What do we really know about the transonic zone?

[Kurt]

Those round plates are on the small side Jim. I had a hard time seeing the two smaller plates last year. I developed more problems with my eyes at the Q. I had two heavy floaters tear loose that are bad enough that they completely block out the sky light in the camper during the early morning dawn IO mean completely gone with a red ring around the outside that I can see when slowly moving my eyes away.
I wanted to make the Rapids match but I just came home from Gettysburg Pa yesterday. Took the 12 and 14 year old Granddaughters there for a history lesson.

As far as the lighter bullets.

I been working with an alloy that will take a 520 gr down to 485 gr out of the same mould. I shot them at the Q at 805 yards during the week to see if they will hit that mark but they get pretty wind sensitive. I haven't shot them over the chronograph to see what the velocity difference is yet, but the snow bank bullets look very good as far as obturation filling the grooves and staying under the paper.
They proved to show 5 shot test ladder loads sub MOA at 200 yards using the .44-77 and the .45-90.

But it's hard to say if they make any difference going transonic.
The light bullet might get bumped worse.