Recent content by damoncali

Do a fairly coarse test all the way back to .120 jump - every .015 or so, and then fine tune from the best spot. A lot of bullets will show good results at unconventionally long jumps. Watch the pressure if you're near max, though - .120 vs 0 makes a little bit of difference.

A quick note on the calculator. I don't know exactly what Berger and JBM do, but I'm guessing its very similar to what is in my calculator. When mine reports "overstability" its just saying that the Sg is higher than it needs to be. In theory (and practice) this means that you could go with a...

Can it be done? Consistent 5 shot groups under 1 MOA?

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NIB 3 lug adapter. Part number AC2447 Same product as this: https://www.brownells.com/aspx/search/productdetail.aspx?sid=233727&pid=126763 I ordered it from Brownells as a special order, but they took forever and SilenerCo got some in stock. So I bought one from SilencerCo, and tried to cancel...

Civil disobedience (aka ignoring the law) and good old fashioned capitalism are the answers. The more people who own items that are troublesome to prohibitionists, the more people will be motivated to just ignore the laws. At some point it becomes unenforceable. No matter what state you're in...

I mean if I look through my scope and I see a bullet hole about 3/10 of the way from center to the first tick mark. The way I figure that is to split that tick (say it's 1 MOA), in half, then half again (in my head), and see that the hole is right about where 1/4 MOA is. I then dial 1/4 MOA...

That's kind of my point - you're still multiplying 3 numbers (value, direction, and scale). I'm not saying my way is better. Just that it's no more difficult. If the rule of thumb gets even a little complicated, it's harder than just looking at a card. (And I agree - the MOA based rules of thumb...

The way I see it, any esitmate of wind direction is going to be spotty at best. Simply using full/.75 (rounded from .707)/.5 for 90, 45, 30 degrees is plenty fine enough. And pay attention to direction a lot more in a fishtail, because the impact of an 11 o'clock to 1 o'clock twitch is WAY...

So the main benefit of this rule of thumb is that you don't have to look up (or memorize) a windage value? That's not nothing, but I don't know that I would call it a reason to choose mils over MOA. I think I'm just in the "it doesn't matter" camp (outside of communication, if that's something...

I get all that. And I get the benefit of radians and why they exist. And yes, they are metric. ;) But practically, are you not still having to scale the wind value (say, 10 mph to the actual value of 6mph), and account for direction (half value, full value, etc)? Neither of these are factor of...

Can someone explain how any of these methods remove the need to do math in your head, or to specify a bullet & velocity? Am I just dense? It all seems the same to me.

Here's the short answer. If you shoot PRS-style stuff, use mils. If you shoot high power (including F class), use MOA. If you do anything else, use whatever the hell you want because it doesn't really matter.

Are you guys saying that you've seen people who have optics with marked reticles call things out linearly rather than use the reticle to measure the angle? I can't condone that level of stupidity. It's like looking out the window to guess your speed rather than looking at the speedometer. Mixing...