wind........
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Typical Buck
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This was interesting. Particularly the wind deflection charts from the links at the bottom of the page.
[link]http://www.blackpowderjournal.com/archives/vol2no5/articles/bpj25-3.htm[/link]
[link]http://www.blackpowderjournal.com/archives/vol2no5/articles/bpj25-3.htm[/link]
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Spike
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This ballistics calculator allows you to change the wind speed and gives you an expected drift...
http://www.handloads.com/calc/index.html
http://www.handloads.com/calc/index.html
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mljeep - after my last post last evening I went to a very similar ballistic program on the Hornady site. From my playing with the 270 Sabertooth there it suggested anything more than 6 mph wind the odds of getting 6/6 on a 6 inch circle would be near zero, unless by accident. Waiting for the calm...
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Spike
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yeoman, best bet is to go out and shoot in no wind and then see what happens on a windy day for a given bullet/load. I wish I had more time to do that so I play around with these calculators. Mostof my hunting will be relatively close in, less than a 100 yards, so if the calculator seems to say that a bullet will drift less than 4 inches at 10 mile sper hour wind at 100 yards, it is something I will look at to test. If it proves out then I know I'm good to go, aim and shoot, to 100 yards regardless of the weather.





