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Left, Right, curse this windage thing! HELP???
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<blockquote data-quote="CRNA" data-source="post: 566196" data-attributes="member: 22495"><p>Welcome to the club. My shooting buddy and I go out and blast away quite a bit out to 1000 yards. If the wind is calm, it's almost no challenge to hit targets waaay out there. Put a little wind in the mix and it's a different ballgame. We shoot onto a hillside, so we can take a look through the scopes and see what's going on over at the targets. We can obviously see and feel what is going on at our shooting position. At about 150 yards there is a clearing where the wind is stronger (always) than our shooting position because we are being blocked by the trees. From about 300yards up to approximately 600 yards we are shooting across an open area above treetops. There is NO WAY to know what the wind is doing there, but one can certainly bet that whatever the wind is at that open space above the trees it's more than at either the targets or at our shooting position. </p><p>Point being, I would think if you were shooting in Kansas where it's flat as a pancake and there is a prevailing wind, it would probably be easier to dope the wind. However, when the wind is doing different things at different positions along the bullets path, then it's not quite as simple as just going by what your calculator tells you and dialing it in. I would say that at this point on our learning curve my buddy and I spend 80% of our energy and effort to correctly dope the wind. I don't think you are doing anything wrong, it's just the nature of the beast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CRNA, post: 566196, member: 22495"] Welcome to the club. My shooting buddy and I go out and blast away quite a bit out to 1000 yards. If the wind is calm, it's almost no challenge to hit targets waaay out there. Put a little wind in the mix and it's a different ballgame. We shoot onto a hillside, so we can take a look through the scopes and see what's going on over at the targets. We can obviously see and feel what is going on at our shooting position. At about 150 yards there is a clearing where the wind is stronger (always) than our shooting position because we are being blocked by the trees. From about 300yards up to approximately 600 yards we are shooting across an open area above treetops. There is NO WAY to know what the wind is doing there, but one can certainly bet that whatever the wind is at that open space above the trees it's more than at either the targets or at our shooting position. Point being, I would think if you were shooting in Kansas where it's flat as a pancake and there is a prevailing wind, it would probably be easier to dope the wind. However, when the wind is doing different things at different positions along the bullets path, then it's not quite as simple as just going by what your calculator tells you and dialing it in. I would say that at this point on our learning curve my buddy and I spend 80% of our energy and effort to correctly dope the wind. I don't think you are doing anything wrong, it's just the nature of the beast. [/QUOTE]
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