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Shooting across valleys and windage?
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<blockquote data-quote="EXPRESS" data-source="post: 1168427" data-attributes="member: 1441"><p>Sorry, please ignore the email at the top of my post. I wrote it out on my phones' notepad then pasted it here without realizing that was there. Now there is no "edit" button.</p><p></p><p>Back to the subject, the rifle was checked and I shot with it last weekend so I have no reason to believe that it lost zero. </p><p></p><p>The wind strengthens in valleys, but this applies only to the middle section, so lets say that over a 640 yard valley shot, wind gains stregnth for the middle 250 yards of the bullets' path. </p><p>In this case I was reading a 1 - 2 m/sec wind (2 m/sec is 4.5mph) so it would have to double for the middle 250 in order to give the actual result I got. </p><p></p><p>I suppose that, in light winds, it's actually pretty easy to double. From 4.5 to 9mph isn't that much.</p><p></p><p>I will have to wait for better conditions as it's stormy and blustery right now, to verify my wind on level ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EXPRESS, post: 1168427, member: 1441"] Sorry, please ignore the email at the top of my post. I wrote it out on my phones' notepad then pasted it here without realizing that was there. Now there is no "edit" button. Back to the subject, the rifle was checked and I shot with it last weekend so I have no reason to believe that it lost zero. The wind strengthens in valleys, but this applies only to the middle section, so lets say that over a 640 yard valley shot, wind gains stregnth for the middle 250 yards of the bullets' path. In this case I was reading a 1 - 2 m/sec wind (2 m/sec is 4.5mph) so it would have to double for the middle 250 in order to give the actual result I got. I suppose that, in light winds, it's actually pretty easy to double. From 4.5 to 9mph isn't that much. I will have to wait for better conditions as it's stormy and blustery right now, to verify my wind on level ground. [/QUOTE]
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