For those of you that do this, what program or site do you use? What's the best way to get results printed out in a small enough form to get it on a 3x5 card or similar size to tape to the stock?
I use shooter on my phone but I'm thinking that having the drops taped to the stock might be quicker.
Also, where on the stock do you find it easier to use? I'm thinking opposite side from my cheek and upside-down so that it is easily viewed when I lean the rifle stock toward me to see it. Suggestions greatly appreciated.
You can email yourself an export table from the Shooter app (in Excel). I then delete the rows/columns I don't need and play with the text size printing out a few until I get the size I want.
Most of my rifles do not have a cheek piece so I tape it on the inside, right side up...just pick your head up and look down at it. The one rifle I have with a cheek piece gets the table in the same place...just a little smaller size text to fit where I need it.
I do it in Word so I can pick a font size that doesn't require my specs, laminate it and tape it upside down on my stock. I have a chart for each of the loads I shoot and keep them w/ the ammo. Having a LRF actually helps this work for me.
I print out what I want and the font size that works best in lower light using Open Office. Then I tape them to the bottom quarter of the front tapered section of my scope, using clear packing tape, making it mostly waterproof. I put drops on the left, windage on the right.
I drop the results into excel, print then fold so the most used data fits in an area the size of a front shirt pocket. After a quick glance, it's right back into the pocket, and I don't have to disturb the position of my rifle etc.
If I am hunting I put the drops and full value wind drift for 200 300 400 450 500 550 600 yards on masking tape on the inside of my rear butler creek. I then carry a comprehensive table in my wallet.
For everything else I keep the drop charts in a different book along with my gear. I think it is easier to reference a chart that is on the ground below the gun then it is to reference one taped to the stock.
While I've laminated in several fashions,I'm most apt to incorporate a roll of clear shipping tape and make multiple passes on both sides of important data,as a means of protecting same.
The works are then affixed to the stock proper and typically on the strong side............
A laminated drop/drift card affixed the stock,has no equal,in regards to all terrains and all weather.
I'm more than a touch dubious of someone's come-ups,when they denote values that aren't even mechanically possible to input the very glass,slated to do same...................
Calculate drops in JBM. Put into excell spreadsheet. Print out, laminate, stick to side of stock with clear packing tape. The first line means 5 moa + 2 clicks second line is hold over windage.
Does your chart work the same at 7800' as it does at 78'.... just curious....
It's all pretty easy when you shoot the same place/conditions all the time... but that watch has seen 19.5 inHg all the way to 30.75 inHg.... that's a big difference in dope. Nice to be afforded the ability to not guess.... you know how it is...
Does your chart work the same at 7800' as it does at 78'.... just curious....
It's all pretty easy when you shoot the same place/conditions all the time... but that watch has seen 19.5 inHg all the way to 30.75 inHg.... that's a big difference in dope. Nice to be afforded the ability to not guess.... you know how it is...
DS,
BS, shoots a narrow range of rifles in a narrow range of conditions. Don't expect any worth while contributions from him outside that narrow niche.
Does your chart work the same at 7800' as it does at 78'.... just curious....
It's all pretty easy when you shoot the same place/conditions all the time... but that watch has seen 19.5 inHg all the way to 30.75 inHg.... that's a big difference in dope. Nice to be afforded the ability to not guess.... you know how it is...
DS,
BS, shoots a narrow range of rifles in a narrow range of conditions. Don't expect any worth while contributions from him outside that narrow niche.
I just had an epiphany. We should all endlessly aquire rifles that all look the same, move to an island, grow a REALLY bad mustache, shave our heads like Uncle Fester, and place a "keep the fugg out" sign near the entrance to our homes.
At that point, knowledge will suddenly appear. I'm sure of it.
For those of you that do this, what program or site do you use? What's the best way to get results printed out in a small enough form to get it on a 3x5 card or similar size to tape to the stock?
I use shooter on my phone but I'm thinking that having the drops taped to the stock might be quicker.
Also, where on the stock do you find it easier to use? I'm thinking opposite side from my cheek and upside-down so that it is easily viewed when I lean the rifle stock toward me to see it. Suggestions greatly appreciated.
Strelok is a free app for ballistics. drop, moa, clicks, everything on one table. email it to yourself then you can print it out for taping to your rifle!
I realize just how much you guess and I assure you THAT is the [bleep] funniest part.
