online ballistics calculator in metres

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I am looking for a ballistics calculator in metres and everything I find is in yards. Where can I find one?

What I am trying to figure out can I get from 300 metres to 900 metres with a 75 grain 223 amax moving at 2950 fps with only 26 minutes of adjustment.(my bushnell elite 4200 6-24x 40) Amax has a ballistic coefficient of .435
 
http://www.jbmballistics.com/calculations/calculations.shtml

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With 300m zero it looks like you JUST might make it depending on atmospheric conditions, height of target above/below shooting position, etc..... (This is assuming you have 26minutes of elevation left with a 300m Zero)

You definitely don't want to be using your scope on maximum elevation.....try setting it on maximum and then turn the windage turret and see what happens.
 
Another recommendation for JBM. It's my go-to ballistics calculator.

Actually, JBM has a number of different interesting calculators on his website. From the link that Cyanide gave you, you can choose "Trajectory", or "Trajectory-- Simplified" (that latter has fewer of the bells and whistles but is still plenty powerful, it's usually the one I use).

JBM has a check-box that allows you to select yards or metres.

In any ballisitics program, if it only supports yards, tell it that you have a "110 yard zero" (i.e 100 metres), and that you want it to display data in increments of 110 yards (ie. increments of 100 metres ;-).

One nice thing about JBM is that it allows you to select a number of common bullets from its bullet library, in addition to doing it the old fashioned way of entering a weight and BC. And as luck would have it, it has an entry for "Hornady .224 cal 75 gr Amax", which has the bullet data from Hornday.

Even better, it has an entry for "Hornady .224 cal 75 gr Amax (Litz)", which is much better, real-world test data done fairly recently by Bryan Litz for some of the more common target shooting bullets. I would highly recommend using the "(Litz)" entries whenever one is available.

So entering in the following data (or ticking the relevant boxes):
* Library: bullet = "Hornady .224 cal 75 gr Amax (Litz)"
* Muzzle velocity = 2950 ft/s
* (leave default values for 1.5" sight height, 10mph crosswind at 90 deg, etc).
* Minimum range = 0, Max range = 900, range increment = 100, zero range = 300
* (leave default atmospheric conditions 59F, 29.92"Hg pressure, 0.0 humdity - this is "standard atmosphere", which is usually a bit more demanding that commonly shot in conditions)
* keep "Column 1 units" as 1.00 inches, and "Column 2 units" as 1.00 MOA.
* check off "elevation correction for zero range" (this references your bullet rise/drop to your 300m zero that you requested)
* check off "ranges in meters"

When I run this, I see that the 300m drop in MOA is 0.0 (i.e. that's your zero), and the 900m drop is -28.5 MOA. This suggests that you won't have quite enough elevation, even if you do everything absolutely perfectly.

(now having said that, there are a number of ways to cope with that and successfully shoot your rifle at 900m anyway, but that's probably worthy of another thread in itself).
 
Î have the burris signature rings with the insert kit. With the 20 in the back and 10 in the front I was 15 minutes high at 100 yards with max down. That would get me to 900 meters. I could swap inserts for shorter ranges. In this a workable solution or do I really need a scope with more elevation? It is a bushnell elite 4200 6x24 40 MM. The bushnell site says it has 26 minutes of elevation.
 
I never saw gunsim.com before, thanks - that's a nice online shooting simulation program (and I liked his blog too)

Jason you could swap your inserts on the range, though it would be a certain amount of hassle. Actually in RNBRA shooting I don't think we fire 300m and 900m on the same day.

It is a P.I.T.A. to work with a scope that doesn't have enough elevation to cover 300y-1000y, though it can be done. Sooner or later you'll perhaps lose patience and either get another scope or get another rifle (and set up the rifle with your 26 MOA scope for either short-range-only or long-range-only). But there's no particular urgency to that.
 
Metric measurements should be kept as far away from shooting as possible, especially with new folks trying to get into reloading, it's a safety thing as much as anything.
 
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