Range Report subsonic bullets?
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When a bullet becomes subsonic, it is when it has reached its max effective range of being supersonic, it is a volosity, and stability issue. The bullet can still reach a target at much farther ranges will have have a lot less energy , shock force out there because it is traveling at a much slower velocity when it gets there...depending on the weight and load, accuracy becomes , or can become an issue. That is why long range and ex. Long range shooters must find a recipe that will work with their gun, and the distances they are shooting at these farther ranges. A bullets overall stability and speed is what keeps it effective . When a bullet transversesout of supersonic to sbsonic it starts to develop thes problems, and yes, depending on your load, and bullet weight, etc. You can kill an elk or deer at 1000 yards, but your shock value better be good enough.
I would ask about you specific needs for your purpose..ask someone who reloads for what your gun cal. Is and what you want to accomplish.Have at it be carefull with any reloading and lokk at ballistic books for accurate safe and effective info . Bullets drop at faster rates, and you can see charts on these transitions... Have fun while you get knee deep into this strande and magical world of Ballistics. For instance, a friend and I found out to try a very light gr 155 bullet with a certain amount of powder going by the safe ness of a reloading book, works great out to 600 yards, it is a 300 win mag gun. But normally we shoot the heavier bullets...190 , 210, etc, but tried to see if the 155s would hold together at 1000 yds....they totally fell apart out there out of our gun. We are seeing if there is some other recipe for these as we are running out of our heavy loads...it is all very interesting!
Have Fun, Nd stay safe!
I would ask about you specific needs for your purpose..ask someone who reloads for what your gun cal. Is and what you want to accomplish.Have at it be carefull with any reloading and lokk at ballistic books for accurate safe and effective info . Bullets drop at faster rates, and you can see charts on these transitions... Have fun while you get knee deep into this strande and magical world of Ballistics. For instance, a friend and I found out to try a very light gr 155 bullet with a certain amount of powder going by the safe ness of a reloading book, works great out to 600 yards, it is a 300 win mag gun. But normally we shoot the heavier bullets...190 , 210, etc, but tried to see if the 155s would hold together at 1000 yds....they totally fell apart out there out of our gun. We are seeing if there is some other recipe for these as we are running out of our heavy loads...it is all very interesting!
Have Fun, Nd stay safe!
The way it has been explained to me is; It's sort of like a bullet passing through a thin veil, or wall of water. The smooth gyroscopic effect is changed to a lesser gyroscopic quality which in turn gets worse as it continues on in flight and eventually will even begin to wobble and in some cases, tumble. this is one reason .22 fimfire shooters are leaning more towards the subsonic ammo nowadays. It ends up in the same condition it starts out on. it doesn't have to transcind. I'm not saying this is totally accurate but it sounds plausable to me.
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