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One shot 1000 yards ballistic chart
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<blockquote data-quote="MMERSS" data-source="post: 1063365" data-attributes="member: 63748"><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">A big game range card with sufficient information can produce elevation and windage corrections within ¼ MOA of computer results. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Comfortably hitting a 12" target cold bore based on conditions and range can be estimated by practice or the use of an uncertainty analysis program such as Applied Ballistics Analytics. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"low wind" can have different meaning. For example, the wind may be calm "no wind" at the shooters position with a tendency to gust to 3mph full value. If the shooter breaks a shot assuming the wind is calm and a 3mph full value wind hits the shooters position right at the break of the shot continuing the entire time of flight, for discussion this is no different than a correctly applied 60MPH full value wind with the shooter breaking the shot with the wind blowing 63MPH the entire length of path. 0 to 3 or 60 to 63 they both produced and error of 3 mph which can produce severely unwanted POI to POA difference at longer range. What we want is "low wind" uncertainty as close to zero as possible. In other words, we want to correctly apply a wind value direction and intensity and break the shot at or very near the estimated values.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Back to a long answer to the question. About 700 yards plus or minus a few hundred depending on wind uncertainty, precision potential, and confidence to name just a few variables. We are all human. One can only estimate wind values to a certain degree otherwise long range competitors would be shooting perfect scores all the time! The maximum effective range hunter will ensure estimated uncertainties still leave room for the bullet to strike vitals.</span></span></p><p></p><p>Consider purchasing <em>Accuracy and Precision for Long Range Shooting </em>in the absence of a mentor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MMERSS, post: 1063365, member: 63748"] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]A big game range card with sufficient information can produce elevation and windage corrections within ¼ MOA of computer results. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Comfortably hitting a 12” target cold bore based on conditions and range can be estimated by practice or the use of an uncertainty analysis program such as Applied Ballistics Analytics. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]“low wind” can have different meaning. For example, the wind may be calm “no wind” at the shooters position with a tendency to gust to 3mph full value. If the shooter breaks a shot assuming the wind is calm and a 3mph full value wind hits the shooters position right at the break of the shot continuing the entire time of flight, for discussion this is no different than a correctly applied 60MPH full value wind with the shooter breaking the shot with the wind blowing 63MPH the entire length of path. 0 to 3 or 60 to 63 they both produced and error of 3 mph which can produce severely unwanted POI to POA difference at longer range. What we want is “low wind” uncertainty as close to zero as possible. In other words, we want to correctly apply a wind value direction and intensity and break the shot at or very near the estimated values.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Back to a long answer to the question. About 700 yards plus or minus a few hundred depending on wind uncertainty, precision potential, and confidence to name just a few variables. We are all human. One can only estimate wind values to a certain degree otherwise long range competitors would be shooting perfect scores all the time! The maximum effective range hunter will ensure estimated uncertainties still leave room for the bullet to strike vitals.[/SIZE][/FONT] Consider purchasing [I]Accuracy and Precision for Long Range Shooting [/I]in the absence of a mentor. [/QUOTE]
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