Thread: Do You Know Your Wind?

technique can be fixed with small bore

Originally Posted by Normie

Norway. Are you coming back to NZ anytime soon to run a course?

Nope. No time for that now.

Bugger. Will just have to get more trigger time.

Originally Posted by Norway

Nope. No time for that now.

Why's that????

No, very much not so IMHO, trigger, breathing, grip, flinching, tenseness can all be worked on with small bore.

Yes its only part of the picture. The great thing is you can shoot for 7~20cents a round and in some places do 20~30 a night 4 nights a week, complete with range officer reaming you out for free.

Yea.... LR to me is 10% technique and 90% reading terrain/wind. You should be able to put a chimp behind a F-open gun, and unless he does something really weird, in a warehouse with no wind, they'd be getting near perfect scores.

I'm not convinced that smallbore is worth it. All it teaches you is technique, and you get a free dose of lead poisoning at most indoor ranges...

The typical smallbore RO is a strange beast to say the least

Watched the vid. Bit OTT in the marketing toward the end, but good to see misses and corrections. Intereting formula, keen to try it, wind values are fairly simple to read in 4mph units using flags, so fits together nicely.

Interesting comments about 308 waaaay past transonic range, will have a go at his BC correction formula and see how it works.

223, cheap ammo, rabbits, 200ish metres and you learn the wind pretty fast. Along with ranging by eye and holdover....

Originally Posted by horihunter

Learnt a heap about how.water moves when it hits an obstacle when i started kayaking. Observed it all a heap when fishing but when you start kayaking you really learn...catching the wrong rail and ending up updide down helps seal the lesson....
Seeing how eddies etc off a big obstacle cause opposite direction currents helps explain how wind shifts over obstacles and blows oppossite direction in places

Done a heap of kayaking and agree with the water moving bit completely.

I only know 1 LR shooter (7mmSAUM) and the thing that strikes me is the amount of practise that goes into learning the effect of wind properly from small calibres to big calibres ie getting the theory bit right and backing it up with thousands of rounds in all conditions and ranges...It's hard to get competent part time.