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<blockquote data-quote="Nimrodmar10" data-source="post: 565364" data-attributes="member: 36369"><p>Express</p><p>I'm affraid you're asking for the impossible here. There are many factors that figure into a ballistic program. The variables are almost endless. Fortunately, most of us don't need or want to to take it to the level where we worry about spin drift or corriolis effect on a bullet. Basically we just want to know where our bullet will hit at a second distance when we sighted the rifle at 100 or 200 yards.</p><p></p><p>But a ballistics program is still math. It's A + B =C or someting like it. You said you want to tell the program what your drop are for a few ranges and let it figure out the BC, MV and trajectories. That's just not enough data. Give the MV and it can tell you the BC. Or give it the BC and it can give you the MV. Ballistics programs are a wonderful thing but they are just dumb computers. They only count to 0 and 1. We have an old saying in computer programing: GIGO. That stands for garbage in, garbage out. A computerprogram's output is only as good as it's input.</p><p></p><p>I use an Android program called "Shooter" on my Droid phone. It even feeds in atmospheric data from the weather sites such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed, gps position etc. But I'm like you, I still shoot my rifles at as many different ranges and conditions as possible and write them down. Sometimes the most important piece of shooting equipment we can have is our dope book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nimrodmar10, post: 565364, member: 36369"] Express I'm affraid you're asking for the impossible here. There are many factors that figure into a ballistic program. The variables are almost endless. Fortunately, most of us don't need or want to to take it to the level where we worry about spin drift or corriolis effect on a bullet. Basically we just want to know where our bullet will hit at a second distance when we sighted the rifle at 100 or 200 yards. But a ballistics program is still math. It's A + B =C or someting like it. You said you want to tell the program what your drop are for a few ranges and let it figure out the BC, MV and trajectories. That's just not enough data. Give the MV and it can tell you the BC. Or give it the BC and it can give you the MV. Ballistics programs are a wonderful thing but they are just dumb computers. They only count to 0 and 1. We have an old saying in computer programing: GIGO. That stands for garbage in, garbage out. A computerprogram's output is only as good as it's input. I use an Android program called "Shooter" on my Droid phone. It even feeds in atmospheric data from the weather sites such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed, gps position etc. But I'm like you, I still shoot my rifles at as many different ranges and conditions as possible and write them down. Sometimes the most important piece of shooting equipment we can have is our dope book. [/QUOTE]
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