crashlanding
Well-Known Member
Went out yesterday to shoot some long range, weather in town was calm, sunny, 35 degrees. It's a 40 minute drive to get me far enough away into the desert that I don't encounter anyone, I stepped out of the truck and got pushed backwards because of the wind. At first, I thought retreat, go home, then the more adventurous side of me said stay and deal with what you got. I drove 2 posts into the ground, screwed on a 4x8 sheet of cardboard, taped up a target, drove back to the fence line where I shoot from and ranged 785yards and crushed the kestrel. Dialed the scope up 17.2 MOA, turned the power ring all the way up so I could use the horizontal hash marks for windage, held 5 moa to the left and pulled two shots, one of which didn't feel right. Drove down to check the target and was ecstatic at what I saw, one hit and one 9 1/2 inches left of center. Went back and fired two more figuring the outside hole was the pulled shot. Wrong, the target shot turned out to be the pulled one. I was still approximately 1 1/2 moa out. Vertically, not bad . I pulled out my phone and inputted the same information my kestrel was reading into my Hornady ballistic app and came up with what might have been the correct hold. At this point even my card board surrendered to the wind and I didn't get a chance to re dial and called it quits . Any thoughts on why the two are reading differently?
