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17 mph wind hold?
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<blockquote data-quote="steeltraps" data-source="post: 975414" data-attributes="member: 74752"><p>You guys are 100% right. Mide range wind will SOMETIMES drive a man crazy. Here is a good example. I use to have a least=lost it got out bid by another group. of 2000 acres. Had a 1400 yards range . We shot mountain top to mountaintop. Alabama foot hills really. 1600 ft to 1720ft . I would set at the bench and 4500 kestel would not move. I would look at the 1400 yards mansize steel targets and a 30 inch circle. Between and beside them were 4ft peices of orange flagging tape. They would be absolutlt still in the mornings. But some mornings I would have to put 5 moa of wind on it! That equals 6 mph wind? I read an have see a 5mph wind move a 3ft peice of flagging strait out at 5mph. Why was my flagging showing zero wind?? One day i could stand it now more. I Took and ranged a tree at midrange with my Vector 4. It was 802 yards a little past half way, where our rode went up the mountain. I took my friend and his ranger and a treestand the next day. Climbed up a big tree almost 60 ft, and hung flagging on treestand bow holders on both sides. The next day we where amaize at how thr almost half way flags were moving! They would be almost strait and the ones at the target up the hill 600 yards would be hanging down with only a slight flicker to indictat that they were even moving. But threw that valley WAS like a river of air !!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steeltraps, post: 975414, member: 74752"] You guys are 100% right. Mide range wind will SOMETIMES drive a man crazy. Here is a good example. I use to have a least=lost it got out bid by another group. of 2000 acres. Had a 1400 yards range . We shot mountain top to mountaintop. Alabama foot hills really. 1600 ft to 1720ft . I would set at the bench and 4500 kestel would not move. I would look at the 1400 yards mansize steel targets and a 30 inch circle. Between and beside them were 4ft peices of orange flagging tape. They would be absolutlt still in the mornings. But some mornings I would have to put 5 moa of wind on it! That equals 6 mph wind? I read an have see a 5mph wind move a 3ft peice of flagging strait out at 5mph. Why was my flagging showing zero wind?? One day i could stand it now more. I Took and ranged a tree at midrange with my Vector 4. It was 802 yards a little past half way, where our rode went up the mountain. I took my friend and his ranger and a treestand the next day. Climbed up a big tree almost 60 ft, and hung flagging on treestand bow holders on both sides. The next day we where amaize at how thr almost half way flags were moving! They would be almost strait and the ones at the target up the hill 600 yards would be hanging down with only a slight flicker to indictat that they were even moving. But threw that valley WAS like a river of air !!:D [/QUOTE]
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