Like light bullet zeroed at 200-250 and a heavy bullet zeroed at 100.

I hunt SE deer and hogs mostly. Some in stands and some in swamps and woods.

Barnes has just come out with a 308, 110 gr tipped TSX that I am interested in and that bullet will take out most any deer or hog I am after.

Should be able to get 3250-3300 out of that bullet
Zeroed at 250 it would be 2.5" high at 125 and 3.4" low at 300.
Been shooting a 110 gr tipped TSX bullet in 6.8 spc at 2700 and its devisating on hogs
so I know it will work well in 308.

I tried to get a 220 gr prohunter to work with a 130 gr tipped TSX without resetting the scope but its too heavy.

I am thinking about the 180 gr tipped barned TSX for a heavy bullet for close encounters.
I should be able to get 2650 out of that bullet, but I think that might be too slow for the same scope setting.

Is there any general rule of thumb on something like that, IE bullet weight difference vs speed difference = roughly lighter bullet zeroed at 200, heavy bullet at 100 ??

My 308 will shoot 130 gr barnes bullets at 3150fps 2" high with 220 gr prohunters 2275fps at 4" low or a 6" spread at 100 yards which is too much.


A different animal but my 338/284 will shoot 160 gr tsx bullets at 3000 fps 5" high, 210 gr tsx bullets at 2650fps 2" high and 250 gr gamekings at 2350 at 0" all at 100 yards.