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NIghtforce Ballistic software..
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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 285777" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>Not sure where you're coming from. I've got a pretty good handle on altitude, atmospheric pressure, and atmospheric pressures corrected to sea level (barometric pressure).</p><p></p><p>I can't imagine that you're suggesting that we shoot our rifles iteratively at different altitudes, temperatures, and relative humidities, over different distances in order to prepare a chart of logged data that will be used for future hunts. If a person were to hunt from the same blind over an entire hunting career, I suppose one could proceed in that manner. Then you'd only have to account for changes in atmospheric conditions.</p><p></p><p>I purchase and use ballistics software precisely so I don't have to do what you're suggesting. It can account for any temperatures, atmospheric pressures, relative humidity, angle of fire, wind, spind drift, coriolis effect - down to the minutia - but at least the important ballistics affecting factors so that all one has to do is confirm the rifle is still properly zeroed after travelling to a hunting location and go hunt. The ballistics software will modify the POA as necessary for the conditions under which the shot is actually being taken. If you're saying it's a good idea to confirm your rifle's zero prior to the hunt, or that one needs to confirm the ballistic software predicted drops with range time - no problem. But if you're saying shoot in different temperatures, atmospheric pressures, relative humidities, and angles of fire either at the home range or at hunting camp prior to going hunting in order to develop a chart prior to beginning the hunt? A lot of my hunts would be over based on the allocation of time that would be required to generate these charts. The game would be scared out of the country, I'd be out of ammo, and have a barrel that needed to be cleaned of copper build-up.</p><p></p><p>Unless I'm getting the wrong interpretation from your post, my question would be - Why do you buy the various ballistic software programs that you say you've purchased and used if you're not going to use them to modify your POA under different conditions of fire?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 285777, member: 4191"] Not sure where you're coming from. I've got a pretty good handle on altitude, atmospheric pressure, and atmospheric pressures corrected to sea level (barometric pressure). I can't imagine that you're suggesting that we shoot our rifles iteratively at different altitudes, temperatures, and relative humidities, over different distances in order to prepare a chart of logged data that will be used for future hunts. If a person were to hunt from the same blind over an entire hunting career, I suppose one could proceed in that manner. Then you'd only have to account for changes in atmospheric conditions. I purchase and use ballistics software precisely so I don't have to do what you're suggesting. It can account for any temperatures, atmospheric pressures, relative humidity, angle of fire, wind, spind drift, coriolis effect - down to the minutia - but at least the important ballistics affecting factors so that all one has to do is confirm the rifle is still properly zeroed after travelling to a hunting location and go hunt. The ballistics software will modify the POA as necessary for the conditions under which the shot is actually being taken. If you're saying it's a good idea to confirm your rifle's zero prior to the hunt, or that one needs to confirm the ballistic software predicted drops with range time - no problem. But if you're saying shoot in different temperatures, atmospheric pressures, relative humidities, and angles of fire either at the home range or at hunting camp prior to going hunting in order to develop a chart prior to beginning the hunt? A lot of my hunts would be over based on the allocation of time that would be required to generate these charts. The game would be scared out of the country, I'd be out of ammo, and have a barrel that needed to be cleaned of copper build-up. Unless I'm getting the wrong interpretation from your post, my question would be - Why do you buy the various ballistic software programs that you say you've purchased and used if you're not going to use them to modify your POA under different conditions of fire? [/QUOTE]
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