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<blockquote data-quote="44-40" data-source="post: 2874518" data-attributes="member: 126985"><p>The wind...the wind across the canyon has sometimes no bering on the wind where you are at ...the wind at 1000yds or 1400 yds away is more important than the wind at your location, cause the has slowed way down and lost BC and begins to curve drastically downward and to one side forced wind and gravity during deceleration. </p><p> A wind meter at my location was ...useless. The wind would be blowing in the opposite direction across the canyon, believing the wind meter made the shot further off, than if it was fired without wind adjustment. </p><p>I do not make wind calls in MPH. I call it a 2 mil wind or 1.5 mil wind, as the scope has mil dots, and dial the 2 mils and dial the elevation...even when using MOA scope I still call wind in mils, easy to convert when practiced for years. And round off to 3.5 instead of 3.6, cause it's faster and .1 mil won't make any difference in your wind call, cause as soon as its made the wind will likely change. Hard hold, get on that target, after the shot, spotting your own shots, is key.</p><p>See impact, dial wind if it's off more than a foot. </p><p>If 4" off, hold off, and shoot within 5 seconds if impact. Slowly squeeze the trigger, and slowly getting in target, is not the key, the wind already changed...and a miss is the result. I run a 2 to 4 oz trigger...preferably a 2 oz. As soon as the bullet has impacted, the rifle loaded, reticle on, fire now, the 2 oz trigger allows the quick pull, with out rifle disturbance. When the pop can is bouncing around at 1000yds.. you're on... shoot fast 5 seconds between shots, or less. Barrel hot, smell the steel burining, pay it no mind. Only the heat waves coming off the hot barrel distorting the target, will cause me to cease fire... as well as a 6 ft miss to the right...wind changed. Shoot alot, many thousands of rds with same cartridge, bullet, powder, nothing changes in the load, with through out the life of this barrel. Use your mind, to shoot, let it work for you, like a guitar player does not think about each note in a complicated piece of music...he just plays...no doubts...and makes music. Apply that to your shooting, tons of practice, and experience, let your mind do the shooting... it becomes fast and accurate like a musician on a key board...worked for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="44-40, post: 2874518, member: 126985"] The wind...the wind across the canyon has sometimes no bering on the wind where you are at ...the wind at 1000yds or 1400 yds away is more important than the wind at your location, cause the has slowed way down and lost BC and begins to curve drastically downward and to one side forced wind and gravity during deceleration. A wind meter at my location was ...useless. The wind would be blowing in the opposite direction across the canyon, believing the wind meter made the shot further off, than if it was fired without wind adjustment. I do not make wind calls in MPH. I call it a 2 mil wind or 1.5 mil wind, as the scope has mil dots, and dial the 2 mils and dial the elevation...even when using MOA scope I still call wind in mils, easy to convert when practiced for years. And round off to 3.5 instead of 3.6, cause it's faster and .1 mil won't make any difference in your wind call, cause as soon as its made the wind will likely change. Hard hold, get on that target, after the shot, spotting your own shots, is key. See impact, dial wind if it's off more than a foot. If 4" off, hold off, and shoot within 5 seconds if impact. Slowly squeeze the trigger, and slowly getting in target, is not the key, the wind already changed...and a miss is the result. I run a 2 to 4 oz trigger...preferably a 2 oz. As soon as the bullet has impacted, the rifle loaded, reticle on, fire now, the 2 oz trigger allows the quick pull, with out rifle disturbance. When the pop can is bouncing around at 1000yds.. you're on... shoot fast 5 seconds between shots, or less. Barrel hot, smell the steel burining, pay it no mind. Only the heat waves coming off the hot barrel distorting the target, will cause me to cease fire... as well as a 6 ft miss to the right...wind changed. Shoot alot, many thousands of rds with same cartridge, bullet, powder, nothing changes in the load, with through out the life of this barrel. Use your mind, to shoot, let it work for you, like a guitar player does not think about each note in a complicated piece of music...he just plays...no doubts...and makes music. Apply that to your shooting, tons of practice, and experience, let your mind do the shooting... it becomes fast and accurate like a musician on a key board...worked for me. [/QUOTE]
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