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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1514730" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Wind will always be your biggest variable to deal with at long range as it will affect the flight of your bullet more than the others provided you have a decent drop chart or calculator app handy.</p><p></p><p>To even begin to understand how to read the wind and compensate for it requires a whole lot of time behind the gun shooting at various ranges under varying conditions.</p><p></p><p>The best thing you can do besides having accurate dope to dial is to keep good records of what you saw, how you read it, how much you compensated for it and how far off of your aimpoint the actual wind drift was.</p><p></p><p>While we rely heavily on Tech these days reading and compensating for the wind is still as much art as it is science, it requires feel as much as it does good weather data because the wind on a long shot can be completely different at the target than it is where you are set up for the shot and it's not unusual especially when shooting across varying terrain for the wind to change direction and intensity multiple times during the flight of the bullet.</p><p></p><p>Order this book it's a good start.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0990920615/?tag=lrhmag19-20" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/0990920615/?tag=lrhmag19-20</a></p><p></p><p>You will probably want to start saving now and at some point attend a good long range shooting school as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1514730, member: 30902"] Wind will always be your biggest variable to deal with at long range as it will affect the flight of your bullet more than the others provided you have a decent drop chart or calculator app handy. To even begin to understand how to read the wind and compensate for it requires a whole lot of time behind the gun shooting at various ranges under varying conditions. The best thing you can do besides having accurate dope to dial is to keep good records of what you saw, how you read it, how much you compensated for it and how far off of your aimpoint the actual wind drift was. While we rely heavily on Tech these days reading and compensating for the wind is still as much art as it is science, it requires feel as much as it does good weather data because the wind on a long shot can be completely different at the target than it is where you are set up for the shot and it's not unusual especially when shooting across varying terrain for the wind to change direction and intensity multiple times during the flight of the bullet. Order this book it's a good start. [URL]https://www.amazon.com/dp/0990920615/?tag=lrhmag19-20[/URL] You will probably want to start saving now and at some point attend a good long range shooting school as well. [/QUOTE]
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