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How to adjust b.c. to get ballistic chart to match drops
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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2316386" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>WOW!!! That seems like a lot of work to accomplish the same thing that you can simply do by going to the range and actually shooting the ammo that your rifle likes and noting the changes in elevation and windage, recording the data and then simply using the actual data for your first shot. I have never been able to get a ballistics chart to work accurately for me. Something is always going to change. Your elevation, temperature, barometric pressure, temperatures and the like are all variable, sometimes from stage to stage when shooting competition. Now lets throw in varying crosswinds, mirage as well as the much forgotten Coriolis and you have everything available to mess up your carefully planned ballistic data. Instead...for you long range hunters take what you have and make it work for you. If you know your rifle, you keep your ammo constant and take the time to get a base zero at the ranges you are going to shoot at, all you have to do is dial in the predetermined zero for the distance you are going to be shooting at, adjust for conditions and let the bullet fly down range. Experience says that while not always in the X ring or exact center of the boiler room of the animal you are shooting at but it will not be too far off and should result in a kill shot providing you did all of the other things you are supposed to do prior to shooting. </p><p></p><p>Hitting and not killing an animal does in fact induce a lot of pain and suffering. I was one of those animals twice in my military career and trust me getting shot is not a lot of fun even if non fatal. I was in fact thankful that the person shooting at me at the time simply got lucky by firing a lot of rounds (AK47 which I hate to this day) in my direction instead of being skillful and the round that connected while painful was only in the lower right flank and did not do a lot of damage. </p><p></p><p>Conversely what is it like when the bullet hits? Well stand in front of Milwaukee Brewers player Avisail Garcia and let him wind up and take his hardest swing with his bat and hit you anywhere in your body and you will have some idea of what it feels like when a .30 caliber bullet rips nto your body. Not a pleasant thought is it. You don't kill that deer, elk or other animal and you have just inflicted that amount of pain and subsequent suffering to them. Be an ethical hunter, as once supposedly said by Davey Crockett once upon a time, " Be sure you are right, then go ahead."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2316386, member: 118816"] WOW!!! That seems like a lot of work to accomplish the same thing that you can simply do by going to the range and actually shooting the ammo that your rifle likes and noting the changes in elevation and windage, recording the data and then simply using the actual data for your first shot. I have never been able to get a ballistics chart to work accurately for me. Something is always going to change. Your elevation, temperature, barometric pressure, temperatures and the like are all variable, sometimes from stage to stage when shooting competition. Now lets throw in varying crosswinds, mirage as well as the much forgotten Coriolis and you have everything available to mess up your carefully planned ballistic data. Instead...for you long range hunters take what you have and make it work for you. If you know your rifle, you keep your ammo constant and take the time to get a base zero at the ranges you are going to shoot at, all you have to do is dial in the predetermined zero for the distance you are going to be shooting at, adjust for conditions and let the bullet fly down range. Experience says that while not always in the X ring or exact center of the boiler room of the animal you are shooting at but it will not be too far off and should result in a kill shot providing you did all of the other things you are supposed to do prior to shooting. Hitting and not killing an animal does in fact induce a lot of pain and suffering. I was one of those animals twice in my military career and trust me getting shot is not a lot of fun even if non fatal. I was in fact thankful that the person shooting at me at the time simply got lucky by firing a lot of rounds (AK47 which I hate to this day) in my direction instead of being skillful and the round that connected while painful was only in the lower right flank and did not do a lot of damage. Conversely what is it like when the bullet hits? Well stand in front of Milwaukee Brewers player Avisail Garcia and let him wind up and take his hardest swing with his bat and hit you anywhere in your body and you will have some idea of what it feels like when a .30 caliber bullet rips nto your body. Not a pleasant thought is it. You don't kill that deer, elk or other animal and you have just inflicted that amount of pain and subsequent suffering to them. Be an ethical hunter, as once supposedly said by Davey Crockett once upon a time, " Be sure you are right, then go ahead." [/QUOTE]
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