Thread: Assessing resulting vertical spread from ES (or SD) for your load at distance

Originally Posted by longrange308

Your thinking way to hard about it, just go shooting

" Long range shooting is all about limiting your uncertainties. The more variables you know and understand, the less you have to predict and the more certain you will be of impacting the target "

Originally Posted by 199p

If your getting a large difference try factory ammo and see of it dose the same or buy a fancy crono

Sound advice for shooters without a fancy chronograph or tight ES.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Way over my head. But wouldnt an ES of +- 10 fps be an ES of 20?

I like using the ALT+0177 keyboard shortcut (number lock has to be on)

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Whats the question?

Methods of determining the vertical dispersion at distance resulting from a given ES.


Perhaps of interest: back in the day I prepared a trajectory simulator in VisiCalc, Lotus123 or somesuch that started out calculating drop from the horizontal before adding in elevation for the zero distance (the formulas modelled published Sierra and Hornady data) so that would have been perfect for this sort of task.