Again...dangle a pic of a Splendid Beastie you Watched. Be sure to cite the "particulars",as per the best factoring of your Imagination and the application of Pretend.
For a guy who preaches from the pulpit of Amax (I'm a member of said congregation)... you're sure quick to dismiss the 30-40% differences in drift based on local barometer....
I'm saying your Cough Silencer is funnier than [bleep] and has borne ZERO fruit. Hint.
Also saying,that it is far from a "daunting" task,to shoot enough to know WTF is going on.
'Course I may be allllllllllllllllllll "WRONG" and there's a Treasure Trove of Splendid Beasties waiting in the wings and it's gonna be a pixel deluge,as you rub my nose in your superlative "results".
So you hop out of the Grady(tell yourself I've never seen or been in one those too,if only to satiate your countless Delusions) and go to 10,000'? Laughing!
First it was(and I quote):
".525 @ 2950.... 200 yd zero.... sighted in at 24.75 inHg...
What's the delta in my dope at 6900'.... same at 1100'... for a 600 yard poke?
How bout' 1/2 mile?"
Now it's an even bigger slice of Pretend,fresh outta your Imagination.
Laughing.
Why don't you start by pulling your head out of your ass,get real,cite the quarry/AO,rifle,chambering,blueprint,mounts,glass,it's adjustment and I'll easily connect the [bleep] dots...mainly because it is [bleep] easy.
Hint.
Though I await your Lunar Safari in no gravity,as a Cough Silencer Trump Card.
Still works.... just not as good as your mouth. It knows the difference between 10k and sea level.... do you?
62% more drift.... you gonna keep dodging that.... or admit that I'm correct? Whatever..... Can't believe your still hooked.... I gave you slack all night.... and I wake up to a couple head shakes.... too bad you're under the 50" slot... have to throw'ya back.
Still awaiting an example of your miracle drop/wind chart that works everywhere.... and laffin'
I simply asked for the particulars,but you refuse to abandon your Pretend.
Again:
"Why don't you start by pulling your head out of your ass,get real,cite the quarry/AO,rifle,chambering,blueprint,mounts,glass,it's adjustment and I'll easily connect the [bleep] dots...mainly because it is [bleep] easy."
One pic? How about a blacktail buck.... that I killed using some advice you gave me on calling. Ok.... I'll oblige. Killed at 17' ASL, 1/2 mile from the coast.... a shade over 30 inHg on 'the watch'.... 40 yards (good thing I had my chart).... same load specified earlier. 123/2950/.525....
Now that we got that outta the way, and with all do respect.... will you please explain to me how you set up a chart that works in all conditions..... 1' to 10,000'?
Took the 17HMR on a trip from 5,200 feet to 10,500 feet two weeks ago. Had a drop chart on the scope developed at California atmosphere. Decided to shoot a little before dinner one night. There were 3 tall tree stumps right in front of camp that were staggered perfectly angling to the right at 143 yards, 173 yards and 243 yards.
Walked out and jammed a palm-sized chunk of flat white rock in a crevice in each and walked back to the gun. Just used the drop chart on the stock.
The 143 yard rock blew up
High about 4" on the 173 yard rock
Waaaay high on the 243 yard rock.
Got out my "watch" and took an atmosphere. 20.51 inHG. Input the data to Ballistic AE and crushed the rest of the rocks.
Just be sure to tape a drop chart on your rifle developed for the atmosphere you'll be shooting in. There's enough difference in going from 5,200 ft to 10,000 to be off. That's normal for around here and not an extreme.
Rifle/glass/mount particulars again,if only because it too will be funnier than [bleep].............
.260 Rem. SS sucks S/A Manners EH2 23" Rock 1/8" Talley Lows 'Pua hulls 123 Amax Leup 3-9 Mildot 1/2 MOA turret (wears a 12x Fixed Fugger now)
That is a nice fork, and he went close to 250lbs.... it was a great hunt.
I concur.... shoot enough, and those small adjustments become more intuitive. Go to extremes.... and it's enough to miss.
So let me get this correct,in that your Estrogen fueled GRAVE concerns and Trump Card Wrist Watchedness of your initial Pretend which stated:
".525 @ 2950.... 200 yd zero.... sighted in at 24.75 inHg...
What's the delta in my dope at 6900'.... same at 1100'... for a 600 yard poke?''
