Ballistic Coefficient vs. Accuracy?

[Distant Thunder]

Yea, I know Mike, nobody wants to talk about the transonic zone and what happens in there. It's like shooting into a blackhole, nobody knows what happens as the bullet passes thru and we all just hope our bullets come out the other side with good enough stability to still hit the target. I just can't help but wonder what's going in there! It's a question I can't answer but it won't go away either.

Whenever I post a picture of my PPB someone inevitably comments about my patching job. I don't know what to say, I'm working on it. I won't make any excuses for my patching and I'm not going to lie to you and tell most of my bullets look better than that. I don't get too excited about it, I do my best and I go and shoot. More often than not I do pretty well. Maybe I would win more matches if I did a better patching job. The truth is that picture is from a couple of years ago and I took it after the match so I would have a record of the two bullets I shot and how little difference there was between them on the 1000 yard target. I won that match, the Minnesota State Championship, shooting bullets that looked no better than the one on the right with the gap between the ends of the patch. I just don't worry about it very much.

I will note that I dry patch my bullets and they tend to unwrap if handled much outside the case as this one was during the picture taking and if you look closely you can see the patch is a bit loose which probably makes the gap look bigger than it really was.

It's kind of the same thing with the 2-D bullets. I don't get too worried about the little stuff. Some people cut special patches that are made to allow for the 2 diameters. I just cut regular patches and wrap a little cockeyed so that when the ends come around the leading edge is close, just close, to being in line. Doing it that way the gap is a little wider at the bottom than at the top, but what's a man to do. I load 'em up and go shoot. It all seems to work just fine.

Not sure what to say for you hurting hair! Mine hurts too when I can't answer the transonic question. Try not to lose any sleep over it, I lose enough for both of us!