I realize there is no answer to this open ended question but I'm hoping for sort of a ballpark guess from experienced shooters.
The question is for handguns only.
Within 25 yards, how much does changing a cartridge with one bullet weight/design to another weight design would typically change its POI; ie, if I shoot a magazine full of one cartridge and get, say a 6 inch spread on the center of a target, what's the liklihood of the bullets from a different magazine loaded with cartdidges of a different type striking in the same general target area. Are the ballistics so sensitive to cartridge type that you might not even hit the target or might the POI be just a bit off.
I'm just curious whether or not, after a handgun has been zeroed with a given cartridge, if you could expect most any cartridge type to have the same "general" POI as any other through the same handgun at a 25 yard range.
Obviously I don't have much to do today and when this thought bubbled up I realized I had never seen it addressed anywhere. Maybe nobody else was dumb enough to ask such a question...
The question is for handguns only.
Within 25 yards, how much does changing a cartridge with one bullet weight/design to another weight design would typically change its POI; ie, if I shoot a magazine full of one cartridge and get, say a 6 inch spread on the center of a target, what's the liklihood of the bullets from a different magazine loaded with cartdidges of a different type striking in the same general target area. Are the ballistics so sensitive to cartridge type that you might not even hit the target or might the POI be just a bit off.
I'm just curious whether or not, after a handgun has been zeroed with a given cartridge, if you could expect most any cartridge type to have the same "general" POI as any other through the same handgun at a 25 yard range.
Obviously I don't have much to do today and when this thought bubbled up I realized I had never seen it addressed anywhere. Maybe nobody else was dumb enough to ask such a question...