Many sharp shooters are using ballistic tables to shoot 800m and above however they are using very fast rifles like the 222, 223 and the 243.I however shoot a .22 with extended rounds 32 gr, are there any .22 ballistic tables avalibles avalable so that we can attempt shots at 200m or so. would be a whole new approch to shooting francolin on the farm. please if you know of any links let me know.

You need to be able to one of three things if you live in the bush in africa either run fast, climb well or shoot strait.

There's no end of free ballistic programmes and tables on the net....... just try Mr Google with a few keywords and you'll soon find what you need.

If I remember correctly, there's also one on the Somchem site. Again, Mr Google will find the site for you.

Hornady has a great ballistics calculator. You input bullet weight, muzzle velocity, ballistic coefficient, temp, 0-distance, barometric pressure and it calculates a table that you can print.

http://www.hornady.com/ballist...stics_calculator.php

As a former .22 target shooter I can advise the largest issue you'll encounter when attempting small target or in your case normal ones at long range, is the variation in .22 ammo.
Those center fire shooters you refer to measure every component to the grain. With the .22 target shooters start with very high quality ammo. (EXPENSIVE!!!) then sort it further by weight of the individual cartridge and even the thickness of the rim (to account for variation in the amount of priming compound). Of a carton of 1000 cartridges its not uncommon to end up with no more than 200 matching exactly of any one weight/thickness. Wind also plays havoc on the .22 at much more than fifty meters. Doesn't take much breeze to move a 40gr. bullet a cm!

That said, you can still do it my friend! Whatever ammo you use, simply set up a target at fifty meters. Zero your rifle at that distance then move to 100 with a large paper. Determine the drop of your bullet then repeat at 150 and 200. Be prepared though, the drop will be great and increase considerably as the distance increases. You will likely run out of scope adjustment much beyond 100 meters. Good luck! The good thing about soing such things with the .22 is that you can shoot and have a lot of fun for a lot less money.

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Originally posted by James Walker:
...222, 223 and the 243...would be a whole new approch (sic) to shooting francolin on the farm.

Since when is francolin considered African Big Game?

Is it even legal to shoot African Big Game with a 222, 223, 243?

If I was you I would forget tables.

Put a large sheet of paper with a mark on it, and shoot at it from different distance.

You will see for yourself how your rifle and ammo perform.

Shooting a .22 LR at 200 yards has been likened - by no less than master rifleman Col. Townsend Whelen - to shooting a high power rifle at 1,000.

Bullet drop and wind drift effects are horrendous. Shooting your .22 at 200 yards will humble you in a hurry!

mrlexma brings up a valid point - still, it would be great sport (not to mention fun). I concur w/ Saeed that shooting the rifle is the only way to verify the "theory" contained in the ballistic tables. The more I think about it . . . , cheap, great sport, and maybe even a little table fare to boot.

Come on MR, 1000 yards is a piece of cake. Haven't you ever watched "Best of the West?"

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Originally posted by AnotherAZWriter:
Come on MR, 1000 yards is a piece of cake. Haven't you ever watched "Best of the West?"

Sounds like some of the geezers we get here!

We had a man come here once with a6.5x68 rifle. He had a Leupold 6.5-20X scope.

He asked me to install the scope, and "adjust it to shoot spot on at 200 and 800 meters".

I tried to explain to him that it is not possible to sight the scope at 2 different distance. He would not hear any of this. He insisted that the man in the shop told he can shoot deer at 800 meters with it.

I feel a combination of the above. Shoot at 300 yards then 100 yards and calculate your balistic coeficient. Stated bc on bullets is a farce.. Youl notice almost exatly the same shape bullets with different bc.. Large bc is to be suspect on bulletmakers sites.. Sierra is very close ,you see thier bc looks poor. Maybe just accurate.. A bullet(350 hot core) that said 218(aprox) bc made by speer came out to .157 by measuring it by drop.. then shoot at 400, 500 and 1000 (or 250- 300 yards with big bore) yards tailoring your bc for that bullet in your rifle.. After that you can use a balistic program to chart your bullet to each 25 yards out to the max distance you want and it will be very close.. Watch for tail/headwinds, this takes experierence and of course guesswork.. dave