Thread: Wind in the Mountains

This is probably of no real use to you for long range but il blab anyway.

If say you are on or near the top of a ridge that the wind is blowing over the deer below you "downwind" will usually not get your scent.
This is because where they are its blowing up towards you. Its like water flowing over a rock in a river with the eddy behind it.
Then there is the catabatic in calm conditions and im sure you would be aware of this too. up from around 9-10am and down from5-7pm depending on season and north or south gfacing etc
As you get the shift from down to up in the morning in big valleys you quite often get a period where it is going up from the vally floor(if its in sun of course) but still comming down from the top and some where mid slope its mixing and you never know whether its going to go down or up in this region for a hour or so till it sorts its shit out.

A HUNTERS PERSPECTIVE

long range steel I guess fire and correct

Now you can start to understand why some of us are moving away from the "little" calibres & into the "bigger" ones.
There is a big gain to be had from shooting a heavy high BC bullet over a light high BC bullet.
The worse the conditions the bigger the advantage.
To me it appears to be a little more gained than the ballistic tables typically show.
If shooting at game that is an important advantage.
In the hills it is nigh-on impossible to pick the wind accurately once you start to get out a way.
In little old NZ that is what we have, that is how it is.
In the States they can be so far from the sea & a hill/mountain that we can't even begin to comprehend the conditions.
Wind at "pick a value" coming from "pick an angle" constantly for hours/days makes things a lot easier.
That is why you hear the term "canyon country" used, NZ is mostly canyon country.

Recent advances in projectile, stock & muzzle brake designs, to name a few, have made the "bigger" calibres even more inviting