New Hornady Ballistic Calculator Generates Printable Drop Chart « Daily Bulletin (2024)

September 23rd, 2012

Hornady just unveiled its “new and improved” online Ballistics Calculator. It’s free, fast, and easy to use. New enhancements include selectable G1 or G7 BCs, drop and windage in MOA and MILS, metric value option, and the ability to enter shooting angle, wind angle, and more. To access all these features (such as G7 BCs), you’ll need to select the “advanced” display from Hornady’s Ballistic Calculator Entry Page. That will open up more entry fields. Default values are entered in the temperature and pressure fields, but you can override these with your actual field data. You can select a zero range from 0 to 2000 yards, with intervals from 25 to 400 yards. Once you’ve entered all the values, simply click “Calculate” and the program provides your drop numbers in a handy chart.

Printable ‘Cheat Sheet’ for your Rifle
One very cool feature of Hornady’s online calculator is the “Cheat Sheet” — a handy, printable come-up table. Once you’ve entered your variables and run the calculator, the results appear in a handy table that you can print-out and affix to your rifle stock. Here’s a sample Cheat Sheet prepared for Berger’s 105gr VLD and a 6mm Dasher*.

Although it can employ G7 BCs now, the Hornady Ballistic Calculator, unlike the JBM online solver, does NOT include a built-in database of G7 values, based on field-testing by Bryan Litz. For that reason, the JBM Ballistics Calculator is still our first choice for an online ballistics solver. We really do like Hornady’s handy “Cheat Sheet” option though. You can, of course, get a Litz-derived G7 value from JBM and then plug that number into the Hornady Calculator to produce a printable drop table.

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9 Responses to “New Hornady Ballistic Calculator Generates Printable Drop Chart”

1. Marlin K. Steele says:

   September 26, 2014 at 12:56 pm

   THINK YOU:
   I USED YOUR OLD CALCULATOR FOR YEARS.
   NOT THAT IT MEANS ANYTHING. I STARTED USING HORNADY BULLITS IN 1961.
   TO BE FAIR, I HAVE ALSO USED A LOT OF
   OTHER BRANDS.

   AGAIN I THANK YOU FOR YOUR GREAT PRODUCTS.

   MARLIN STEELE

2. MARBEZY DOMINIQUE says:

   October 15, 2014 at 5:31 am

   Bonjour,j’utilise des cartouches Hornady en 243 W SST Superformance 95 gr,je tire couramment jusqu’à 300 m .Auriez vous l’amabilité de me faire parvenir la table balistique complète de 25 m EN 25 m pour éffectuer des tirs jusqu’à 1000 m.J’utilise une carabine Sako 85 varmint.Je vous en remercie par avance .

3. Robert Casselman says:

   July 28, 2015 at 4:42 pm

   Question: In the the particular section of the Hornady reloading manual for 9mm Hornday bullets loads for your 115 grain bullet using Unique powder is not shown. Yet, for the 100 and 124 gr bullets are shown. Could you provide this loading data? Thank you.

4. Gary Fuller says:

   August 3, 2017 at 10:36 am

   I have used Hornady bullets and the Ballistic Calculator when in the old reloading manuals and after being placed on line. I loved the old on line ballistic calculator but the new on line calculator for some reason prints fuzzy and have tried on two different printers, please advise.

5. S.J. Carroll says:

   October 17, 2017 at 4:41 am

   Sir:
   I recently read a great article in
   American Rifleman about your “6.5” M M
   Creedmoor. My question is : What is
   the difference between “6.5” Creedmoor
   and the “6.5” Grendel {ELD-X Pre Hunt}
   or the Creedmoor Vs Grendel in general?

   Editor: Totally different cartridge. The 6.5 Grendel is a shorter cartridge, related to the 7.62×39 Russian as that evolved, eventually through the 220 Russian to a 30-deg 6 PPC. It will shoot in a .223 Rem magazine. The 6.5 Creedmoor is a mid-sized cartridge with significantly greater case capacity. Arms expert Neil Gibson has an interesting perspective on 6.5 Grendel: “Start off with the 7.62×39 Russian [cartridge]. The Russians then modify it, necking it down to .223 for deer hunting. The U.S. benchrest guys then modify that, necking it up to 6mm and blowing the case out making the 6mm PPC. Someone takes that case, necks it out to 6.5 mm, making the 6.5 PPC. Alexander Arms takes that and makes the 6.5 Grendel.”

6. S.J. Carroll says:

   October 23, 2017 at 10:43 am

   I recently read a great article in American Rifleman about your “6.5” M M
   Creedmoor. My question is : What is the difference between “6.5” Creedmoor
   and the “6.5” Grendel {ELD-X Pre Hunt} or the Creedmoor Vs Grendel in general?

   Editor: Totally different cartridge. The 6.5 Grendel is a shorter cartridge, related to the 7.62×39 Russian as that evolved, eventually through the 220 Russian to a 30-deg 6 PPC. It will shoot in a .223 Rem magazine. The 6.5 Creedmoor is a mid-sized cartridge with significantly greater case capacity. Arms expert Neil Gibson has an interesting perspective on 6.5 Grendel: “Start off with the 7.62×39 Russian [cartridge]. The Russians then modify it, necking it down to .223 for deer hunting. The U.S. benchrest guys then modify that, necking it up to 6mm and blowing the case out making the 6mm PPC. Someone takes that case, necks it out to 6.5 mm, making the 6.5 PPC. Alexander Arms takes that and makes the 6.5 Grendel.”

7. S.J. Carroll says:

   October 23, 2017 at 5:15 pm

   Sir

   Thanks for the excellent response.

   Solution = Use Hornady 6.5 mm Creedmoor

8. Gary Van Buiten says:

   December 11, 2017 at 12:08 pm

   Ifo on reloading data and brass for 303 savage ? thank You.

9. Steve Gallo says:

   November 4, 2018 at 2:35 am

   What is the ballistic coefficient of your 243 superformance GMX bullet