[Jeff Higgins]

Great info, Stijn, thank you. This stuff is waaaay "out of my wheelhouse", and I'm quite sure anything I think I might know is very dated by now. I did shoot service rifle a few times as a "side match" at our 1,000 yard black powder matches, but I was using a borrowed M1A. It's been all of 20 years, but I'm pretty sure my buddy had loaded that Palma Match bullet for this duty.

I do remember my time in the target butts when these modern centerfires were shooting with us. Many, many of the .308 and .30-'06 rifles were going subsonic somewhere along the way. Very distinctive sound as the bullet cleared the butts - they sounded like little buzz-bombs going overhead. Few of them actually hit the targets, and when they did, it was usually sideways. I think a lot of them were the venerable 168 grain Match King. Great "over the course" bullet for normal high power or service rifle competition out to 600 yards, but they totally lost it at 1,000 yards from the smaller capacity cases.