Jack, Thanks for your input.
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You probably shouldn't come out here at this time of year, it'll make you want to stay.”
You are right about that. Been there 19 years in a row (counting 2012) and would move there in a skinny If~n I had the $$. If I live long enough I will be on I-40 passing through Music City about this time next Sunday and be there on Oct 16th for second rifle on Oct 20.
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What unit are you hunting?”
I hunt units 77,78,771 & back in the day, also 751. Did archery first 6 or 7 years. Love that “Three Sisters” area. It's bad A$$, but beautiful! Also, don't think humidity effects LRH that much (up to 1,000 Yds.) but stuck it in cause I had it and did not know if his program called for it. Must be important or they would not have it in all ballistic calculators I have used.
However, I do believe that since humidity is water in the air, a bullet will drop faster at 1 mile to 2 miles in high humidity than in the
Sahara desert with < 5% H.
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Are conditions you are putting in for your Colorado hunt? “
Yes, I developed a spread sheet in 10 degree increments (rows) from 0F to 100 F with all the ingredients for 11 columns of shooting solutions in SC @ 500' and CO @ 8K', 9K', 10K' and 11K', so I have all the different conditions covered. All I can do now is
SCREW it UP or have an
ENDZONE CELEBRATION.
I go to the locations Weather Forecasts ( when conditions are right to capture actual conditions ) with those elevations that I want facts for and save a print screen with ALL the data on it (to input into my shooting solutions) so my projected bullet flight will be correct. A mans' got to know where his bullet is suppose to be under all given conditions.
You Assumed correctly: This is a real world snapshot!
From a saved print screen for
Vail, CO_ 26 Oct 2011{i.e. Leadville (KLXV) Weather Station}
Altitude (ft) 9,928
Station Pressure (hg) 20.70
{my bad-corrected for fat finger mistake on Bar Pressure 30.02in. conversion}
Temperature (F) 19 SNOW
{Was 13F to 36F that day}
Humidity (%) 99
{Was 82% to 100% that day-I picked 99% so a 1 did not appear on report.}
You are at Grand Junction where the weather station is at 4,859' so it don't help me much with station pressures, temperatures & humidity. I am old school and if it is a light Snow and Misting it is going to be 100% Humidity in my book no mater what some “Gubment” worker says. Here is what I am talking about LOL.
“Denver REPORTS_6,249'_10:01AM MST_28 Feb 2012_34.7F_Bar Pressure 29.54IN_Light SNOW and Mist_Humidity 57%".
You may not be old enough to remember this or was not in the area back in Oct. 10th (+-) 20th 1994, But it snowed 4' over 5 solid days in or about that time period over on Turkey Creek in unit 78 and 2 brothers died cause they let their tent cave in on them and sleeping bags got wet. It sticks in my mind cause I did my first Elk Archery hunt last week of August and first week of September that year just a couple of Mountains over from there. Read about it in Fields & Streams the next Summer I think. and I have a
healthy fear of anything close to
Zero F and 100% humidity at 10,000' and don't want to mess with it, but if I get trapped in it I will be able to shoot in it, unless “I've fallen and can't get up” LOL!
Good luck with your season.
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