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#10MinuteTalk - G1 and G7 Ballistic Coefficients - Which One Should I Use?

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🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

G1 and G7 BC’s - what the heck are they and which number should I plug into my ballistics calculator to get the best drop and wind drift solutions? Mark Boardman grabs Reuben Aleckson and Ryan Muckenhirn to get the 411 on G1 and G7 BC’s.

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Mark here. Join by two of my friends, Mr. Ryan Muckenherne. Pretty

0:09.0

much a staple around here. And repeat, guest, Mr. Ruben Alexen.

0:13.3

Yes, sir.

0:14.3

Now, Ruben, well, I'm going to say, I'm going to preface this. We talk a lot about here

0:17.6

about, you know, extending your effective range, long range shooting, ballistic, ballistic

0:21.5

calculators. Ruben, and we were talking about, you know, getting some, some ballistic

0:26.1

data the other day. And one thing that we were talking about and one thing that you need

0:30.5

to plug into your ballistic calculator is the BC, the ballistic coefficient. But there's

0:36.6

more than one. And even your calculator will make you select, you got to pick. And then

0:43.2

I always thought it was either G1 or G7, which I think I've actually been mistakenly

0:47.8

using the G1 occasionally printed. I got one of my printouts here. This is from folks

0:54.2

over at Kestrel, which we actually have podcasts with them at one time. So check, check

0:58.0

that out. There's like eight. And then one was like, Mark GL. But I think the, what are

1:02.2

the ones we need to concern ourselves with? Is it just the G1 and the G7?

1:05.8

We'll talk G1, G7, some solvers have a custom curve. Okay. And then we've got multi BC.

1:15.1

So that sounds like the one for me, because I don't like to pick. Yeah. Oh, what

1:21.3

yeah, within shooting, we'll talk about those probably primarily. Okay. Ruben, what is a G1 BC?

1:28.6

When does a person want to use that? Well, I'm going to preface this by saying when we give

1:34.8

this information, saying for most users, okay, in most applications, there's probably going to be

1:40.9

exceptions here or there. But we want to select when we're inputting that in the calculator,

1:46.4

whether that be in our fury A, B's or in our razor 4000 GBs, right? We're going to have to pick

1:52.6

something when we're selecting our bullet. We want to base that off of the shape of the bullet,

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