Caliber of choice for under 400m

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Originally Posted by Doghead

I am biased - But .270 all day every day for everything - ammo is cheap as chips, and it is accurate out to those distances.

On the others mentioned - yeah, ok - .308 - I just never been a fan. 22-250 not enough bullet weight and noisy. 7.62x39 - I never succeeded there - but that may have been the rifle and oversized magazine at issue.

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I would not want you as my neighbor

If it helps I've just made up a drop chart for my 30-40 US Govt
Firing a 180 grain round nose flat base bullet at 2400 fps and a 200m zero
The drop at 400m is 1500mm or 12.75 moa of dial up

Things get messy beyond 400m with an additional 1800mm of drop for the next 100m

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Originally Posted by Doghead

On the others mentioned - yeah, ok - .308 - I just never been a fan. 22-250 not enough bullet weight and noisy. 7.62x39 - I never succeeded there - but that may have been the rifle and oversized magazine at issue.

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Been playing with a 22-250 lately. it's no louder than my 223 when both rifles are suppressed.

yeah me a fan of 22-250 mate has one - drops fallow very well indeed -was popular back in seventies with the meat hunters for neck and head shooting to get a little more money for ones hard won deer

What about 25mm.......?

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