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<blockquote data-quote="SBruce" data-source="post: 698408" data-attributes="member: 21068"><p>You guys dont know how happy I am to see this thread! </p><p> </p><p>I've seen mirage move the target image around inside my scope many times, but learning which way to compensate and <u>when</u> to compensate has so far escaped me. One time it went from a boil to ~ a 30° lean to the left, and I watched the target image (a 3" diameter orange dot) moving around by as much as 1/2 minute, this was at only 800 yds. The gun was dead steady, so what's a guy to do??</p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately, if it's dead calm and sunny where I live, then the mirage is boiling. We all hear about these ELR one shot kills on game, but never seem to hear about the mirage conditions and what they did or didn't do to compensate for them.</p><p> </p><p>The mirage I hate worst is the kind that's so thick we have to turn our scopes down to 14X or less just to have a clear image of the target. Sometimes 20X is just too much to focus on the target with bad mirage. You guys see this sometimes too??</p><p> </p><p>Maybe some way or another we'll get it figured out one of these days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SBruce, post: 698408, member: 21068"] You guys dont know how happy I am to see this thread! I've seen mirage move the target image around inside my scope many times, but learning which way to compensate and [U]when[/U] to compensate has so far escaped me. One time it went from a boil to ~ a 30° lean to the left, and I watched the target image (a 3" diameter orange dot) moving around by as much as 1/2 minute, this was at only 800 yds. The gun was dead steady, so what's a guy to do?? Unfortunately, if it's dead calm and sunny where I live, then the mirage is boiling. We all hear about these ELR one shot kills on game, but never seem to hear about the mirage conditions and what they did or didn't do to compensate for them. The mirage I hate worst is the kind that's so thick we have to turn our scopes down to 14X or less just to have a clear image of the target. Sometimes 20X is just too much to focus on the target with bad mirage. You guys see this sometimes too?? Maybe some way or another we'll get it figured out one of these days. [/QUOTE]
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