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View Poll Results: Your maximum rifle range on Deer
100 yards 8 5.67%
200 yards 18 12.77%
300 yards 53 37.59%
400 yards 37 26.24%
500 yards 15 10.64%
600 yards 4 2.84%
over 600 yards 6 4.26%
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Old 05-02-2002, 07:46 AM
Digital Dick Digital Dick is offline
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: WI
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Gone with the wind.

I am rightly reminded by Jack and others that the final result of a long shot has another determining factor. When watching from behind the shooters at very long range targets, you can see the bullet wander in the wind as it goes.

The club puts out pennents at intervals along side the shooting lane to help judge the wind. It isn't unusual to see them disagree with each other, some blowing right, some blowing left, and some blowing back and forth. Wind can do this at Winnequah and your best planned shot can be literally, "gone with the wind".

I'm betting that long shots at unknown distances with unknown wind conditions are even tougher.

DD
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