05-31-2011, 09:35 PM
stanc Wrote:...it looks to me like to get a circa 0.54 BC with steel (or steel and copper) as core material would make a bullet with an impractical L/D ratio...with L/D of 5:1...Does anyone know the basis for the L/D = 5 being a practical length limit?
I did a quick perusal of the JBM length tables (http://www.jbmballistics.com/ballistics/...gths.shtml) and found several in the range of 5.4<L/D<5.8 so it would appear that L/D = 5 is not a hard limit.
