This is messing with my head ever since I have thought it up and not tried it. What else am I missing? Other than a couple of marbles?
Please correct me if I am wrong, I am still learning myself. Just because a projectile will do MOA at 200 yards, will it mean it will continue to do so out to longer distances? No? how can we determine how well it will do beyond that point without wasting a ton of amo?
And yes there are other factors such as wind and air density etc, but I do believe how well a projectile flies at lower speeds is just as important as how well it does at higher speeds. Say at 200 yards you are 1/2 of your way to 400 yards. By plugging into a balistic program we can get an idea of what speed the projectile will be at 200, 300, and or any given point.
If this gives the speed of how fast the projectile is at any given point. And I wanted to see how well a projectile would do to say at 400 yards and can only shoot to 200 yards at my local range, (actually I dont have access in orange county to more than 100) would shooting the projectile at the speed it is at 200 yards from my position to 200 yards give me a good idea of how it would shoot from 200 to 400 yards? For example in the graph below
If we shoot a projectile at a target at 200 yards with a inital speed of 1040 fps and find out it is sub moa projectile to 200 yards, can we now shoot the same projectile using the graph above for that projectile at 810 fps to a 200 yard target to predict how well it will fire to 400?
Would this work and what factors would cause it not to work?
Other than maybe the ability to fire the same projectile from the same gun at lower speeds.
Allen