Bill Calfee
Gun Fool
Friend Cliff
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Friend Cliff:
When there is a true, dead calm, there is no way to read the effect of the target image displacement....
In a true, dead calm, the target image is constantly being displaced in a circular motion.....very slowly...
If one places the cross hairs on the dot, assuming your gun is sighted-in behind the dot, one will shoot a bunch of close 100's and scratch 50's, which will be located both vertically and horizontally..
How many times have you been killing it, then all of a sudden, your next five shots walk a circle around the 100 ring...all 50's, or most all of them anyway?
And then you go back to killing it............
Your friend, Bill Calfee
I will agree a lot of the problem is mirage if there is any air movement.
I have paid close attention since my original post and have found that I must watch the tails on my flags very closely in what sometimes seems to be dead calm. The flags can all be pointed one direction with no movement but the slightest movement of the tails to the left or right will push the mirage a huge amount.
Paying more attention to mirage in the calm has helped my scores but still there is more to it than just mirage since cool calm mirage basically moves left or right unlike a boil in the hot summer sun I would expect if the problem was due to mirage my targets would show most of the out shots to be left or right and that's not usually the case. When I examine my targets shot in dead calm they are fairly equal in the number of shots going out North and South with the ones going out east and west.
Any more theories?
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Friend Cliff:
When there is a true, dead calm, there is no way to read the effect of the target image displacement....
In a true, dead calm, the target image is constantly being displaced in a circular motion.....very slowly...
If one places the cross hairs on the dot, assuming your gun is sighted-in behind the dot, one will shoot a bunch of close 100's and scratch 50's, which will be located both vertically and horizontally..
How many times have you been killing it, then all of a sudden, your next five shots walk a circle around the 100 ring...all 50's, or most all of them anyway?
And then you go back to killing it............
Your friend, Bill Calfee
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