Thread: Magpul "Art of the Precision Rifle" DVD

Magpul Art of the Precision Rifle DVD 2

The shooting and product placement DVD:
Horus Vision H58 reticle, Horus ATRAG and Accuracy 1st fascilities:

HOUR: MINUTE:SECOND

00:00:00
Broken scope field zero
How to field zero your scope and how to use Horus ATRAG to get a dope card.
My comment:
You can also zero same procedure and just set scope turret to what your card says.

00:01:56
The shooters take their scopes off and hands it to the next person, demonstrating the scope mount lever system.

00:02:20
10-20 shots are needed for a complete rangecard.

00:03:40
Sloppy turret dialling can get you lost.
Dial turrets until impact hits required holdover for the field zero range.

00:05:07
Levelling the reticle to the rifle is not at all important. Many shoot with a canted weapon.
Levelling the reticle to the world is important.

00:06:17
Repeating leveling the reticle/scope to the world, not the rifle

00:08:30
Working with Horus ATRAG

00:08:48
First target 238 meters, field zero and using holds.
Dialing till bullet impacts the required hold.

00:09:48
Making windcalls. Good calls, a bit high perhaps.

00:10:08
Good scene for windcall

00:15:48
Horus ATRAG again
Using it to change a zero in order to comply with observed trajectory/ impact

00:18:27
Shooting 610 meter target

00:19:00
Demonstrating the Horus reticle with a sales pitch

00:20:30
Summing up a field zero

00:21:24
Accuracy 1st (Todd Hodnett company) proprietary wind formula
Mixes dividing and multiplication, cannot understand why to use mph format - it complicates the formula.
(Use the meter per second format instead of mph and you eliminate dividing. Wind factor x wind strenght, basic Swedish method...)

00:22:48
Horus ATRAG PDA is a great tool but no crutch.

00:24:45
What wind matters the most for the shooter

00:25:40
Wind over a cliffs edge...
(I find that these shots can be extremely difficult with a lot of turbulence..)

00:25:59
Wind in a canyon picking up speed.
(More so in a V than U canyon and there will be swirling in intersections)

00:26:17
Wind going uphill picks up speed.

00:27:00
Mirage is your helper

00:27:40
Looking at mirage

00:28:16
Accuracy 1st wind formula
(Again, why work in mph, msec eliminates half the math involved...)

00:30:15
Wind course, new chapter
Shooters shoot a range where they can turn their position and get different winds

00:32:30
Using high power on scope to help assess wind and assist shooting

00:34:10
Using the Horus H58 reticle

00:35:00
Talking about canting the rifle and how you need a bubble

00:37:00
(Never seen shooters cant so much before, must be script/dramatics/for show???)

00:37:35
A bubble level on the rifle to prevent cant is extremely important.

00:38:30
Accuracy 1st makes a bubble level. Talking more about the extreme importance of a bubble level/ anticant device.

00:40:20
50% of longrange misses is probably due to canting that wasn't caught with a bubble level.
(well...)

00:41:20
Using Horus webshop lasers

00:41:59
The MIL relation formula.
(Americans make this formula overly complicated. Target mm : mil = range. How many of you guys drive your cars according to a knot speed limit or load your cartridges in tons of powder?)

00:42:30
Accuracy 1st product teaser

00:43:30
Milling and shooting with the Horus reticle
(good!)

00:44:48
Missing because of not checking the bubble
(C'mon, enough already...)

00:45:25
Bracketing the target in the maximum/minimum wind hold. Let the bullet drift into the full target if wind increases (hold minimum on target edge)

00:47:00
Spotters job during windcalls
Shooting

00:49:29
More milling with Horus reticle

00:50:50
Watch you're bubble level or you'll miss...

00:51:15
Showing windcall target bracketing

00:52:20
Talking about subsonic flight and gyroscopic stability

00:53:20
Subsonic Bc in Horus ATRAG

00:54:50
Repeating the importance of fundamentals at long range.

00:55:50
Shooting a 308 at 1217 meters

00:57:17
Hitting 1217 meter target at 4th shot
(This cannot be called effective shooting)

00:58:00
Truing the Bc in Horus ATRAG

00:58:20
The bullet shows the truth

00:59:15
Shooting the wind course

01:00:00
The wind clock vs effective wind

01:01:40
Stay on top of your windcall "don't get locked into a windcall"

01:02:35
Operate the bolt after observing the shot impact

01:04:40
(Is the script writer having a go at the chubby guy???)

01:05:00
Remember fundamentals, load the bipod

01:06:30
Effective wind using the windclock

01:07:35
Make a wind baseline dope and correct off of that

01:09:00
Shooting through thin grass no problem

01:10:00
Short, thick and stiff barrels are good - less harmonics

01:11:40
"See what trigger control does..."

01:12:12
Horus ATRAG

01:13:50
More on the importance of bubble levels

01:14:27
Discussing wind shooting strategy

01:16:30
Scope cant causing miss... again...

01:18:30
Horus reticle demonstration

01:22:15
Walking the windcourse

01:29:50
Summing up the experiences from the wind course

01:30:50
Benefits of the Horus reticle

01:31:40
Benefits of the Accuracy 1st training/ range fascilities.
"Get you off the golf course and into the real world"
Immense learning curve at Accuracy 1st range fascilities

01:41:22
Praise for Accuracy 1st range fascilities ebb out.

01:41:37
The one mile shot chapter
Talking about the importance of fundamentals

01:45:21
First shot - check your anti cant bubble thingy...
Shooting a lot of shots
Eventually a bullet strikes the target

01:50:00
One mile shot finished.
Summing it up

01:52:10
Finish
Tod sum it up

01:52:30
Taking away the "specialness" of longrange shooting.

01:53:48
"Common sense simplistic approach"

01:54:20
Their focus is America's wars, trying to help the kids on every way we can ... (by winning government contracts and selling their products?)
The End

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Summed up:
Still lots of good information if you look past the product placement.
I find the reticle demonstrations to be very nicely made.
It should have been a lot better in the wind reading department, it says little about assessing wind strenght.
The wind reading formula is unneccesarily complicated due to "wrong" wind format.

I received the sublime message of bubble anti cant device. Have. to. get. one.