Which when zero'd out of the [bleep] gate with a shred of sense and equates to less than (1) "click" of 1/10th Mil of said glass,at said distance...really don't quite swoon THE Watch?!?
Since we're doing the one pic ice bucket challenge..... how about you show one pic.... just one.... of you running a rifle somewhere other than Alaska in the past couple years.... this could be fun.
Alaska is a great place for you to hide.... they'll never catch you there... and send you back to the chocolate factory.
Whilst you're hunting middle earth... er, AK... what kind of elevations do you commonly hunt at? Could it be.... that you only need one chart.... cause you only shoot one place?
How about we amend the challenge.... and you simply post a pic... with you running a rifle above 6000'?
I've shot and killed all over, and if I could stay in AK I would.
The point is that the difference between 0ft ASL and 7k ASL is relatively easy to account for and do not require watches, Kestrels or the like at 600 yards.
I've shot and killed all over, and if I could stay in AK I would.
The point is that the difference between 0ft ASL and 7k ASL is relatively easy to account for and do not require watches, Kestrels or the like at 600 yards.
Don't make easy stuff difficult.
Depends on the size of the target or how precisely you'd like to deliver the shot. You're not gonna win too many long range matches or kill a lot of prairie dogs at 7000 ft with a sea level dope chart.
I take my usual shooting gear to camp, take the atmosphere and run it in BAE to output a drop chart. I compare it to the one I attached to my scope by guessing what pressure, temperature, and humidity may be. By far the biggest factor is pressure and the link you posted is far better than my guesses have been.
It will help anyone to develop good data at the location they're planning on hunting.
Alaska is a great place for you to hide.... they'll never catch you there... and send you back to the chocolate factory.
Whilst you're hunting middle earth... er, AK... what kind of elevations do you commonly hunt at? Could it be.... that you only need one chart.... cause you only shoot one place?
How about we amend the challenge.... and you simply post a pic... with you running a rifle above 6000'?
You Drooling Dumbphuqqs are a riot!
The innate ability you have for sheer and utter cluelessness,truly is AMAZING.
Tough to trump the humor of The Cough Silencer Crowd doing their best and you are on an EPIC roll!.............
Alaska is a great place for you to hide.... they'll never catch you there... and send you back to the chocolate factory.
Whilst you're hunting middle earth... er, AK... what kind of elevations do you commonly hunt at? Could it be.... that you only need one chart.... cause you only shoot one place?
How about we amend the challenge.... and you simply post a pic... with you running a rifle above 6000'?
You Drooling Dumbphuqqs are a riot!
The innate ability you have for sheer and utter cluelessness,truly is AMAZING.
Tough to trump the humor of The Cough Silencer Crowd doing their best and you are on an EPIC roll!.............
Hey.... don't get short with me.... all I asked for is a picture of you "not guessing"... I'm afforded the luxury of not having to guess you don't have one.
There's no need to take it out on us Mini Me.... just because that fourth Austin Powers movie fell through and now your acting career is in the toilet.
One more amendment.... how about you post a pic of one measly roller coaster you actually got to ride...
Reading comprehension ain't to good is it there One Stick Pony?
Hard to fathom a guy hunting the coast one week.... then hunting the Colorado high country the next. I guess those of is who are free to move about the country without a booster seat would know how easy that actually is....
I like a whistle as good as anything and will be in Duck Hell...due the numbers duped with things as lowly as 2 liter pop bottles rattle-canned flat black and partially filled with water.
So you're saying there is a need for multiple charts?
if so.... how do you decide which one to use?
Dog,
I didn't see where anyone wrote that one dope chart works for all conditions in this thread. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You even posted that you have data taped to a turret. So does this fixed data on that turret work for all conditions? I think you mentioned that you have other charts?
Or is this just about the WATCH?
Smoke already broached the subject... you have data for different conditions. That's obvious to all parties involved.
So what does beating on pressure readings have to do with anything when it can be measured instantaneously and WIND is the main issue?
Also, I have a really hard time believing that was a 250lb blacktail. Was that serious or a joke!? That buck must have had lead in his hide to weigh 250. How much meat did you get?
So you're saying there is a need for multiple charts?
if so.... how do you decide which one to use?
So what does beating on pressure readings have to do with anything when it can be measured instantaneously and WIND is the main issue?
