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Left @ 300 yds - Right @ 1000 yds? WTH?
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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 239357" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>I've read that some others do what squirrelduster has suggested. That's basically what I did with my 300 WM. While shooting it at 1000 yds with "no wind conditions", I then adjusted the windage turret to the left until I was dead on at 1000 yds. Same thing. Then when I followed up and shot at 300 yds it was hitting left. </p><p></p><p>Others will rotate and mount the scope slightly clockwise from perpendicular on their receivers. Then when they level up their crosshairs the rifle is canted slightly such that the bore & bullet is directed in a leftward drift, to oppose the rightward effects of spindrift.</p><p></p><p>Others say the heck with it. They feel that wind is the overwhelming factor in their left-right misses and don't bother with it. I'm going to correct for it one way or the other, because after the fourth time shooting both my rifles at cardboard targets at 1000yds, it became clear to me that there was a definite rightward drift to my bullets. Now I know it was partially caused by spindrift. So we're learning something together here. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 239357, member: 4191"] I've read that some others do what squirrelduster has suggested. That's basically what I did with my 300 WM. While shooting it at 1000 yds with "no wind conditions", I then adjusted the windage turret to the left until I was dead on at 1000 yds. Same thing. Then when I followed up and shot at 300 yds it was hitting left. Others will rotate and mount the scope slightly clockwise from perpendicular on their receivers. Then when they level up their crosshairs the rifle is canted slightly such that the bore & bullet is directed in a leftward drift, to oppose the rightward effects of spindrift. Others say the heck with it. They feel that wind is the overwhelming factor in their left-right misses and don't bother with it. I'm going to correct for it one way or the other, because after the fourth time shooting both my rifles at cardboard targets at 1000yds, it became clear to me that there was a definite rightward drift to my bullets. Now I know it was partially caused by spindrift. So we're learning something together here. ;) [/QUOTE]
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