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tac foley · 2014-05-15 07:50:44

Since this part of the forum deals with target shooting, and much has been mentioned recently of light and heavy bullets, BC's and CSDs, I thought I'd share the recent history of a Savage F-TR in .223 Remington rifle. I'll let you read it -…

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15-05-2014 08:50AM

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tac foley

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Since this part of the forum deals with target shooting, and much has been mentioned recently of light and heavy bullets, BC's and CSDs, I thought I'd share the recent history of a Savage F-TR in .223 Remington rifle.

I'll let you read it -

http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2011/05/223-remington-shooter-equals-gb-1000-yard-f-tr-record/

tac

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#2 15-05-2014 09:21AM

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Hi Tac, good read .
His 90gr bullet has a b/c value of 551 un-pointed .
If he is pointing them the 90gr could be closer to 600 b/c ...:cool:.
Combined with his velocity of 2849fps its going to give the .308 a run for their money :cool:.
Regards ,Tomcat.

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#3 15-05-2014 11:20AM

IRLConor

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That's some impressive shooting indeed!

Great to see the spread of electronic targets too. As the article mentioned, it makes it much more accessible to spectators.

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