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That was awesome. Now I'm learning. Soon all the bad shots will be my fault! Can't blame wind,gun,etc if you know what it does to your shot.

Thank you!

Good stuff BB. Your writings should all be found in a sticky.

I haven't done one on the gyroscopic stability of slugs/bullets, but basically the mechanics are the same as pellets, but the gyroscopic...

1) I don't know about the Strelok method, but as the app does not ask for the input data necessary for an accurate prediction I can only...

There is a lot of advice and information available on the internet regarding the way projectiles fly high or low when fired into a...

Aerodynamic jump diagrams apply to just what they say they are, aerodynamic jump. By definition, everything you mention does not affect...

Unfortunately, a lot of people see the charts for bullets and then publish them as pellet charts without understanding the difference...

That's what happens when people post things that they actually don't have any experience with. It's all too common, unfortunately.

For supersonic speeds of bullets, yes it is true. For subsonic speeds no, it is not true up to a point (the meplat value I mentioned).

They are not sabot pellets, as the plastic does not come off in flight as far as I know. There have been dozens of guns using sabot...

Looking at the actual round pictures, they seem to have a smaller meplat diameter than shown on the tin lid pictures. Meplats need to be...

For years, one of my main jobs was tank ammunition, much of which had sabots. The speeds were somewhat higher than airguns can manage...