J
I'm not Dogshooter or have ever pretended to be, but pressure affects drop as well as wind.
Drop we can adjust for very accurately if we simply know the atmosphere. Pressure being the most important factor. Wind is always an art and has more affect as pressure increases.
My method is this and is as accurate as data can get with a known load and accurate known data given developed conditions.
I use 2 decommissioned iphones as simple in-the-field PDA's with Ballistic AE installed. I take an accurate atmosphere, Input the data into Ballistic and output a drop and wind chart on the phone. All that needs to be done at this point is to lock the screen and put the damn thing in your pocket. If need arises for a long range shot, normally you'll have plenty of time to range the target and refer to the output for extremely accurate data. Opening the locked screen is as quick and simple as looking at data on your rifle.
Also, I have a really hard time believing that was a 250lb blacktail. Was that serious or a joke!? That buck must have had lead in his hide to weigh 250. How much meat did you get?
That one went 242..... on the scale ....
I'll send a PM with a pic of the one we shot the next day that was 40lbs heavier.
These aren't your high country, rain forest blacktail.... they're lowland, farm country blackies.... and they're well fed.
I do use a ballistic turret.... and it works well.... as long as I'm +/- 2 inHg. I know it cost me a couple targets running the turret down in Raton.... but I wanted to see how well that turret would work under that set of circumstances. I also said I had other charts based on the pressure where I'm shooting. The watch simply ets me know which chart to run.
As illustrated above.... pressure actually has MORE effect on Wind (slightly), than it does elevation.... particularly when we use extremes.... visa vis... blacktail on the coast one week.... and Muleys at 10k the very next week.
I carry a couple charts all the time. When I get to the location I'll be shooting, I take a reading and go with the chart that's closest. No 'guessing'....
Like Ric said..... it all depends on what you're trying to hit. Moose and elk vitals are a lot bigger than coyote and antelope vitals. 12"-18" gongs are a lot easier to hit than 6" gongs.... adjustments must be more precise. Seems like $100 is a pretty cheap way to afford the luxury of not having to guess.
Still can't see that pic of you somewhere other than AK ..... or someplace above 6k with a rifle.... or on a roller coaster.... or painted green in a swamp down in Degobah...
Also, I have a really hard time believing that was a 250lb blacktail. Was that serious or a joke!? That buck must have had lead in his hide to weigh 250. How much meat did you get?
That one went 242..... on the scale ....
I'll send a PM with a pic of the one we shot the next day that was 40lbs heavier.
These aren't your high country, rain forest blacktail.... they're lowland, farm country blackies.... and they're well fed.
World record live weight blacktail, I�m most impressed to say the least.
"Breaker-breaker...this is Fence Hopper....synchronize The Watches on my count".
If you can convince yourself that The Watch is "neato",I cettainly HOPE you can convince yourself that I've never seen a mountain or a hill and live in The Land Of Fixed Barometric Pressure...if only to salve the slowly creeping realizations of just how amazingly phuqqing stupid your Do Nothing Dumbphuqqery is.
Be sure and hang pics of The Great Grady Watch Safari.
World record live weight blacktail, I�m most impressed to say the least.
I believe the record is an Oregon blacktail from the north coast. It had a live weight of 315 pounds! my brother-in-law and I killed a couple deer one year on the Olympic Peninsula that were quite large. His gutted and hanging in the butcher shop weighed 170 pounds and mine went 165 pounds.
I reckon it is a mite frustrating,when all you've got to talk about,is hopping someone else's fence and riding in someone else's boat and traveling from Stat to State to "get" to "do" that.
The Watch fixations are likely well founded,given "all" that you "do".
It is indeed an unfortunate reality,that being married to a dead-end job in a booming metropolis,relegates my outdoors exposure to living vicariously through the Adventures of someone like Dogshooter and the exciting trevails of her hard charging ways.
Ok.... how about a simple picture of that Boonie hat you sport so proudly.... you know, the one that says 'Fhug yo Couch' on the front.... and 'Don't piss, I can't Swim' on the top....
Ok.... how about a simple picture of that Boonie hat you sport so proudly.... you know, the one that says 'Fhug yo Couch' on the front.... and 'Don't piss, I can't Swim' on the top....
