Quote from: ranchibi on June 24, 2022, 08:05:59 PMI...is more accurate...At what range? If you shoot at 50 yards, then you may not know or care what a projectile does at 100 yards. That is a perfectly legitimate usage model.Shooting pellets "fast" to be effective at 100 yards is where spiraling may show up.
I...is more accurate...
The bullet does not get pushed sideways... it turns nose first into the wind...
Background TheoryMcCoy’s Modern Exterior Ballistics provides a solid discussion on computing how the windaffects a bullet’s flight, with the punch line being that the amount of deflection, D, a bulletexperiences from a wind, W, is proportional to the ‘lag time,’ or the difference between thebullet’s time of flight in a vacuum (the distance to target, R, divided by the muzzle velocity, MV),and the actual time of flight, T.Equation:D = [T - (R / MV)] x W
if your range is kept 'practical' like under 60 and you have serious furball incapacitation as your main goal and not look at me i can shoot da farthest type nonsense, then about 1050 is a sweet sweet spot to keep that point blank killzone about flat all the way ... its all about compromises though and what your focus is imo ..