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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 527380" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>Spring for the Kestrel, if your shooting steel or targets not a big deal but your hunting, you need good data and you need good wind speed you owe it to game to do the best you can!!</p><p></p><p>That was a little harsher than I was intending, you can make hits at that range but with at least the Kestrel or a Brunton you can get some vital data to use with cards or what ever you use to dope with. I've done the Google earth thing and printed up charts for different stands then had a temp chart to tweak the DA to that moment, I've ran generic charts of and guesstimated wind and other data and it has cost me deer that should have been taken and it has cost me to much time and not gotten the shot I should have because I was screwing with papers and charts and by the time I have a dope the deer has moved. IMO a Kestrel or similar is an essential piece of gear if only from the stand point of getting you a wind velocity to work with, wind will kick your butt more than anything! </p><p></p><p>The areas I hunt can change about 5000ft in elevation and change 40 degrees in temp fairly fast, I can go from shooting up hill to shooting down hill, I have a lot of variables that can change a lot of stuff, someone shooting deer in a bean field in the mid west may not have a quarter the variable I do so that is something to think about as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 527380, member: 13632"] Spring for the Kestrel, if your shooting steel or targets not a big deal but your hunting, you need good data and you need good wind speed you owe it to game to do the best you can!! That was a little harsher than I was intending, you can make hits at that range but with at least the Kestrel or a Brunton you can get some vital data to use with cards or what ever you use to dope with. I've done the Google earth thing and printed up charts for different stands then had a temp chart to tweak the DA to that moment, I've ran generic charts of and guesstimated wind and other data and it has cost me deer that should have been taken and it has cost me to much time and not gotten the shot I should have because I was screwing with papers and charts and by the time I have a dope the deer has moved. IMO a Kestrel or similar is an essential piece of gear if only from the stand point of getting you a wind velocity to work with, wind will kick your butt more than anything! The areas I hunt can change about 5000ft in elevation and change 40 degrees in temp fairly fast, I can go from shooting up hill to shooting down hill, I have a lot of variables that can change a lot of stuff, someone shooting deer in a bean field in the mid west may not have a quarter the variable I do so that is something to think about as well. [/QUOTE]
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