effective range for lighter bullets in .223??

[mpwolf]

At the US F-Class Nationals we had a shooter who was going subsonic before the target and the bullet was going through as a bullet should (read round hole) but he was shooting like lightning (never hitting the same place twice).

It was the oddest thing to have a bullet come overhead with no sonic crack, you could hear it ending behind the butts and you would have sworn it had gone into the berm behind us.

Some bullets definatly make the trip from super to subsonic better than others. It is verrry trippy to just hear "plop" and see a hole appear in the target.