Subj : Carry Pistols
To : Cougar428
From : Moondog
Date : Fri Feb 10 2023 08:19 pm
Re: Carry Pistols
By: Cougar428 to MOONDOG on Fri Feb 10 2023 12:24 pm
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> Mo> I've seen some of air rifle videos where the farmers have too many
> Mo> starlings or sparrows, and they thin out the herd. The scope cam
> Mo> footage is interestin because they factor in wind drift and the amount
> Mo> of drop at the distance they are shooting. The crosshairs air used for
> Mo> wind value and a range finder is used to determine loss of energy and
> Mo> drop.
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> Mo> I heard of a budget version of precision rifle where they use rimfires
> Mo> rather than centerfire cartridges. Instead of needing a 1000
> Mo> yardrange, they shoot .22 rimfire at 300 yards. With standard velocity
> Mo> rounds its nearly a rainbow trajectory reaching out to 300 yards. One
> Mo> time I tried to take a shot at awoo dchuck whose hole was 185 yards
> Mo> from the barn. Witht eh ballistics program I was using, I had to
> Mo> factor in several feet of holdover to lob the bullet in. I missed by 2
> Mo> inches, then after that the woodchuck ran for his hole any time to back
> Mo> door on the house was opened. I couldn't safely shoot it with a .223
> Mo> because of the proximity of the neighbors' house.
>
> In some of the pest videos like the one below:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM9SFp_muT4&t=444s
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> I can't tell from the optics about windage and such, but these are
> pretty close range shots and it looks like (from the footage) that
> the person shooting is pretty accurate.
>
> Cougar
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The shooters use external signs, such as flags to detect wind travel and speed
. Range finding is done with known reference points and range finders. They
calculate the drop and adjust for hold over. On the videos I watched the
crosshair was hardly on the target. Instead, the crosshair would be2 or 3
mil dots high and a few to the left. You would see the pellet fly down the
trajectory path to the target.
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