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9 o'clock vs. 3 o'clock wind drifts different with same wind velocity???
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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Eichele" data-source="post: 614349" data-attributes="member: 1007"><p>From my point of view, no. </p><p></p><p>Why? </p><p></p><p>Because a deer's kill zone is 8-12" big depending on the deer. If my SD/CE is 10" at 1K, I have just made a miss or worse, a bad gut shot. For simplicity sake, lets say there is no wind today. I take a shot at a deer at 1K and have 10" of drift, even on a 12" kill zone, I have missed the zone by 4". To me, taking into account all the variables and eliminating them (nit-picking) is the only way to make the best shot possible. Now factor in the wind. Between a small miss-judgement of the wind coupled with SD/CE and lack of adjusting for it, the miss is even greater. Sure, one or the other could cancel the other out at times. On the flip side, the times it does not means that they have compounded eachother.</p><p></p><p>I can understand not giving a crap about factoring these variables in for a target shooter where the life and well being a piece of paper is at stake. For a longrange hunter, if SD/CE are not important and adjusted for, they (IMHO) dont care about the well being of the game they hunt. Its one thing to kill the game or at least stack ALL the odds in the favor of a clean kill. Its another to take into account only some of the variables and create high odds of wounded losses and game having to suffer. Unfortunately, we cant legislate how much a hunter does or does not care about the game he hunts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Eichele, post: 614349, member: 1007"] From my point of view, no. Why? Because a deer's kill zone is 8-12" big depending on the deer. If my SD/CE is 10" at 1K, I have just made a miss or worse, a bad gut shot. For simplicity sake, lets say there is no wind today. I take a shot at a deer at 1K and have 10" of drift, even on a 12" kill zone, I have missed the zone by 4". To me, taking into account all the variables and eliminating them (nit-picking) is the only way to make the best shot possible. Now factor in the wind. Between a small miss-judgement of the wind coupled with SD/CE and lack of adjusting for it, the miss is even greater. Sure, one or the other could cancel the other out at times. On the flip side, the times it does not means that they have compounded eachother. I can understand not giving a crap about factoring these variables in for a target shooter where the life and well being a piece of paper is at stake. For a longrange hunter, if SD/CE are not important and adjusted for, they (IMHO) dont care about the well being of the game they hunt. Its one thing to kill the game or at least stack ALL the odds in the favor of a clean kill. Its another to take into account only some of the variables and create high odds of wounded losses and game having to suffer. Unfortunately, we cant legislate how much a hunter does or does not care about the game he hunts. [/QUOTE]
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