Hey guys. I've been shooting small stuff since i was 5 with my grandpa's pellet gun and always wanted to get into hunting and shooting but my family's against all that. But since i'm 20 years old and can do whatever i want the jonesie has returned, mostly out of respect for food culture. Anyways, i dont have a gun, dont have any knowlege really beyond raw statistics and their meaning in conventional physics(i'm a physics whiz), and i dont know anyone who likes shooting. A friend of a friend's younger brother of mine showed me this website and it seems like a kosh place to start out. Anyways...ummm...hey? lol
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- Thread starter lord_worm
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captain2k_ca
CGN frequent flyer
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- Lethbridge
Welcome 
Where are you from?
Thats a good place to start, and get to know shooters in your local area
Where are you from?
Thats a good place to start, and get to know shooters in your local area
i'm from Calgary Alberta currently...but, once from the mountains, always from the mountains, i'll never call Calgary home. I'm a sucker for the kootenays, where i grew up, in castlegar. Anyways, i've been looking at ballistics stats for the past couple of weeks and i must say that, mathematically, the Rem 7mm seems most impressive. Something like 430ftlb more impact force per square inch than a .308 winchester and 260 ftps faster muzzle velocity. I think it has a further POI which i THINK i like the idea of...not quite sure yet havent really shot enough to know for sure but it sounds like a better idea. What are your guys' thoughts on the matter?
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- St. Andrews, Mb.
lord_worm said:
Welcome to gunnutz. I have a few friends that weren't into shooting, until I let them try some of mine. They loved it.
Splatter
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- SouthernAB
lord_worm said:
Nope, that's a flat 430 fpe, not per square inch, otherwise the 7mm bullet (0.199 square inches) barely outshines the .308 bullet (0.233 square inches)
lord_worm said:
Nope again. The POI (Point Of Impact) is where the bullet actually 'impacts' something. If you are shooting at a target at 300 m, the point of impact is at 300 metres, regardless if you are shooting .22 Long Rifle or .50 BMG.
The trajectory of the 7mm Rem Mag is flatter than the .308 Win, for instance. This means that small aiming or ranging errors can sometimes be less noticable.
The term you may be searching for is "point blank range". This is the set of distances where no aiming correction is required to hit a predetermined size of target (2" vital zone on a gopher for instance, or the 8" vital zone on a deer).
http://www.eskimo.com/~jbm/calculations/traj/traj.html
http://www.dexadine.com/bexw.html
http://stevespages.com/page8b.htm
These should give you the tools to answer most of your other questions.
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Welcome lord_worm. Aren't gun specs. and ballistics great. I love to read and compare guns and ammo. The only problem is if you can't hit what your aiming at, it doesn't mean a thing. But at least you'll know you don't normally hunt moose with a .22, and a .460 is probably overkill for a gopher.
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