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As you can see, although we had the correct elevation in the gun, the round actually didn’t hit the target. That’s because we’re at 300 yards and wind has affected our trajectory. We need to talk about the wind.
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First of all, you need to know that the wind will affect your bullet from the minute it leaves the barrel. So you need to know the wind direction and the wind speed. There’s many ways of doing it, but most of us use a wind reader or wind meter. So we’re reading the wind and we’re getting about a 10 mile an hour wind. As you can see it’s full value. It’s coming straight across the range. Let’s put that equation into our scope.
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O.K., so we’ve got our wind reading and wind direction we now check our data card and we can see at this distance of 300 yards we’re going to have a 2 mil hold into wind. There’s two ways of sorting it out.
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The first one we’re going to show you today is to dial it in on your scope so that you just aim right at the target. As you can see dialing in works well.
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Let’s try the other method. We’re going to set our scope back to zero and this time we’re going to use the reticle, to use the mil dots or mil lines so we can put the windage in on the reticle itself, not on the scope. It’s called holding off. As you can see holding off into wind with the reticle works just fine.
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The reticle can be used in other ways. We can use it to do elevation, too. We’ll do this by taking the elevation out of the scope and using just the reticle to hit the target. Once you’ve learned to read the conditions and you’ve mastered your scope you’ll be good to go shooting anywhere. Stay safe.
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