ThunderNocked
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FIRST - I'm not the pro I spoke of in the header.
So I was talking to a fairly well trained long range shooter the other day who is a family member and he gave me some pointers that I've been looking for but didn't know what or how to ask.
When shooting - look at the vegetation:
Grass blowing but no tree movement is less than 5mph.
Tree tops starting to sway is 5mph.
Tree tops steadily moving around with more movement in the trees is 8mph.
Trees moving is 10+.
These are obviously In Field 'guide' and not hard and fast rules. Looking at Alaska we don't always have these indicators - thinking specifically about a winter Caribou hunt where there was no trees and all the snow was hard crusted. What other great in the field pointers have you guys gotten to help yourselves out?
At the time of this we were shooting at a gun range in Oregon when I was visiting this summer - range was 5200+ feet elevation, it was 102 degrees and he was estimating an 5mph wind with gusts to 8. I had asked him how he was estimating so we sat and discussed several ideas like this. Thought I's share and see if anybody else had anything like this!
So I was talking to a fairly well trained long range shooter the other day who is a family member and he gave me some pointers that I've been looking for but didn't know what or how to ask.
When shooting - look at the vegetation:
Grass blowing but no tree movement is less than 5mph.
Tree tops starting to sway is 5mph.
Tree tops steadily moving around with more movement in the trees is 8mph.
Trees moving is 10+.
These are obviously In Field 'guide' and not hard and fast rules. Looking at Alaska we don't always have these indicators - thinking specifically about a winter Caribou hunt where there was no trees and all the snow was hard crusted. What other great in the field pointers have you guys gotten to help yourselves out?
At the time of this we were shooting at a gun range in Oregon when I was visiting this summer - range was 5200+ feet elevation, it was 102 degrees and he was estimating an 5mph wind with gusts to 8. I had asked him how he was estimating so we sat and discussed several ideas like this. Thought I's share and see if anybody else had anything like this!
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