I must applozie for my tardiness of not getting back to this before now. My wife has had (not resent) a stroke and I spend most of my time at the rehab and I'm not very good at typing with my “smart” phone. What I'm trying to bring to light here, is the bullets roll in producing accuracy.

All things being equal at the bench, after leaving the muzzle, it's the bullets roll to do it's best to make only one hole. It's the shooters judgement and responsibility to aim the shot to compensate for what ever conditions may lie between the muzzle and target and this is where the wheat is separated from the chaff on the scoreboard in most cases.

I'm sure that all of us shooters have either over or under compensated for conditions for a shot and here is where I want to make my point. The ballistic coefficient of a bullet (wind bucking ability) can help minimize compensation, and there for minimize over or under compensation. In many cases by quite a lot. Also, it will minimize outliners if, your not seeing a condition, to hold off for.

For about 100 years, in single shot competition, it was said that only flat nosed bullet could produce accuracy but, starting in the 1980's, spitizers arrived and in the hands of the better shooters, they started winning matches and now, almost all match winners use a spitzer bullet. It's my contention, that the dramatic increase in scores since about 2000, is, in part a refection of the increased use of spitzer bullets. Better barrels and faster twist rates, to stabilize the longer bullets, have also played thier part. I know us CB shooters are resistant to change and, let's face it, we're cheap, too, or we would be shooting jacketed bullets into one small hole. We can, in some cases, buy a bullet mold for the price of 250 jacketed bullets. So, whats not to love about that? What I'm going to show you, is the calulated BC of different bullets and how that you can get less wind drift at slower velocity if you use a higher BC bullet. Calulated and real BC's can be different but, the trend will alway be the same. i. e. A bullet design with a higher calulated BC design will in the real world produce a higher BC at the target than design with a lower calulated BC. If that makes since. ALL bullets are made up of dimensions that produce thier shape. BC is real and it will do want it says it will in getting to the target, that being reduced wind drift. BC is a product of the differential of the vel at the muzzle and at the traget.

If a bullet leaves the muzzle at 2000 fps and arrives at the target at 1500 fps, it will have a lower BC that that same bullet leaving the muzzle at 2000 and arriving at the target at 1600 fps. BC can be increased by adding weight to the bullet or changing the nose shape to a longer ogive or both, together. We will start with the accurate and popular MX4 30 ARD. it has a calulated BC of .270, drift is 10 mph wind @ 90 deg to the bullet travel for both bullets. Started at 2000 fps it arrives at 100 @ 1725 fps, with 2.43 of drift and @ 200 it's going 1485 fps with 8.82 of drift.  Next is a popular Paul Jones mold of 32 caliber with a BC of .42 Started a 1500 fps, it arrives at 100 @ 1363 fps with 2.14 of drift and @ 200 it's going 1247 with 7.29 of drift. A drawing of the MX4 30 ARD: