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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Kahuna
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Looks like I was to busy to comment in May I think... LOL. Was pretty busy with salmon fishing.
Anyway just a quick comment, if you want to be serious about the long shots and you want to do away with mirage just take a vehicle and park it off to the side and put light on the target. You don't need any other light than on the target. You can hide an ATV 50 yards from target, and be 1800 yards away in total dark.. Works very well. You can shoot at 1am if need be.
I did this in a bind in the summer if I was fighting a load issue and it was getting close to nationals and I HAD to fix a problem.....
Mirage is such a separate issue from wind and lots of folks don't understand that.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Campfire Outfitter
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Campfire Outfitter
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With targets low to the ground mirage is gonna be a bitch....especially late in the evening when temps start changing!!
Even birds know not to land downwind!
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Campfire Tracker
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Campfire Tracker
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Bad thing is....having targets close to ground level makes for a helluva mirage problem and one of the things that will be encountered is in the late afternoon hours prior to sunset the upper air starts cooling down while the ground temp is still up and the targets will take on an OVAL appearance! With targets low to the ground mirage is gonna be a bitch....especially late in the evening when temps start changing!! Groundhog day? Less than a month apart. Received a nice reply by way of explanation first time round, too.
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TB, CWD and Covid-19 , free so far.....
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