I heard they will shoot 400 yards with a good scope?
I ordered a .45 cal barrel from Pac-Nor for my other Savage. It's most accurate with 70.0 grains of H-4198 behind a Harvestor blue sabot holding a 195g Barnes .40 cal flat based bullet. 2" high at 100 yds, dead on at 200, 6" low at 300. I know guys who are using the same combo on deer depredation hunts that shoot deer out to 400 yds with it.
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I chronographed my .50 at 2300 fps with a .45 cal 250g Hornady SST. I was told to expect the chrono to show somewhere between 2700 and 2900 fps on the .45 cal with the Barnes 195g bullet H-4198 combo.
Just to give you an idea how much wind will deflect a bullet, take the .45 cal 250g Hornady SST. MV 2300 fps. 10 mph full value wind (90� from the shooter), sighted in at 100 yds. Bullet drop at 300 yds is 32.6", it only has 837 ft. lbs of energy, fps is 1228, and bullet drift is 27.0". Bullet drop is easy to calculate and tape a drop chart on the stock. Wind drift is a different matter altogether......
That's waaaay too many numbers for a hayseed like me to understand.... I just put the crosshairs on the squirrel's eye and pull the trigger. There's a loud noise, and the critter falls out of the tree.
"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"
If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1) And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1) Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT? PB answer: It depends.
