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LR/ELR Wind SWAG: What Do You Use
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<blockquote data-quote="dfanonymous" data-source="post: 1756942" data-attributes="member: 97050"><p>It's not all necessarily swag. Learn as much as you can about how to read mirage and terrain for wind, and in conjunction with a kestrel, you'll have good results.</p><p></p><p>The wind at the shooter is generally the most important, but in the realm of 1st round impacts, especially at headshot size steel plates at said range, all wind matters. So areas to average would be at your firing position, mid range and lastly your target range.</p><p></p><p>Hardest part of wind is doping the wind. You can run it in a calculator but it will rarely match up to real world results. Also not all calculators have the ability to calculate 3 winds. People chalk their misses up to bad wind call but never really put in the work. A lot of people don't true their gun/cartridge/load combo to the wind at 600 yards and in (close range) to establish a baseline of what the wind is doing to their specific gun/load combo. If you are willing to do record and track data for drop, why wouldn't you for wind as well? </p><p></p><p> Most of the swag will be in the art of recording and interpreting "gusting wind" averages and ability to guesstimate general conditions with extensive terrain that is closer to the target. That's where mirage is most useful, it gives what the wind is doing while indicators like flags or trees give you more or less a pattern of what the wind is doing as well as what's happening in max ordinate of the bullets path where wind will have actual more realistic effect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dfanonymous, post: 1756942, member: 97050"] It’s not all necessarily swag. Learn as much as you can about how to read mirage and terrain for wind, and in conjunction with a kestrel, you’ll have good results. The wind at the shooter is generally the most important, but in the realm of 1st round impacts, especially at headshot size steel plates at said range, all wind matters. So areas to average would be at your firing position, mid range and lastly your target range. Hardest part of wind is doping the wind. You can run it in a calculator but it will rarely match up to real world results. Also not all calculators have the ability to calculate 3 winds. People chalk their misses up to bad wind call but never really put in the work. A lot of people don’t true their gun/cartridge/load combo to the wind at 600 yards and in (close range) to establish a baseline of what the wind is doing to their specific gun/load combo. If you are willing to do record and track data for drop, why wouldn’t you for wind as well? Most of the swag will be in the art of recording and interpreting “gusting wind” averages and ability to guesstimate general conditions with extensive terrain that is closer to the target. That’s where mirage is most useful, it gives what the wind is doing while indicators like flags or trees give you more or less a pattern of what the wind is doing as well as what’s happening in max ordinate of the bullets path where wind will have actual more realistic effect. [/QUOTE]
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