Resources for learning wind?

[RockAndSage]

Anyone have any YouTube videos or other really solid resources for learning to shoot in the wind at distance? Rather than digging around uneducated on it, I'm hoping some of you long-range voodoo types have some vetted sources for a newb you could point me towards.

 

[nm.otter]

There's a fair bit of that in THLR's videos -- including that reticle playlist.

 

[RockAndSage]

There's a fair bit of that in THLR's videos -- including that reticle playlist.

Looks like I'll be tackling that as a study guide, then. Thank you.

 

[TaperPin]

A nugget of good advice is repeated often and across many types of shooting is to simply not avoid shooting in windy weather, and don’t use the 100 yard range to avoid wind drift until shooting in the wind feels as comfortable as calm days.

Aerodynamic jump and how it interacts with wind drift is explained by this diagram. Many guys have thought their zero had changed on windy days and it was simply aerodynamic jump not accounted for in the ballistic program. A 400 yard shot in 30 mph wind makes a hand width of bullet rise (or fall), putting half the shots in a typical accuracy cone out of the vitals.

 

[RWT]

A 30mph wind is not something I would consider shooting past 100 yards in. Unless they were shooting back. 30MPH is moving in my area

 

[Jordan Smith]

A nugget of good advice is repeated often and across many types of shooting is to simply not avoid shooting in windy weather, and don’t use the 100 yard range to avoid wind drift until shooting in the wind feels as comfortable as calm days.

Aerodynamic jump and how it interacts with wind drift is explained by this diagram. Many guys have thought their zero had changed on windy days and it was simply aerodynamic jump not accounted for in the ballistic program. A 400 yard shot in 30 mph wind makes a hand width of bullet rise (or fall), putting half the shots in a typical accuracy cone out of the vitals.

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Good advice.

FYI, the direction and magnitude of AJ is not only dependent on wind direction and speed, but it also depends on twist rate and direction.

 

[Fetty Wapiti]

#1. Go to the range on windy days, you will have it to yourself.

#2. Bring glass and an anemometer with you. Feel the wind, watch the grass, look through the glass to observe the waves/shimmer. Make a guess and then take a wind reading. Do this a lot and you will get surprisingly good and not need to rely on your meter most times.

 

[BCDJR]

Anyone have any YouTube videos or other really solid resources for learning to shoot in the wind at distance? Rather than digging around uneducated on it, I'm hoping some of you long-range voodoo types have some vetted sources for a newb you could point me towards.

Get a Calypso meter. Stick it on a long support hjgh as you can. It will give you great feedback to your phone. The wind rarely stays the same long . You then can do your own deductions reading mirage and see how it checks out. Main idea is you want to judge wind at max ordinance height which at long range could be 8 ft above your target.