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6.8 Rem -shooter 10, justright58 more input/stuff
sandwarrior
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Sorry guys I know I'm whipping the proverbial dead horse here:
Shooter 10,
First, I'm glad you enjoy your 6.8mm as a fun gun. I just want to point out that there are some very serious shooters and hunters on this forum. And, an inch or two at 100 yds. may not matter as hunting goes. But at long range as some hunters here can and do shoot it does matter. For instance the example given was 3 inches drop at 280 yds. For a coyote that is a hit or miss proposition if you don't hold that extra ten inches. For a deer that is a wound, not a kill. What I am saying is that while the 6.8 will have a decent trajectory out to 300 yds., it starts to fall behind the other AR platform mil-hopefuls. None of which are a super improvement over what could be. They weigh less than going back to the 7.62 and produce way more energy than the 5.56. Now getting back to your point of zero height. I find that while helping with our deer rifle sight in that everyone coming in thinks that holding 1/2" or 1" high at 100 will zero them all the way out to 300. Not so, with a normal 30-06 pushed at what I usually get for chrono 2850 fps, a 10.7 or 11 inch drop. So, as a comparison, the drop on your 6.8 is about the same as a normal 30-06 out to 300. And that is about what a normal hunter may shoot. You only need compensate for it correctly before you shoot, was my point.
The point that this turned into was how valuable to justright58 would a 6.8 upper be? The 6.8 has it's plusses and minuses. If you can get one and want to shoot it great. The comparison brought out alternatives.
Shooter 10,
First, I'm glad you enjoy your 6.8mm as a fun gun. I just want to point out that there are some very serious shooters and hunters on this forum. And, an inch or two at 100 yds. may not matter as hunting goes. But at long range as some hunters here can and do shoot it does matter. For instance the example given was 3 inches drop at 280 yds. For a coyote that is a hit or miss proposition if you don't hold that extra ten inches. For a deer that is a wound, not a kill. What I am saying is that while the 6.8 will have a decent trajectory out to 300 yds., it starts to fall behind the other AR platform mil-hopefuls. None of which are a super improvement over what could be. They weigh less than going back to the 7.62 and produce way more energy than the 5.56. Now getting back to your point of zero height. I find that while helping with our deer rifle sight in that everyone coming in thinks that holding 1/2" or 1" high at 100 will zero them all the way out to 300. Not so, with a normal 30-06 pushed at what I usually get for chrono 2850 fps, a 10.7 or 11 inch drop. So, as a comparison, the drop on your 6.8 is about the same as a normal 30-06 out to 300. And that is about what a normal hunter may shoot. You only need compensate for it correctly before you shoot, was my point.
The point that this turned into was how valuable to justright58 would a 6.8 upper be? The 6.8 has it's plusses and minuses. If you can get one and want to shoot it great. The comparison brought out alternatives.