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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 966159" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>The best tips that I've gotten was from Shawn Carlock and Broz and that was to imagine the wind as water flowing over the terrain your looking at. The other is the closer to the muzzle the more important it is and the more affect on the bullet trajectory it has.</p><p></p><p>In my area the biggest thing I had to learn was to pay attention to the prevailing wind that your bullet will be in during mid range, it's strong but steady. I can take the local wind that is following the ground and add 50% of it's value to the correction and I get good wind calls. </p><p>The local wind is the one that will really help to think of as water, it reacts to the terrain and you can measure it.</p><p>The thermal winds are the ones that cause that bullet trace to go right over a bulls shoulder, it's got a vertical and a horizontal component to think about but with patience and playing with a meter you can break down both components and use a program to figure it out. </p><p></p><p>Do some shooting, one round just to learn from at long range won't even register on an elks radar and you'll gain a huge amount of knowledge from it and if your unsure about a shot on an elk take a spotter shot, at 800+ yards they don't have any idea and you can really dial in and drop them on the second round.</p><p></p><p>Just pay attention to the wind through the whole day and you'll learn a lot just as you move around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 966159, member: 13632"] The best tips that I've gotten was from Shawn Carlock and Broz and that was to imagine the wind as water flowing over the terrain your looking at. The other is the closer to the muzzle the more important it is and the more affect on the bullet trajectory it has. In my area the biggest thing I had to learn was to pay attention to the prevailing wind that your bullet will be in during mid range, it's strong but steady. I can take the local wind that is following the ground and add 50% of it's value to the correction and I get good wind calls. The local wind is the one that will really help to think of as water, it reacts to the terrain and you can measure it. The thermal winds are the ones that cause that bullet trace to go right over a bulls shoulder, it's got a vertical and a horizontal component to think about but with patience and playing with a meter you can break down both components and use a program to figure it out. Do some shooting, one round just to learn from at long range won't even register on an elks radar and you'll gain a huge amount of knowledge from it and if your unsure about a shot on an elk take a spotter shot, at 800+ yards they don't have any idea and you can really dial in and drop them on the second round. Just pay attention to the wind through the whole day and you'll learn a lot just as you move around. [/QUOTE]
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