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West GA Precision ~ December NRL22 Match ~ 12/11/2021 **UPDATED W/ PICS**
- Thread starter PewPewChris
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Enjoyed spending the morning with you ladies and gents!! I continue to learn, I already have more take-aways:
- Being more mindful of holding slightly for wind when it's windy. Question to the group: Do you dial for windage or do you always just hold over?
- I need some more YouTube tutorials to make sure I am using my Kestrel to the best of it's abilities. Question to the group: If using a Kestrel, shooting with walls on either side of us, is the windage accurate from the shooting position?
- I enjoyed the sandwiches...THANK YOU!!
Holly said your welcome!
I always do a hold over for wind and never dialed it. I think key at that range is reading grass lean it helps since some targets are 50+/- or 100+/- or 200+/- the grass leans different at each level. We are racing time and making an accurate shot but training the eye to look for the little things will help us. Trial and error but we will get there. You could see the rain at 100 LT to RT but at 200 it was RT to LT. I also didn’t get a read on wind under cover using kestrel. It was sporadic early on then got heavier. I’d do a few reads if it changes much as you go through the stages. Im still learning at each outing it seems that’s progress.
I never dial for wind. Wind always changes.
I almost never use my Kestrel for reading wind. I try and get on glass and see what the wind is doing down range before I start the stage and adjust as I shoot. If I can't get on glass before I'll take a sec and read it throw my scope, I run my scope so the target is slightly out of focus. It only takes a few seconds most of the time but I've been reading wind for the last 10 years and I had a great teacher.
I almost never use my Kestrel for reading wind. I try and get on glass and see what the wind is doing down range before I start the stage and adjust as I shoot. If I can't get on glass before I'll take a sec and read it throw my scope, I run my scope so the target is slightly out of focus. It only takes a few seconds most of the time but I've been reading wind for the last 10 years and I had a great teacher.
All day on Saturday I never saw my windage info on the Kestrel ever really change. I'm sure there are ballistics applications for it with higher caliber rifles an longer distance shooting...but I haven't seen it add much windage value in the NRL22 matches. I also am a total noob using it, but that's a whole different story.
I can tell you I've 100% ignored windage for the most part in the past few matches until corrected mid-shoot by a fellow squad member. I've gotta get better about that.
I can tell you I've 100% ignored windage for the most part in the past few matches until corrected mid-shoot by a fellow squad member. I've gotta get better about that.
