can range out to 1km, but at that range the bullet has barely enough energy to penetrate a single layer of cardboard! Penetration of a single layer of cardboard (without the bullet getting stuck halfway through) is all the “performance” competition shooters care about!

Conversely, for those of us interested only in war-winning skills and equipment, such anemic ballistic “performance” is unsatisfactory!

Just because a bullet can physically get out to 1km, or 1.4km for that matter, doesn’t necessarily mean it will be “effective” at that range.

The venerable 308Win is effective at 1Km, no doubt, in still air. But, when the wind starts blowing, the 308 becomes a 600m rifle.

The 6.5 Creedmoor, mentioned in my last Quip, is also effective at 1km, and, even with the wind blowing, one …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand