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<blockquote data-quote="CRaTxn" data-source="post: 491920" data-attributes="member: 14985"><p>Gold & Gooblydegook>>to wit Lance Hopper again starts telling us how to range by"how many inches tall a target is" then he and the graphics person proceed to explain and animate a HORIZONTAL 20 inch shoulder width example...how about some proof reading-technical editing; IF,IF there was a script, Lance flubbed it up enough to confuse people. He then goes into why the army uses a 10 inch standard head height because it is more consistent--@800-900yards they compute to the closest tenth of a mil??right. Then all the mils and inches mixed together he computes 2.5 MOA wind correction at 500 METERS and gets 12.5 inches...excuse me Sir but 500m is more like <550y and 2.5 MOA = 13.7 inches NOT 12.5inches(he obviously used meters not yards)...then he sums up by saying "you have to do a little bit of math to use it..." yeah, well I wouldn't want him doing the math to compute the close air support on my position. Once again John Porter comes along to simplify and illustrate what the sergeant was trying to say. David Tubbs shows the mechanical turbulence created by ground clutter and makes you think just how high the bullets arc (between 20-30 feet) takes it above the line of sight into the stronger laminar flow of wind as height increases...great! Back before laser range finders, I found I did better MOA ranging distance off an animal's standing height NOT their brisket thickness that all the outdoor writers parroted. The bigger numbers you are dividing with your reticle's MOA subtension the easier to measure and to "math"it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CRaTxn, post: 491920, member: 14985"] Gold & Gooblydegook>>to wit Lance Hopper again starts telling us how to range by"how many inches tall a target is" then he and the graphics person proceed to explain and animate a HORIZONTAL 20 inch shoulder width example...how about some proof reading-technical editing; IF,IF there was a script, Lance flubbed it up enough to confuse people. He then goes into why the army uses a 10 inch standard head height because it is more consistent--@800-900yards they compute to the closest tenth of a mil??right. Then all the mils and inches mixed together he computes 2.5 MOA wind correction at 500 METERS and gets 12.5 inches...excuse me Sir but 500m is more like <550y and 2.5 MOA = 13.7 inches NOT 12.5inches(he obviously used meters not yards)...then he sums up by saying "you have to do a little bit of math to use it..." yeah, well I wouldn't want him doing the math to compute the close air support on my position. Once again John Porter comes along to simplify and illustrate what the sergeant was trying to say. David Tubbs shows the mechanical turbulence created by ground clutter and makes you think just how high the bullets arc (between 20-30 feet) takes it above the line of sight into the stronger laminar flow of wind as height increases...great! Back before laser range finders, I found I did better MOA ranging distance off an animal's standing height NOT their brisket thickness that all the outdoor writers parroted. The bigger numbers you are dividing with your reticle's MOA subtension the easier to measure and to "math"it. [/QUOTE]
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