Comments on: PRS Gas Gun Match — Season Opener in Florida https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2017/02/prs-gas-gun-match-season-opener-in-florida/ from AccurateShooter.com Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:26:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: Jerry Shaw https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2017/02/prs-gas-gun-match-season-opener-in-florida/comment-page-1/#comment-52250 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 22:21:33 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=59345#comment-52250 “Short Range vs. Long Range
The .223/5.56 guns had some lag time waiting on shot impacts. I believe the long-term solution may be to find a light and fast load for closer stages for near-instant reaction time and use a heavy load for the long shots to see splash and get the target to move a little more. ”

Really? I just did a little checking with the JBM calculator and the Hornady loading manual. Assuming you’re running a 55 grain VMAX with a (max allowable) muzzle velocity of 3000 fps your bullet gets to 100 yards about .009 seconds faster than a 75 grain BTHP launched at 2700 fps.
So you might gain about one hundredth of a second per round by running a faster lighter bullet. Over 20 shots that’s around .2 seconds. I doubt I could detect that .01 second per shot difference.
Call me crazy but there should be easier ways to make up less than a quarter of a second over the course of a match than to carry two different kinds of ammo just for this purpose.

Editor: What I think Sean was saying is that the lighter bullets were not rocking the distant steel targets enough, or displaying enough splash… hence time was lost confirming a “hit”. I think he’s saying continue to use light bullets close, and heavier bullets far.

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