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Was shooting today at outdoor gun club. Distance varies between 40 and 55 yds. I was using .177 pellets 9.6 grn. I was surprised by how much the wind gusts of about 20 mph affected the trajectory and was glad I was not pest shooting trying to head shot for instant kill. I only target shoot. Some will say you allow for windage but not with the variable gusts today. One minute it was bang on then the next a miss.
There has to be limitations when conditions are not suitable to pest control.
 
Same today. 55yds wind was taking 10.34 upto 6” at times.
If you want to see how bad it is shoot a felt cleaning pellet and watch.
 
Brian Samson devised an excellent free 'game' for wind shooting online targets. There's a link for it on STB. It gives you the range, the wind speed and direction and assumes every shot would ordinarily be crosshairs, so you just have to work out the wind effect. The results are quite extraordinary and certainly more than you'd probably guesstimate!
 
Mrs. H said:
Brian Samson devised an excellent free 'game' for wind shooting online targets. There's a link for it on STB. It gives you the range, the wind speed and direction and assumes every shot would ordinarily be crosshairs, so you just have to work out the wind effect. The results are quite extraordinary and certainly more than you'd probably guesstimate!
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Here you go
doncaster-airgun-range.co.uk

Field Target Wind Training Game

Discover the secret to shooting in the wind with this fun FT wind simulation/game.
doncaster-airgun-range.co.uk doncaster-airgun-range.co.uk
 
Mrs. H said:
Brian Samson devised an excellent free 'game' for wind shooting online targets. There's a link for it on STB. It gives you the range, the wind speed and direction and assumes every shot would ordinarily be crosshairs, so you just have to work out the wind effect. The results are quite extraordinary and certainly more than you'd probably guesstimate!
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Wind is ok when it’s a constant speed and direction (no not that sort of wind 🤣) but I am talking of gusts from differing direction 0-22mph
 
" Games"/ training apps aside, the only way to get any possible decency in shooting the wind, is to shoot in the wind,at any available opportunity. Watch your flags & shoot in a lull, as best you can decipher. Just for fun, I've shot @ 100 yards, holding for better than 2 ft. of drift & same allowance for elevation ...rare day, atop my hill, that dead calm exists.
Watch the grass.
 
Morse said:
Wind is ok when it’s a constant speed and direction (no not that sort of wind 🤣) but I am talking of gusts from differing direction 0-22mph
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Ahhh, and therein is every excuse used in the world of FT/HFT!
That wonderful weird and wizzardly wind thats there one minute...gone the next...and reserves the right to change direction at will. Is it left? Is it right? Oh look, now its coming towards us....
 
chouchin66 said:
" Games"/ training apps aside, the only way to get any possible decency in shooting the wind, is to shoot in the wind,at any available opportunity. Watch your flags & shoot in a lull, as best you can decipher. Just for fun, I've shot @ 100 yards, holding for better than 2 ft. of drift & same allowance for elevation ...rare day, atop my hill, that dead calm exists.
Watch the grass.
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I was at a UK round at Bisley last October in a veritable gale and ended up talking to some of the chaps shooting the 1000m range; they were allowing 6-8ft for the wind so in some cases were closer to the target next to them than their own.
 
Mrs. H said:
I was at a UK round at Bisley last October in a veritable gale and ended up talking to some of the chaps shooting the 1000m range; they were allowing 6-8ft for the wind so in some cases were closer to the target next to them than their own.
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At the gun club today I sat next to 7 experienced shooters who all agreed the wind was variable gusts and as we were in a valley differing direction. We watched trees sway and then steady. At least we had an excuse for missing. You must have a built in anemometer. Sadly I don’t.
 
chouchin66 said:
" Games"/ training apps aside, the only way to get any possible decency in shooting the wind, is to shoot in the wind,at any available opportunity. Watch your flags & shoot in a lull, as best you can decipher. Just for fun, I've shot @ 100 yards, holding for better than 2 ft. of drift & same allowance for elevation ...rare day, atop my hill, that dead calm exists.
Watch the grass.
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Oh to have this perfect experience as also Mrs H.🤣

It’s just that it gets annoying when you are missing a 1 inch disc at 50 yds and you see the impact just millimeters away.
 
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We shoot 25 & 55 yd bench rest comps at our outdoor range which is in an old walled garden. It’s common to have 3 wind flags next to the target frames all pointing in different directions simultaneously as the wind bounces round.

I also shoot HFT in a winter league.

The best advice has already been given;
1.Practice, practice, practice
2. Try to shoot during lulls
3. Refer to 1
 
Morse said:
Was shooting today at outdoor gun club. Distance varies between 40 and 55 yds. I was using .177 pellets 9.6 grn. I was surprised by how much the wind gusts of about 20 mph affected the trajectory and was glad I was not pest shooting trying to head shot for instant kill. I only target shoot. Some will say you allow for windage but not with the variable gusts today. One minute it was bang on then the next a miss.
There has to be limitations when conditions are not suitable to pest control.
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Par for the course
 
Oh yes the good old wind...
All I can say is just fooking practice practice practice as one of my HFT friends tells me at times! 😅

Its easier when the wind is just going one direction but that's hardly happens especially in a woodlands or most countryside where courses are set out. The wind just moves around in very unpredictable routes...

Wind is part of the fun and tears for me in HFT comps!

Brian's game is fun.. One day he might get around to an HFT version one day or year, as he's a busy bloke.
doncaster-airgun-range.co.uk

Field Target Wind Training Game

Discover the secret to shooting in the wind with this fun FT wind simulation/game.
doncaster-airgun-range.co.uk doncaster-airgun-range.co.uk
 
Yep, wind picks up too much it's time to pack up and go home.

That's why I'm glued to the met office dedicated wind app.

Depending on direction and mph dictates whether I go.

It also dictates where I place my jeep, as I mainly shoot from my drivers seat.

But I get up early before sun has chance to warm up the ground and any wind picks up.
 
Dodgyeye said:
Yep, wind picks up too much it's time to pack up and go home.

That's why I'm glued to the met office dedicated wind app.

Depending on direction and mph dictates whether I go.

It also dictates where I place my jeep, as I mainly shoot from my drivers seat.

But I get up early before sun has chance to warm up the ground and any wind picks up.
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Fine point on " warming ground" ...currents tend to run downslope early in the day, until air temperature reaches equilibrium then upslope as they day progresses & temps rise... Not unusual here, in spring & summer to have two distinct areas of mirage - one on flat ground & one on an up slope, both indicating a different wind direction & velocity, at differing distance to target.
 
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