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Range Report Bullet drop on 62gr Lake City?

Mikealicious

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Feb 7, 2012
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Going to be putting my iron sight skills to the test this weekend with my ar15 at longer distances. I'll be shooting at 500, maybe 600yds. I'll be shooting the lake city 62gr m855 penetrators. I have a reloading booklet that shows bullet drop for different loads, but for some reason, the 62gr wasn't listed. Closest I found was 60gr @ 3000fps:

100yd zero
3.5" drop @ 200yds
13.3" drop@ 300yds
31.1" drop @ 400yds
59.4" drop @ 500yds

Was wondering if anyone had the data for 62gr, or could point me in the right direction. I know the lake city m855's shoot at 3000fps +/- 40fps for std deviation.

And help would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
Re: Bullet drop on 62gr Lake City?

From shooter:

1000 -501.0 +47.9 177.3 -16.9 943.0 122.4 1.968
950 -423.6 +42.6 157.8 -15.9 973.8 130.6 1.811
900 -355.3 +37.7 139.2 -14.8 1008.5 140.0 1.660
850 -295.6 +33.2 121.6 -13.7 1048.7 151.4 1.514
800 -243.7 +29.1 105.1 -12.5 1096.7 165.6 1.374
750 -199.1 +25.4 89.8 -11.4 1155.2 183.7 1.240
700 -161.0 +22.0 75.9 -10.4 1225.2 206.6 1.114
650 -128.8 +18.9 63.3 -9.3 1306.2 234.9 0.996
600 -101.5 +16.2 52.2 -8.3 1397.8 269.0 0.885
550 -78.7 +13.7 42.3 -7.3 1498.9 309.3 0.781
500 -59.8 +11.4 33.8 -6.5 1607.7 355.8 0.684
450 -44.3 +9.4 26.4 -5.6 1723.6 409.0 0.594
400 -31.7 +7.6 20.2 -4.8 1845.8 469.0 0.510
350 -21.7 +5.9 15.0 -4.1 1973.7 536.3 0.432
300 -13.9 +4.4 10.7 -3.4 2107.1 611.2 0.358
250 -8.0 +3.0 7.2 -2.7 2243.9 693.1 0.289
200 -3.8 +1.8 4.5 -2.1 2385.7 783.5 0.224
150 -1.2 +0.8 2.4 -1.6 2532.0 882.5 0.163
100 0.0 0.0 1.1 -1.0 2683.5 991.3 0.106
50 0.0 -0.1 0.3 -0.5 2839.4 1109.8 0.051