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<blockquote data-quote="BrentM" data-source="post: 1059407" data-attributes="member: 61747"><p>The number 1 issue of mountain shooting is wind. Over the past several years I have been shooting in various terrain and over multiple terrain features. I have found that you can never trust the wind at the shooter location to be the same as target or between. I do rely on prevailing wind to give me bullet flight path data and then I look at how the terrain shapes the winds direction......which flows a little like water in a stream. Complete with eddies, cycling/flushing, and up/down drafts. </p><p> </p><p>It is very likely you were in a deadzone due to pressure differentials at the shooter and the cross wind above the rim and below the rim were in fact much stronger. In a case such as this, I tend to try and "predict" the wind the entire time I am out, not just the time I am ready to send it. The whole challenge of terrain shooting for me is getting wind dialed in the first time to make first round hits. This requires constant wind monitoring. It drives my wife nuts sometimes. We'll be on hike and she is watching me as I stare off into the landscape.....she asks me what I am looking at...then says, never mind, you are studying the freaking wind again..... and walks off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrentM, post: 1059407, member: 61747"] The number 1 issue of mountain shooting is wind. Over the past several years I have been shooting in various terrain and over multiple terrain features. I have found that you can never trust the wind at the shooter location to be the same as target or between. I do rely on prevailing wind to give me bullet flight path data and then I look at how the terrain shapes the winds direction......which flows a little like water in a stream. Complete with eddies, cycling/flushing, and up/down drafts. It is very likely you were in a deadzone due to pressure differentials at the shooter and the cross wind above the rim and below the rim were in fact much stronger. In a case such as this, I tend to try and "predict" the wind the entire time I am out, not just the time I am ready to send it. The whole challenge of terrain shooting for me is getting wind dialed in the first time to make first round hits. This requires constant wind monitoring. It drives my wife nuts sometimes. We'll be on hike and she is watching me as I stare off into the landscape.....she asks me what I am looking at...then says, never mind, you are studying the freaking wind again..... and walks off. [/QUOTE]
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