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kinda got it i thought it was one of thoes ones where you have to type in the info yourself ..very intresting to see that at 350 yds the 17hmr still has 35 ftlb of energy !!! still plenty to kill your target i never would have thought at that range it would still have that much force for such a small and light round,but thing is the 22lr has got more ftlb than the 17 hmr eg.. .22lr at 350 yds still has 52 ftlb and thats at 350yds ! is this becuase the 22 is more heavy and does not lose its speed faster than the lighter 17 hmr?

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kinda got it i thought it was one of thoes ones where you have to type in the info yourself ..very intresting to see that at 350 yds the 17hmr still has 35 ftlb of energy !!! still plenty to kill your target i never would have thought at that range it would still have that much force for such a small and light round,but thing is the 22lr has got more ftlb than the 17 hmr eg.. .22lr at 350 yds still has 52 ftlb and thats at 350yds ! is this becuase the 22 is more heavy and does not lose its speed faster than the lighter 17 hmr?

 

:lol:

 

Good luck hitting your target at 350 yards with the .17HMR, unless you're inside a sealed chamber. The slightest breeze will blow it miles off course.

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Good luck hitting your target at 350 yards with the .17HMR, unless you're inside a sealed chamber. The slightest breeze will blow it miles off course.

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the round was the... copper plated hp .22 lr

 

I'm not sure of the ammo you are talking about or how the program you are using works but I'm struggling with any .22lr holding 52ft lb at 350 yards, a sub has absolutely no chance, this would leave the barrel at around 100ft lb.

 

Can you check the program and/or the ammo, heavy ammo tends to hold its energy better than light, but the likes of the hard hitting and heavy CCI Velocitor leaves the barrel at 183ft lb and is down to 104ft lb at 100yards, I struggle to believe it still carries 52ft lb at 350 yards! :unsure:

 

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The price of a gun does nothing to alter its power :unsure:

 

Also the .HMR does have more power than the .22 at 100yds, the barrel length does make a differance but for a .22 LR, that is any length below 13" so im told as the bullet is at full speed by 13".

 

For the HMR its generaly considered as any length below 16" of barrel that reduces performance :hmm:

 

Hope this helps.

 

Steve

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According to the oracle that is Chairgun, a 17gr V-Max will still have around 147 ft/lbs (starting with 265ft/lbs (based on MV of 2650fps and a BC of 0.127)) at 300yards and an Winnie Sub from an LR would be 59ft/lbs (starting at 101.5ft/lbs and based on a 40.3gr bullet with an MV of 1065 and BC of 0.138)

 

Perhaps more telling though is at 300 yards from a 130yard zero, the HMR has dropped about 14", the LR zeroed at 55yards is a little over 11ft lower!

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According to the oracle that is Chairgun, a 17gr V-Max will still have around 147 ft/lbs (starting with 265ft/lbs (based on MV of 2650fps and a BC of 0.127)) at 300yards and an Winnie Sub from an LR would be 59ft/lbs (starting at 101.5ft/lbs and based on a 40.3gr bullet with an MV of 1065 and BC of 0.138)

 

Perhaps more telling though is at 300 yards from a 130yard zero, the HMR has dropped about 14", the LR zeroed at 55yards is a little over 11ft lower!

 

 

The Oracle that is Chairgun has something wrong.....

 

CCI figures.....

 

CCI 17HMR 17g V Max ... Energy, Muzzle, 245ft lb, 50 yards 186ft lb, 75 yards 161 ft lb, 100 yards 138ft lb.

 

There is no way this carries 147ft lb at 300 yards even if you somehow manage to get it up to 2650ft sec at the muzzle!

 

CCI 40g HP Subs Muzzle 97ft lb, 50 yards 82 ft lb, 75 yards 77ft lb, 100 yards 72ft lb....again there is something very wrong with Chairgun if it suggests this only drops 13ft lb of energy over the next 200 yards!!

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Agreed, those Chairgun figures are ridiculous.

 

Do remember that these tools are low powered rabbit rifles at their heart. Just a pleasant warning given that I've seen comments about 'how much' power they have. It's all relative - 1000 ft lbs is easy for a CF to achieve at that range, and 308 has that kind of energy hundreds of yards away.

 

A 308 has more power than those RF calibres at the muzzle, when it's at 1000 yards - something to bear in mind.

 

Then of course, next to 50 BMG a 308 is equally piddly!

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plan ... i have got a chrony so what if i was to put that at 100yds away and fire some rounds at it ? would this be valid data?

 

 

They would be valid for your tape measure/gun/ammo/chrono!

 

I've done this defore and found results to be generally slightly worse than the ammo manufacturers say (as you would expect), which makes the Chairgun figures even more daft!

 

Worth starting by getting some muzzle data then moving the chrono to 50-100 yards or whatever!

 

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