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Left, Right, curse this windage thing! HELP???
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<blockquote data-quote="Browninglover1" data-source="post: 566052" data-attributes="member: 29966"><p>Where are you shooting from (covered range, top of mountain, flat desert, ect)? When you're shooting long distances the wind is almost always going to vary along the bullet flight path. If you can, set up windage flags every 50 yards or so all they way to the target and compare how they are blowing compared to the windage flag that you set up right where you're shooting from.</p><p></p><p>One day I was shooting at a 500 yard target and the wind at my location was almost non existent and appeared to be calm at the target too so I held dead on and missed the target quite a bit to the side. I figured my scope must have been bumped off and I dialed in the scope till I was hitting dead center. When I walked out to look at the target I couldn't believe how much wind there was from about the 100 yard line to the 400 yard line. It was extremely strong and I hadn't even noticed it while shooting because it was calm at my position and the target but had I paid better attention to the whole distance to the target it would have helped me be on target the first time. It was a great learning experience for me. Maybe something similar is happening to you?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Browninglover1, post: 566052, member: 29966"] Where are you shooting from (covered range, top of mountain, flat desert, ect)? When you're shooting long distances the wind is almost always going to vary along the bullet flight path. If you can, set up windage flags every 50 yards or so all they way to the target and compare how they are blowing compared to the windage flag that you set up right where you're shooting from. One day I was shooting at a 500 yard target and the wind at my location was almost non existent and appeared to be calm at the target too so I held dead on and missed the target quite a bit to the side. I figured my scope must have been bumped off and I dialed in the scope till I was hitting dead center. When I walked out to look at the target I couldn't believe how much wind there was from about the 100 yard line to the 400 yard line. It was extremely strong and I hadn't even noticed it while shooting because it was calm at my position and the target but had I paid better attention to the whole distance to the target it would have helped me be on target the first time. It was a great learning experience for me. Maybe something similar is happening to you? [/QUOTE]
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