Recent content by wrad

jrs - Ha, ha - gravity bending the barrel. I get it, but you are going to make some of these other guys crazy. Talk about mixed bags, how about this one: Air Force War Plans Officer, Amusement Park Ops Director, Roller Coaster Builder (The Beast in Cincinnati, the one on New York - New York...

jrs - Thanks for the good info. Sounds like you're a Civil Engineer also, trained in surveying as one element in our bag of varied skills. I know about earth curvature corrections. And I concur with the station datum starting at the end of the muzzle where the bullet has last contact...

Hi Mark, My original stupid question sure seems to have generated a lot of conversation, most of it quite helpful, like yours. I REALLY appreciate your advice on gauging pitch and yaw at 100 yds. I just got a new chronograph, a PVM-21. Expensive, but accurate to 0.1 fps, and usable under...

I know it's meaningless at 100 yds. But if you followed this string back far enough, you would see that my original question was, if you are off several feet on the 100 yd zero, what effect does that have when you drop back to 1 mile? I have received many answers, and run some profiles myself...

Oops! Something was telling me that I had asked a dumb question. I did, in fact, mix yds with ft, so my distances were exaggerated. Very embarassing mistake for an engineer. But my original question was where to place the gun on the 100 yd mark for zeroing. One helpful respondent came back...

Thanks yobuck. I don't hunt, any more. I'm just fascinated with the physics of very long range precision shooting. My range on my farm is now 1,000 yds, with concrete monuments placed in the ground at 50 yd surveyed intervals. I plan to extend my range to 1 mile this year, and work my way...

Thanks all, for your great advice. And Mr. 4x... what's so wrong with being anal? I love crunching numbers, and often spend an hour on the 'puter with data, charts & statistics for each shot taken. VLR shooting and reloading just gives me a great excuse to play with numbers in very dramatic...

I'm about to graduate from sortoflongrange to verylongrange - out to about 1 mi. I am getting a new rifle w 34" barrel. Here is my dumb question for the year - it seems that a small error in zeroing at 100 yds can induce a large error at 1 mi. If I hold my rifle at the wrong spot on the 100...

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Actually, Shawn got back to me within minutes after I clicked on the link you gave me, and he gave me the info I need. Maybe he smells new meat here. Thanks all for your help. Bunch of good guys here. Walt

Bounty Hunter - Thanks for the MikeCr spreadsheet. I am a 67 year old newbie in this fun sport, and feel I'm a freshman-going-sophomore in the art of reloading & LR shooting. I am an Ohio farmer with a 1 mile range, hoping to live long enough to shoot that far and hit something, at least once...

Shawn - I posted this question on another part of the site, and a member told me you could probably answer it for me. I apologize if I'm violating a protocol by changing subjects. I'm new to this site and don't know how to reach folks yet. Here is the question: I have been reloading about...

I have been reloading about 5 yrs, and consider myself to be about a sophomore in the art. I have a number of .50 BMG cases with ring-crimped primers. Can someone please tell me if those can be removed so that I can reload the cases? I can't seem to find that info anywhere.

Jim - Nice write-up on cleaning and break-in. I am about to receive my first custom gun, a .338 wildcat with a 36" Lilja barrel. I want to treat it as royalty. I am an engineer with some training in metallurgy, and there is one question that I have never seen answered about break-in. I know...

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