Craig, I wish I had the answer. I am sure that they are out there somewhere, though maybe not in the Schuetzen literature. FWIW, with my .45s, I use swaged bullets that I can make any length. I often shoot 475 or 500 grs bullets that have a slight semi-wadcutter like ogive on them. They make beautiful round holes and they fly very well out to 200 yds. Their noses are short, sometimes flat nosed even, and I don't worry much about aerodynamics over such as short distance. However, maybe I should. True the wind does not have as long to act on them, but if they get blown half an MOA off course, I probably just lost at least a point on the target, just as I might for the same 1/2 MOA at 1000 yds. So, I'm not sure protection from wind drift is really all that much MORE important at 1000 than at 200. A point is a point and can easily be the difference between first place and first looser, to quote HST. But one thing might happen more with poorly aerodynamic bullets. They may become much less stable as they slow down. I don't know this - I'm guessing. So, if the short nosed bullet starts out more stable by virtue of a better balanced nose, it may loose that advantage relative to a longer nosed, more aerodynamic bullets that starts out a smidgeon less stable but looses additional stability more slowly along the way. In an extreme case, a bullet that might be okay out to 200 might be tumbling terribly at 1000. In fact, I have had something that might be like this with my bullets in loads I developed for my last Creedmoor match. There, I had good accuracy at 200 yds with nary a sign of anything like a flier. But a week later the same loads were putting 1 in ten bullets in the dirt 200 yds or more in front of the target. Something wasn't right. I think it was not the bullet per se but the patch. Anyway, short vs long range will probably require different bullets and different compromises. I just don't know anything about them. I sure would like to hear how the Darr Borton bullet shape came to be, but that may be a trade secret I suppose. Brent
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