I'd shoot another one just like it.... don't know too many guys who wouldn't. That's a big mature deer.... in an area that would never average triple-digits. Rosie bulls don't 'score' real well in comparison.... but they're bigger bodied than most of their Rocky Mountain cousins. Big deer are big deer.... bone is what it is.... schitt ain't always the same... even when it's the same....
I've seen a lot of Muleys in the past couple weeks.... a lot smaller than the deer pictured. Maybe I'll go snap a pic or two tonight....
Good to see an actual pic.... and that's a very nice buck.
Stick kills some of the most beautiful blacktails I've seen.... "he's not wrong Walter.... he's just a ass hole"...
I guess we'll see in a couple months.... who's blacktail is what. I heard from Jason that Oregon costal now has the first week of November... that shounds like a great time for those so inclined. I hope everyone kills monster blackies... but I've hunted them enough to know not to pass on mature bucks... at least for now.
That's right... we've all seen the pics of what you do for a living.... Work on Santa's Christmas tree farm. Ramping up production this time of year... I can see why you're froggy....
I've been on this site for almost 4 years and this is the first time a thread started by me has passed the 200 reply mark. At least 2/3 of those replies are Stick's asinine statements or direct replies to his asinine statements so I guess I should thank him for all his hard work. It must take a lot of time and effort being the site's #1 troll. Good work Stick!!!
As Dogshooter showed it is pretty easy to make a paper version.
If one is going to shoot beyond 15 -20 MOA of drop correction then secondary charts or a computer make a lot of sense to comp for density changes from your initial chart or Drop Compensating Turret.
I have 2 of those sensor watches and use the sensors from time to time. Especially useful when gathering data or any other time I want the precise density.
I have one on my wrist in this picture. Didn't need it as the shot was at 450yds but then again it didn't get in the way. Wyoming Blacktail.
I use 2 decommissioned iphones as simple in-the-field PDA's with Ballistic AE installed. I take an accurate atmosphere, Input the data into Ballistic and output a drop and wind chart on the phone. All that needs to be done at this point is to lock the screen and put the damn thing in your pocket. If need arises for a long range shot, normally you'll have plenty of time to range the target and refer to the output for extremely accurate data. Opening the locked screen is as quick and simple as looking at data on your rifle.
Rick,
Using the de-com iPhones is a clever method. And you use the watch to change data in the app if a front comes in? What are you using for back-up if the battery dies, device failure, etc?
Also, for most medium-range hunting out to 500-600y, standard atmospheric pressure works really well under most conditions, right? Unless there is a record storm the differences will not be worth making changes for on deer and elk. If you are changing elevation, then new data is needed for that elevation... but using standard pressure.
Now one could say that animals are more likely to move with large swings in pressure, but unless there is a huge storm coming the change in pressure isn't worth correcting for. Longer ranges is a different story.
A blind hog finds an acorn once in a while. Then again that wall of yours is fairly spectacular.
Originally Posted by Big Stick
Wow! Killer looking stock,who makes that?
How about the ammo belt on the butt?
Laughing!...............
Might be the best play you got. Dealing in LR killing is not the place to run you up against me.
I got the same stock and ammo belt and rifle right here at a bit over a mile and some silly crazy conditions.
Same stock, rifle and ammo belt on a bull at 1000yds last year.
Heck I had the sensor watch on in every one of those pictures. Didn't seem to be a problem.
Sure you want to play this game????
LOL. I'm thinking he's not sure since he's definitely not sure. Shame on you for taking advantage of the obvious.
Everyone knows that .264's ignore atmosphere.
Originally Posted by 4th_point
Originally Posted by rcamuglia
I use 2 decommissioned iphones as simple in-the-field PDA's with Ballistic AE installed. I take an accurate atmosphere, Input the data into Ballistic and output a drop and wind chart on the phone. All that needs to be done at this point is to lock the screen and put the damn thing in your pocket. If need arises for a long range shot, normally you'll have plenty of time to range the target and refer to the output for extremely accurate data. Opening the locked screen is as quick and simple as looking at data on your rifle.
Rick,
Using the de-com iPhones is a clever method. And you use the watch to change data in the app if a front comes in? What are you using for back-up if the battery dies, device failure, etc?
I use a Kestrel. Same e same as a guy who would want to deliver bullets to pinpoint locations at long range during competition. HINT. LOL
Battery on an iPhone set on airplane mode lasts for weeks.