30-06 Ballistics Chart & Coefficient

Article Posted: July 11, 2012

The following is a 1000 yard 30-06 ballistic charting of a Remington 30-06 Springfield 165 Grain AccuTip Boat Tail with a BC (Ballistic Coeficient) of .447 that was created using our free online ballistic calculator and details the trajectory of the bullets flight from the millisecond it leaves the barrel until the time it reaches the 1,000 yd mark. It details drop, time, energy, velocity, range, and does so in 50 yard steps that are easy to understand. The 165 Grain AccuTip Boat Tail is being fired at a velocity of 2800fps from muzzle point blank, this also takes into account the standard 1.5" scope height, and a gun that has been sighted in at 100 yards. If your 30-06 isn't close to these specs, or if you are a sniper or just someone who is into long range shots you may want to take this a step further and use our ballistic calculator to create a custom 30-06 ballistic chart to take into account variances like atmospheric conditions and angles.

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Range (yards)	Drop (inches)	Velocity	Energy	Time (seconds)
0	-1.4936	2800	2872	0.00
50	-0.1498	2697	2664	0.05
100	-0.0014	2597	2471	0.11
150	-1.1424	2499	2288	0.17
200	-3.6756	2403	2115	0.23
250	-7.7145	2310	1955	0.30
300	-13.3837	2218	1802	0.36
350	-20.8209	2128	1659	0.43
400	-30.1783	2041	1526	0.50
450	-41.6244	1955	1400	0.58
500	-55.3455	1872	1284	0.66
550	-71.5482	1791	1175	0.74
600	-90.4615	1713	1075	0.82
650	-112.3382	1638	983	0.91
700	-137.4574	1565	897	1.01
750	-166.1264	1496	820	1.11
800	-198.6823	1429	748	1.21
850	-235.4931	1367	685	1.32
900	-276.9573	1308	627	1.43
950	-323.5005	1254	576	1.54
1000	-375.5708	1204	531	1.67

So what does the charting of the 30-06 Springfield's external ballistics tell us exactly? It tells me that bullet shoots pretty flat with just a 3.6" drop at 200 yards. Think about that in terms of football fields. 2 football fields are end to end. A deer at one end and you at the other. That bullet will only fall 3.6" when fired. Better yet at just 100 yards and with a 1.5" scope the bullet will have dropped 0.0014 of an inch.

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