With a flooded AR-15 market it’s easy to ignore models that have been out there for a while, and even easier to ignore them if they haven’t been recently seen on a magazine cover cradled by some full-sleeve-tattooed gym rat with a perfectly-groomed operator beard. Add to that the increasingly affordable options for home builds and you may have found yourself skipping over … [Read more...]
In Long Range Shooting: Ballistics Terms Part 1, we talked about some general ballistics terminology. But, that's only part of what we'll need to talk ballistics. Most of what we'll need to understand about ballistics for long range shooting falls under external ballistics. Here are some of the most common, and important, terms we'll use. Muzzle: the projectile exit end … [Read more...]
As you likely already know, bullets spin during flight, due to the rifling of the barrel. But, you may have asked yourself: why do they need to spin? The answer has something to do with bullet shape. In this article, I'll show you the reason behind bullet spin with regard to bullet shape. Understanding this concept is useful to understand other bullet flight behavior that … [Read more...]
PROOF Research makes carbon fiber-wrapped rifle barrels. The obvious attraction is that they are much lighter than steel barrels. Dig a little deeper and it turns out they have better accuracy and increased barrel life. Possibly one day soon, every factory precision rifle is going to have a PROOF barrel. What makes these barrels so special? Well, PROOF says: They are … [Read more...]
The Tracking Point Networked Tracking Scope is so remarkable in its capacity for precision shooting, I felt it merited revisiting in greater detail. Here is some more on what the Tracking Point includes with their XactSystem Precision Guided Firearm Package. Each system is built around a Surgeon Rifle with either a Krieger cut-rifled MTU or Palma profile barrel, chambered … [Read more...]
In previous long range shooting articles, I've talked about the effect of light and the error derived from shooting uphill/downhill—both aiming and perspective related errors. In this article, however, I'll talk about another aiming-related error: shooting with the rifle not perpendicular to the ground. When shooting with a canted rifle, the round won't land where you are … [Read more...]
