Great click-bait using just that quote and not the whole discussion. For those wondering, the OPs title is just that, click bait to get people arguing.
Here’s the rest of that brief discussion:
“But, let’s make a comparison. Using Hornady’s advertised data, let’s compare a 147-grain ELD Match bullet from a Creedmoor with a 130-grain ELD Match bullet from a .260 Rem. The 147-grain bullet has a G1 BC of .697 and the 130-grain bullet’s G1 BC is .554. The Creedmoor’s bullet has a 26-percent BC advantage. But, in factory ammo the 130-grain .260 bullet has a 6-percent velocity advantage.
According to Hornady’s 4DOF calculator, at 1,000 yards the 130-grain bullet from the .260 Rem. will need 29.78 MOA of elevation correction to hit point-of-aim, and the bullet from the
6.5 Creedmoor will need 29.93 MOA. The lighter, faster, lower BC bullet, has a slight edge. Why? Time of flight. You see, since gravity is a constant, and since all bullets fall to Earth at the same rate, the difference is how far they can travel in the same amount of time.
The 130-grain bullet from the .260 will get to 800 yards .003 second before the 147-grain bullet from the 6.5 Creedmoor. So, to that distance, the faster moving 130-grain bullet has less drop. In fact, because of its early speed and flatter trajectory advantage, it still has less drop out to 1,000 yards, even though it gets there almost .02 second after the higher BC bullet. Beyond 1,000 yards, the higher BC bullet shoots flatter and faster, because its higher BC has helped it retain velocity better. The higher BC bullet will also show less wind drift.
I still don’t know what qualifies as “high BC” or “long range,” but I do know this: From a trajectory standpoint, it takes a tremendous increase in BC to make up for just a small increase in velocity. High BC bullets are great for distance shooting if you don’t have to sacrifice too much velocity to shoot them.” Then of course, there’s the question of twist rate. Who even buys a .260 with 1:9 twist rate anyway?
Nowhere in the article does the NRA say one is better than the other.
