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<blockquote data-quote="yobuck" data-source="post: 2735858" data-attributes="member: 12443"><p>Well since ive admitted to never even seeing a Kestral, i do know pretty much how they read wind.</p><p>Which is i believe at the location where the Kestral is being held.</p><p>Ive even talked to a guy who tested his by holding it out of his vehicle window and comparing it with the speedometer.</p><p>But my question is that when your sitting on lookouts on top of a mountain, looking across a very wide valley, you will quite often see large birds working those valleys without ever flapping their wings.</p><p>So what keeps a big heavy bird like that up there?</p><p>I would assume the same thing that holds a guy up in the air while hang gliding in some of those same valleys.</p><p>Also, as anyone who has done any amount of glassing can tell you, the sidehill across the valley you are looking at will have hollows, which are deep and wide creases in the terrain, and which quite often form their own wind conditions.</p><p>So the absolute fact is that you could be attempting to shoot across multiple different wind conditions.</p><p>And your Kestral only gave you the speed of the wind where you happen to be standing.</p><p>Yet we seem to have intelligent people who think differently.</p><p>Mind you i have no problem at all with different thinking people, obviously im one of them.</p><p>But i would like to see one of them prove me wrong with their wind reading skills by using one of those things at a location they have never been to before.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yobuck, post: 2735858, member: 12443"] Well since ive admitted to never even seeing a Kestral, i do know pretty much how they read wind. Which is i believe at the location where the Kestral is being held. Ive even talked to a guy who tested his by holding it out of his vehicle window and comparing it with the speedometer. But my question is that when your sitting on lookouts on top of a mountain, looking across a very wide valley, you will quite often see large birds working those valleys without ever flapping their wings. So what keeps a big heavy bird like that up there? I would assume the same thing that holds a guy up in the air while hang gliding in some of those same valleys. Also, as anyone who has done any amount of glassing can tell you, the sidehill across the valley you are looking at will have hollows, which are deep and wide creases in the terrain, and which quite often form their own wind conditions. So the absolute fact is that you could be attempting to shoot across multiple different wind conditions. And your Kestral only gave you the speed of the wind where you happen to be standing. Yet we seem to have intelligent people who think differently. Mind you i have no problem at all with different thinking people, obviously im one of them. But i would like to see one of them prove me wrong with their wind reading skills by using one of those things at a location they have never been to before. [/QUOTE]
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