Re: 260AI or 308 Win
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lowlight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Turbo,
You just repeated exactly what I said, and if you spend a half a second reading HillyBilly Sniper's response about the 6mm not cutting it in the drift department you can see I am clearly correct.
You said the same thing I did, unless you can personally exploit the differences and benefits, a ballistically better bullet does you very little good. A bad shooter with a good bullet will not beat a good shooter with a less than better bullet. Unless you give him something liked a 147gr round pulled from a link.
Too many people crunch the numbers and think it will overcome their lack of practice, that is a hard cold fact that plays out everyday. Nothing misleading about it. What is misleading is when someone advocates a ballistically better option as a fix to poor skills. Which nobody wants to talk about because there are more bad shooters out there than good.
Learn how to shoot first, worry about optimizing your bullet selection after. Unless you plan on going straight to practice to the point of actually learning something. If you are doing the same old things wrong hoping to find a fix, you are looking in the wrong direction. </div></div>
Let's put this in perspective. In previous posts regarding that day shooting I did say that being able to call the wind is the supreme judge of how well you are going to do. But if your score depends on getting inside that circle or having it drift out of that circle because of an unseen mile per hour gust, then I'd go with the ballistically superior bullet. At which point, yes, you then need to get time on the trigger to see how it is affected in each and every condition.
I have no doubt you know the .308 and it's ballistics inside and out. It quite frankly surprises me you say your having issues with the .260. Seriously, no pun intended. Running the numbers in your head in reaction to conditions you see out there requires less from the .260 than it does the .308 Yet as you note you have those reactions ingrained so well that you still shoot much better with the .308
I would say this to you HillBillySniper that what Frank says is true in that if the .243 isn't doing it for you in the wind he is correct. You need to focus on wind reading skills not a new caliber. But, I will also say that getting the best bullet you can to 'limit' the issues with wind is going to help. Again, only if you focus on getting the correct read of what to hold and the results of what you held and what you hit. The only way to limit that time is call every single bullet as best you can, observe what goes on down range and evaluate every single shot right down to the nubbins of what you ended up with.
<span style="color: #3333FF">Edit:
One of the things I found incredibly helpful when we shot out in Nevada was ScottyS not only had a video camera at the firing line, he put one up focused on the target area. Boy talk about feedback! You could see the conditions downrange. If you could keep track of how each shot was held or dialed for it's a clear indicator of what you did and didn't see or do. That of course is all dependent upon whether you loaded your loads right and maintained all good discipline during the shot.</span>
