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OK I'm going to learn how to use MOA instead of a custom dial. Scenario Questions
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<blockquote data-quote="vancewalker007" data-source="post: 1868814" data-attributes="member: 66917"><p>I've been hunting long range for 30 years and I'm not taking that shot if I only have 30 seconds. I've shot lots of Coues deer at ranges farther than 650 yards. For me 30 seconds is too short of a time for me to get elevation from my G7, get the right wind call, dial the elevation, settled into a rest that allows enough steadiness to shoot 650 yards, do the breathing and squeeze the trigger. The tricky things are the wind and the animal moving. There is a flight time factor involved and one step from an elk can cause a miss or gut shot. We killed an elk last year at a range much farther then 650, but no wind, the elk was not moving and at about the same level as us so we were shooting about 0 deg angle. That shot took a well over a minute to set up with no wind call. A 15 mph wind at an angle across a canyon can still be 8 or do mph. That's significant at 650 yards. With one of my LRMs that's about 17.5 inches of drift using your data.</p><p></p><p>So, with your scenario personally I wouldn't shoot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vancewalker007, post: 1868814, member: 66917"] I've been hunting long range for 30 years and I'm not taking that shot if I only have 30 seconds. I've shot lots of Coues deer at ranges farther than 650 yards. For me 30 seconds is too short of a time for me to get elevation from my G7, get the right wind call, dial the elevation, settled into a rest that allows enough steadiness to shoot 650 yards, do the breathing and squeeze the trigger. The tricky things are the wind and the animal moving. There is a flight time factor involved and one step from an elk can cause a miss or gut shot. We killed an elk last year at a range much farther then 650, but no wind, the elk was not moving and at about the same level as us so we were shooting about 0 deg angle. That shot took a well over a minute to set up with no wind call. A 15 mph wind at an angle across a canyon can still be 8 or do mph. That's significant at 650 yards. With one of my LRMs that's about 17.5 inches of drift using your data. So, with your scenario personally I wouldn't shoot. [/QUOTE]
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