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To: Mariner
I think your definition is not consistent with the folks at Hornady. I see one calculator that lets you go to BC 1.2, though again, I have never seen anything I am reloading at better than .6 or .7

From Wiki:

Almost all rounds have a ballistic coefficient of less than 1.0, but large rounds like the 50 BMG can exceed this normal BC. The higher the number, the less drag the projectile will experience. But a higher ballistic coefficient doesn't necessarily mean it is a better bullet.

My point was that even using highly optimistic numbers, a glider is not much value as a missile.

Please feel free to do your own homework and post. I am not here to be the answer guy to everyones questions.

59 posted on 03/17/2021 11:23:13 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Magnum44

The BC is a comparison of a bullet to a model bullet, the model is a 1.0.

G1 us a model based on a 1 caliber diameter, 1 caliber bearing surface and a two caliber tangent ogive (pronounced O Gee).

G7 is a boatailed bullet more like modern designs.

Better yet is drag coefficient, a purely mathematical model based in modern ballistic formulae.

Anyway, a missile is not ballistic in the bullet sense, as it is powered throughout its trajectory until some point perhaps....


70 posted on 03/17/2021 6:45:53 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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