What does it mean for a caliber to be flat shooting?
Certain calibers such as the 300 Winchester Magnum are often called flat shooting.
What does that mean and why would a hunter care that the caliber is flat shooting when selecting a rifle to go hunting with?
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Certain calibers such as the 300 Winchester Magnum are often called flat shooting.
What does that mean and why would a hunter care that the caliber is flat shooting when selecting a rifle to go hunting with?
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Certain calibers such as the 300 Winchester Magnum are often called flat shooting.
What does that mean and why would a hunter care that the caliber is flat shooting when selecting a rifle to go hunting with?
hunting terminology guns
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Charlie BrumbaughCharlie Brumbaugh
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Certain calibers such as the 300 Winchester Magnum are often called flat shooting.
What does that mean and why would a hunter care that the caliber is flat shooting when selecting a rifle to go hunting with?
hunting terminology guns
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Bullets follow a parabolic arc as seen below,
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As you can see the yellow line is a bullet fired from a longer barrel which results in a higher velocity and thus less drop over distance. In this case the yellow line is a flatter shooting rifle.
Cartridges that are regarded as flatter shooting have one or both of two things going for them, they are traveling at a much higher velocity to start with and or have a better ballistic coefficient resulting in less drag.
See for example 6.5 Creedmore vs. 308 Winchester.
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The reason that this matters is that with a flatter shooting cartridge you don't have to get the range to the animal as accurately because the bullet is dropping less.
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That's a parabolic arc. (Not enough rep to make single-character edits.)
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Bullets follow a parabolic arc as seen below,
Image Source
As you can see the yellow line is a bullet fired from a longer barrel which results in a higher velocity and thus less drop over distance. In this case the yellow line is a flatter shooting rifle.
Cartridges that are regarded as flatter shooting have one or both of two things going for them, they are traveling at a much higher velocity to start with and or have a better ballistic coefficient resulting in less drag.
See for example 6.5 Creedmore vs. 308 Winchester.
Source
The reason that this matters is that with a flatter shooting cartridge you don't have to get the range to the animal as accurately because the bullet is dropping less.
answered 5 hours ago
Charlie BrumbaughCharlie Brumbaugh
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That's a parabolic arc. (Not enough rep to make single-character edits.)
– David Richerby
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@DavidRicherby Thanks
– Charlie Brumbaugh
50 mins ago
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Bullets follow a parabolic arc as seen below,
Image Source
As you can see the yellow line is a bullet fired from a longer barrel which results in a higher velocity and thus less drop over distance. In this case the yellow line is a flatter shooting rifle.
Cartridges that are regarded as flatter shooting have one or both of two things going for them, they are traveling at a much higher velocity to start with and or have a better ballistic coefficient resulting in less drag.
See for example 6.5 Creedmore vs. 308 Winchester.
Source
The reason that this matters is that with a flatter shooting cartridge you don't have to get the range to the animal as accurately because the bullet is dropping less.
answered 5 hours ago
Charlie BrumbaughCharlie Brumbaugh
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That's a parabolic arc. (Not enough rep to make single-character edits.)
– David Richerby
55 mins ago
@DavidRicherby Thanks
– Charlie Brumbaugh
50 mins ago
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Bullets follow a parabolic arc as seen below,
Image Source
As you can see the yellow line is a bullet fired from a longer barrel which results in a higher velocity and thus less drop over distance. In this case the yellow line is a flatter shooting rifle.
Cartridges that are regarded as flatter shooting have one or both of two things going for them, they are traveling at a much higher velocity to start with and or have a better ballistic coefficient resulting in less drag.
See for example 6.5 Creedmore vs. 308 Winchester.
Source
The reason that this matters is that with a flatter shooting cartridge you don't have to get the range to the animal as accurately because the bullet is dropping less.
answered 5 hours ago
Charlie BrumbaughCharlie Brumbaugh
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Bullets follow a parabolic arc as seen below,
Image Source
As you can see the yellow line is a bullet fired from a longer barrel which results in a higher velocity and thus less drop over distance. In this case the yellow line is a flatter shooting rifle.
Cartridges that are regarded as flatter shooting have one or both of two things going for them, they are traveling at a much higher velocity to start with and or have a better ballistic coefficient resulting in less drag.
See for example 6.5 Creedmore vs. 308 Winchester.
Source
The reason that this matters is that with a flatter shooting cartridge you don't have to get the range to the animal as accurately because the bullet is dropping less.
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That's a parabolic arc. (Not enough rep to make single-character edits.)
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@DavidRicherby Thanks
– Charlie Brumbaugh
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That's a parabolic arc. (Not enough rep to make single-character edits.)
– David Richerby
55 mins ago
@DavidRicherby Thanks
– Charlie Brumbaugh
50 mins ago
That's a parabolic arc. (Not enough rep to make single-character edits.)
– David Richerby
55 mins ago
That's a parabolic arc. (Not enough rep to make single-character edits.)
– David Richerby
55 mins ago
@DavidRicherby Thanks
– Charlie Brumbaugh
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@DavidRicherby Thanks
– Charlie Brumbaugh
50 mins ago
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