Originally Posted by
Eurodriver
When you are aiming at a target 1000 yards away, especially with 5.56mm, you've got your scope dialed way up. This angles the barrel (and trajectory) upward creating a rainbow-like trajectory so the bullet can reach the target. Per the below quote with Ned, at 1K, it is about 1" per yard of drop. So if you're aiming at a target that is at 1000 yards and it is 15m above the ground (way high for FL) that bullet is going to impact the ground with 100% certainty within 50m +/- of the target. I'm not sure how far a 5.56mm bullet travelling subsonic will skip along the ground, but you're sure as shit not going to be hitting anyone several miles away.
No doubt. Even with 175 gr SMKs... they're dropping out of the sky for me at 1000 yards and beyond. I can't imagine a 77 gr maintaining stability to a mile.... it doesn't have much ass left in it at 1000 yards. At miles away and unstable, it's likely to bounce off or barely lodge into a wooden structure.
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